13.12.2011 Workers are doing away with picking up the telephone and ringing in sick and are instead sending their bosses a text message letting them know they won't be into work. This may be to their bosses' ire, however, as 72pc of managers think texting or emailing in sick is a "cop out", a survey suggests.
13.12.2011 The consumerisation of corporate IT - as employees bring their own devices and applications into the workplace - is one of the biggest challenges and opportunities facing organisations worldwide in the next five years, new research published by Accenture suggests.
23.11.2011 Three-quarters of businesses in Europe will never recover data lost when computers crash. A pan-European survey found that 54pc had either lost data or suffered downtime or both in the past year.
07.11.2011 Irish medical-tech firm Lynch Medical Supplies (LMS), which manufactures sports injury products for the healthcare and medical industries, is to invest heavily in a new central headquarters facility in Swords, Co Dublin.
28.10.2011 Microsoft has been deemed Best Multinational Workplace in the world, in Great Place to Work's inaugural list of the Top 25 World's Best Multinational Workplaces.
25.10.2011 A new survey by Mercer, conducted between Q4 2010 and Q2 2011 among 30,000 workers in 17 markets, including 1,000 workers in Ireland, reveals that a rising number of employees are dissatisfied at their workplace, with benefits, pay and job security topping the list of reasons for workers' discontent.
18.10.2011 Irish business leaders are starting to put sustainability and carbon reporting at the core of their business-planning strategies, recognising both the challenges and the opportunities arising from climate change and emissions reduction strategies. That’s according to the latest Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP) report for Ireland, 'Preparing for the Low Carbon Economy’, released today in Dublin.
18.10.2011 Intel in Shannon continued its focus on promoting science and engineering in the local area by holding its sixth annual Women in Technology (WIT) award ceremony recently. Four new scholarships were awarded, bringing the total number of scholars to 12 for the 2011/2012 academic year.
27.09.2011 The UK government’s draft Greening Government ICT Strategy will provide the UK ICT industry with significant opportunities in the areas of green technologies, cloud computing and shares services up to 2015 – that’s according to business applications and service provider Advanced Business Solutions.
14.09.2011 Microsoft, Hewlett-Packard, Fujitsu, US utility giant PG&E, Dutch telecommunications provider Royal KPN N.V are just some of the firms that have been dropped from the 2011 Dow Jones Sustainability Indexes (DJSI). Conversely, Xerox, Schneider Electric, Hyundai Mobis and healthcare firm Medtronic have made it onto the indexes for the first time.
