The growing trend for 'e-breaks', where workers spend time surfing the internet looking at sites that are not work related, instead of taking a traditional tea or coffee break, are increasingly being seen by employers as an example of time wasting...
A report from the Telework Association in 2001 found that although only four per cent of surveyed call centres employed home workers, 42 per cent of call centre managers expected to do so in the future.
Across the globe, however, the biggest cause of lost productivity was found to be insufficient planning, at 41 per cent. If you're looking to find the hardest workers, you might want to turn your attention towards telecoms, according to a new report.
While everyone loves a raise, Martin Brampton says a pay increase is not enough to satisfy workers. Whether or not computers support increased productivity, their application invites us to critically study the way things are done.
The latter bit of Lambert's statement is even more interesting: illiterate and innumerate workers armed with a vast array of gadgets are much more tech savvy than their bosses. According to a survey by security firm Sophos, around 43 per cent of...
According to the survey over half of managers reckon their remote workers are becoming less diligent when it comes to security awareness, with the survey recording a four per cent increase in people accessing work files with personal unprotected...