Vacationers Wired to Work, Poll Finds
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By Alan Fram  Associated Press  WASHINGTON -- Sun block. Beach umbrella. Laptop.  One in five people toted laptop computers on their most recent vacations, an AP-Ipsos poll released Friday said.
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SAN FRANCISCO -- San Francisco&#39;s unionized hotel workers will go back to work after an eight-week lockout, dealing a major boost to the city&#39;s tourism industry on the eve of the busy holidayseason.
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By Alan Fram, Associated Press  Sun block. Beach umbrella. Laptop.   One in five people toted laptop computers on their most recent vacations, an Associated Press-Ipsos poll released Friday said.
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Americans will travel in record  numbers this holiday season, thanks partly to Christmas and New  Year's landing on the weekend, the AAA said Wednesday in  releasing a travel survey.
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Getting consistent, reliable access to the Internet at a hotel, regardless of the cost or type of connection, can be a challenge for business travelers.
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(InfoWorld) - More than half of U.S. government employees unofficially work at home on nights or weekends, raising concerns about the security of the data they're working on, according to a study released Monday. Fifty-eight percent of government employees work from home without permission, according a survey by the Telework Exchange, a group that advocates for more telecommuting opportunities. One year after the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs announced thatÂ a laptop and hard drive were stolenÂ from an employee's home, many U.S. agencies still lack plans for dealing with teleworking employees, the survey suggests. Fifty-four percent of these unofficial teleworkers carry files home, according to the survey. The VA hardware, later recovered, contained the personal information of 26.5 million military veterans and family members. Even after the breach, 13 percent of U.S. agencies do not put encryption on new laptops issued, compared to 11 percent that did not include encryption before the VA breach, according to the survey. Less than half of agencies updated their encryption and protection technologies, and less than half provided security training to employees after the VA breach, the survey said. Sixteen percent of agencies did not react at all, the survey said. "It's kind of alarming ... that people still are not doing everything they can do to protect their mobile devices," said Joshua Wolfe, director of federal sales for Utimaco Safeware, a cybersecurity vendor that underwrote the survey. "You've got a lot of unofficial teleworkers out there who are taking information out of the agency and working from home on unsecured computers." Teleworking itself isn't the problem, Wolfe said. U.S. government workers who have permission to telework generally have more security training and more security tools on their work computers than those unofficial teleworkers. For example, 94 percent of survey respondents who are official teleworkers said they have antivirus software on their work computers. Only 75 percent of respondents who don't officially telework said they had antivirus software on their work computers. Sixty-seven percent of teleworkers said they had encryption on their work computers, while only 60 percent of non-teleworkers said they did. The major problem is that U.S. agencies don't seem to be keeping up with the trend toward mobile computing, Wolfe said. "Over the past year, more and more people have been given mobile devices," he said. "At the same time, [they] have not been given the tools from a policy perspective." Utimaco and the Telework Exchange recommended that U.S. agencies determine how many of their employees are unofficially teleworking. All employees, not just teleworkers, should receive cybersecurity training, and agencies should use encryption and other data security protections on all desktops and laptops, they recommended. The Telework Exchange conducted the survey of 258 U.S. agency employees in May. The survey has a margin of error of 6.1 percent.
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THOUSAND OAKS, Calif., May 31  /PRNewswire/ -- Sending vacation photos over a dial-up Internet connection can seem to take longer than the vacation itself.
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Some companies are reviving travel, with options on destinations, as bonuses for their best workers.
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The average IT worker logs in more work hours -- sometimes way more -- than the average American. Here are 10 ways to make sure that employee isn't you.
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NEW YORK  - People who feel they have flexibility in their job schedules tend to have a healthier lifestyle than those with less workplace freedom, new study results suggest.
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It might be hard for some drivers to believe, but average commuting times are getting shorter for U.S. workers.
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The best vacation advice: Leave your work at the office. But you can still enjoy some of these tech toys at the beach.
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The average Internet user in the U.S. spends three hours a day online, with much of that time devoted to work and more than half of it to communications.
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As Europe&#39;s workers take a few weeks of  holiday this summer, their American colleagues will be lucky to  get a few days off work, says a report published by the  European Trade Union Institute.
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Planning a great last-minute vacation is easier than you think.
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Interior Department employees aren't just using their computers to oversee parks and wildlife, an investigation found. They're spending thousands of hours a week visiting shopping, sex and gambling Web sites.
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Survey finds 89% regularly work more than their contracted hours for no extra pay