By Dr. Richard A. MacKinnon First France, now Germany: governments considering the prohibition of employers sending employees emails outside of formal working hours. While there are ostensibly positive reasons for doing... read more →
This month's Fast Company magazine has a great feature on unplugging from the internet. I particularly enjoyed Baratunde Thurstone's piece on how he disconnected from the web for several weeks.... read more →
An almost inevitable consequence of more employees having access to the internet at work as been the potential for abuse of that access. Employees frequently use the internet at work... read more →
By Dr. Richard A. MacKinnon There has been lots of press attention on a major European corporation’s announcement that email access will be turned off at night, to improve employees’... read more →
By Dr. Richard A. MacKinnon I’m going to preface this entire post by saying that I probably fall into the category of ‘digital junkie’ - I never go anywhere without... read more →
I spotted an item in the news the other day about Research in Motion’s new Blackberry technology to help its customers improve their work-life balance. Called “Balance”, the new software will allow... read more →
Well the Queensland University of Technology certainly seems to think new Apple Macbooks Pros are. As I impatiently await the arrive of my very own new Macbook Pro, I was a... read more →
Do you bring your Blackberry with you when you go on holidays? Do you take the odd furtive look at your emails while you’re supposed to be relaxing? Or do... read more →
The ever-brilliant Gina Trapani of Lifehacker.com fame has a nice piece on getting control of your email over at the Harvard Business “Work Smarter” Blog. Like all tools, email is excellent when used correctly but... read more →