T-Mobile delivers true mobile working
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- T-Mobile delivers true mobile working
- Women in Business: Your E-mails on Change or Lack Thereof
- Boss’s Beware Survey Shows Commuters Won’t Be Travelling When Avian…
- Home vs. job: Are you fighting a losing battle?
T-Mobile delivers true mobile working
earthtimes.org – Mar 20, 2007
Where once dead time would have resulted in her having to work from home to catch up on her emails now if she can spend time on more critical issues. “My job is quite demanding but I really enjoy working for CACDP. In the past when I returned from business trips I used to have to catch up on emails from home. But now if I have to work from home I’m not responding to emails but concentrating on activity which is more crucial for the organisation. “Looking aheadEmail and SMS are two forms of communications technology used by deaf people. Whilst Pickersgill works with both hearing and the deaf she has found that her BlackBerry helps her to communicate with deaf business associates. Looking to the future she is excited about what video email will be able to do for improved communication between hearing and deaf people.
Women in Business: Your E-mails on Change or Lack Thereof
FXNews – Mar 20, 2007
But to ask them to lead the charge is asking them to take what is in most cases a huge risk with probably worse than the 9-to-1 odds. Yet should companies start recognizing the need for flexibility don’t all employees stand to benefit? Perhaps the word we need to substitute for flexibility is “reasonable” work schedules. Growing up my friends and I had working parents yet both could make it home for dinner even when they were C-level employees. Now for even one parent to get home by 6:00 pm is a struggle. But the flexibility is not just about childcare or even elder care it’s about giving all employees the freedom to explore other pursuits on their own time. Some of which might cause them to bring back new and fresh ideas to their work. RelatedColumn Archive.
Boss’s Beware Survey Shows Commuters Won’t Be Travelling When Avian…
nline Recruitment – Mar 20, 2007
These are the findings of a street survey conducted amongst office workers at a range of London train stations carried out by the team behind Business Continuity Expo 2007 to gauge how crisis ready and aware companies are in the event of a disaster. Although this news may concern many companies a surprisingly small quarter of the people who would choose to stay at home could actually work remotely as long as their corporate network was able to survive a disaster. Companies will be delighted to find out that 48% of workers show a gutsy and stoic attitude to an imminent terrorist attack and said that “no matter what they’d still endeavour to travel to work” with many showing this resolute approach even when they had the facilities to work from home! However employers still need to look at what their critical mass of functionality is and question whether they could survive with half their workforce. It is clearly critical to consider what strategies and contingency plans they need to put in place in order to survive a possible pandemic or imminent terrorist attack… These are the findings of a street survey conducted amongst office workers at a range of London train stations carried out by the team behind Business Continuity Expo 2007 to gauge how crisis ready and aware companies are in the event of a disaster. Although this news may concern many companies a surprisingly small quarter of the people who would choose to stay at home could actually work remotely as long as their corporate network was able to survive a disaster. Companies will be delighted to find out that 48% of workers show a gutsy and stoic attitude to an imminent terrorist attack and said that “no matter what they’d still endeavour to travel to work” with many showing this resolute approach even when they had the facilities to work from home! However employers still need to look at what their critical mass of functionality is and question whether they could survive with half their workforce. It is clearly critical to consider what strategies and contingency plans they need to put in place in order to survive a possible pandemic or imminent terrorist attack. Although Business Continuity experts have seen a huge u-turn in companies preparing for disasters with more business continuity plans being tested than ever before and the recent introduction of BS25999 a standard for Business Continuity making its mark on organisations clearly these plans are not being communicated throughout the organization as a quarter of people interviewed did not know who at work would inform them if a disaster struck and almost half of the respondents were not aware if their company had a business continuity plan in place. If faced with a pandemic such as Avian Flu 73% of employees believe their company should pay for an anti-viral vaccination or other drugs so that they can continue to work for their employer. If left to their own devices though only 40% of people would pay “whatever it cost” to get an anti-viral a third would only pay up to £50 20% would pay between £100 and £500 and 10% would throw caution to the wind and would take their chances and wouldn’t pay for the anti-virals at any price!It would seem from these findings that disaster planning or preparing for the “inevitable” doesn’t come naturally to companies as well as individuals with almost three quarters of people not yet “getting around” to writing a will!Running alongside this survey Business Continuity Expo have also conducted a poll online to find out whether people thought their companies would put staff or profits first in the event of a disaster.
Home vs. job: Are you fighting a losing battle?
MSNBC – Mar 20, 2007
Nearly every week someone tells me how lucky I am ? that I have the best of working and stay-at-home motherhood. Until two-thirty every day I?m a working mom in the advertising department of The Washington Post. Then I tear down the office stairs (late always late) speed-walk home rip off my business suit and pantyhose and pull on yoga pants and my Merrell Jungle Slides just in time to grab our two-year-old and pick up the older kids from school. But the truth is I feel like a hybrid ? neither working mom nor true stay-at-home mom. I don?t understand moms who find happiness staying home all the time without work and their own incomes (however large or small). I can?t fathom why some working moms stay stuck in too-demanding jobs or careers that they openly resent because of the quality (and quantity) time they miss with their kids. But what I know for certain because I see it almost every day from each side of the battlefield is that the two groups misunderstand and envy each other in the corrosive fake-smiling way we women have perfected over the eons.
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