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TechFlash discusses roadblocks to innovation in America
in The CIO Weblog, on November 2, 2009
...ter of tech" discussing our country's challenges in maintaining an education system, and therefore workforce, capable of maintaining the lead in global technical innovation.
This isn't really an a...
Sun Microsystems to Cut 3,000 Jobs
in Java Entrepreneur, on October 22, 2009
...ns to cut 3,000 jobs in the coming year.
"The job losses -- about 10 percent of the global workforce -- are the latest in a series of cuts by the struggling company, which reached the $7.4 bil...
California - America's first failed state?
in Sox First, on October 4, 2009
...'s education system has become so poor so quickly that it is now effectively failing its future workforce. The percentage of 19-year-olds at college in the state dropped from 43% to 30% between 19... ...e G8. And if it were a company, it would likely be declared bankrupt." California desperately needs a political overhaul. Otherwise, the world's eighth biggest economy will drag the rest of ...
Seen that? - LAS VEGAS CASINO DEALER'S TIPS IN JEOPARDY
in Play Las Vegas, on October 2, 2009
...any people depend on tips for their livelihood. Casino jobs are still the mainstay of the Las Vegas workforce, and many of them pay minimum wage, or just a bit more. For some employees it's the be...
Pay cuts or jobs losses for half of America's workforce
in Sox First, on September 19, 2009
Yesterday, I did a blog entry questioning Bernanke's claim that the recession was over and suggesting that most Americans wouldn't believe him. If you need further evidence, check out this alarming ABC News-Washington Post poll showing that 41% of US households have had their pay o...
Save the world: don't have kids
in Sox First, on August 5, 2009
...39;s to encourage more of our 7.9 million economically inactive people of working age back into the workforce." With the world population booming, oceans rising and the weather becoming more uns... ...than two kids. It says that even if we cut emissions drastically, it won't help. The population needs to be cut. The Trust's director Rosamund McDougall told press: "Our self-sufficiency ...
Pay cuts fail to save HP jobs
in The CIO Weblog, on May 28, 2009
...on-related layoffs after all... 6000 jobs over the next 12 months, amounting to 2% of the overall workforce.
I caught a lot of flack from HP staff for voicing my approval over the pay cuts; now we&...
Is sacking people unethical?
in Sox First, on May 28, 2009
...inges on the rights of others. ""No matter how strong the justifications for reducing the workforce are or seem to be, laying off loyal and productive employees is an upsetting experience fo...
Enterprise 2.0: Reality Check
in The CIO Weblog, on April 10, 2009
...ohn Polti introduced the thought that internal implementations of such tools might help prepare the workforce to make responsible use of them externally at some point in the future. There was consider... ...the entire panel and most of the audience showed well-considered positions which balanced corporate needs against the advantages and individual freedoms tied up with the Web 2.0 concept. That's be...
Bossnapping: it's French for industrial action
in Sox First, on April 8, 2009
...n other, more orthodox, forms of protest are going nowhere, bossnapping is the ace card played by a workforce at the end of its tether."...
Warning to CFOs: don't trust HR
in Sox First, on March 11, 2009
...#39;s continuing. The ILO says we are likely to see a permanent reduction in the financial services workforce. And of course, when the layoffs come, you send in the human resources department. That&#...
AOL 宣布裁员 700 人
in Wangtam, on 2009-02-04
TC 消息 ， AOL CEO Randy Falco 上周在致全体员工的备忘录中表示，受经济衰退的影响，公司将裁员 700 人。
Falco 在备忘录中称公司将裁员 700 人，占员工总数的 10%。同时还将冻结 2009 年全年的加薪计划。"全球经济衰退已经影响到每一个角落，包括我们自己。" Falco 表示。
本月初， AOL 的母公司时代华纳其 2008 年的营收预期下调了 3.7 亿美元，这意味着其旗下 AOL 的广告营收同比下降了 18%，大约为 6400 万美元。
上周，Google 承认其于 2005 年收购 AOL 5% 股份已成为一笔亏本生...
