After causing uproar by calling all of its telecommuters back into the office, Yahoo is trying to quell some of the bad publicity. Yahoo last week issued a memo to employees that the company was ending work-at-home agreements. As of June, ...
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Modern science is an intensely social activity. The response at colleges and universities is to renovate or build new science labs and medical facilities with open floor plans, shared space and shared equipment. Even with all this openness, ...
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Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer is reportedly tossing conventional business thought aside and calling in telecommuters. Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer wants employees to work in the office, instead of at home. (Reuters file photo) Mayer, who became ...
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Small home office room — Not a few people today who choose to work at home. Reason for this variety. Type of work is allowing a person to work at home. A consultant, doctor, writer, or perhaps an architect are some examples of them. ...
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If small business owners have learned one thing from operating in a rough economy, it’s that it’s always a good idea to keep a low overhead. Witness the rapid increase in work-at-home policies over the past couple of years. ...
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Houseplants are beautiful and effective decorating accents or focal points. My mother, a highly skilled interior decorator, did not have big groupings of small plants to make an impact. She said that look was busy and cluttered. Instead, ...
Computer Generated Solutions (CGS), a leading global provider of technology solutions and services, announced that they will be participating in this year’s ExpoProducción event at the World Trade Center in Mexico City, Mexico ...
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National Lighting Bureau (NLB) Chair Howard P. Lewis sounded a strongly optimistic note in his December 7 annual- report address to the Bureau’s board of directors. “I think we are on the cusp of a major resurgence for the ...
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Numbers of Germans out of work rose for the ninth month running in December but held close to a post-reunification low, adding to signs Europe's largest economy remains relatively unscathed by the region's crisis. Labour Office data ...
When seawater flooded streets in lower Manhattan Monday night, it filled the bottom floors of the basement of an office building at 75 Broad St. and its lobby up to four feet. This was not a good development for the data center ...
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Computerworld - Marissa Mayer, Yahoo's new CEO, reached out to company employees for the first time and asked them to stay focused while she devises a strategy to get Yahoo back on track. "The company has been through a lot of change in ...
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Intranet Connections announces the launch of their new eBook "101 Intranet Ideas" Social intranets are a vital commodity for enterprise business. Company productivity and employee performance are interlinked with staff morale, employee ...
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Hewlett-Packard CEO Meg Whitman has moved to reassure customers that the future of its Autonomy product line is safe, a day after HP disclosed an alleged accounting scandal at the company it acquired last year. "We remain 100 percent ...
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Employees who are offered bring-your-own-device(BYOD)initiatives and input into IT decisions are likely to be more productive in the workplace,according to research. Also known as the consumerisation of IT,such flexibility may enhance ...
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Yahoo's new CEO, Marissa Mayer, is expected to unveil her plan to turn around the ailing Internet company on Tuesday. Industry analysts say it's time for Mayer, who joined Yahoo in July, to lay out a vision for the company's future that ...
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