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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
More enterprise users demand search
News Singapore's workers are demanding enterprise search tools similar to what they are used to on the Web, says local systems integrator, NCS.
Tags: Search, Software, Enterprise Search, Search Appliance, Infrastructure Management, Singapore, systems integrator, natural language, Search, Web
Not all employees are created equal
Blogs "All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others." I read that famous line in George Orwell's Anim...
A click farm in the Philippines?
Blogs Like most people I know, I had no idea what a click farm was. So when someone from the BBC sent an e-mail to me a few da...
Market competition and Chinese New Year
Blogs I wanted to write this only after the Chinese New Year season had passed. As far back as I can remember, during the run-...
2009: Racing to subsidies
Blogs Last time, I noted a trend for 2009 in relation to increased government activity in the sourcing industry. As we observe...
S'pore workers job-hunting, IT professionals in high demand
News Though Singapore's unemployment rates are near a four-year high, more workers are looking to change jobs while IT and financial companies find employees hard to come by, finds survey.
Tags: Recruiting, Personnel management, Business Strategies & Functions, Unemployment Rate, Worker, Employer, construction industry, Survey, Information Technology, Human Resources Inc.
Thanks for a great 2008
Blogs 2008 was a great year for enterprise mobility, with plenty of new technologies and gadgets to keep us mobile workers hap...
Sub-prime BCM certification in Asia
Blogs What does it really mean for an individual to be "certified" in business continuity? Like the euphemism "sub-prime",...
Way to employee's heart isn't always cash
Blogs Big old Microsoft faced some harsh criticism this week after it tried to reclaim excess severance pay that was mistakenl...
Report: Apple, Google agreed not to poach each other's workers
News The two companies are said to have had an agreement not to actively recruit each other's employees--at least that is before Eric Schmidt stepped down from Apple's board.
Tags: Business Strategies & Functions, Worker, Eric Schmidt, antitrust, hiring, Business Strategies & Functions, board, Apple Inc., Google Inc., agreement
Will recession show tenacity of Gen Y?
Blogs They sure don't make 'em like they used to. That's something I often say when my friends and I--people in our mid-30...
Google, bank resolve issue over misfired e-mail
News Google and Rocky Mountain Bank ask court to dismiss a case that stemmed from the bank inadvertently e-mailing customer data to a random Gmail address.
Tags: E-mail servers, Social Security, e-mail, San Jose, U.S. District Court, Google Gmail, E-mail servers
Microsoft announces Project 2010 beta
News Enhancements to the project-management application include improvements to the user interface based on the Office ribbon technology.
Tags: Business applications, Enterprise resource planning (ERP), Microsoft Project, Arizona, Beta, director of marketing, 64-bit, ZDNet, ActiveX, Microsoft SharePoint
Misfired e-mail was never viewed by Gmail user
News Rocky Mountain Bank says Google confirmed an e-mail with customer data that was mistakenly sent to a random Gmail address was never opened, has been destroyed.
Tags: E-mail clients, E-mail servers, E-mail Address, Social Security, e-mail, San Jose, U.S. District Court, Google Gmail, E-mail clients, E-mail servers
