Human Resources

Clearly, teleworking isn't just for loners in fuzzy slippers anymore. As enabling technologies such as the Internet, wireless, VoIP and broadband to the home proliferate, so does the number of employees who choose to work virtually.

Siebel Systems Inc. will pay new chief executive officer George Shaheen an annual salary of US$1 million, under an employment agreement substantially the same as the one it signed a year ago with deposed CEO Mike Lawrie.

Teleworking success stories from three companies.

Cable and Wireless PLC (C&W) will hire at least 100 extra staff in Bangalore to keep pace with demand for its network services from customers around the world, a company executive said Wednesday. The staff will be added during this year and will also allow C&W to roll out some new types of services, said Raj Metrani, director of the Indian operations of C&W, a communications service provider based in London. He would not say what new services C&W plans to offer.

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Kevin Bernstein, chief technology officer at direct mortgage lender Platinum Capital Group in Irvine, Calif., puts prospective security consultants under close scrutiny.

The president of the Open Source Initiative (OSI) was asked to leave his job, less than a month after taking on the post, for allegedly racist posts.

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