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Epic Fail! The Internet is not driving economic development, job creation
12/01/2017 Comments Off on Epic Fail! The Internet is not driving economic development, job creation
By Nicolas Friederici, Researcher, Digital Economies, University of Oxford — With almost half the world’s population now online, attempts to spread the Internet continue unabated. Underlying this agenda is a rationale that the spread of the Internet leads directly to economic growth and development. The likes of Facebook and Google offer data services for “free”, while satellites, […]
Continue reading …Timekeeping Software Helps Companies Cheat Their Workers
12/01/2017 Comments Off on Timekeeping Software Helps Companies Cheat Their Workers
By Elizabeth C. Tippett, Assistant Professor, School of Law, University of Oregon — There are a lot of ways employers can manipulate your time using timekeeping software, some of which are legal and others highly questionable. If you work on an hourly basis, you may not have given much thought to what happens to your […]
Continue reading …Facebook Vacations: Coming And Going On Facebook
19/02/2013 Comments Off on Facebook Vacations: Coming And Going On Facebook
Two-thirds of online American adults (67%) are Facebook users, making Facebook the dominant social networking site in this country.1 And new findings from the Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project indicate there is considerable fluidity in the Facebook user population: 61% of current Facebook users say that at one time or another in […]
Continue reading …MythBusters Help DOL Pick Winners Of Worker Safety & Health App Contest
14/01/2013 Comments Off on MythBusters Help DOL Pick Winners Of Worker Safety & Health App Contest
TV’s MythBusters, Adam Savage and Jamie Hyneman, are once again using science and engineering to help keep America’s youth safe at work. Savage and Hyneman, cohosts of Discovery Channel’s popular MythBusters, were among a panel to judges that selected winners of the U.S. Department of Labor’s “Safety in the Workplace Innovator Award,” the “Safety and […]
Continue reading …Social Media Passwords Protected From Prying Employers In Six States
07/01/2013 Comments Off on Social Media Passwords Protected From Prying Employers In Six States
It is now illegal in six U.S. states for employers to ask job applicants for the passwords to their social media accounts such as Facebook and Twitter. California and Illinois recently joined four other states barring employers from demanding that employees divulge their social-media passwords. Passed during 2012, California’s and Illinois’ laws became effective January 1, 2013. […]
Continue reading …Infographic – Survey Reveals American Telecommuters Thoughts and Desires
07/12/2012 Comments Off on Infographic – Survey Reveals American Telecommuters Thoughts and Desires
A new survey of telecommuters reveals that 80% of Americans say that saving money on gas and having no commute are biggest benefits of working from home. That’s no surprise. The real surprise is that 1% of telecommuters admit that they suit up—put on full professional attire as if they were in the office. The […]
Continue reading …Looming HR Technology War Will Touch Thousands Of Organizations, Millions Of Employees
12/10/2012 Comments Off on Looming HR Technology War Will Touch Thousands Of Organizations, Millions Of Employees
Friday, 12 October 2012, was turning point in the world of HR technology. The event was the highly anticipated initial public offering of a human resources technology firm called Workday became the biggest technology stock debut since Facebook. Workday, a Pleasanton, Calif., based-maker of Web-based human-resources software, saw it’s stock rocket up 78% in its […]
Continue reading …Infographic: Do Employers “Like” Social Media?
11/10/2012 Comments Off on Infographic: Do Employers “Like” Social Media?
Social media has gone to work to stay and many companies are still trying to figure out what to do about it. Some forward-looking industries are embracing social media. Others are at least starting to put policies in place to make sure the use of social media by employees remains appropriate. A smaller group hopes […]
Continue reading …Two Reports Show Influence Of Social Media & The Internet On The Workplace
11/10/2012 Comments Off on Two Reports Show Influence Of Social Media & The Internet On The WorkplaceTwo new reports show the growing influence of social media and the Internet on the workplace. In the U.S., 75% of employees access social media at least once a day from their personal mobile devices while at work. More than half of U.S. companies do not block access to the Internet. These are some of […]
Continue reading …Infographic: What Does It Take To Recruit A New Employee?
10/10/2012 Comments Off on Infographic: What Does It Take To Recruit A New Employee?
What Does It Take To Recruit A New Employee? This infographic is really selling the merits of interviewing job candidates by video. However, it does give an interesting and informative view of the employees recruiting process and and its costs. To repare the inforgraphic the HR Tech Blog partnered with Video Interviewing Provider Wowzer. They surveyed hundreds […]
Continue reading …- Celebrating the Resilience of Low-Income Women
- CEOs Get to Retire Comfortably. Workers Like Me Deserve the Same.
- Jobs Increased 339,000 In May, Unemployment Up 0.3% To 3.7%
- The decline of job creation at new establishments
- Contractor faces 2 serious citations after US Department of Labor finds safety failures led to welder’s death at Bonner Bridge demolition project
- Investigation into worker’s severe arm injury finds Cusseta auto parts manufacturer, supplier willfully ignored safety precautions
- ‘It’s a sweat factory’: Instacart workers ready to strike for pay and conditions
- Ships backed up outside US ports pumping out pollutants as they idle
- Privacy fears as Moscow metro rolls out facial recognition pay system
- ‘We are not machines’: Hollywood workers poised to strike for better conditions
- Boeing pilot indicted for allegedly deceiving US regulators over 737 Max
- Ipswich apprentice butcher encourages others to consider industry
- Ipswich apprentice butcher encourages others to consider industry
- Over 10,000 John Deere workers strike over ‘years’ of poor treatment
- Corporations are pledging to be ‘water positive’. What does that mean?
- US Department of Labor investigation of crane collapse, double fatality on Interstate 10 finds Lufkin company failed to assemble crane properly
- For the 6th time in 7 years, federal inspectors find Illinois contractor putting construction workers at risk of industry’s deadliest hazard
- US Department of Labor proposes $83K in fines to healthcare facility for failing to protect workers from coronavirus hazards
- Facebook says it will do more to prevent online hate, harassment
- As U.S. prepares to reopen border, some urge Canada to relax testing requirement
- Biden orders companies to ease supply chain bottlenecks or he’ll ‘call them out’
- What is the ‘new model’ the EU is proposing for Northern Ireland?
- Apple to make 10 million fewer iPhones due to microchip shortage
- US Department of Labor, Mexican Consulate in Boston enter alliance to promote workplace safety, health among New England’s workers
- US Department of Labor sues Austin luxury car dealer that retaliated against employee who raised concerns of coronavirus hazards
- Vaccine hesitant New Yorkers consider leaving the city as mandates take effect
- Carbon emissions ‘will drop just 40% by 2050 with countries’ current pledges’
- House passes bill to raise US debt ceiling through early December
- ‘The stakes couldn’t be higher’: GE urged to invest in green US jobs
- Zellers returns — kind of — but the lowest price isn't quite the law
- Cement makers across world pledge large cut in emissions by 2030
- India faces electricity crisis as coal supplies run critically low
- California justice department to investigate enormous oil spill