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The Great Office War from Runawaybox on Vimeo.

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If you have been addicted to the Status updates on various Social Networking sites such as Facebook, Twitter, Orkut etc. – Beware! Employers are snooping and you could get fired because of “your Status updates”!

Here’s what happened to a British teen

That’s what happened to Briton teen, Kimberly Swann. She was summarily sacked after her boss learned — via her updated status — that she was “bored at work.” In this hilarious CNN segment, a journalist does a search for the terms “bored” and “work” on Facebook and Twitter, and finds that Swann certainly isn’t alone. (Further research would no doubt dig up folks saying far worse things about their place of employment).

Her boss, meanwhile, says Swann’s admission of boredom revealed that “she just wasn’t happy here” and thus “it wasn’t going to work out.” We’re no experts, but why was the boss perusing Facebook on company time? Was he, perhaps, a little bored?

Source: Ajit Chouhan (Facebook)

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ididwork is a new tool backed up by Y Combinator which are a boon to employees. This tool can help employees track their work allotted or completed.

Features

• Track your Time based on Tasks
• Has support for Tags
• Provides interesting Graphs
• Collaboration as a team thru feeds
• Track performance by sending your tasks thru an e-mail to your supervisor
• Lets you know your performance on a Task / Project
• Export the Tasks to Excel &
• It’s free

Drawbacks

• The system does not allow the employee to be a Manager

The rest of it looks wonderful and does have a different view towards work unlike other programs / tools. A great tool for startup / geographically separated teams.

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Jobvite, an innovative on demand recruitment solution provider has attracted a whoppin 7.2 Million dollar investment from CMEAVentures. Jobvite provides an on-demand recruitment application that manages the entire recruiting and hiring process. Built on Web 2.0 technologies, Jobvite is radically easy to use for everyone involved in recruiting. Social networking, collaboration and Outlook integration engage all employees productively in their hiring tasks. The Software as a Service application solves the problem of coordinating hiring activities and data across departments, so companies can identify and hire the best people.

Its interesting to see that that Jobvite also has roped in TiVo and Tellme Networks as their partners and this is surely going to turn heads around! Innovation does help and at this talent war we would surely want to see some innovation

All the best guys..!!

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