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RSS employment workerZen Internet Offers Successful Home Worker Solution to Peninsula Business Services
White Paper Peninsula Business Services Ltd provides Health, Safety, Personnel and Employment Law consultancy to a wide client base across the UK. Peninsula's Internet connectivity was proving too slow and inefficient, taking up valuable business time. [04 Aug 2008]
The Naked CIO: Poisoned BlackBerrys
Comment Contracts of employment never seem to include provisions about BlackBerrys and when a worker should or should not respond. I'm no expert in contract or employment law but I am certain companies are implicitly encouraging if not requiring employees... [28 Jul 2008]
Employment That Is Not Covered by State Unemployment Insurance Laws
White Paper The Longitudinal Employer-Household Dynamics (LEHD) Program at the Census Bureau links data sources to estimate worker and job flows. A basic goal of the EDE Project is to prepare and release accurate estimates of worker accession and separation... [03 Jul 2008]
Agent Heterogeneity and Learning: An Application to Labor Markets
White Paper The first is to provide a theoretical context in which to conceptualize the source of worker and firm differences, and their role in determining employment outcomes. The purpose of this paper is twofold. [03 Jul 2008]
Abandoning the Sinking Ship: The Composition of Worker Flows Prior to Displacement
White Paper This paper examines changes in the composition of job and worker flows before displacement, and compares the "quality" distribution of workers leaving distressed firms to that of all movers in general. [03 Jul 2008]
The Longitudinal Employer-Household Dynamics Program: Employment Dynamics Estimates Project Versions 2.2 and 2.3
White Paper The paper describes the definitions of employer, employee, job, and all associated worker flow, job flow, and earnings measures. This paper introduces users of the Employment Dynamics Estimates (EDE) to the concepts used by the Longitudinal... [03 Jul 2008]
Displaced Workers, Early Leavers, and Re-Employment Wages
White Paper This result is robust to the inclusion of controls for worker quality and unobservable firm characteristics. Using universal wage data files that allow one to identify individuals working with healthy and displacing firms both at the time of... [03 Jul 2008]
The Weekly Round-Up: 25.04.08
Round-Up It's a rare old week when the Round-Up gets a chance to consider how the aphorisms of the father of modern lexicography come to bear on the life of the modern city worker - but this week is a welcome exception. [25 Apr 2008]
The Naked CIO: IT staff disloyalty
Comment The issues with offshoring and outsourcing that are having such an impact on IT employment are a result of this casual attitude in the UK's IT worker community. Gone are the days when loyalty to your employer counted for something. [31 Mar 2008]
UAE Ministry Cuts Worker-Permit Processing Time by 95 Per Cent With New Portal Solution
White Paper The Ministry of Labour has full responsibility for employment and labour relations in the United Arab Emirates, one of the fastest growing economies in the world. With more than 2 million expatriates from 202 different nationalities needing to work... [05 Sep 2007]
Adobe Systems Case Study: Mesa Community College
White Paper Community colleges bridge the gap between current worker skills and shifting workforce demand. Flexible education programs - whether they are called online learning, e-learning, distance learning, or distributed learning - help students juggle... [13 Jun 2006]
Re:Viewing 2005: The year in outsourcing
News UK newspaper The Sun managed to buy the bank account details of 1,000 UK customers from a call centre worker in India for just £4.25 each while the Australian Broadcasting Corporation also managed to get hold of sensitive customer data. [20 Dec 2005]
Best of Reader Comments: How to tackle ageism in IT
News Teleworking may be the answer, said another reader: "Perhaps we need a home-worker broadband-based IT development environment so that age is not visible to manager, colleague or client, and only the work products count. [26 Oct 2005]
Retiring at 65 an 'unrealistic dream' for techies
News There is a growing acceptance that the average worker is going to stay at work beyond 65. Petra Cook head of public affairs at the Chartered Management Institute said: "Approximately 80 per cent of the workforce for 2020 is already in employment. [24 Oct 2005]
CIOs to go on staffing spree, says study
News A survey from staffing firm Hudson found tech worker confidence in the job market dropped sharply in August, due partly to job-loss fears. What's more, a study released earlier this year indicated that the US tech industry may have turned a corner... [09 Sep 2005]
