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Downturn means fewer outsourcing workers saying 'I do'
Comment The checks came not from prospective employers but from the families of prospective brides wishing to verify the pay, perks, character and any so-called bad habits of the employee such as smoking and drinking. [07 Oct 2009]
Law Firm Finds 894% ROI Using HP ProLiants
White Paper Attorneys were using text-based e-mail, without perks like Blackberry integration and remote file access. The law firm's servers were a crash-happy mishmash from various vendors. Some employees were bringing in personal... [02 Sep 2009]
Facebook wants to double the number of faces on the payroll
News Facebook has been keeping a lid on employee perks for some time now, even though it does feed its minions for free, Google-style. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg plans to increase the company's head count by as much as 50... [25 Aug 2009]
Kids today: Don't fear the Millennials at work
Comment Myth 3: When it comes to what motivates them at work, received wisdom is that Millennials value softer measures such as flexibility, creative potential, social responsibility, gadgets and perks over the banality of salary. [24 Aug 2009]
PayPal goes plastic with debit cards aimed at students - and their parents
News Some of the perks include no overdraft fees and the use of a debit card that's not tied to a particular bank account, meaning the balance can come from a variety of sources. PayPal on Tuesday introduced a new service for... [12 Aug 2009]
How to keep staff happy during the downturn
Comment In tough economic times, businesses must do more with fewer people. Stuart Roberts offers some advice on how to make this happen. How's your staff these days? Have you thought about this lately? The recession has us thinking about... [10 Aug 2009]
The 12 Business Benefits of Workspace Virtualization: For Cash-Strapped Financial Institutions, Bottom-Line Cost Savings Come With Added Manageability and Security Perks
White Paper Workspace or endpoint virtualization is a centrally-controlled computing model for which applications are served up to individual desktops. It offers an 'implement once, deploy many' approach to winning control over one of the most... [05 Aug 2009]
Best of the Best: Acquiring Top Talent for Your Company
White Paper And finally, they share insight on how work environment, challenging projects that maximize employees' talents, and thoughtful, appreciative perks can help retain that top talent once hired. Finding, hiring, and keeping... [31 Jul 2009]
Bangalore bashing: Recession gets nasty
Comment Pink slips are commonplace, tech jobs can be hard to find and workers' pay hikes and perks are disappearing. The latest symptom of the worldwide recession? The West becoming hostile towards Indian outsourcing hubs such... [28 May 2009]
Almost half of UK tech companies to cut IT staff
News Staff at tech and media companies are set to be worse off at almost every turn as the recession continues to plough its bitter furrow - from fewer perks and frozen pay, to increased workloads and a more miserly attitude... [04 Feb 2009]
No pink slips in Bangalore - yet
Comment They are decelerating their hiring and holding off on variable pay and perks. But, says Saritha Rai, so far that's just not the case. Economic theory has it that no two countries with McDonald's fast food outlets will... [28 Oct 2008]
O2 on how it won the iPhone and working with Steve Jobs
Comment It's not all about perks though, as Dunne only received his 3G iPhone on the day of this interview. Ronan Dunne, O2 UK's CEO, is a softly spoken Irishman who heads up the operator's UK operations from a glass-walled... [16 Sep 2008]
Pacific Coffee Perks Up Customer Loyalty and Protects Point-of-Sale Platform With Check Point Safe@Office
White Paper Since 1992, Pacific Coffee Company has been providing world-class coffee to satisfy Hong Kong, China, and Singapore's growing demand. With its focus on offering customers coffee as well as convenient computer connectivity, Pacific Coffee... [04 Aug 2008]
When is a supplier gift/junket inappropriate?
News And three-quarters of silicon.com's 12-strong CIO Jury IT user panel said they still get offered various gifts, perks, junkets and jollies by suppliers hoping to get a foot in the door. Gifts and perks... [06 Jun 2008]
Top 10 mobile & wireless stories of the year
News First class perks trucked into standard class when National Express won the bid to run the London to Scotland east coast mainline rail service. But it's not all been about Steve Jobs this year. For starters, rumours of a... [13 Dec 2007]
