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Is retention on your radar yet?
in The CIO Weblog, on November 30, 2009
...premature to some people to be talking about IT staff retention while there are still vast pools of laid-off techie talent out there to draw on and while budgets remain tight in many organizations. F...
The Time is Now: Getting in on Alternative Energy in China
in China Venture News, on November 27, 2009
...t for startup enterprises. As Chinese cities have become increasingly polluted, the government has laid out ambitious plans to lessen dependence on fossil fuels. By 2020, Beijing aims to have 15% of ...
The fight for developer hearts and minds
in The CIO Weblog, on November 16, 2009
...attern or what, but Google again seems to be stepping up where Microsoft has stumbled, today hiring laid-off business development director of Microsoft's Emerging Business Team Don Dodge, according t...
What Not to Say When You Hand Out Pink Slips
in Biz Plan Hacks, on November 11, 2009
...k on things not to say when the time comes to hand someone their pink slip.
People are getting laid off. Right and left, east and west, all over the place. And it's not always because they deserv...
Reading the Microsoft tea leaves: Is the company turtling?
in The CIO Weblog, on November 4, 2009
...ening in the past months as perceptions of failure, or even worse, of inadequate success, have been laid at Redmond's feet from a variety of sources. It's easy to read this as another point in the tr...
Tipping Around the World
in The Flyaway Weblog, on August 18, 2009
...Tipping is not a particular difficult concept to master. Most of us have laid a few extra dollars on the table before leaving a restaurant. And if we're not sure how much to leave, we probably hav...
Twenty years to recover from layoffs
in Sox First, on August 5, 2009
...ff? About 20 years, according to a new research paper . The researchers analyzed workers who were laid off in the 1980s and discovered that a decade later, they were still struggling to recover fina...
Exxon Mobil lobbies on climate change
in Sox First, on August 2, 2009
... According to that report, Exxon Mobil spent $14.9 million lobbying compared with the $12.1 million laid out by companies that make solar panels or wind turbines to generate electricity. All up, oil ...
Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children 克劳德 1:1 First tsurug
in Wangtam, on 2009-07-23
...ogle Wave - First Impressions
• Laid Off? It's Good for You and Good for the Tech Industry
• Apple confirms death of iPhone worker in China
• Now displaying images in messages from your cont...
A Guide to Google Analytics and Useful Tools
in Wangtam, on 2009-07-18
...ot;The Pulse Of The Planet"
• Google's Eyeing Cellphones For Chrome OS
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• Games Industry Suffers From Recession, Finally
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Employee Compensation Case Law
in China Venture News, on June 29, 2009
... The article looked at an employee claim for pregnancy leave that was filed after they'd been laid off.
The situation was complicated by the fact that the employee did not have a written contra...
Philippines Announces 10-Year Nanotech Roadmap
in Nanotechbuzz, on June 21, 2009
... © UKDevon
The Republic of the Philippines this week laid out a 10-year strategy for the development of a local nanotech industry.
"The Department of Science and Technology-Philippine Co...
Apps adoption not so terrible
in The CIO Weblog, on June 5, 2009
... They aren't hungry. It shows; the Apps enterprise roll-out has been characterized by a typical laid-back "it's a beta, we're still messing with it" Google approach, and that isn...
Blame the recession on Reagan: Paul Krugman
in Sox First, on June 1, 2009
...ng the ability of families to buy homes without putting a significant amount of money down actually laid the foundation stones for this recession. No doubt the debate will continue with people pointi...
Pay cuts fail to save HP jobs
in The CIO Weblog, on May 28, 2009
...hand, perhaps people feel even more persecuted by having their wages slashed, and then simply being laid off anyway. So was Hurd's decision a bold effort to avoid RIFs which failed, or a mistake w...
Is sacking people unethical?
in Sox First, on May 28, 2009
...on the receiving end face not just financial but psychological injury," he says. "Getting laid off compromises all of these things so managers should think of downsizing as a deep and painfu...
Early retirement soars, but who is going to pay?
in Sox First, on May 26, 2009
...port that the US Social Security system is reporting a major surge in early retirement claims from laid off workers. It's up 25% ahead of last year. Clearly, laid-off workers are claiming Social ...
Cuba's City of Churches: Camagüey
in Latina Viva, on May 23, 2009
...0 buildings, according to the Cuba Travel Blog .
Camagüey is a hodge podge of twisty streets laid out without a clear pattern. And between the main boulevards are neighborhood plazas that serve (am...
