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Browsing the Internet at work ?

If you are placed in an open plan office often times I have seen people try and keep their internet browsing activities minimal or try and shape their browser window so that their colleagues do not see them browsing. Does this sound familiar? You get the whole banning various websites by companies and then of course you have the few privileged admin rights staff who will have their msn / yahoo messenger on their computer and are busy chatting with friends under the pretext of work. Why should some staff have these privileges? Continue Reading

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[ More ] July 31st, 2008 | 3 Comments | Posted in Workplace Thoughts |

Contractors or Salaried – Does it matter within a project

God this topic that has been buzzing around me for about a year now. Last night I had a dream of owning a company such as Google. Wow I wish that was reality. Anyways in this dream I saw one of my Product Managers pull up one of my so called contracting staff in this empire company of mine for chatting in the kitchen. The conversation was "Hey stop talking and do some work, I hope you are not billing us for this chit chatting session of yours". Even though it sounded as a joke, it was rather rude. Being

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[ More ] July 20th, 2008 | 5 Comments | Posted in Workplace Thoughts |