The realities of work and new forms of web-based communication technology
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In other words, students have been put off traditional forms of protest and political involvement, even if discontentment continues to rumble on below the surface.
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An abstract of the article follows: Anonymous workbloggers? employees who write online diaries about their work? are often simultaneously productive workers and savage critics of the organizational cultures in which they toil.
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Some research from the USA by Clearswift suggests - 'more than half of HR managers have had to discipline staff for time wasting on the Internet'.
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Just a quick posting for a change.Test your knowledge of British employment law by taking the CIPD's 'Seasonal Employment Law Quiz'.You can access the quiz here.I've not done it myself yet, but if anyone wishes to say how they got on they could use the comments function.
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It involves two case studies - Westpac (a bank) and Deloitte Australia - and whether Second Life could be used for business needs.
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A survey of social networking habits and trends by the Information Commissioner's Office suggests - '4.5 million young Brits? futures could be compromised by their electronic footprint'.
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This extract from the ONS article pretty much sums up the disparity: Men in routine jobs are 2.8 times more likely to die between the ages of 25 and 64 years than men in higher managerial posts. See Health Inequalities: Death rates highest for routine workers for more details.
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The title of their ideas of what work will look like is 'Managing tomorrow's people: The future of work to 2020'. For example, there is no mention of trade unions in the report despite the fact that trade unions have been around since the beginning of industrialisation.
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An article on the BBC News website (Entertainment) has several YouTube videos embedded in the story. No doubt they would be happy to answer the strikers' claims with viral videos of their own - if, of course, they had anyone to write them.
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I have no ideas of whether the protest worked in any shape or fashion, yet to me, the case in question marks an increasingly creative application of Web 2.0 communication technology for ends that it probably wasn't initially designed for.
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