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in Wangtam, on 2009-05-15
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Louisiana Supreme Court Rules In Favor Of Board Certified Interventional Pain Physicians -- Ensuring Patient Safety
in Straightfromthedoc, on April 22, 2009
...er of Baton Rouge . "Being the first victory of this kind, the case has set a precedent and laid down the groundwork for other states. It will now be easier for others to take action and keep ...
VMware to announce VSphere today
in The CIO Weblog, on April 21, 2009
...g else, the product sounds as if it may provide the ultimate abstracted realization of the promises laid by Service Oriented Architectures. SOA is an important goal for enterprise IT, for all the body...
Will COBRA Bite Your Business?
in Biz Plan Hacks, on April 18, 2009
...y them. BusinessWeek says that only 20% of eligible workers opt for COBRA coverage when they're laid off, but they tend to have the worst health problems. Insurers or businesses that pay for their...
Training institutions launch low cost supply chain education programs
in Supplychainer, on April 1, 2009
...ply chain professionals hit by the recession.
The two companies are offering two sessions at which laid-off supply chain professionals can receive training for the ISCEA Certified Supply Chain Analys...
Clarifications on HP and Mark Hurd
in The CIO Weblog, on March 31, 2009
... are no doubt traumatic and ongoing, they were probably inevitable, recession or no. People get laid off during mergers, regardless of the larger economic climate, and in any enterprise as large a...
被华尔街辞退？加入脱衣舞俱乐部吧
in Independent Money & Investment Guide, on 2009-03-29
28岁的Randi Newton不在金融危机爆发前曾经是摩根斯坦利的金融分析师，作为一位职业女性，她的工作并不算辛苦，却很容易的拿到六位数的薪水。但自从丢掉工作之后，她每周有三到四个晚上要在 Rick's Cabaret 进行表演。
而且自从她获得这份工作之后，与之前的分析师职位相比，她的生活更加清净和自由，因为新工作带给她的性骚扰事件越来越少～～
一起来看看Newton的新工作吧
Geithner's push for power and the law of unexpected outcomes
in Sox First, on March 27, 2009
... genius to grasp that it's grossly unfair for the mere mortals who do good, solid work, who get laid off because Wall Street geniuses drove the economy off a cliff, to wind up paying bonuses to th...
Cloud computing killed your future
in The CIO Weblog, on March 17, 2009
...f conservation of jobs," is how he terms it.
The problem he see with this is that those folks laid off from the old-school IT jobs, the sysadmins and network techs, will be unlikely to be proper...
A More Pessimistic View of Outsourcing
in The Outsourcing Weblog, on March 2, 2009
... losses. Also, it is important to remember that an outsourced worker is still more expensive than a laid off worker - and there are plenty of layoffs in the marketplace.
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Blind over-optimistic analysts
in Sox First, on February 28, 2009
.... That's a point taken up by Bloomberg's David Reilly who says the President has taken a laid-back view of bank stress. The stress tests, he says, just lack the necessary rigor to fix the d...
微软要求被裁员工返还部分遣散费
in Wangtam, on 2009-02-24
微软近日称，由于会计发生错误，要求前不久被裁的部分离职员工归还超额支付的遣散费。
TechCrunch 上周披露 ，微软向上月被裁减的 1400 名员工寄发信件称，之前向他们发放的遣散费过于"慷慨"，并客气地请他们返还其中的一部分。
信件中解释称，由于行政上的疏忽导致了遣散费的计算错误，希望员工能够返还多支付的部分，并对此举给被裁员工带来的不便表示真诚的歉意。
微软一位发言人在接受西雅图邮讯报时证实了该信的真实性，并表示这是一件"公司与其波及人员的私事"。
European government bailouts: Should we let one go broke?
in Wangtam, on 2009-02-23
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Is California the canary in the coal mine?
in Sox First, on February 18, 2009
...ate that California finds itself in. Now we have reports that the state is out of cash, it's laid off scores workers, put more on unpaid furloughs, Standard & Poor's has lowered its bon...
More Tips to Help You Save On Heating Costs
in The Personal Finance Weblog, on February 3, 2009
... Photo courtesy of iStockphoto , Image# 6284593
With so many people laid off of work and having a hard time getting by, high heating costs is something you can do
without. Most of these tips are...
68,000 Jobs Lost In The United States Today
in Exclusive from our news room , on January 26, 2009
...Led by heavy equipment manufacturer, Caterpillar, which laid off 20,000 workers today, the United States' sustained the loss of 68,000 jobs today.
