More than half (63%) of system administrators are concerned that employees share too much personal information on their social networking profiles, putting company infrastructure at risk, according to a new survey by Sophos.
More Employers Monitoring Workers Internet Use
More than one-fourth of U.S. employers have terminated employees for misusing email and one third have fired an employee for abusing the Internet according to the 2007 Electronic Monitoring & Surveillance Survey from American Management Association (AMA) and The ePolicy Institute.Twenty-eight percent of employers who have fired a worker for email misuse did so for violation of company policy (64%); inappropriate or offensive language (62%); excessive personal use (26%); breach of confidentiality rules (22%); other (12%).
Some Employers Use Email To Layoff Workers
Some U.S. workers may experience anxiety about opening email from their boss. Ten percent of U.S. employees say their company has used email to fire or lay off employees. Another 17 percent indicated their boss used emails to avoid other difficult conversations.
Fast To Get Rid Of 148 Workers
When times are tough, a person’s got to save money; some people sell their stuff, others crash on friends’ couches. Fast Search & Transfer plans to fire 148 employees, or about 20 percent of the company’s workforce.
What Your Workers Want From You
Workers are human beings. That may seem obvious to you, but because of that simple fact, we’ve got decades of behavioral science research that can help us understand what they want.
What are Our Co-workers Doing on the Net?
8e6 has a report here that should provide all of us in security an amusing insight into what our co-workers are doing on the internet.
IT Job Market Now Offers Big Hope for Tech Workers
Remember the Dot.com and IT job market implosion? It was back in 2000 when the bottom fell out and technology workers have suffered ever since.
Older Workers: The Employer Perspective
Companies are waking up to the fact that the days of early retirement incentives and lower salaries earned by younger workers will soon no longer serve their staffing needs.
Yahoo Called Out For Poaching Workers
Nuance Communications has sued Yahoo, claiming theft of trade secrets and unfair competition.
Workers Compensation, Understanding It From Your Point Of View
Here, we will talk about workers compensation from two views. First we will talk about it from the view of a person who has been hurt on the job.