Rough and Tough Motorola Tundra available now
in The Smart PDA, on January 19, 2009
...tions and it comes with some reasonable features including Push to Talk technology, aGPS and Mobile Workforce Management tools like TeleNav Track and Xora.
Here are the details:
Dimensions: 3.85 x 2...
Motorola's Announcement Coincides With Poor Economic Conditions
in The Mobile Technology Weblog, on January 16, 2009
...otorola has announced that it will slash an additional 4,000 jobs, or an estimated 6 percent of its workforce, as part of a stepped-up cost-saving move to remain competitive in a slumping global econo...
Microsoft layoffs may be imminent
in The CIO Weblog, on December 29, 2008
...-standing anonymous, internal critic Mini-Microsoft reveals a pattern of internal preparation for workforce reductions which, whatever the company ultimately decides to call them, amount to signific... ...cle, and a number of high-profile failures in web and consumer services, the last thing the company needs is a haphazard approach to de-staffing (did I just make that word up? I like it!). Chaos and c...
Microsoft to cut 10% of its workforce
in Sox First, on December 25, 2008
Traditionally, software and PC sell like hot cakes over Christmas. But with the United States in recession and growing job losses, holiday sales are projected to plummet big time and retailers are discounting heavily. There's only so much you can blame on the appalling winter weather in th...
Sprint/ Nextel Receives the Blackberry Curve 8350i
in The Mobile Technology Weblog, on December 15, 2008
... access to thousands of third-party applications for jobs such as dispatch operations and fleet and workforce management tools.
An advanced media player is designed for playing music, videos and pic...
Spinsters in the Workplace
in The Dating Weblog, on December 12, 2008
... night of the week.
There IS an inequity. But how far reaching is it? Does it damage women in the workforce? Or just insult them? What's your thought?
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Zebra Technologies claims world's first mobile RFID printer
in The RFID Weblog, on December 6, 2008
...at just any place which leads to better asset and data tracking apart from increase productivity of workforce.
The RP4T and P4T mobile printer comes with 8MB Flash and 16 MB RAM memory apart from dir...
News Around the Industry
in The Mobile Technology Weblog, on December 5, 2008
... time AT&T has announced its decision to eliminate 12,000 jobs, or about 4 percent of its total workforce, to cope with an economic downturn, a changing business mix and a more streamlined organiz...
100+ iPhone Games That Use the Accelerometer
in Wangtam, on 2008-12-05
...rkforce
• FoodCandy - Food Social Network
• Frimp - the FREE online yard sale site
• 连线杂志：社交媒体和广告水火不容
• Everything you always wanted to know about Google…
• Google Gears Down for Tougher Tim...
Immigrants and Entrepreneurship in the U.S.
in TJ's Weblog, on December 2, 2008
...new business owners in this country are immigrants, yet immigrants make up only 12.2 percent of the workforce in the U.S. It also found that immigrant-owned businesses contributed roughly $67 billion ...
Sun in Trouble
in Java Entrepreneur, on November 22, 2008
...s announced plans to cut between 5,000 and 6,000 jobs - that's between 15 and 18 percent of its workforce.
"It blamed the cuts on the global economic downturn, but I think that like many ot...
SCL 2009 will be held in Germany in June 2009
in Supplychainer, on November 11, 2008
...otprint: the sustainable supply chain
- Closing the skills gap: developing the future supply chain workforce
- Finding the next low cost market: responding to rising costs in China
- Defining t...
Managing crisis, the Toyota Way!
in Supplychainer, on October 23, 2008
...s simple: We are in a bad situation; we have to cut costs but at the same time can't reduce the workforce so let's do another thing: By organizing workshops and courses to improve operations&#...
