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Seen that? - Chinese Venture Capital Ushers in Thunder & Rainmakers
in China Venture News, on November 20, 2009
...ion investment, according to Pacific Epoch. Sinomen is an information website for China's rural workers. The website was launched in November 2005 and provides recruitment, training, life style, a...
Seen that? - ZeroShock Laptop Sleeves
in Tech Without Wires, on November 19, 2009
...Laptop: DIY Laptop Case at Home Based Business Mobile workers or those who just can't get enough of moving from one meeting to another with their lapt...
US unemployment to hit 13%
in Sox First, on November 12, 2009
... The problem, he says, is that the banks aren't lending money so companies can't expand and put on workers. "While we may be getting close to a bottom in terms of employment, the jobless rate is very...
Seen that? - Make your laptop fashionable too
in Busy with Style, on November 10, 2009
...Laptop: DIY Laptop Case at Home Based Business Mobile workers or those who just can't get enough of moving from one meeting to another with their lapt...
Seen that? - Gordon’s Jewelers Grants Wishes
in The Jewelry Weblog, on November 9, 2009
...ry Weblog Just in time for holiday shopping, New York city transit workers decided to strike today. Per a report by CNN: " New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg ...
TechFlash discusses roadblocks to innovation in America
in The CIO Weblog, on November 2, 2009
... perhaps tangential to the overall argument, was number six:
6) We have always been a nation of immigrants – and the number #1 source of current US immigration, legal and non, is Mexico, which place... ...erages in education. Just because a country experiences a surge in poorly educated, low-income workers looking for agriculture jobs doesn't mean they are going to suddenly start dropping off resumes ...
Seen that? - Buy Doom on DVD, Get Doom III Demo for Xbox
in XboxSpace, on October 28, 2009
...t how it will join the chart topping, award winning, previous games... oh, and they are looking for workers, so if any of you lot are qualified programmers or other gamedev staff, get applying :) Via ...
The US's Reverse Brain Drain Will Benefit China, India
in Global Mobility Report, on October 26, 2009
... we found should concern even the most boisterous Silicon Valley boosters.
We learned that these workers returned in their prime: the average age of the Indian returnees was 30 and the Chinese was ...
Announcing the Release Candidate for Ubuntu 9.10
in Wangtam, on 2009-10-26
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Gamefly Reviews are Better than USPS Service
in The Gadgets Weblog, on October 17, 2009
...they simply being stolen and traded. If one man can make off with 2,200 games, then 100 scandalous workers could easily make off with a quarter of a million games. Personally, I think this just suck...
Seen that? - Fake Office background noise can help your home business
in Home Based Business, on October 11, 2009
...ful life, relaxing at home and not having to do much as the boss doesn't see you anyway. We web workers all know that's far from the truth. We're the types you can call day and night - our...
Seen that? - Bring Your Home Phone Wherever You Go
in The VoIP Weblog, on October 10, 2009
...rk, conducted a survey on whether employees bring work at home or not. And unsurprisingly, the home workers outnumbered those who say that they don't bring work at home. Bringing work at home if y...
What's Behind the Recent Spate of Legal Process Outsourcing Deals in the UK?
in The Outsourcing Weblog, on October 6, 2009
...ws lawyers and non-lawyers to join forces, with the implication being that lower-cost non-attorney workers will be able to perform legal services.
Magic Circle firms, not wanting to be left behind, a...
What's Behind the Recent Spate of Legal Process Outsourcing Deals in the UK?
in The Outsourcing Weblog, on October 6, 2009
...ws lawyers and non-lawyers to join forces, with the implication being that lower-cost non-attorney workers will be able to perform legal services.
Magic Circle firms, not wanting to be left behind, a...
California - America's first failed state?
in Sox First, on October 4, 2009
...et deficit, California is slashing spending in education and healthcare, laying off vast numbers of workers and forcing others to take unpaid leave. In a state made up of sprawling suburbs the collaps...
Seen that? - Bring some Life into your office
in Cool Picking, on October 2, 2009
...a mobile office. - With capacity for 50 or more hanging files, this desk is a must-have for mobile workers who need a great deal of filing space to keep papers organized and [...] Read More ...
