News Snippets
February 2015 News
- Symantec confirms UL redundancy plans
- Autonomy probe ended by SFO
- System Failure causes Airspace Chaos
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Open-plan offices hamper creativity
Symantec
confirms UK redundancy plans
The side effect
of the latest business trend “splitting” (HP, eBay) will result in
dozens of redundancies in the UK sales team as it consolidates into
Dublin.
Reorganisations
of such a scale can have seismic consequences under the guise of
restructuring, refocusing, repositioning and redundancy. This business
strategy is often the last roll of the dice when other actions have not
achieved the desired results.
Autonomy
probe ended by SFO
The UK Serious
Fraud Office has closed the files on the ongoing HP-Autonomy standoff.
This gives the ball back to HP as they pursue the claim that Autonomy
“souped” up the financials prior to the acquisition.
Solicitors are
expensive but it still may be cheaper than the £5.9bn write-down
attributed to alleged “accounting improprieties”.
System
Failure causes Airspace Chaos
December
experienced another instance of insufficient funding resulting in a
technical failure causing chaos, disruption and costs. NATS is suffering
from the same ailment as many large and complex organisations – old
systems. Like old buildings that have been modified and adapted
throughout their lives they are expensive to maintain. That is why it is
important that to avoid any future chaos and disruption any system must
be either properly preserved or replaced.
Open-plan offices hamper creativity
The belief is
that open-plan offices, because of their lack of barriers, foster an
easy flow of creative energy. Evidence suggests that working in such
spaces may actually hamper creativity. The lack of psychological
privacy, noise and constant distractions can be obstacles to original
thinking, making and doing.
Snippets
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Apple sued for
alleged storage space fraud
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Morgan Stanley
employee fired for data leak
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Bitcoin value
down by66% to $300
·
Gartner
projection for global IT market down by 40% to 2.4%
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