Forrester Research: A Fast-Growing Mobile Workforce
in The Wireless Weblog, on October 9, 2008
Photo courtesy of iStockphoto
A new report from Forrester Research says mobile information workers, who either telecommute or travel frequently, account for 20% of workers today - and will account for 34% of workers in four years.
"Overall, Forrester estimates 73% of employees will b...
Boomers and the baby bust
in Sox First, on October 4, 2008
...n world is perched precariously on a demographic fault line with the baby boomers about to exit the workforce. Starting from about fifteen months from now, the baby boom will start turning into a baby...
Computer Science's Gain
in The Outsourcing Weblog, on October 1, 2008
..., with this talent instead going to the financial industry.
As these technology students enter the workforce, they will present signifiant competition to both H1B workers and higher-level offshore po...
McCain, Obama, and Home Businesses
in Home Based Business, on September 9, 2008
...nesses, telecommute, work at home or freelance? We are a popular and rapidly growing segment of the workforce and issues surrounding taxes, health insurance and the economy are especially important to...
Accountants rake it in
in Sox First, on September 3, 2008
...ase in 2009 A pay rise of 4.6 per cent is a lot healthier than the flat pay for the rest of the US workforce and Morgan Stanley warning that the slump has only just begun....
Storage industry - reshaping Overland Storage
in On Storage, on August 31, 2008
...t laid off by a storage company, 900 employees where laid off. Think it might have been .5% of the workforce. Big difference. The 900 were not even missed. But 53 or 13 leaves something more noticible...
Wiki-spy
in The CIO Weblog, on August 9, 2008
... has over commercial enterprise in the adoption of such new technology is the relative youth of its workforce: half the agency's staff are new, spurred in by the combined impetus of 9/11 and a ren...
Millenials again
in The CIO Weblog, on June 23, 2008
...eacting to a spate of articles recently calling for IT departments to adapt to the new and changing workforce (in particular, this post from Jason Hiner. I've also addressed similar missives bef...
Planning for Mobile Applications
in The Mobile Technology Weblog, on June 18, 2008
...ing out enterprise applications to mobile users as fast as they can. They understand that a mobile workforce is not only always available but is more productive. Likewise, pushing out applications clo...
Prepare for Your Prospect's Site Visit
in The Outsourcing Weblog, on June 4, 2008
...d client can be wowed by fancy buildings, triple-redundant security, and a fresh-faced enthusiastic workforce. But sophisticated clients know to dig deeper - into the facility's technology, its in...
So You Wanna Be An Air Traffic Controller
in The Personal Finance Weblog, on May 29, 2008
Photo courtesy of iStockphoto, Ken Cameron
Forbes had an article last week about "surprising" six-figure jobs , or at least jobs where it's possible to make $100,000 or more, even if not everyone makes that much. Among the bigger surprises were casino manager, flight attendant,...
Badly Needed: Physician Training in Aging Care
in Straightfromthedoc, on April 16, 2008
...on caring for the nation's aging highlights the AMA's concern that the current health care workforce will not be able to meet the growing health care needs of the expanding senior population. ... ...;s concern that the current health care workforce will not be able to meet the growing health care needs of the expanding senior population. In twelve years there will be more than 70 million seniors ...
Do What You Love and the Money Will Follow (Someone Else)
in The Personal Finance Weblog, on April 4, 2008
...years and finally gave up because he was sick of being poor. Once he joined the "regular" workforce, it was tough because he felt so far behind people that were 10 years younger than him. He...
The Millenial generation as IT staff
in The CIO Weblog, on March 20, 2008
...er lower. All I have to do to get him going on the latest examples of incompetence from his younger workforce is to say "Kids these days...."
Elizabeth Millard has an article up on Baseli...
More Football Blog Musings
in End Zone Buzz, on March 12, 2008
...on WR Antonio Bryant. (NFL Juice)
- NFL Films has announced they have laid off about 7% of their workforce. Of the company's 283 employees, 21 were let go. (Biz Of Football)
- Are the Kansas C...