Sprint, Pfizer, Home Depot, Philips Electron...
Microsoft To Lay Off 5,000 Employees
in Exclusive from our news room , on January 22, 2009
...ings in a big way and their first ever layoff will carry on that tradition when 5,000 employees are laid off due to lagging sales.
The lay offs, which will eliminate 5% of the company's personnel...
慢点走，别着急
in Wangtam, on 2009-01-16
...r hire
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Unemployment Benefits? One of the Risks of Going it Alone...
in BootStrapMe, on January 15, 2009
...entrepreneurship and home-based business. If their business fails, they are just as unemployed as a laid off autoworker. But they are not eligible for unemployment benefits. Most people believe if the...
Empty Beaches in Goa
in Hidden Travel Gems, on December 27, 2008
... and baggage scanners instead of the cocktails, house music and rollicking outdoor parties that the laid-back former Portuguese colony is known for."
Goa without parties. Hmmm...
Photo court...
Caye Caulker, Belize
in Hidden Travel Gems, on December 2, 2008
...named Caye Caulker on of the World's Sexiest Islands for 2008. It could also be one of the most laid back places on earth: The vibe is totally appropriate: The pace is molasses-slow, and a pleasan...
Great Time To Learn Golf. Not.
in Eagle Par Birdie, on November 22, 2008
...he property. If that adult works in the financial community, forget it. He or she has probably been laid off.
And you want them to pay out a hundred bucks for golf lessons and then hope they spend mo...
Microsoft strategy
in The CIO Weblog, on October 30, 2008
...t Ozzie for all of this nor slight Gates, who still plays a real role at the company and who surely laid much of the groundwork for recent revelations in years past. Nonetheless, I'm taking it as ...
Lana Designer Jewelry
in The Jewelry Weblog, on October 23, 2008
... of her life Rob, who inspired her to design the first jewelry piece in the collection. She has laid the foundation for an independent luxury brand that is well-known for its modern style and individu...
Jewelry Bargains at ARingThing.com
in The Jewelry Weblog, on October 12, 2008
...nd the name amethyst comes from the Greek myth regarding Dionysus. Egyptian Pharaohs sometimes were laid to rest with amethyst because it was believed it made for a better life in the afterworld. The ...
JJ is Dynomite: Juanda Take Down WSOPE Main Event
in Internet Poker, on October 4, 2008
...ng Daniel Negreanu, Scott Fischman, and "November Nine" participant Ivan Demidov, Juanda laid claim to his fourth WSOP bracelet. Stanislav Alekhin was the only player standing in the way Jua...
America's China Addiction: Time to Kick It?
in China Venture News, on October 4, 2008
...or Phoenix stops spending an extra $15,000 each year, sales go down at retailers. Then people get laid off and we start calling it a recession. But everybody knows we can't keep spending more th...
Mawi Designer Jewelry
in The Jewelry Weblog, on September 29, 2008
... Mawi necklace has a contrasting panel in the middle and a clasp to fasten. Length of necklace when laid flat is approximately 56cm / 22 inches.
$515
The response to her Autumn/Winter 2003 London Fa...
Reader's pick for bootstrapper principles
in BootStrapMe, on September 23, 2008
... © a2gemma
We've laid out a couple of what I consider to be among the most important bootstrapping principles over the last few days: Here they are .
But I want to keep this site as inte...
Storage industry - reshaping Overland Storage
in On Storage, on August 31, 2008
...hile 53 employees do't seem like much, it is 13% of Overland's work force. When I was last laid off by a storage company, 900 employees where laid off. Think it might have been .5% of the work...
Internal security is the most important security
in The CIO Weblog, on August 30, 2008
...tantial portion of IT staff would plan to walk out the door with sensitive company information if laid off.
The study, commissioned by password vault software maker Cyber-Ark , exposes and perhaps...
The Bag Makes You Pop
in Pretty Things, on August 28, 2008
...es are an essential and they do so much. My fave involves handbags. I love to dress very casual and laid back so I rely on my accessories to show that I may be casual glam but there was still a sembla...
iPhone issues not all down to Apple
in The CIO Weblog, on August 26, 2008
... areas with heavy network utilization. The conclusion: much of the recent iPhone furor can't be laid at Apple's doorstep (other, of course, than their terrible decision to go with AT&T as ...
Bootstrapper's hall of fame: VA ventures
in BootStrapMe, on August 23, 2008
...inues to move in new directions.
But way back in 2006, Denise was just getting started after being laid off from a full-time job.
