Sprint has asked some of its employees to consider voluntarily resigning by December 3rd in exchange for a compensation package. Says a spokesperson, No one is being forced to do anything.
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When President Obama takes over in January as manager in chief of nearly 2 million federal employees, he will need a plan to reinvigorate a frustrated and demoralized workforce, career employees warn.
Billing data for a cellphone account belonging to Barack Obama was "improperly breached" by Verizon employees, according to the president-elect's transition team. Obama's spokesperson says the phone was old and no longer in use. There is no indication that email records were accessed or voicemails or call contents monitored.
A new employment indicator from Gallup reports how many people say their company is hiring, and how many say their company is letting employees go. The results aren't pretty, an economist writes.
In five years, Microsoft expects half of all enterprise employees with e-mail to use a combined online and premises-based system like the company's Exchange Online, an executive said at the launch on Monday.
Employees who use Vista at work are suing for overtime after their employers linked their hourly pay to the login and logout procedures of their computer. With Vista taking up to 15 minutes to boot, and 15 minutes to shut down, employees are getting shorted up to 30 minutes per day.
