At Glassdoor, Find Out How Much People Really Make At Google, Microsoft, Yahoo, And Everywhere Else
TechCrunch profiles Glassdoor, a new site that allows people to anonymously review places where they work or have worked in the past as well as declare their salary and compensation packages: “The idea is to collect as much detailed salary information and feedback for every job title at a company so that job seekers can know how to evaluate an offer, and current employees can see how they are doing relative to their peers.”
Unisfair Now Offering Job Fair Opportunities
Unisfair now has a virtual version of the traditional job fair. The article: “If the company’s survey is anything accurate, 64% of 100 human resources managers feel such online services could improve hiring efforts.”
Work Literacy Launches
As the way we work continues to change, sites such as your very own AppGap and the just-launched Work Literacy are emerging to help people better understand and navigate new tools and work methodologies. As it describes itself, Work Literacy “is a network of individuals, companies and organizations who are interested in learning, defining, mentoring, teaching and consulting on the frameworks, skills, methods and tools of modern knowledge work.”
Comotivate: Reach For Goals Together
If you have problems keeping yourself motivated to achieve your goals, then Comotivate might be the app for you. “It’s not built so much as a collective cheerleading squad for its membership. Instead, its more about completing the mission.”
Searching for definition
Reviews last week’s Enterprise 2.0 conference in Boston. The author’s general impression was that there’s no strict definition for what enterprise 2.0 means and that’s a problem: “…there is ambiguity around what E2.0 is, which is unhelpful for vendors and their potential clients alike.”
DocStoc Tackles Email Attachments
A new feature from DocStoc makes creating multiple email attachments easier. The instructions are simple: “After downloading their OneClick application (Windows only) you can send attachments directly from Explorer. Right-click the documents and a single click will upload them to DocStoc (public or private as you choose) and generate an email so that you can tell people where to find them.”
Working fast on Office 2.0
Robert Scoble shares his notes on a conversation with Chris Capossela of Microsoft Office, including reasons why businesses aren’t keen to adapt the newest web 2.0 tools, including the contention that “they need to know these services will stay up.”
Over 90 Minutes Per Week Spent on Personal Web Surfing at Work
A press release about new research out of the UK that found that the average office worker there spends more than 90 minutes of every workday on personal internet usage. The reaction to this study is mixed, with the author noting that “while many organisations are supportive of staff visiting non-work related websites, and view it as a motivational perk or a modern-day tea break, others are troubled by the amount of use, or have had to sack staff for serious abuse.”
The Growth of Web 2.0 Services
While Web 2.0 services proliferate and continue to offer ever more features and functionality, there’s still lots of room for improvement. This article includes a few recommendations such as “The ability to mix and match content from a variety of sources can be used to provide pre- and post-roll ad-insertion that is targeted to individual customer profiles.”
Make Money By Networking with Passitto
Ever wondered what LinkedIn would be if you were given money for each referral? If so, say hello to Passitto. According to this news item, “Passitto is all about referrals. Who you want to meet, who you want your friends to meet, and who wants to meet you. You can get credits or money for referring others and you can use those credits you build up as currency for obtaining more referrals for your own business.”
Celine, Regarding that 90 minutes/week spent surfing personal websites…. that’s a good point for discussion.
Some small percentage of people may abuse the personal use of the Internet, it’s true.
However, the other side of the coin is that employers often tacitly expect employees to work on evenings and weekends at home, to meet deadlines and complete big projects. In my corporate days, most professionals and management level people took something home with them at least a few days a week. Or at the very least they would catch up on work emails late at night from home.
My point is that often it’s a wash. While you may sometimes need to handle a personal matter or just to zone out and rest your mind a while during work hours, chances are you make that time up and more by working at home.
And isn’t the point, after all, how well someone performs, not how much time they put in?
Anita
Couldn’t agree with you more. In my other blog, Pimp Your Work, I’m always a strong advocate of proper work-life balance and achieving maximum effectiveness with the shortest amount of time possible so that we spend less time working and more time living. I’m more for results-oriented working rather than a time-oriented style.
I simply linked to the article you mentioned because workplace news is relevant to The App Gap - and the interesting reactions to that article generate a good discussion. Glad that you shared your two cents
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