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Reasonable Hours of Work in the ICT Industry

A friend who works in IT support (for a very large and well known IT industry multi national doing security patching and stuff) just phoned me because his boss wants him to work overnight to do a release and then to front up to work again early tomorrow morning. This

Out and about - Robyn Henderson & Gordon Bell

Out and about - Robyn Henderson & Gordon Bell

In recent days I have been going out to various ICT industry functions in Sydney. Two of the speakers stood out from the rest. The first was Robyn Henderson who spoke at the FITT networking session, and the second was Gordon Bell who spoke at the AVCAL breakfast. Each of

Women and getting ahead in business

Women and getting ahead in business

Just had an anonymous comment on an old post. The commenter said: "Honey, you must be very young. It's not just about how hard you work. The ole' boy's network is alive and well - you just haven't reached a high enough level

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Article: Businesses don't have social responsibilities; people do

This article has been reproduced in full below, it raises some very important issues about corporate and individual responsibility. Even staff in the Nazi concentration camps were assisted in rationalising terrible acts because they were only following orders. Thus they could abrogate individual responsibility to act in humane ways. We

More on Bullies @ work

More on Bullies @ work

Recently I posted on bullies @ work & made some fairly harsh comments about a colleague who had been doing this sort of thing often and openly. The other day I actually had some time to talk with this person and discovered that they had been going through a very difficult

The great maternity leave debate

The great maternity leave debate

I do not have children, nor do I plan to reproduce - so I suppose you could say I have no skin in this particular game. But I've been thinking about the debates around maternity leave and the low birthrate that have occurred recently in Australia. The key problem

Professionalism & IT (or not as the case may be)

Professionalism & IT (or not as the case may be)

Aaargh!! It is an unending source of amazement to me that our society will not let a hairdresser cut your hair or a mechanic fix your car unless they've done a multi-year apprenticeship BUT they will let any half-wit who thinks they have a clue play

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