Size Matters - The IT Job Board Finds That Almost Two Thirds of Techies Think Small Companies are Suffering More in the Current Climate

September 21st, 2009 LONDON - - 35 Percent of Techies are Working More Than 48 Hours Per Week, and 7.3 Percent Claim Between 60 to 75 Hours, According to The IT Job Board According to the latest piece of research[1] from The IT Job Board, www.theitjobboard.co.uk, 35 percent of techies are working for 48 hours or more per week. This compares to a figure of 33 percent in the same survey carried out in August, 2008[2].

August 26th, 2009 COPENHAGEN - With the UN Climate Change Conference (COP15) lurking in the near future, innovative designers are finding new ways of battling climate change. Can a curtain store and save energy? Yes, and it is just one of many new Danish design concepts that will be presented at the international exhibition 'It's a Small World' during the upcoming Copenhagen Design Week.

July 19th, 2009 LONDON - - Latest Survey From The IT Job Board Highlights Outsourcing Trends Almost two thirds (64 percent) of companies have off-shored a portion of their IT function in the last six months, according to the latest piece of research(1) from The IT Job Board, www.theitjobboard.co.uk. And 34 percent of the IT professionals surveyed stated that more than half (51 percent) of their IT department had already been off-shored; 79 percent said to India.

June 14th, 2009 LONDON - Latest Survey From the IT Job Board Highlights Today's Employment Pressures Almost three quarters (74 percent) of IT candidates believe that it is taking longer to find a job in the current climate, according to the latest piece of research[1] from The IT Job Board, www.theitjobboard.co.uk. And 58 percent of those surveyed stated that, because of the economic situation, they were becoming less selective about the types of jobs they are applying for.

May 14th, 2009 LONDON - Online Recruitment Specialist Carries out Industry Survey 75 percent of recruiters believe that IT candidates with additional qualifications stand a better chance of securing a job, according to a recent survey[1] undertaken by The IT Job Board - www.theitjobboard.co.uk. This finding was also supported by the candidate response, where 84 percent of IT professionals consider that holding industry certifications will improve their employment opportunities.

May 4th, 2009 GEORGE TOWN, Cayman Islands - dms Management Ltd. (dms), the largest management firm in the Cayman Islands focused on serving the hedge fund industry, recently penned an article, "Fund governance: size matters", for the financial industry publication Hedge Fund Manager Week's Cayman Report 2009.

April 22nd, 2009 LONDON - Research From the IT Job Board Confirms Public Sector is Growing in Popularity More than two thirds (71 percent) of techies are happy working in their chosen sector, according to research(1) carried out by The IT Job Board, www.theitjobboard.co.uk. For the 29 percent who are not content with the industry they work in, nearly half (49 percent) would prefer to work in software and IT services, and 30 percent advised that they would rather choose IT jobs in the public sector.

March 26th, 2009 LONDON - Employees Point to Reducing Energy use as an Easy win Employees are increasingly accepting responsibility for helping save money around the workplace according to new research released today by the Carbon Trust, with the majority (87%) saying it's important for them to help their employer cut costs in the current climate, and 78% willing to be more energy efficient to save money. Almost half (46%) of UK employees say they are now more likely to try to help their employer save money than before the credit crunch kicked in.

March 22nd, 2009 LONDON - SPUC condemns today's attempt by the former health minister, Mrs Patricia Hewitt, to change the law to make it legal to take people abroad to commit suicide. Mrs Hewitt's amendment to the Coroners & Justice Bill is an unwarranted threat to disabled and vulnerable people.

March 11th, 2009 LONDON - Businesses Should Seize Opportunity to Demonstrate Green Credentials New research from the Carbon Trust Standard shows that consumers still want to buy green despite the current economic climate, with 62% of consumers saying environmental concerns influence their purchasing decisions 'the same as a year ago' and just over a quarter saying they influence them 'even more' than in 2008. The research shows that a business's green credentials have a significant impact on consumer buying choices.

May 26th, 2009 WASHINGTON - The Climate Disclosure Standards Board (CDSB) has announced groundbreaking proposals to assist directors in the inclusion of climate change-related information in companies' annual reports. The pioneering proposals, unveiled at the World Business Summit on Climate Change in Copenhagen, take the form of a global framework that clarifies precisely which climate change data should be reported by corporations and provides management with a set of guidelines designed to streamline disclosure procedures.

July 2nd, 2009 Baaad news? Global warming now shrinking sheepWASHINGTON — Like the wool sweater that emerges from the dryer a size too small, global warming seems to be shrinking sheep. On average, wild Soay sheep on Scotland's island Hirta are 5 percent smaller today than they were in 1985, according to a team of researchers led by Tim Coulson of Imperial College London.

July 31st, 2009 BANGALORE - The ceremony to welcome the latest "entrants" to IT bellwether Infosys Technologies at its Electronic City campus here Friday was a grand one, with the company's co-founder, chairman and chief mentor N.R. Narayan Murthy himself doing the honours.

July 24th, 2009 German business sentiment improves in JulyFRANKFURT — A leading indicator of German business sentiment improved in July, suggesting the economy is stabilizing, the Ifo Business Climate Index said Friday. The Ifo, part of the Institute for Economic Research at the University of Munich, said its reading of the German business climate improved to 87.3 points in July from 85.9 points in June.

June 29th, 2009 MELBOURNE - Almost two-thirds of the Australian adults have difficulty spelling the word 'embarrass', finds a new survey. The Galaxy survey commissioned by Westpac was conducted on 400 people, aged over 16 years, from Sydney and Melbourne.

June 3rd, 2009 Groups seek more SEC climate disclosureCOLUMBUS, Ohio — Federal regulators have not done enough to ensure that shareholders are aware of material risks to companies from greenhouse gas emissions, according to a pair of studies released Wednesday by environmental and investor groups. Congress is now debating legislation that would require a 17 percent reduction in greenhouse gases by 2020 and 83 percent reduction by mid-century.

March 11th, 2009 WASHINGTON - The US will ask companies to report on their greenhouse-gas emissions that are blamed for global warming, setting the stage for government-imposed limits on climate pollution supported by President Barack Obama and long resisted by his predecessor. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Tuesday said it will ask most major polluting firms to submit annual reports on their emissions levels beginning with 2010.

July 15th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Among all other adverse effects that climate change can and has been bringing about is lessening work productivity, according to an Oxfam report which says the productivity in Delhi can drop by 30 percent because of the global warming. The report, 'Suffering the Science - Climate Change, People and Poverty', said besides the more visible effects of climate change - the scanty rainfall these monsoons for instance - there are a whole lot of other implications that have been and will affect our lives.

July 3rd, 2009 WASHINGTON - A new study has provided evidence for climate change as the cause of the mysterious decrease in the size of wild sheep on the Scottish island of Hirta. According to the researchers, due to climate change, survival conditions on Hirta are becoming less challenging, which means slower-growing, smaller sheep are more likely to survive the winters than they once were.

September 25th, 2009 EU calls for urgency at climate talks in BangkokSTOCKHOLM — The European Union is urging wealthy and developing countries to bring more "urgency and ambition" to climate talks in Thailand next week. The Bangkok meeting starting Monday is the penultimate negotiating session before a pivotal U.N.