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- Zappos CEO: transparency helped employees during layoffs
- Just under two weeks ago Zappos.com, the online shoe retailer, very publicly laid off nearly 8 percent of its workforce. The truth is, the company didn't intend for everything to be so public. It just was, due to the social media darling's corporate culture of transparency. Is...
- Tags: Layoff, Employee, Twitter, Zappos.com, Public Relations, Workforce Management, Marketing, Corporate Communications, Human Resources, Jennifer Leggio
- Blog posts 2008-11-17
- Is there a better way to be handed a pink slip?
- Is there a better way to be handed a pink slip?How about this:"I'm sorry that the collateral debt obligations that were securitised as part of our ongoing risk amelioration program have resulted in a capitalisation issue that affects our human resources capacity"I sort of like the way the Brits put...
- Tags: Human Resources, pink slip, layoff
- Discussion threads 2008-11-10
- Is there a better way to be handed a pink slip?
- Sadly, we're talking about the other kind of pink slip.I know what you're probably thinking: What a ridiculous question. There is no gentle way to hand out pink slip. There is no way to be told that "your services are no longer needed" but "here is the number to our...
- Tags: Pink Slip, Layoff, Salary, Workforce Management, Human Resources, Deb Perelman
- Blog posts 2008-11-10
- Motorola: Handset unit spin-off delayed; No Android 'til next Christmas; Layoffs on tap
- Motorola's sick patient--its handset business--is too sick to spin off right now and it's unlikely that a big bet on Google's Android operating system is going to save it. Meanwhile, Motorola won't deliver Android smartphones until this time next year give or take a few days. The...
- Tags: Layoff, Handset, Motorola Inc., Handset Business, Sanjay Jha, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-10-30
- SAP scraps year end guidance: why I'm not worried. Yet.
- SAP scraps year end guidance: why I'm not worried. Yet.SAP can't cut personnel expenses significantly within one quarterSAP, like other large companies, really can't cut employee expenses in any one quarter in any significant way. If they laid people off, they would trigger California or Federal WARN (in the...
- Tags: Workforce management, Benefits, Sales force management, SAP AG, layoff
- Discussion threads 2008-10-29
- News to know: Microsoft's outlook, emergency patch; Apple; Amazon's cloud; Yang speaks
- Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Sam Diaz: Fake Steve Jobs heart attack story posted by teenager. Bloomberg: Jobs Said to Be Targeted by Teen in Heart-Attack Tale Jason O'Grady: SEC examining teen's motive in fake...
- Tags: Layoff, Larry Dignan, Apple Inc., Amazon.com Inc., Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows, Workforce Management, Linux, Operating Systems, Software, Human Resources
- Blog posts 2008-10-24
- After the layoffs: Increased workloads stress out those left behind
- Job cuts are never easy - and finding your name on the layoff list can be traumatic, especially this time of year. There's no disputing that. But what about the folks whose names are not on the list, the ones who get left behind to pick up...
- Tags: Layoff, Workload, Survey, Job Cut, Recruitment & Selection, Marketing Research, Workforce Management, Human Resources, Marketing, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2008-10-23
- How to avoid being an IT layoff casualty
- How to avoid being an IT layoff casualtyLive and die with a single project?If all someone's time is spent on a single project and if his employment is reliant on the success of that project, isn't that approximately as heedless as having his entire pension fund invested in his employer?RE:...
- Tags: Recruitment & Selection, payroll solutions, IT layoff casualty, information technology
- Discussion threads 2008-10-23
- How to avoid being an IT layoff casualty
- During this period of downturn, the unadulterated waste caused by failed IT will drive layoffs, as organizations cancel poorly performing projects. Here's how to avoid becoming a statistic. by Michael Krigsman
- Tags: Layoff, Information Technology, Workforce Management, Human Resources, Michael Krigsman, Project
- Blog posts 2008-10-23
- Yahoo meets estimates, plans to lay off 10 percent of workforce
- Yahoo's third quarter earnings weren't the complete train wreck that was expected as the company met Wall Street estimates and announced a long-awaited layoff. The company plans to lay off 10 percent of its workforce in the fourth quarter. Yahoo statement, reported net income of $54.3 million,...