Addressing Management Challenges of Converged Mobile Devices
in The Wireless Weblog, on September 25, 2009
...s growing dramatically. Research shows that it will double in three years, as 46 percent of mobile workers will use converged mobile devices by 2011, compared to 23 percent who used them at the beginn...
The phoney bull market
in Sox First, on September 24, 2009
...e happy Dow and notwithstanding the upbeat corporate earnings, most corporations are still shedding workers and slashing payrolls. And the big banks still aren't lending to Main Street." May...
Wine Season Destinations
in Celebrate Wine, on September 14, 2009
...from the vines and juiced) occurs between the months of August and October. Vineyards come alive as workers collect the grapes. The air is filled with a sweet aroma and tourists flock to tasting rooms...
LA's analysis of Google Apps
in The CIO Weblog, on September 10, 2009
...use to others considering such transitions. Also worth noting is the estimate that some 80% of city workers could perform their jobs adequately using the Doc and Spreadsheet components in place of Mic...
Microsoft and Best Buy Bash Linux
in HackITLinux, on September 9, 2009
Overclock.net forum member GodofGrunts recently leaked a series of slides from a Best Buy training session in which employees are taught to promote Windows and trash Linux.
"The materials present obvious and at times true assertions about the lack of software support and users preferr...
Be Your Spouse's Boss? Maybe...
in BootStrapMe, on September 1, 2009
...it had a negative impact on our marriage. But we did see some resentment small amount of from other workers.
Bottom line, the answer depends on you (and your spouse). But in much of the world, entrep...
Enterprise 2.0 finds success (and failure!)
in The CIO Weblog, on August 25, 2009
...ess needs rather than internal politics or power-mongering, the projects are simply an outgrowth of workers looking for better ways to get their work done.
I imagine the results are somewhat biased b...
Striking French workers threaten to pollute Seine
in Sox First, on August 22, 2009
... employees with overtime payments and other benefits. I also did another blog entry on how French workers had started kidnapping bosses to get better entitlements. Now they've done it again wit...
Post 9/11: What to do when post-traumatic stress doesn't subside?
in Straightfromthedoc, on August 14, 2009
...en with time, so a large increase raises questions. The rise in numbers is seen not only in rescue workers but anyone affected by the attacks.
While PTSD symptoms are not controllable they are defin...
The fiscal effects of A8 migration to the UK
in Wangtam, on 2009-08-10
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What to do when those mortgage payments get hard to make
in The Mortgage Roadmap, on August 6, 2009
...s hardly a surprise. The nation's unemployment rate is near 10 percent. An increasing number of workers are being forced to take unpaid days off. Those mortgage payments are a lot more difficult t...
Twenty years to recover from layoffs
in Sox First, on August 5, 2009
...cover from a layoff? 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 strugglin...
Chris Anderson: no future in newspapers
in Sox First, on July 30, 2009
... that industries have to remain at any given size. Once there were blacksmiths and there were steel workers, but things change. The question is not should journalists have jobs. The question is can pe...
Can news be saved?
in Sox First, on July 20, 2009
... and good intentions is not a citizen firefighter. To say so is a heedless insult to trained social workers and firefighters."...
California's dope rush
in Sox First, on July 19, 2009
...ps — stores that sell high-tech marijuana growing equipment, pot clubs that pay rent and hire workers, chains of for-profit clinics that specialize in medical marijuana recommendations. Now exp...
The Pope Comes Out Against Outsourcing
in The Outsourcing Weblog, on July 18, 2009
...werable to stockholders, and thus dramatically affecting, and disadvantaging an organization's workers and the communities in which they exist.
This is interesting territory for the Vatican to cr...
Temporary vacation
in The CIO Weblog, on July 17, 2009
...As summertime comes to the Pacific Northwest, workers get lazy and gazes start to linger on the cool blue and green scenery just outside the office windows. I am by no means immune to this malady and ...
Navigating The Business Start Up In A Recession
in Business Computer Blog (UK), on July 17, 2009
...of the decade and then another 18% dip near the end of the decade. Upset and un- or underemployed workers across the country are asking whether now is the time to break out on their own and start the...
Recession reshapes America
in Sox First, on July 14, 2009
...ed States and around the world may increasingly be inhabited by a core of wealthy and highly mobile workers leading greatly privileged lives, catered to by an underclass of service workers living in f...
