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

October 2005 | Website of Thomas Cole Kinder

Tomorrow's leaders will face one supreme challenge

FM is a mix of Property, Human Resources and IT, right? Well, it's both more complicated and simpler than that.

10 June 2005 | Facilities Management World

The Web of Intrigue

Mike Williams makes FM and IT so very simple.

April 2005 | The Parliament Magazine

Do Europeans work too hard?

Europe’s ills, such as they are, cannot all be blamed on work that is unbearably tough.

29 March 2005 | Nice Work - BBC Radio 4

The Wi-Fi Office/Knowledge Management

Wi-Fi is more than a niche, but not nearly as universal as we’d all like it to be. As for ‘KM’, it’s about the development of new knowledge, not just the transfer of the existing sort. 73kb

24 February 2005 | Paper to the 25th anniversary conference of Industrial Relations News, Dublin

The future of work in Ireland: looking beyond the myths toward the Big Picture

If psychosis is an intrinsic part of modern work, men in white coats cannot be far behind. 97kb

25 November 2004 | IT Week

IT gets behind the wheel

IT in cars may not create mobile offices, but there will be productivity benefits

23 August 2002 | IT Week

Brave new world of work

Richard Donkin's Blood, Sweat and Tears: the Evolution of Work is an excellent history.

25 July 2002 | spiked

Toy stories

Why corporate bosses want to get Disney into work

Autumn 1995 | Demos Quarterly No 7

More to learn from business

Whatever its failings and its dissimilarities, customer service in the private sector has a lot to teach the public sector 168kB

July 1990 | Management Today

The vend of the line

As the TV shopping market expands, firms in the UK are tryiing to learn from problems encountered in the US

14 January 1988 | The Listener

Shaping up to machines

We make technology; but, in so doing, we also make ourselves

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