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You check email when you’re on vacation. You bring a company laptop on your trips. Taking “the office” on the road has become so commonplace that these days, we generally don’t think twice about it.

But, a new study from Credant Technologies offers some interesting insights and more than a few words of caution. After all, in some cases, accessing company data from mobile devices can seriously impact corporate security.

Consider these findings. Credant polled 1,000 office workers in London and found that: (more…)

Can you count on your employees to keep confidential corporate information secure?

Probably not, according to the 2010 Trend Micro survey on corporate and small business end users.

The survey, which included 1600 end users in the U.S., U.K, Germany and Japan, found that, in general, employees were much more focused on individual concerns and conveniences than their company’s overall  IT security. For instance: (more…)

There’s a growing labor shortage in China, and analysts aren’t exactly sure why.

According to The Wall Street Journal’s blog “China Real Time Report:”

Various domestic media reports put the labor supply gap at around a million people in Guangzhou and neighboring cities such as Dongguan, legendary centers of China’s export boom in the past three decades. Numerous assembly lines and construction sites are sitting idle while anxious employers have raised salaries by more than 30% but still can’t attract enough applicants.

Shen Hong, the author of the post, suggests that at least part of the problem may stem from the fact that new-generation migrant workers aren’t interested in tough basic jobs like construction any more.  The Chinese government has reformed policies and modernized farming to such an extent that rural jobs now compete favorably with work in the city. In addition, second-tier inland cities are experiencing economic booms of their own, and workers may prefer these alternative locations simply because they’re closer to home. Lastly, China’s improved standard of living, in general, means that young workers are less apt to accept the hardships of working in the city, Hong says. (more…)

More than half of the workforce is mobile on any given day, according to new research.

The 2009 Total Employee Mobility® Benchmarking Report, released yesterday by Runzheimer International, analyzes the results of interviews with executives from 90 small, mid-sized and large organizations across the U.S.

Researchers found that each business day, some 51% of employees are mobile –meaning they’re traveling, working from a virtual office or driving for business. That’s an increase of 31% since 2006.
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