Web Workers, for instance, is an emerging system for isolating a browser's individual tasks into separate "threads, " making it easier for a browser-based program to perform a computationally intensive task such as photo-editing in a background tab while the user is attending to something else, like e-mail, in the foreground.
Another marketing firm uses the service to subcontract out copy writers, search engine optimization workers and web developers.
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The wireless web was supposed to unchain workers from their desktops and let handheld gadgets turn streams of invisible bits into stock portfolios, music and shopping sprees.
Moreover, new technologies, such as video or Web conferencing, can support workers who want to work with more privacy off site yet still be accessible to others.
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It has installed Internet phone service for 2, 400 workers worldwide and enabled Web seminars for up to 12, 200 people at once.
In fact, the Labor Ministry's Web site provides guidelines for sex workers.
Platt often accompanied her on tour as she hit 20 of HP's 50 major sites to address 18, 000 workers and even more on the Web.
The United Food and Commercial Workers already devote 10 pages of their Web site to Wal-Mart bashing, so what's one more?
But there's more: This group wants to turn workers into free agents and, via the Web, give everyone the same access to information and markets.
Last month, workers at Agency.com, a hot Web design shop in New York with a reputation for coddling the help, got a mass e-mail from the office of boss Chan Suh that was supposed to list unused vacation time.
Andy Stern's Service Employees International Union, or SEIU, which represents 1.8 million workers, recently started a private equity campaign featuring a Web site, behindthebuyouts.org.
Sprint Nextelwants to encourage businesses to equip workers with mobile devices and use mobile e-mail and Web-based applications, thus increasing use of their networks.
Sprint Nextel (nyse: S - news - people )wants to encourage businesses to equip workers with mobile devices and use mobile e-mail and Web-based applications, thus increasing use of their networks.
The industry is also caught in a web of inter-enterprise debt: it owes 7 billion hryvnyas to its workers and suppliers, and is in turn owed 3 billion hryvnyas by its customers, mostly power stations.
Employers may find themselves competing with each other for the best workers with promises not to monitor their e-mail traffic or web-browsing habits, or by offering strict limits on the use of corporate surveillance cameras.
According to the results of job Web site Vault.com's sixth annual survey of office amour, 60% of workers say they've engaged in a workplace romance.
Workers then gain access to local job opportunities all via cell phone or the web.
Evan Saks, the founder of online mattress maker Create-a-Mattress, says manufacturing technology that ties orders to production known as just-in-time manufacturing and Web-based tools have done away with the need for inventory managers or warehouse staff, among other workers.
Some longtime workers say they still are happy at the company and note that Yahoo continues to have one of the Web's largest audiences, with more than 700 million unique visitors to its sites every month.
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