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The Great Office War – Good one!

sucharith — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 09:51:29 +0000

The Great Office War from Runawaybox on Vimeo.

Bored at work… Don’t Let Twitter or Facebook know!

sucharith — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 08:03:47 +0000

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)

Track your work with ididwork

sucharith — Sun, 10 Aug 2008 13:57:34 +0000

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.

Technorati Tags: Web 2.0,Tasks,Task Manager,Performance Management,Employee Performance

Jobvite manages a 7.2 Million $ Funding

sucharith — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 15:15:58 +0000

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..!!

Dearth of talent among talented!

sucharith — Thu, 19 Jul 2007 13:20:28 +0000

The danger level of �talent-all-eroded� is approaching at a very high pace in the IT and ITES sector. How will India meet the demand of employable IT professionals?

Take this�

�We will add 8000 workers in India this year, taking our total count in the country to 35,000. That will surpass 30,000 workers employed in Accenture�s US operations.� – William Green, CEO, Accenture

�Number of technology jobs to reach 1.7 million in India by year 2010.� – NASSCOM

India has an inexhaustible supply of top-flight engineers and IT specialists. Today, it is a known fact for one and all that the country is a day and night running factory of Software Professionals. Holding a whopping 44 per cent share of global offshore outsourcing market for software and back-office services, enjoying confidence of 95 countries outsourcing their work to her and with more than 82 per cent of American companies grading her as their first choice, India has undoubtedly become a near synonym to outsourcing.

Playing on with the number game and in fact mastering it �

India boasts of having the biggest pool of IT brains with 1,20,000 professionals added to the industry every year.
Almost 2.5 million graduates pass out of Indian colleges every year.
India churns out more than 4,00,000 engineers per year.

India Vs China

While India is slowly and gradually reaching its limit of saturation in supplying technical and sagacious brains to the global companies, China has reasons enough to grab the market. India undoubtedly has a massive lead on China in the software off-shoring game. However, behind the scenes, the Chinese have already planted seeds that will eventually make them major players in the industry.

May be this is one of the reasons why Indian companies keep on grabbing outsourcing contracts so as to avoid the buyers and their jobs going away to other companies (read Countries). Though as compared to 25 per cent of engineers in India having basic skills for offshore IT jobs, only 10 per cent each of total engineering pass-outs from China and Russia bear them. The labour cost advantage may start playing a crucial role and take shape of a turning point in times to come.

With so many jobs flowing in the country, Indian outsourcing companies are compromising with the quality of workers being recruited. And if the scene remains the same for long, the software off-shoring market may eventually go off the Indian shore.

So is India �ready� to take that�? Read the Entire Article at The Ground Report