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Your Cube Used to Be a Lot Bigger
By Deb Perelman | Posted: 2007-04-11
Feeling the squeeze at your desk today? Are your elbows bumping into the file cabinet? Can you not find an iota of clear space in which to rest your coffee? Is the nearness of your cube walls making you feel a little ... claustrophobic?
If it makes you feel any
IT, You've Got a Chromosome Missing
By Deb Perelman | Posted: 2007-04-10
While the overall U.K. work force is 50 percent women, in IT the percentage of female workers hovers at a low 15 percent, finds research released April 7 by Parity, a U.K.-based business and IT technology services organization. The report calls upon companies to do more to attract female employees
'Hi, My Name Is Mary, and I'm Speaking to You Today from Pune, India'
By Deb Perelman | Posted: 2007-04-10
Though it flew largely under the radar, on March 29 Rep. Jason Altmire, D-Pa., introduced a bill that would require employees at a call center who either initiate or receive telephone calls to disclose their physical location.
Called the "Call Center Consumer's Right to Know Act," the bill hopes to
Smaller Indian Cities Get Outsourcing Attention
By Deb Perelman | Posted: 2007-03-29
By now, we've all heard of Bangladore, Delhi and Mumbai. But Ahmedabad? Kochi? Nagpur? In a report issued March 29 by global advisory firm Alsbridge, each of these Indian cities are listed among the
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Junior Salesmen, You've Been Put on Notice
By Deb Perelman | Posted: 2007-03-29
Junior salesmen and female workers between the ages of 26 and 35, they've got their eye on you. In a survey of workplace security sinners released March 29 by MessageLabs, IT decision makers made you their top risk. How dare they?
It's all your fault. You're tech-savvy, using applications like e-mail,
Survey: Outsourcing Diminishes Demand for IT Jobs
By Deb Perelman | Posted: 2007-03-29
Skilled IT staff fell out of the top 10 "hot jobs" in Manpower's annual Talent Shortage survey, released March 29, due to workforce optimization.
The survey also revealed that employer
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Resumes to Be Relieved of the Squeeze
By Deb Perelman | Posted: 2007-03-20
When it comes time to update your resume, ever find yourself decreasing margins, font size, line spacing and a dozen other cheats to keep it down to the vaunted size: a single page? Then this is good news for you! The "one page only" rule is quickly going the way
What We've Got Here Is a Failure to Communicate
By Deb Perelman | Posted: 2007-03-07
Why do most IT projects fail? Poor communication, finds a Web survey released by CompTIA on March 6.
Twenty-eight percent of the more than 1,000 respondents said that poor communications
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Passwords Still the Bane of the Help Desk's Existence
By Deb Perelman | Posted: 2007-03-07
What clogs the phone lines and causes the most headaches for help desk professionals? Without a doubt, they already know: forgotten passwords. Confirmation came this week in the form of
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Only Your Boss Hates March Madness
By Deb Perelman | Posted: 2007-02-28
Can hardly wait the two weeks until March Madness kicks off? Your boss can.
According to Websense, a San Diego based computer security company, the number of sports-related Web sites has grown 31 percent since March of last year, and the number of gambling Web sites has grown 56 percent,
Telecommuting's Week and Weaknesses
By Deb Perelman | Posted: 2007-02-28
Did you know this is Telecommuter Appreciation Week? In homage to the birthday of the telephone man himself, Alexander Graham Bell, on March 3, TAW runs from Feb. 25 to Mar. 3 this year and is designed to call attention to the "win-win" benefits that arise when workers commute--namely saved
Is Employer-Mandated Health Care Bad for Workers?
By Deb Perelman | Posted: 2007-02-26
What American worker wouldn't support a law that required each and every employer to provide health care for employees? Not many, most would argue; health care is painfully expensive without
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The Coal-Job Growth Connection
By Deb Perelman | Posted: 2007-02-23
Business energy costs and the pains of reducing them are probably not at the top of the mind of the average cubicle-dweller, but this could change if a clear connection is drawn between energy cost reduction and job growth, as in a study conducted by Management Information Systems, released Feb.
A 40-Hour Work Week? How Quaint
By Deb Perelman | Posted: 2007-02-23
"For many American knowledge workers, the 40-hour work week is as quaint a notion as the lunch hour," said Tim Fitzpatrick, a Lexmark vice president, in response to his company's findings that in the last five years, 61 percent of workers have added five hours to their 40-hour hour work
Word of Mouth: Full Employment
By Deb Perelman | Posted: 2007-02-20
Federal Reserve Board Governor Susan Bies told an audience at Duke University's Fuqua School of Business this morning that the U.S. economy is "basically running at full employment." Does this mean that the
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