April 28, 2011 by MSI
IDC estimates that, by 2013, 75 percent of the
American workforce and 35 percent of the global workforce will be mobile. According
to a 2008 survey conducted by WorldatWork, 17.2 million Americans were
telecommuting, which was a 70 percent increase from 2005. The prevalence of
virtual and teleco...
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April 6, 2011 by MSI
First it was Web 1.0, or was it? Did we even speak of Web 1.0 in
the non-tech world prior to the coining or ‘invention’ of the term Web 2.0 by
Tim O’Reilly at his conference in late 2004? I know that prior to Web 2.0 I was
just speaking of the Web or ‘back in the day&rsquo...
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March 3, 2011 by MSI
Even though unemployment in the U.S. still remains at 9 percent,
employers continue to experience challenges in finding skilled talent for
specific roles and certain industries. Combine the number of unemployed professionals
in the U.S. with a statistic I came across recently advising that two-th...
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February 1, 2011 by MSI
As a professional in the workforce since the early 1990s I have sat
in amazement at the advances in technology that have occurred over the past 20
years. I often reflect on the days using our DOS based system, which was very
pioneering at the time, our dependence on fax machines, and how funny it...
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January 5, 2011 by MSI
While
many originally thought Apple’s iPad and it’s tablet competitors would
primarily be used personally and not professionally, the convenient size of the
iPad and the vast array of business related applications or ‘apps’ have made it
an extremely viable tool in busines...
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December 7, 2010 by MSI
Instant messaging (IM) is defined by
Wikipedia as, “a collection of technologies used for real-time, text-based
communication between two or more participants over the Internet or other types
of networks.” Ironically IM predated the Internet with its introduction in the
mid-1960s in ...
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November 4, 2010 by MSI
As anyone
will attest, over the past two years procurement has become more and more
engaged in the evaluation and selection of an organization’s relocation and/or
global mobility partner. What this has meant is a significant increase in the
number of requests for information (RFI) and requ...
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October 12, 2010 by MSI
Over the
past eight years, telecommuting (individuals who partially or regularly work
from home) and teleworking (individuals who work 100 percent from home) have
grown exponentially. According to a survey released by World at Work,
approximately 17.2 million Americans telecommuted in 2008, up 3...
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