Employers misconceived flavour of the year seems to be teleworking, or working from home. It has been advocated by the B.C. government for its civil servants, and by others as a means to retain more women in the workforce, but too little consideration has been given to its efficacy.
A total of 165 Calgary business leaders and employees learned first hand what ‘doing business differently’ means to the 21st century worker at Here or There: Embracing Telework, at the TELUS Convention Centre March 4.
Managers like to believe home-based employees are working as hard as if they were in the office, even if their attire is probably a little less than professional. But appearances — or, in this case, the lack of them — sometimes aren’t what they seem, and it’s not always because a particular teleworker is lazy. “Virtual work amplifies pre-existing problems within an organization,” says Michael Dziak, an Atlanta-based trainer and consultant specializing in telework programs.
The Ubuntu developers are moving very quickly to bring you the absolute latest and greatest software the open source community has to offer. This is the Ubuntu 8.04 beta release, which brings a host of excellent new features.
Note: This is still a beta release. Do not install it on production machines. The final stable version will be released in April 2008.
You can download Ubuntu 8.04 beta here: http://www.ubuntu.com/testing/hardy/beta