New version of SAP Supply Chain Solution
in Supplychainer, on February 29, 2008
...s for shippers such as closer collaboration with business partners to improve visibility, maximized workforce planning to increase productivity, and enhanced planning to improve efficiency.
...
Supply chain software as a service!
in Supplychainer, on February 14, 2008
..."Software as a Service". The current market which started by companies such as Siebel or Workforce.com in CRM area, now constitutes 5% of the market for business software and it is growing ... ... a recent article in Wall Street Journal I read that tech managers' first priority is company needs and online solutions are too basic to meet those needs. It also takes time for companies to fe...
BootStrapme Greatest Hits (Vol. 5)
in BootStrapMe, on January 1, 2008
...ntrepreneur Ron Voss's bid a music market company using nothing but student volunteers as his workforce.
• Up the drywall latter recounting the efforts of Jose Serrato to establish his own con...
Immigration Increases Economic Growth and Decreases Inflation
in Global Mobility Report, on December 19, 2007
...gn workers to man its work force. The BBC reported that foreign-born workers account for 11% of the workforce.
See UK growth 'helped by immigration' , BBC News, December 18, 2007, for the r...
Ethical double standards
in Sox First, on December 12, 2007
...surveyed (71 percent) said they felt fully prepared to make ethical decisions when they entered the workforce, about four out of 10 (38 percent) said it was sometimes necessary to cheat, plagiarize, l...
ERP market continues to grow and consulting firms are still having a good time
in Supplychainer, on December 5, 2007
...nture, Capgemini, EDS and the Indian newcomers as they are adding more and more ERP people to their workforce. For example EDS recently announced that it is going to continue to expand its SAP workfor...
Jaguar & Land Rover Unions Favor Tata Motors
in carzz.org, on November 22, 2007
...ich
Though they would prefer to remain with the Ford Motor Company, the unions that represent the workforce at Jaguar and Land Rover have voted to support Tata Motors' bid to purchase bot...
Mobile Security Still A Concern
in Networking for Pros, on November 13, 2007
...reveals that companies are struggling with security issues that result from an increasingly mobile workforce. Data theft and abuse by workers with hand-held devices is a growing concern, according to...
Worforce Conflict
in Biz Plan Hacks, on November 6, 2007
...y last job before starting my own business was with a major retailer. My boss would try encouraging workforce conflict because she felt it would make the employees work harder.
However, in the long ...
RIP Crossfire
in carzz.org, on November 1, 2007
...b cuts affect positions in the U.S. and Canada and count as a 30% reduction in Chrysler Group's workforce.
For more info on Chrysler's restructuring plan tap the link >>>
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Carly Fiorina´s keynote speech at CSCMP 2007 conference
in Supplychainer, on October 27, 2007
...of the other points she mentioned was on the subject of measurements and the example that when the workforce was measured on innovation, the number of patents increased to a point where the company re...
UAW Strikes Again!
in carzz.org, on October 10, 2007
...t;
Unnamed sources told the NYT that Chrysler may have been seeking to cut 5% or 415 jobs from its workforce.
[Source: NYT ]...
Federal Changes Make It Difficult for Ski Resorts to Recruit Workers
in The Outdoor Weblog, on October 1, 2007
...ers. This change will likely effect ski resorts in northern New England, who gather 10-15% of their workforce from the H-2B program.
"We're coming down to the wire throughout the month of O...
RedPrairie´s 2007 international user conference to be held in U.K.
in Supplychainer, on October 2, 2007
...ane Smith , Supply Chain Director at The Works, talking about the implementation of their warehouse workforce management solution;
- Chris Love , Program Manager, Mitchells & Butlers speaking ab...
Is Professional Dress Extinct?
in Bizinformer, on September 30, 2007
...ree professional clothing to low-income men and women with the aim of helping them advance into the workforce with a refined appearance and renewed confidence.
