Workforce

Some of that secondary stock offering cash the company raised will go toward paying a workforce of nearly 5,000 people now.

Unicredito announced that it plans to cut about 9,000 jobs as its planned takeover of Germany's HVB Group goes through. This would lead to a 50% jump in operating income for the two banks.

IBM said that it will be cutting between 10,000 and 13,000 jobs as part of its new restructuring plan.

Evolved from Control Module's trademark modularity and reliability, Genus (named after the Greek term "genus," meaning a new species) is the first workforce management terminal that offers a JAVA programming environment.

If you're an up and coming graphic/web designer just out of university, you'll know it's quite hard to break into the workforce. You have to contact employers one by one, spend your time traveling and lugging your portfolio to their offices. Well, things have changed, and for the better let me tell you. Now you can make your own on-line portfolio on the Internet, and send its web page address to numerous design companies at once so they can all see your work easily. You don't even have to leave your house and organizations all over the world can access your work easily.

Given the choice of dealing with a positive, upbeat employee with a "can-do" attitude or dealing with a disgruntled, distracted, uninterested one, which would you choose? No contest. Customers always want the best experience possible; they want it to be easy and pleasant to do business with your company. Enter the real challenge of "Relationship Management," the relationships. Until all of our business is done electronically, and much of it might be, managers, in addition to making sure the work gets done, still need to be concerned with the performance of the most important link in the customer connection - people.

Imagine that your manager turned your department into a problem-free zone where instead of bringing your problems to the manager to solve, you were encouraged to devise your own solutions. Imagine if everyone focused on dealing with issues so thoroughly that things were anticipated and handled before they became problems.