Don't let your boss catch you reading this
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Walk into any large office, and you will most likely hear  the telltale computer bleeps of chat programs and online games,  accompanied by furious mouse-clicking. Employees may seem busy,  but many are wasting time on the Internet, or "cyberslacking."
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No sense pointing the finger at Hewlett-Packard anymore; we have Congress and the FBI to do that. But I did want to discuss the âI didnât know what my employees/vendors/executive staff were doingâ defense -- which was, of course, made famous by Enron , so you have to know it just wonât do. Instead of looking backward, I spoke with a couple of experts on governance, privacy, risk, and compliance assessment about how companies can do the right thing in the future.
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Read this before you pay anyone for stock tips.
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Press '3' to read this story or hold for a hack
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Just found out your co-worker makes more than you? Six steps to achieving paycheck parity.
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We all like to think we learn from mistakes, whether our own or othersâ. So in theory, the more serious bloopers you know about, the less likely you are to be under the bright light of interrogation, explaining how you managed to screw up big-time. Thatâs why we put out an all-points bulletin to IT managers and vendors everywhere: For the good of humanity, tell us about the gotchas that have gotten you, so others can avoid them.ADVERTISEMENTWhite Paper: Converged Services Spell ReliefDiscover why technical decision makers are turning to IP telephony and VPNs to increase worker productivity while keeping an eye on the bottom line.
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Don't let this money-sucker hurt your plans to retire.
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One Fool's got a "naughty" list beyond CEOs.
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If you've got a blog and a job, beware. The two sometimes don't go together, as many ex-workers are finding out. By Rachel Metz.
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CHICAGO _ If you have a job, you have no privacy when it comes to using the office computer.  From monitoring e-mails to capturing instant messages among friends, employers can do as they see fit with the information passing through a company network.
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One of the great things about working in a newsroom is that you're surrounded by lots of smart people who love to tell you what they know. Just try to stop them.
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What you don't say can be as important as what you report. It's all in the delivery.
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It turns out that you and your banker are not on the same page.
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Okay, no more excuses. Don&#39;t even try telling your boss that your report is late because you couldn&#39;t find an Internet connection.
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In 1980, I signed a deal with a company to market a product I was developing. The contract required me to turn over the source code, which I did. One day I went to a meeting at the office of the company, and there on the product manager's desk, right next to a door that opened to the outside, was a floppy labeled "Dave Winer's source code" in big letters.  If you own a Mac you may soon find out what that felt like. It's amazing to me that the tech blogosphere doesn't treat Apple's policy re broken hard disks as the huge gaping security hole that it is.  Think about it. We worry about bad people getting their hands on little pieces of data that, when added together, give them the power to be you in banking and credit transactions.  Think about what you would do if your laptop was stolen. Well, if you own a Mac and its hard disk goes bad, and you make the mistake of bringing it to Apple for service, you will turn over all that data to Apple. Not "may" or "might" but "will." What Apple in turn does with that data is none of your affair. They don't sign anything or offer any guarantees that they won't sell the disk to a data miner. Think it can't happen or that it's unlikely? I don't gain much comfort from your feeling of security. I've been writing about this issue since December 22. Usually when I write something critical of Apple, the results are mixed. Some people are supportive, but far more people attack. This time the ratio is very different. Almost everyone who has commented gets that there's a huge problem here. Can we solve this problem? Of course we can.  Some say that other vendors do this too. That gives me less comfort, not more. That means there's no escaping this crazy way of treating user's confidentiality. Ultimately it hurts the vendors because people can't use their computers for things the manufacturers say we can.  Further, it's got to be an issue for the banks, brokerage firms, credit agencies. If you are a newspaper and you employ reporters and they use a computer, how exactly are you guarding the confidentiality of your sources? If you're a confidential source, don't you have an interest when the reporter gives their computer manufacturer all their data to do with as they please? Imagine what you would do if it turned out there was a bug in a Netgear or Linksys router that allowed, under special circumstances, a mailicous person to gain access to the full content of your hard disk at any time. Would you have a problem with that? This is worse than Microsoft's neglect of malware that got me to stop using their computers. In that case it was Microsoft being neglegent. This time Apple itself is the cause of the problem. It's as if they planted a virus in their operating system that entitled them, under special circumstances, completely out of the user's control, to gain access to everything on your disk, with as much time as they want, with no way for you to prevent or even detect the intrusion.  See also: My letter to Steve Jobs.
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Sex sells in the hospitality business. But before you hire a swarm of supermodels, beware the labor laws.
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Companies have a lot to say about what you say about yourself in your work space.