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The Cupertino, Calif.-based Mac maker is facing a lawsuit from one of its former employees, with the suit alleging that Apple has failed to pay proper wages for overtime work, AppleInsider reports. According to the filings, the company allegedly demanded its employees to work 40 extra hours per week and then failed t... |
7 August 2009
03:51 GMT |
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ifoAppleStore, the source dealing exclusively with news and information about Apple’s retail stores, has posted a piece signaling that the Mac maker has a new job page spotlighting retail philosophy. The pages, which promote job opportunities in a usual Apple manner, now include a focus on retail employee model... |
6 August 2009
07:02 GMT |
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DataViz Inc. has announced Documents To Go, a mobile office suite application for iPhone and iPod touch. Currently available in the iTunes App Store, Documents To Go allows users to view, edit and create Microsoft Word files, including Word 2007. iPhone and iPod touch owners can also use a desktop application to prov... |
15 June 2009
10:35 GMT |
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An HR advisory from Queensland University of Technology claims that “reflections and glare on high gloss monitor screens and their relation to the angle of the monitor screen could cause the operator to adopt awkward postures when viewing the monitor screen and using related equipment.” Apple is known to ... |
15 June 2009
09:57 GMT |
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The stress we all feel on a daily basis, but that is more marked in 30-something women who have a career and a family to care for, has now a new term by which we can call it. It’s the exhaustion epidemic and it’s taking a toll not only on the quality of our life, but also on our health and relationships. ... |
23 March 2009
16:11 GMT |
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The “obesity epidemic” that is now sweeping over the world has long been acknowledged as a serious problem that must be dealt with before it spirals out of control. With all that and despite all sorts of active measures, positive results fail to appear – quite on the contrary, things are only gettin... |
5 March 2009
13:21 GMT |
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Society has taught us that we must live to work and be as productive as we can. While there’s no question about our desire to give our best to stand out at the workplace, that does not mean that life is all about work and no play, health experts are advising us. As a matter of fact, we should learn to play more... |
6 February 2009
15:41 GMT |
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Apple's Job Opportunities section lists an opening for a Mac OS X SW Dev Manager, Network Authentication and Security. The team to be led is responsible for developing software for embedded devices (such as the iPhone), among others. According to the job summary, the company is already working on a “growin... |
28 December 2008
13:41 GMT |
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There's a lot of hype around the upcoming LittleBigPlanet title. For those of you who don't know, LBP is exclusively developed for the PlayStation 3 with Sony heavily promoting it, and it is a puzzle platformer game that allows players to create their own characters, levels and worlds. They will contro... |
25 September 2008
03:29 GMT |
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Due to the phenomenal growth of the Internet, which basically abolished distance, increased accessibility to information and gave instant communications a huge boost, working from home is no longer a fantasy, but rather a solid, modern-day reality. Millions of people around the world do it and it's working out j... |
26 May 2008
10:11 GMT |
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There is a flow of researches showing how the lack of sleep impacts your brain functions, from learning to memory. But the impact on people's life is much more severe than it could be guessed, plummeting productivity, safety, health, relationships and... sex. Too much work and too little sleep resulted in the f... |
26 March 2008
14:06 GMT |
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Which is the way to get the best from the employees? Tough programs won't work; it seems that it is rather about workplace flexibility and if this is perceived as real by the employees, whose lifestyles and health will improve in this case, as shown by a new study carried on by Dr. Joseph G. Grzywacz, of Wake Fo... |
13 December 2007
04:28 GMT |
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1. Scientific research showed that the health of those whose work does not solicit them too much is prone to many risks compared to the health of other categories. Employees having boring jobs, requiring repeating the same movements or a lack of independence get sick twice more often than the others. No other stress ... |
3 December 2007
14:06 GMT |
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Being gay in a straight society is a difficult task, as rejection comes from all sides. A new research made on over 500 American gay, lesbian and bisexual employees discovered that "fears about disclosing a gay identity at work had an overwhelmingly negative relationship with their career and workplace experiences an... |
5 November 2007
08:56 GMT |
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We all know Facebook is a real phenomenon on the Internet but when it is accessed from other places than your personal computer, it instantly becomes a serious matter. Security company Sophos conducted a special research to find out how many employees access Facebook from work and how often they do it. No more than 3... |
29 October 2007
11:51 GMT |
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Yeah... another day in the salt mines...and that dickhead boss of yours accusing you of killing time all day... and Monday... Who the heck invented that day, after all!? This is a lost day...Your friends start telling you stories of places they've been to, where they traveled in the weekend or how they did parti... |
25 September 2007
07:10 GMT |
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Most jobs contribute to our sedentary life, and this combined to a disordered feeding pattern, will make you fat. In fact, 50 % of the employees gain weight while at work. 20 % of them put on some extra 5 kilograms (12 pounds), and 10 % some 9 kilograms (20 pounds). The daily program won't let you go to the gym ... |
15 September 2007
08:49 GMT |
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The market research Information Solutions Group conducted a survey concerning the employees who play games at work, revealing that no less than 24 percent of the respondents admitted they played video games during the working day. The research included 2,842 employees and was conducted by PopCap.com, a website which ... |
6 September 2007
06:20 GMT |
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A new survey conducted by Money Supermarket revealed that the Internet users are very attracted by pornography but what's more interesting is that many of them intend to download adult material at work. According to Web User, no less than 8 percent of the users who usually download porn want to do it at work, an... |
5 September 2007
02:50 GMT |
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2007's summer found the Swedish people with a greater desire to work outside the office than ever. TeliaSonera, a leading mobile network operator in Sweden and Finland, recently conducted a survey that shows the Swedes are about to set a new record when it comes to working outside the office. From 1,710 Swedes t... |
28 June 2007
10:24 GMT |
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Do they call you dumb, a**hole, sucker, idiot and so on?It does not matter, one day you could be (might become) a genius. A roundup of IQ studies from Cambridge University Press, shows that being a genius means 99 % hard work. "There are international chess masters that have below-average IQs," said author Dr. K. And... |
17 April 2007
05:34 GMT |
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