employee productivity in news
Indian outsourcing takeover is imminent
News But Gartner warns the India-3 will have to continue to evolve to reach true mega-vendor status, in particular they will have to achieve similar levels of revenue per employee to the US big three. Productivity gains driving IT outsourcing... [14 Aug 2008]
Carphone Warehouse does workforce management
News The application, supplied by Kronos, will be used to analyse historical trading data; projected sales figures; labour rules; and employee availability to create optimum staffing schedules for each of the mobile phone and consumer electronics... [13 Aug 2008]
Flexible working: Gov't 'must do better'
News Spink told silicon.com home working "helps the environment and quality of life for the employee and can give higher productivity and higher quality work if it is organised properly". Figures from the 2006 Work Life Balance Employee survey by the... [30 Jul 2008]
Microsoft readies online apps for business
News For instance, a WYSIWYG interface would enable an IT worker to give a new employee access to the company tools in a series of steps that could be shorter than setting up, say, a free Hotmail or Yahoo! [09 Jul 2008]
Workers waste company time online
News Employers estimate 4.4 per cent of working time is lost this way - the equivalent to 10 days lost per year at a cost of £939 per employee. Around a third (32 per cent) of companies said they disciplined an employee for misuse of internet access... [11 Jun 2008]
IBM sings a Symphony to rival Office
News Symphony could save a 20,000-employee company around £4m, according to CNN Money. IBM has launched a commercially supported version of its Lotus Symphony productivity suite, ready to take on Microsoft Office. [09 Jun 2008]
China key to Indian IT growth
News China will take centre stage for this growth, with Satyam planning to boost its 1,000-strong employee base there to 10,000 and to increase the number of development centres in the country from the five it currently owns. [21 Apr 2008]
Shell signs $4bn IT outsourcing contract
News The oil multinational expects "significant improvements in efficiency and productivity" and to deliver "important financial benefits to Shell" during the five-year deal. Shell is to transfer almost 3,000 IT staff as part of a $4bn deal to outsource... [31 Mar 2008]
BT wins £62m outsourcing deal from KPMG Europe
News The deal will provide an IP-based telephone system and other improvements aimed at delivering significant operating cost savings to KPMG businesses, which it said would ease future expansion and improve employee productivity. [31 Mar 2008]
Are remote workers hitting you where it hurts?
News John N Stewart, chief security officer at the company, said in a statement: "Increasing employee awareness through sustained education reduces threats, attacks and the painful pricetags they typically carry. [11 Mar 2008]
Facebook banned by half of employers
News Of the 50 per cent of companies that allow access to Facebook, Cluley said some view it as a valuable networking tool while others are nervous about the possibility of an employee backlash to a ban. Half of businesses are restricting employees... [21 Aug 2007]
BlackBerrys and PDAs bad for work/life balance
News BlackBerrys and smart phones may have had a huge impact on executive and employee productivity but they also have a negative impact on work/life balance by making it more difficult to switch off from the office. [18 Jul 2007]
BlackBerrys users bursting with time and cost savings
News BlackBerry users also tend to put in more hours than your average employee and earn more money, according to a separate study published at the beginning of the year. And BlackBerrys not only increase an individual's productivity but also that of... [04 Jul 2007]
SMEs snubbing homeworking
News Jones added an SME employee's job spec can be less well defined when compared with staff from a larger company and it can therefore be difficult to measure productivity. Remote solutions make it much harder to measure productivity. [03 Jul 2007]
Consumer techs 'will help IT departments prosper'
News The analyst said consumer technologies - such as instant messaging, podcasting, Skype and wi-fi - have the potential to "radically increase" employee productivity. End users should be given more control and responsibility over their computing needs... [06 Nov 2006]
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