- Tags: Revenue, Cost Management, Yahoo! Inc., Earnings, Workforce, Profits, Operational Accounting, Finance, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2008-10-21
- Signs your company might soon go belly-up
- Signs your company might soon go belly-upContinuous management reshufflingMy father in law was at a company that in its final two years replaced all the management that had been there for 10+ years with new college grads from outside the company. Now, I am not saying this is always...
- Tags: Workforce management, Support Contracts, Good Points Here
- Discussion threads 2008-10-15
- News to know: Oracle goes hardware; MSFT confirms pre-beta Windows 7; Netbooks or notebooks?
- Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Larry Dignan: Oracle enters hardware market; Launches storage server to ride shotgun with database Dana Gardner: HP and Oracle team up on ‘data warehouse appliances' that re-architect...
- Tags: Google Inc., Oracle Corp., Microsoft Windows 7, MSFT, Microsoft Windows, Business Intelligence, Storage, Notebooks, Databases, Operating Systems, Software, Enterprise Software, Data Management, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2008-09-25
- News to know: Windows 7; Tech economy; Samsung eyes SanDisk; NetSuite
- Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Mary Jo Foley: Windows 7 hits Milestone 3 Microsoft and Cray to unveil $25,000 Windows-based supercomputer VMware's Datacenter OS: Windows isn't the competition ...
- Tags: Google Inc., Microsoft Windows 7, SanDisk Corp., Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., NetSuite Inc., VMware Inc., Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-09-17
- Is That Non-Compete Too Broad?
- Is That Non-Compete Too Broad?Noncompetes are BadI spend a great deal of my time representing employees in disputes over the enforceability of noncompete contracts. Almost to a fault, these provisions are overly broad and puntitive for the employee. I also believe they stiffle innovation. We blog about noncompete...
- Tags: HEALTHCARE, Workforce management, Noncompete, Medicare
- Discussion threads 2008-09-16
- Whoops! Apparently, we haven't mastered email yet.
- Whoops! Apparently, we haven't mastered email yet.lollol. Hate to say it, but if something like say, a layoff gets out like this, you can bet that there's no way to retract it. Even if you [i]could[/i] do it (which you really can't - there's no "take back this message" function...
- Tags: Whoops, e-mail
- Discussion threads 2008-09-10
- HP closes EDS purchase; Outlines services exec line-up
- HP on Tuesday said it completed its $13.9 billion acquisition of EDS and announced its management team for its services unit. With the EDS purchase, HP's services business will have annual revenue of more than $38 billion and 210,000 employees. Now the integration begins. HP CEO Mark...
- Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., Electronic Data Systems Corp., Senior Vice President, Outsourcing, Data Centers, Strategy, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Management, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-08-26
- IT is shedding jobs--should you worry?
- IT is shedding jobs--should you worry?a few question Debok its may seem loom and doom but what about baby-boomer retirement is this a problem in the state , in canada that a known big problem. So personally i always doubt those kind of article ....With the...
- Tags: Recruitment & Selection, job, IT IS
- Discussion threads 2008-08-14
- News to know: Apple patch; IBM; PC upgrades; EDS; Yahoo
- Notable headlines: Ryan Naraine: Apple finally ships DNS flaw fix, patches 16 other Mac OS X holes Nate McFeters: Black Hat talk on Apple encryption flaw pulled Black Hat Sneak Preview Larry Dignan: IBM plans building spree: To build $360M...
- Tags: Google Inc., Facebook, Larry Dignan, PC, Yahoo! Inc., Apple Inc., Electronic Data Systems Corp., IBM Corp., FireWire, Sales Strategy, Desktops, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Sales, Hardware
- Blog posts 2008-08-01
- EDS shareholders approve HP deal; EDS shoots down layoff rumors
- EDS shareholders approve HP deal; EDS shoots down layoff rumorsPlease!!!!When was the last time HP acquired or merged with a major company in which they didnt lay off employees? May as well start passing out the canes and top hats to management as they attempt to lull employees into a...
- Tags: Workforce management, Electronic Data Systems Corp., EDS shareholder, layoff rumor, layoff, Hewlett-Packard Co., shareholder
- Discussion threads 2008-07-31
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