As a trained speaker I've been t... ...build around these pieces.* Start with the following basics:
Suit: Every professional man or woman needs at least one traditional, well-tailored suit in a classic color. Women who choose a skirt suit...
A Word From The General
in carzz.org, on September 25, 2007
...ource: NYT]
By Gunnar Heinrich
When union negotiations break down and most of the company's workforce goes on strike, it's got to come as a nastier surprise than getting 10 speeding ticket...
Fuji finishes bolt to China
in Digital Shot, on September 19, 2007
...restructuring of its operations. Last year alone it axed 5000 jobs or seven percent of its global workforce. Today, the world's second largest maker of film for photography announced it was scra...
Serena's Vail
in The CIO Weblog, on September 8, 2007
I had an opportunity to take a look at Vail , Serena Software's new enterprise-grade mashup platform, on Friday, and indeed it does work.
I happened to come across their page on the site for the product while doing some other research that afternoon, which resulted in the screenshot ...
EarthLink Fires Half of its Workforce
in The Wireless Weblog, on August 28, 2007
...al corporate restructuring that will result in the company firing 900 employees (almost half of its workforce) and closing its Orlando, FL; Knoxville, TN; Harrisburg , PA and San Francisco, CA o...
Center for Strategic and International Studies develops a self-assessment tool to measure government performance in supply chain
in Supplychainer, on August 28, 2007
...categories*, range from how many days it takes to move a container across the border to measures of workforce health and education and the effectiveness of courts.
According to csis , the tool ...
Study Says China Could Overtake India
in The Outsourcing Weblog, on August 26, 2007
...on done by NASSCOM.
Some of the factors that were considered for that conclusion was the educated workforce in the country as well as the strong support of the Chinese government. If the Chinese gov...
Infosys on the changing "global business environment"
in The CIO Weblog, on August 25, 2007
...e going to be in places like India, Countries that are aging need to tap countries with the younger workforce - Global Arbitrage of age, Outsourcing phenomenon will continue to raise, trend is expecte...
Survey Reveals Mobile Users' Risky Behavior
in Networking for Pros, on August 23, 2007
...concern. By 2009, the number of mobile workers is expected to reach 70 percent of the country's workforce. Currently, more than 8 out of 10 executives are connected to the Internet via a mobile de...
Nasscom on China's IT Software Services Industry Evolution
in The CIO Weblog, on August 22, 2007
...arge IT-BPO industry. Underlying this is substantial domestic market potential, a sizeable educated workforce and strong government emphasis on developing the sector
Currently the IT-BPO industr...
Eastern Influences on Expatriate Assignments
in Global Mobility Report, on August 15, 2007
... more by the East than West, or at least that seems to be the claim of a recent Asia Pacific Global Workforce Summit.
There is no contesting the fact that company relocation policies take into con...
Ethics checklist for boards
in Sox First, on August 4, 2007
...r? e.g. organizational re-engineering, overseas investment, links with governments, new products, Workforce management , reward and recognition policies, links with the community. 8. How does the ...
Emergence of the Midtier Indian IT Services players
in The CIO Weblog, on July 27, 2007
... a hybrid model featuring US-based ownership and operation with a significant offshore presence and workforce.
Finishing 2006 with $270 million in revenue,
It has a strong applications develop...
Summary of Facts from some Indian IT Services Companies
in The CIO Weblog, on July 26, 2007
...o the >iMillion USD bucket
Hexaware:
The technical manpower comprised 89.7% of the total workforce
Attrition rate stood at 16.8%
The number of clients registering $1m+ in revenues has r...
Mckinsey - An interview with head of Merrill Lynch's operations and IT
in The CIO Weblog, on July 25, 2007
... of excellence, and how we improve training and career opportunities to attract and retain the best workforce.
We have told our people, "Go out and invent a better way of doing things."... ...#39;re a financial-services company that supplies solutions to our customers around their financial needs-simple as that. Customers don't say, "You do a really great job creating an equity pr...
