IT workers in comment and analysis
Naked CIO: Is IT responsible for workers' output and errors?
Comment IT leaders may not be fully responsible for workers' actions - but they could take more responsibility than they have been, says the Naked CIO. Has technology made us a more productive workforce or just... [10 Nov 2009]
The Weekly Round-Up: 06.11.09
Round-Up However, despite more than a third admitting working outside office hours, techies still trail some way behind the most prolific cash-in-hand workers of all: the money-strapped, workaholic hairdresser. [06 Nov 2009]
The Weekly Round-Up: 30.09.09
Round-Up Leaving the Halloween terrors behind us, let's talk of an issue similarly likely to strike horror into the sturdiest of office workers: should you be friends with your boss on Facebook? It's almost that... [30 Oct 2009]
Microsoft is learning to share - but not soon enough?
Comment Workers need to share data from many sources - but, says David Tebbutt, today's tools don't do a lot to help. Jive seems to know that many workers achieve results through collaboration with others, who... [20 Oct 2009]
The Weekly Round-Up: 16.10.09
Round-Up While workers might create outlandish avatars to escape the restraints and monotony of their everyday lives, such behaviour may soon become a thing of the past as they are forced to dress their avatars appropriately for... [16 Oct 2009]
Cash won't cut it: Time to get creative in attracting skilled workers
Comment They are more plentiful among self-employed professionals, portfolio workers, freelance entrepreneurs, forward-thinking start-ups, self-organising online communities and skilled people overseas with valuable new... [13 Oct 2009]
Downturn means fewer outsourcing workers saying 'I do'
Comment It's got nothing to with high-value services or cost savings - but rather the marriage prospects of outsourcing workers. Economic hard times are causing Indian outsourcing workers to put... [07 Oct 2009]
The Weekly Round-Up: 11.09.09
Round-Up The way it normally works is that you spend eight hours in an airless room in closer proximity to your co-workers than you're generally comfortable with before trudging out at the end with a ring-bound... [11 Sep 2009]
Give workers a say in corporate IT
Comment The first and most obvious is to acknowledge that consumerisation is unstoppable, so the sooner you accept this and start to figure out how to deal with it, the better. Just learn to manage it... [09 Sep 2009]
The Weekly Round-Up: 04.09.09
Round-Up But now it seems that workers at one council will shortly face the prospect of life without status updates, comments on baby pictures and tossed sheep. It was only last week that the... [04 Sep 2009]
India outsourcing workers stressed to the limit
Comment The outsourcing industry has brought jobs and prosperity to India - but, asks Saritha Rai, at what cost to workers' well being? Many workers struggle to make the transition from the college campus to the... [25 Aug 2009]
Naked CIO: Top 10 reasons to be a CIO
Comment When looking at cross sections of staff, it always appears IT workers have more personality disorders than other company workers - and as CIO you have to deal with them.... [17 Aug 2009]
The Weekly Round-Up: 14.08.09
Round-Up Surely they had most to gain by a Twitter outage lasting hours - presumably one that caused a massive productivity jump in workplaces around the world as office workers had to find some real work to do instead of... [14 Aug 2009]
How to keep staff happy during the downturn
Comment Let's take a moment and look at what 'do more with less' actually means for workers: more work, longer hours and living up to higher expectations (which often lie outside an employee's area of expertise). [10 Aug 2009]
The Weekly Round-Up: 07.08.09
Round-Up The initiative has proved to be a hit with workers, with staff requesting copies of the film on a daily basis and a tenfold increase in staff reporting security issues since the film's release. Not that... [07 Aug 2009]
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