Brother Industries factory, Shenzhen, China, 2005
Assembly of multi-function office printers. The women are between 17 and 31 years of age, recruited from the interior of the Middle Kingdom.
Picture: Ray Hatley

The workplace

13 November 2012 | Conference held by The Alternative

Brands and corporate social responsibility

Firms like CSR because it gets them off the hook of developing serious innovations

28 April 2011 | spiked review of books

One year on: learning the lessons of Deepwater Horizon

BP became so obsessed with irrational management practices and petty health-and-safety measures that it overlooked the real safety of its workers

20 April 2011 | the next step, 15 July 1988

Remembering Piper Alpha

A year after the explosion at BP's Deepwater Horizon oil platform in the Gulf of Mexico, an earlier, much deadlier blast in British waters still has plenty of relevance

24 November 2010 | The Listener, 13 November 1986

Danger: pods at work

IT is a wonderful thing – but in certain conditions, it can desensitise

28 May 2010 | the spiked review of books

An engaging tale, packed with myths

Christian Salmon’s book rightly notes the increasing use of narrative in modern life, but his ‘anti-capitalist’ instincts get in the way of understanding why

December 2009 | special to Woudhuysen.com

Getting the brand in the customer's hand

A summary of proceedings of the Orange CIO Forum, held on 30 October 2009 136kB

16 September 2009 | Eastern Cape Socio-Economic Consultative Council

Challenge of the crisis

In terms of the workforce skills it develops, how should a region of South Africa like the Eastern Cape respond to the credit crunch? 6MB

2 July 2009 | Facilities Management World

What movies tell us about the workplace

The history of the cinema reveals much about how people have interpreted the world of work

28 June 2009 | Management Today, July 1989

One small step

It took the Apollo mission for man to come to terms with the mechanics of himself and of the man machine interface. Today, space has other lessons to offer, but it remains instructive to designers on Earth 32kB

26 June 2009 | spiked review of books

Gladwell: hero or zero?

Malcolm Gladwell’s latest bestseller, Outliers, has its moments. In the end, however, its treatment of why individuals and groups ‘make it’ in the worlds of work and education operates as an up-market compilation of liberal prejudices

17 August 2008 | Design magazine, July 1982

Interim report

Interview with the late Herman Kahn, the man who pretty much invented forecasting

11 July 2008 | Computing

Will insight lose out to inanity on the mobile web?

Mobile web’s business potential may be undermined by its more frivolous aspects

28 March 2008 | Computing

Race to be green saps creative energy

The energy conservation fad is symptomatic of IT leaders’ narrowing ambition

20 November 2007 | Computing

Lara Croft gets down to business

Is IBM right to believe that computer games can aid corporate education and inspire innovation?

3 August 2007 | Computing

HDTV shows the way for online comms

Directed at entertainment, high-definition TV could also prove the turning point for video conferencing

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