Human Resources

Few mortals can resist the urge to pass on juicy gossip or a good dirty joke. But mortals with corporate e-mail accounts should think twice before hitting send. Most employees who use e-mail at work have sent or received messages that could put their companies at risk. But the vast majority doesn't believe they

Almost no one jumps at the chance to cold call, especially when the product you

Do you know what CVS is? If you read these lines, you might as well have it. CVS stands for Computer Vision Syndrome. Your optometrist will be happy to oblige if you ask for explanations.

What do you get when you hand 320,000 employees the tools and corporate podcasting guidelines to internally publish their audio creations? In IBM Corp.'s experience, lower phone bills and better, more informal internal communication.

Cisco Systems Inc. doesn't expect its planned US$6.9 billion acquisition of set-top box manufacturer Scientific-Atlanta Inc. to result in significant employee layoffs or integration costs, according to a Cisco senior executive.

So you have decided on a career in IT instead of, say, being a dancer on Broadway or becoming a fugu chef in Japan. Given that you consider IT more interesting than appearing in 50,000 performances of

Senior executives at the Tokyo Stock Exchange will get between 10 per cent and 50 per cent of their pay cut for up to six months following a systems failure that shut down stock and convertible bond trading on the bourse for several hours on Nov. 1, the exchange said in a statement.

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