An X-shaped recession
in Sox First, on July 14, 2009
... US economy is worse than we think . More companies are asking people to take unpaid leave and more workers are being forced into part time jobs, which doesn't show up on the stats, the average wo...
China Restricts Virtual Currencies
in China Venture News, on July 6, 2009
...ne motive for China's actions is a practice called "goldfarming." It involves Chinese workers in near sweatshop conditions playing games. They build up virtual currency or game status an...
What the jobless figures tell us
in Sox First, on July 3, 2009
... from the previous business cycle were wiped out. Completely. There are now 14.7 million unemployed workers in the US, up 7.2 million from the start of the recession and it keeps going up. The Financ...
Durbin-Grassley, Indian Outsourcing, and the H-1B Visa
in Global Mobility Report, on June 30, 2009
...H-1B visa holders.
The H-1B is a temporary work visa used to allow companies to bring in foreign workers with "rare" talent on a temporary basis. Companies like Google and Microsoft use t...
The Cloud Is Coming - and With It, Change for Business
in Web 2.0, on June 22, 2009
...n the field with a couple of button clicks. Coca-Cola Enterprises (CCE) is equipping 40,000 mobile workers, including truck drivers, merchandisers, and sales staff, with portable devices so they'r...
Apple Updates its Software While the Government Rethinks Law
in The Mobile Technology Weblog, on June 17, 2009
...king personal use with painstaking documentation of minutes.
The cell phone tax can be a pain for workers who increasingly use mobile devices for texting, emailing and browsing the Internet sometime...
Unemployment: are the numbers lying?
in Sox First, on June 14, 2009
...ess expands on that further here . The official rate doesn't include "marginally-attached workers". These are people who have looked for work in the past year but stopped searching in t...
GM's bad ad
in Sox First, on June 2, 2009
...er look like a picnic. The company will have to jettison several major brands, 14 factories, 47,000 workers worldwide, and 40 per cent of its US dealer network. That's a complex process, slashing ...
Early retirement soars, but who is going to pay?
in Sox First, on May 26, 2009
...t 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 Security ...
Obama Administration Targets Employers with Immigration Enforcement
in Global Mobility Report, on May 23, 2009
...fforts begun under the Bush Administration to crack down on companies that knowingly hire illegal immigrants, according to Janet Napolitano, the new head of the of Homeland Security Dept. Napolita... ...e article as pointing out (correctly) that illegal immigration is a labor force issue. Undocumented workers come to the US because companies are hiring them once they get here.
Of course, the issue ...
Twitter's Spectacularly Awful 24 Hours
in Wangtam, on 2009-05-16
... - it's your show!
• Doctrs.com - All about finding your colleagues, co-workers and friends in the healthcare field
• Voyij.com - The best destination sales for the flexible traveler. Flight D...
Dayton RFID Convergence Center: World’s First Business Incubator for Start Ups
in The RFID Weblog, on May 13, 2009
...repreneurs every year who in turn will be supporting over a thousand vendors, suppliers and workers and as the center is still under constriction you will have to wait until July to start gaining from...
H1B: Frying pan to fire
in The CIO Weblog, on May 11, 2009
...e, are fans; the ability to hire from an increasingly large pool of eager and well-educated foreign workers to fill domestic jobs helps ease the pay scale. Industry leaders as illustrious as Bill Gate...
Chrysler's Italian job
in Sox First, on May 2, 2009
...s: the US Government which says it will keep its nose out of day to day operations, the United Auto Workers union and Italian car company Fiat. The question is whether it will work. On one hand, when...
The Invisible Hook by Peter Leeson
in Sox First, on April 30, 2009
...y for equal prey to ensure they all had their hearts in continuing roving the seas. They also had a workers' compensation system for those who got injured plundering ships. This ensured pirates wo...
Big bonuses at imploding banks
in Sox First, on April 26, 2009
...the ones that are left are taking home more. The Observer reports that 70% of financial services workers got a bonus in 2008 despite the unfolding of the worst crisis for 80 years with 16% saying t...
Will COBRA Bite Your Business?
in Biz Plan Hacks, on April 18, 2009
...ure out which former employees qualify and notify 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 pro...
InfoSys's Sales Decline
in The Outsourcing Weblog, on April 15, 2009
...nlike it's U.S. counterparts, InfoSys is still suggesting that it will grow rather than layoff workers, although that growth rate may slow a bit.
