Vision breaks are not just important for your eyes - research at Cornell University in New York State has found that computer workers who take short breaks are more productive than those who don't take breaks.
The Teamsters are assisting the efforts of the music scribes, who are among the few non-unionized workers in the business (with computer effects workers being another large group).
Just as the personal computer freed workers from the tyranny of the mainframe and its persnickety administrators, ADS-B frees pilots from relying on ground controllers to dictate their every maneuver.
Liam Gallagher of Derry Trades Council said a drop in demand for computer products has left workers fearful.
Workers at computer services firm Capita have voted to go on strike over job losses and work going to India.
This tends to be more true in places like Silicon Valley, where workers are computer savvy and housing costs are onerous.
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One of the more entertaining posts we wrote up at last year's CES was for the Golden-i, a head-mounted computer that lets field workers control their machines using voice commands and by moving their heads.
The country's second-largest carmaker by sales, it said it would hire engineers, computer programmers and other office workers.
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The plant's 200 workers must now be computer-literate, although their collars are not yet entirely white.
By getting workers to build each computer to order, Dell also keeps fewer stocks.
Toyota, Lexmark International, Hewlett-Packard, UPS, Affiliated Computer Services and Amazon employ thousands of workers in the metropolitan area.
Inside a low-rise office building in Monterrey, Mexico, hundreds of workers sit in front of computer screens, processing insurance-claims data all day.
In businesses 63% of U.S. workers have access to a computer.
In businesses 63% of American workers now have access to a computer.
With this gear workers can gain access to their computer files and messages from any phone set in the company network.
Such injuries go beyond the computer-related carpal tunnel syndrome plaguing office workers to include a variety of soft tissue and joint problems.
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By the end of 2005, when EDS plans to be up and running on its new computer platform, it hopes 20, 000 workers will have "re-skilled" themselves.
On May 18th, the Senate voted to let 30, 000 more foreign computer programmers, health professionals and other skilled workers into the United States to relieve local labour-market shortages.
She says this could help protect businesses against legal retaliation from workers who were dismissed for inappropriate computer use and claim they weren't told about the surveillance in advance.
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In a building nearby, workers in navy-blue uniforms use computer-aided designs from Tata engineers to create tools and dies used to make those sheet-metal stampings.
Hispanic and Asian families crop up in the most unlikely places: Indian computer programmers in Plano or Austin, Mexican farm workers in the Dakotas, Asian entrepreneurs in Las Vegas.
After being sued repeatedly for allegedly forcing employees to work through lunch and bathroom breaks, the company installed computer systems that shut down individual cash registers when workers were scheduled for breaks.
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While Kant did not say TCS was bringing in foreigners to fill in the gaps, Infosys and other major computer companies, including Microsoft, are bringing in workers from India to do what they say American engineers cannot.
Compared with booming profits, rich-country workers have lost out, as Chinese factory workers, Indian software engineers and the spread of computer automation undermine bargaining power and wage growth.
Teachers and municipal workers are encouraged to upgrade their skills, notably in computer literacy.
On that day, the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) is scheduled to start accepting applications for the limited supply of H-1B visas, which allow businesses to employ foreign workers with special skills such as teachers, scientists and computer programmers for an initial period of up to three years.
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Like most monitoring programs, it also allows Mr. Daniels to see whether all his employees, including 16 office workers and 24 who work from home, are using their computer time in productive ways.
He has no computer at his desk, just an Etch A Sketch on which co-workers can leave friendly messages.
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In one, a teen purchases a new pair of jeans through her laptop in order to pre-empt receiving a hand-me-down pair from her mother, while, in another, an employee quickly orders a tablet computer via his smart phone so he can fit in with his co-workers, all of whom have tablets.
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