workers
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]
Telegraph CIO on the rocky road to going Google
News A survey of workers in October this year found that in their first six months of using Gmail about 45 per cent of staff rated it as worse or the same as using Microsoft Outlook as their mail client. Cheesbrough said that... [04 Nov 2009]
Techies and hairdressers united in the moonlight
News This lands techies in the top 10 UK professions for moonlighting, although some way behind the most prolific cash-in-hand workers of all: the not-so-humble hairdresser. The survey of more than 1,400 UK... [04 Nov 2009]
Photos: Inside a Microsoft datacentre
Photo Although the containers are heavy (and even heavier when packed with servers), air skates allow them to be moved in place with just four workers. Although the datacentre is massive, it is managed with a staff of 30 to... [04 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 time of year when... [30 Oct 2009]
Windows 7: Not perfect - but ready for prime time
Comment For those with definable groups of workers with definable desktop configurations, 'golden images' can make this effort easier and more cost effective, but for smaller organisations, the use of manual aids to simplify the... [28 Oct 2009]
Cheat Sheet: Augmented reality
Cheat Sheet One AR iPhone app in the pipeline - called WorkSnug - will offer mobile workers in London and San Francisco a solution to their wi-fi finding blues, as the video below shows: Is this another name for Apple CEO Steve... [27 Oct 2009]
Monitoring staff email and internet: The dos and don'ts
News Unlike workers in the US, employees in the UK do have an expectation of privacy in the workplace, and if you fail to follow best practice you could find your organisation on the wrong side of the law: under Article 8 of... [22 Oct 2009]
Cost saving drives unified communications projects
News They can also help cut costs by reducing the amount of travelling that workers need to do as the use of video conferencing and other comms tools together means teams can collaborate effectively at a distance without... [20 Oct 2009]
Smart Security Choices for Mobile Workers
White Paper Citrix Online recently conducted a comprehensive survey on the subject of remote access and security to find out how organizations are (or aren't) safeguarding critical information and systems when mobile workers head... [20 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. This data might live within the workers' blogs, wikis or bookmarks. Jive seems to know that... [20 Oct 2009]
Top 10 Strategies for Managers of Mobile Workers
White Paper Embracing this trend is more of a question of "how" rather than "if": How will you measure, manage and build relationships with increasingly distributed teams and workers? Download the white paper to learn how to... [18 Oct 2009]
Mobile Workforce Management and the Aging Utility Workforce
White Paper Utilities face the imminent retirement of many of the most dependable and experienced workers, hired from the large cohort of the population born immediately after World War II. Maintaining utility efficiency,... [18 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]
Dell Pro Support Mobility Services: Connect and Protect Workers on the Go with Dell Prosupport Mobility Services
White Paper Learn about the vast professional support services offered by DellĀ ProSupport Mobility Services. [15 Oct 2009]