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

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

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 | IT Week

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 | IT Week

Race to be green saps creative energy

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

20 November 2007 | IT Week

Lara Croft gets down to business

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

3 August 2007 | IT Week

HDTV shows the way for online comms

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

6 July 2007 | IT Week

Youth worship will put economy on its knees

The reasons given for venerating “tech-savvy” Generation Y are not new and yet again fail to convince

27 March 2007 | Paper to the 2007 conference of the British Institute of Facilities Management

The future of the workplace: innovation vs displacement activities

In the workplace, innovation should dominate – not a hundred different ways of avoiding the issue

9 February 2007 | Facilities Management World

A big stink over contamination

High profile companies face embarrassing clean-up operations – and ridiculous amounts of hysteria

27 January 2007 | Spiked

Gambling addiction: a panic at odds with reality

Top doctors, business consultants and officials reckon we could all end up enslaved by gambling – especially online. I wouldn't bet on it

22 January 2007 | IT Week

Wave goodbye to gesture-free PCs

In 2017, when you spot members of staff gesticulating at their PCs, it will be more likely that they are hard at work than losing at poker

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