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Full-sized House using GluBam Technology
in The Biotech Weblog, on April 15, 2009
...ures or masonry structures in China," said Xiao: "the whole house took a crew of eight workers in an estimated equivalent construction period of three months."
He added that, iIn terms...
NeedleSight: We want you safe
in The RFID Weblog, on April 15, 2009
...ired for detection would not only have to be small enough to become part of the safety gear of the workers but also be affordable at the same time. One positive finding which has emerged from all this...
AT&T announces Samsung SGH-a657 Rugged Phone
in The Smart PDA, on April 13, 2009
...xtreme tempratures, rain and humidity. All in all the Samsung SGH-a657 is a useful device for field workers.
Here are the specs:
Network: Quad-band GSM (850/900/1800/1900 MHz), UMTS (850/1900MHz)
S...
Up for Grabs: 85.000 H-1B Visas in America
in Global Mobility Report, on April 8, 2009
...It's open season now on the H-1B visa in America. The season on the 3-year non-immigrant work visa started on April 1st, according to BusinessWeek .
While the number of applicants is expect... ...t of encouraging innovation because it allows employers to hire from among the best "specialty workers" in the international talent pool.
The program has its critics - as Rita Hira points...
Bossnapping: it's French for industrial action
in Sox First, on April 8, 2009
...t a labor tactic and very French but it does raise some interesting questions. Over the last month, workers at a 3M plant held their boss for more than 24 hours during a labor dispute, and workers at ...
Saving precious lives is what RFID intends to achieve
in The RFID Weblog, on March 31, 2009
...ittsburgh are also working on a computer program which would make it possible to find out how many workers had used keys for entering the building before fire erupted.
Once implemented this system wo...
Disneyland in Hong Kong May Not Make It
in Wandalust, on March 31, 2009
...the Magic Kingdom theme park has steadily lost money since opening in 2005. Now it's laying off workers and has put expansion plans on hold."
Some perspective may help understand the park&#...
Why Skilled Immigrants to the US Are Going Home
in Global Mobility Report, on March 30, 2009
...their home countries instead of remaining in the U.S. As the debate over H-1B workers and skilled immigrants intensifies, we are losing sight of one important fact: The U.S. is no longer the only land... ... BusinessWeek had an article early this month on how many of the most highly skilled workers in America today are opting to return to their home countries instead of remaining in the U.S. As the deba...
87 款面向自由职业者和在线工作者的工具与资源
in Wangtam, on 2009-03-19
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Cloud computing killed your future
in The CIO Weblog, on March 17, 2009
...stulates that the introduction of cloud computing to the IT industry will put a lot of information workers out on the streets in the same way that the automation of manufacturing work in the seventie...
AIG's Contracts and Obama's Outrage
in Bizinformer, on March 16, 2009
...re responsible for the company's collapse.
I heard a report today that contrasted white collar workers in the financial sector with blue collar workers in the auto industry. AIG's bonuses ju...
The Future of Electric Car Maker Th!nk
in IfEnergy, on March 14, 2009
... eight states, including Michigan, on a site for the facility that would initially employ about 300 workers.
Th!nk is owned by private equity group Novus Energy Partners.
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Powder-Free Latex Gloves Reduce Latex Allergy Related Illness
in Allergies, on March 12, 2009
...en noted to have significantly reduced the number of claims for latex-related illnesses from their workers. They concluded that although the use of powder-free gloves was more costly, it partially of...
Warning to CFOs: don't trust HR
in Sox First, on March 11, 2009
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All over the world, financial services firms are sacking workers. An International Labor Organisation (ILO) report says there were 325,000 layoffs around the world between August 2007 and 12 Feb...
Things I Should Have Blogged About...
in Bizinformer, on March 10, 2009
...ow you know it's bad - when people stop buying computers...
On February 24th, Cutting Mature Workers Widens the Wisdom Deficit . Regardless of your financial position, now is not the time to ...
Please Don't Take Away Our Tax Breaks!
in The Outsourcing Weblog, on February 27, 2009
...will affect some contracts, although it is even more likely that the incentives for hiring domestic workers, along with the general mood here in the U.S. will have a greater effect ultimately.
That ...
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"。
