Technology, skills and part-time working

 Technology and skills

Developments in telecommunications and computing are dramatically changing the nature of work and the way it is performed and managed. (...) the importance of skill and knowledge will increase commensurately. (...) Technology is also changing the organization of work. (...) People management must change to meet new realities.

  Ambition: IT - UK Government initiative to fill 5,000 vacant jobs in the IT industry with the long-term unemployed.

  78% of office workers using computers more - 78% of the sample spent more time working at their computers in May 2001 than they did five years ago - 68% saying they spent at least six hours a day at their computers (HRM Guide Canada).

  Business and technology have a rocky marriage - Towers Perrin study finds that companies maintain Web technology investments despite economic uncertainty, disappointing results and pressures to contain costs (HRM Guide Canada).

  Part-time working

This section of Human Resource Management in a Business Context lists basic types of part-time work, both traditional and current together with relevant statistics and a comment on employer attitudes.

  Leaving Jobseeker's Allowance for part-time work  UK survey demonstrates characteristics of people taking up part-time work

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