We hope to have a lengthier conversation with Denise soon about how...
Freikometer: Bike to School movement for the future of the country
in The RFID Weblog, on August 12, 2008
...ciety but even save our environment by preventing the use of fuel driven vehicles. He has certainly laid down a vision which would go a long way towards helping the mankind.
...
Enterprise 2.0 updates
in The CIO Weblog, on August 7, 2008
...xisting workflow. You have to wonder why the rest even bothered; the failure to adopt can hardly be laid wholly at the feet of the toolsets if cardinal rules of integration and business alignment aren...
Are we firing people here, or what?
in The CIO Weblog, on August 6, 2008
...s more about attitude than planning? Or does it reflect a careful analysis of the fruition of plans laid this year which will automate departments enough to start wielding the axe next year?
That'...
Resting up
in The Parenting Weblog, on July 31, 2008
... Wanting to get back to sleep so she can tackle her day with gusto was a great decision to make.
I laid in bed thinking how she was growing up and feeling sad for myself to let go of the younger vers...
Our fourth grader
in The Parenting Weblog, on July 29, 2008
...aby girl, she is so big and mature now.
Hayley wore a new outfit we got at limited too all laid out and I let her get her first earrings that actually hang down some. She was so trendy with h...
Beach Wedding Photo Tip: Time
in White Lace Wedding, on July 28, 2008
...al and carefree. After all, when you can attend your own wedding barefoot, expect things to be more laid back.
Brides and grooms-to-be who want to exchange vows in the sun and sand need to kee...
What's cooking up today with RFID Chef Robot?
in The RFID Weblog, on July 22, 2008
...the next time you come late from work feeling tired don't be amazed if you get delicious dinner laid on your table and utensils cleaned spotlessly. So if you have hired a maid get ready to say goo...
Kenya's Hidden Gem: the Isle of Lamu
in Hidden Travel Gems, on July 20, 2008
...beach.
The hotel has been described as a "five-star Robinson Crusoe" and "the most laid-back lodge in Africa." This is an ecotourism destination and perfect for romantic vacation...
Canada kill off QuebecTorrent
in P2P File Sharing, on July 14, 2008
...ew p2p havens left, where people did not get prosecuted and trackers did not get shutdown, has just laid the smackdown upon popular BitTorrent tracker QuebecTorrent...sortof. The site has been ...
Robin Phillips Jewelry
in The Jewelry Weblog, on July 9, 2008
...e silver plate. In this process, thin metal wires of either fine silver or gold are first laid down to separate the enamels from one another. Wet enamels (finely ground glass and lead) are painted ont...
Find Gas Prices
in carzz.org, on July 4, 2008
...as prices in your area. Just key in the zip code or city, press search, and there you have them all laid out nicely on a map. Happy pumping gas!...
Laying off or Firing with respect
in Biz Plan Hacks, on June 27, 2008
...
So how do you dismiss someone?
We have all heard the horror stories lately of companies that laid off people with no taste such as Radio Shack by sending out the email. I just read a story to da...
Dundarave Golf Resort, Prince Edward Island
in Eagle Par Birdie, on June 21, 2008
Dundarave Golf Club, P.E.I.
During U-S Open week, my wife and I had the pleasure of spending 4 days in one of our favorite golf destinations - Prince Edward Island .
I have written before about golf on PEI in this space and how rewarding an experience it is but it had been several years s...
Insult to Injury: US Air to Charge $2 For Water and Soda
in The Flyaway Weblog, on June 16, 2008
... pay through the nose, or else end up with a stuffed up nose.
It gets better. the airline recently laid off 1,700 employees, began charging $25 for domestic phone reservations and $35 for internation...
Anna Beck Jewelry
in The Jewelry Weblog, on June 11, 2008
...; wide
$238
Anna Beck Designs was officially established in 2003, although its foundation had been laid years earlier. After graduating from Boston University, designer and owner Becky Hosmer decided...
This Bag Steps Up Your Look
in Pretty Things, on June 11, 2008
...g is the perfect item to complete his look. Who wouldn't love a bag that mixes professional and laid back all at once!...
Holland - great players but they just can't get on.
in The Soccer Weblog, on June 9, 2008
...yers.
The Dutch people are known for their friendly and liberal characters and for being very 'laid back'. This doesn't seem to apply to their footballers. Already in Euro 2008 we have st...
Memorial Day
in The Parenting Weblog, on May 28, 2008
...ch I would have loved to do.
What do you do with your children to help them honor people who have laid down their lives for our country?
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