Tag: WORK

A New Zealand office worker recently learned a tough lesson: When sending an e-mail, be careful with fonts and colors. Someone could interpret that bold sentence the wrong way. According to The New Zealand Herald, Vicki Walker was fired from her position as financial controller at ProCare Health for sending "confrontational" e-mails that included words in red, bold, and worst of all, capital ...

These days, an office desk or cubicle often resembles the control panel for a spaceship. There are enough gadgets, gizmos, lights, and monitors to have even the technologically inclined scrambling for an instruction booklet. We've chronicled this new wave of office accessories, and have mentioned the weird phenomenon of office treadmills. Now, Steelcase is introducing one more treadmill to the ...

Ugh. Seriously, people, stop looking at porn on your work computer. It's unprofessional, dangerous for the company network, and quite stupid if you value the idea of being employed. Yet, despite repeated scandals and warnings, folks just keep loading up their work PCs with Internet filth. The latest shocker comes out of Sweden, where eight employees of the national airport agency LFV lost their ...

If you've managed to convince your boss that personal Internet use at the office is a good thing, kudos to you. If, however, he or she isn't buying it, then maybe you should go for the 'inevitability' argument, citing a report that has found attempts at blocking workers' personal use of the 'Net to be more or less futile. As reported by Ars Technica, Palo Alto Networks' 'Application Usage and ...

We're not sure exactly what Brad Williams, the now-former IT director for the city of Norcross, Georgia, could have been thinking if he in fact did as he's been alleged to do -- used his work computer to download some 24,466 pornographic images. As part of an investigation into William's poor job performance, monitoring software was loaded on his office PC, eventually revealing the ...

As more and more major newspapers fold, in the face of dwindling advertisers and subscribers, bloggers are usurping their roles in record numbers. According to The Wall Street Journal, over 20 million people now blog in the United States. Of those, 1.7 million earn money doing so, while 450,000 primarily earn their livings through the blogged word. Those statistics indicate that there are now ...

The glut of recent incidents involving employees jeopardizing their jobs due to social networking mishaps may be enough to convince people to keep their online social activities separate from their work activities. Recent research, though, suggests that workers may be better served if they use social networking and instant messaging to remain in close contact with one another. Researchers from ...

Believe it or not, a new study suggests that tweeting and watching YouTube at work can make you more productive. Australian researchers have found that surfing the Internet for fun in the office increases productivity by 9-percent. Dr. Brent Coker, of the University of Melbourne's Department of Management and Marketing, authored the study and suggested that, "People need to zone out for a bit ...

Seriously, people. We've said it before but hacking your current or former employer because you're not happy with your job, desk, or termination is not a constructive way to deal with the problem. The latest idiot to clearly overstep his legal boundaries is Mario Azar, a 28-year-old former IT worker for Pacific Energy Resources (PER). According to Wired, the Los Angeles resident has been ...

A new survey performed by IBM and the Marist College Institute for Public Opinion has given us hope that college kids aren't as naive and ill-prepared for the real world as we thought they were. In a poll of about 1,600 college students, 80-percent replied that they expected to encounter new technology when they enter the workforce and 50-percent were actively seeking to improve their ...

In the "old" days (oh about 15 years ago, or thereabouts), if you wanted to take a break from work, you had to go out for a smoke, head off for a cup of coffee, or saunter on over to the water-cooler. These days, if you have five minutes to decompress before diving into your next hour-long task, you're just a few clicks away from a smile and some good thoughts online. It's a trend that, many ...

As telecommunications continue to advance, more and more folks are working from home, and some of them are building out fancy rooms to better facilitate working, Asylum.com illustrates with this photo gallery of swank workspaces. Anyone who has ever freelanced can testify that working at home can pose any number of distractions, with that television, guitar or good book right there, and no ...

We already know that a solid chunk of Britons use mobile internet while in the throes of passion, and now Captain Obvious (today known as Nokia) has awkwardly landed to tell the world that Americans do too. A recent survey, which we can only imagine was absolutely thrilling to conduct, found that some 53-percent of working Americans "have been interrupted by a work-related phone call or e-mail ...

The time clock has always been a gleaming symbol of industry and labor, not to mention a hated personification of 'The Man.' It is the ultimate and definitive report card on productivity, and it's receiving a makeover. HourDoc has created a system that allows employees to punch in and out of work(and every time they have to urinate, we assume) via text messaging. The premise is simple. There are ...

There is a line to be drawn when it comes to taking revenge in office politics. If you don't like the placement of your office, or being made to feel like a "newbie," then crashing multiple servers and erasing the employee records of over 10,000 people is probably not the best way to get better seating arrangements. David Anthony McIntosh, a computer engineer for the Australian government, was ...