Employee Communications
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Web 2.0 disruptive, but necessary to business
News While beneficial to companies, speed and social aspect of Web 2.0 tools pose new security threats, especially when even politicians overlook the risks.
Tags: Web 2.0, Employee communications, Regulations, Data security, Business security, Twitter, Technology, Malware, Security, Tool
S'pore employees want 'ethical' companies
News Some 66 percent of Singapore employees consider company's ethical conduct very important factor in deciding where to work, new study reveals.
Tags: Employee communications, Recruiting, Generation Y, Employee, Worker, Generation X, Survey, Hong Kong, Asia-Pacific, Singapore
Asia sees jump in hiring expectations
News Companies in most sectors optimistic about new hires, as HR priorities--especially in IT and telecoms--focus on developing and retaining talent, finds new report.
Tags: Recruiting, Employee communications, IT training, Survey, IT&T, Information Technology, job, Asia, Telecommunications, Hong Kong
Mozilla's crowdsourcing mystique
News For-profit companies such as Google and LinkedIn, strain to copy the Firefox Web browser maker's model of relying on volunteer developers.
Tags: Linux, Directory services, Web browsers, Employee communications, Asset/resource/knowledge management, Web services, Analyst reports, Outsourcing, Google Inc., Web Browser
Ballmer and Bostock break bread
News The New York Times confirms a Valleywag report that Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer and Yahoo Chairman Roy Bostock met earlier this week in New York.
Tags: Search, Best strategies, Employee communications, Mergers, Microsoft Corp., Steve Ballmer, Yahoo! Inc., New York, chairman, CEO
Icahn's proxy fight could trigger Yahoo's severance plan
News Billionaire investor's proxy slate may get saddled with Yahoo's controversial employee severance plan. Icahn, meanwhile, is said to be calling for Jerry Yang's ouster.
Tags: Investor relations, Leadership, Employee communications, Plan, Yahoo! Inc., software, Carl Icahn, Delaware Chancery Court, job, Jerry Yang
Icahn to Yahoo: Nix the poison pill, now
News In a letter to board chairman Roy Bostock, the investor activist roars about Yahoo's "insulting" and "deceitful" actions regarding its severance plan.
Tags: Investor relations, Business development/management, Employee communications, Corporate responsibility, Microsoft Corp., Google Inc., Yahoo! Inc., CNBC, software, job
Skype targets businesses with new service
News The new Skype For SIP offering allows companies to use their existing phone system to make cheap phone calls over the Internet.
Tags: Employee communications, Communications, Skype Technologies S.A., Cisco Systems Inc., Business, Cell Phone, PBX, IP, Service, public Internet
UK police slash paperwork with mobiles
News From next week, law enforcers in the United Kingdom will use handheld devices to enter data during street searches, which can help cut each process from 20 minutes to 60 seconds.
Tags: Employee communications, State Government, Politics, Mobile, Home Secretary, Officer, Mobile Device, handheld computer, State Government, CIO
Malaysia still has hangups over mobility
News Companies remain unwilling to support mobile workforce due to security concerns, lack of awareness and misgivings about underperforming employees.
Tags: Employee policy/training, Employee communications, Recruiting, Communications, Mobile, Small And Medium Enterprise, Workforce, International Data Corp., Sales, Malaysia
HR issues to affect Philippine BPO
News While country's robust outsourcing market will remain unaffected by financial crisis, it will have to deal with talent crunch and employee demand for higher pay.
Tags: IT outsourcing, Outsourcing, Offshoring, Employee communications, Philippines, J.P. Morgan Chase & Co., Compensation, Washington Mutual Inc., Business Process, BPO
Report: SEC reviewing Apple's disclosures over Jobs' health
News U.S. investigators looking into whether company's handling of information surrounding CEO's health misled investors, according to a Bloomberg report.
Tags: Investor relations, Employee communications, Apple Inc., Bloomberg L.P., CEO, job, News.com, Macworld, SEC, health care
Report: Jobs weighing liver transplant
News Another day, another Steve Jobs rumor. This time, Bloomberg says that Apple's co-founder is weighing the move as a result of complications from earlier surgery.
Tags: Processors, Handhelds, Desktops, Notebooks and tablets, Employee communications, Crisis communications, Apple Inc., Google Inc., Bloomberg L.P., Celebrity Obsession
F-Secure attacks smartphone spying software
News The antivirus company has criticized the security of Retina-X Studios' Mobile Spy software, claiming that private accounts can be viewed.
Tags: Mobile
E-mail monitoring may contravene European laws
News Concerns are growing over the monitoring by employers of communications, as one worker wins damages from the European Court of Human Rights.
Tags: Privacy, Regulations
