The additions would be completed by the end of 2012, said Ray Ferguson, the head of Standard Chartered’s Singapore office, at the opening of the bank’s new premises at the city’s Marina Bay Financial Centre, which includes a three-floor trading room with 790 seats.
Russia’s federal government will lose 5% of its staff this year as part of a three-year program of cuts, RIA Novosti reported. The Russian news agency quoted Prime Minister Vladimir Putin’s spokesman Dmitry Peskov.
On Monday, former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Hugh Shelton told told Jon Stewart that a Clinton cabinet member proposed letting Saddam kill an American pilot as a pretext for war in Iraq:(And see this; and this excerpt from General S…
Schoeller-Bleckmann Oilfield Equipment AG, an Austrian maker of drilling components for the oil and gas industries, has started to establish a new production site in Singapore.
The site will start off with 15 to 20 staff and first machinery is scheduled for the first half of 2011, Chief Executive Officer Gerald Grohmann said in a telephone interview from Ternitz, Austria today. He declined to say how much Schoeller would be investing in the site.
Software outsourcing to India enables businesses to hire temporary highly skilled offshore workers and cut training costs of their permanent staff. This reduces operational cost and empowers them to obtain larger projects as result overall increase in staff strength.
The technology hiring picture shows tiny growth as companies patiently await skilled job candidates. The operative word in ‘cautious optimism is still caution when it comes to filling IT positions. – There
are some unfortunate facts about the technology jobs picture right now, and
while technology opportunities do exist, headcounts for IT in 2010 are not
growing appreciably, according to research from technology analysts at Gartner.
The
Stamford, Conn.-based researchers found the rate of in…
Lisa Marie, daughter of Elvis Presley, has fired two cleaners at her English country mansion for not signing a bizarre privacy contract. They were ordered to leave within 48 hours of Michael Jackson”s ex-wife moving into the 8million pounds 11-bedroom pile. And the women were warned they would be hauled before an American judge and [...]
Many organizations have mobile staff that performs the business functions away from the office. And these services are sales, maintenance, delivery scenarios etc. These workers operate vehicles and are responsible for the expensive equipment and products and tracking these assets to make sure that they are being used correctly is not an easy task and to continuously monitor it next to impossible. The fleet management software helps in tracking.
The mobile phone wars range on. The Android operating system is gaining headway, while Microsoft, Apple, and Nokia are all trying to catch up.
Online tutorials can make training new employees easier without taking away valuable time from other, more experienced employees.
Financial institutions can make a significant impact on overall customer satisfaction and retention with basic contact management. T he right solution can elevate service standards to a level that builds trust, increases sales, and encourages referrals. Basic contact management helps staff collaborate to serve customers in a timely and efficient manner.
The bank intends to add about 2,000 people to the 6,000 staff it now employs, Ray Ferguson, Standard Chartered’s regional chief executive for Singapore and Southeast Asia, said in Singapore today. The bank expects double-digit annual growth in staff in Southeast Asia, including Indonesia, Malaysia and Vietnam, he said.
The bank intends to hire about 2,000 people, adding to the 6,000 staff it currently employs, Ray Ferguson, Standard Chartered’s regional chief executive for Singapore and Southeast Asia, said in Singapore today. He said the bank wants double- digit annual growth in staff in Southeast Asia, includes countries such as Indonesia, Malaysia and Vietnam.
For the past two months, all the newspapers are having something to write about Tiger woods’. After his much publicized car accident and his return to the professional tour the news that is making headlines nowadays is that Tiger and his wife Elin is getting ready for a divorce.
The legal process has already started [...]
Implementing staff scheduling software is the first move smart call center managers make when they want to reduce costs, improve productivity, and increase service levels. Unlike using spreadsheets, staff scheduling software automates the entire forecasting and scheduling process to give call center managers more flexibility and control.
Heather Mills has slammed her former nanny Sara Trumble for betraying her and dragging her to an employment tribunal, insisting that she treated her “like a daughter”.
Trumble, 26, is claiming undisclosed damages on grounds of discrimination over maternity leave, sex discrimination and unfair dismissal.
However, Mills said the ex-nanny’s allegations were motivated by money.
She even [...]
Software development is an ever-growing part of the IT industry that can never become extinct in any case. Software development is a very wide area of development that includes many types of development which can be used for many purposes as well.
All’s well that ends well for one staff shagger: Robert Halderman, the former 48 Hours producer who attempted to extort $2 million from David Letterman, plansplead guilty in a Manhattan courtroom this afternoon.
Halderman was arrested in connection with the scheme last October. He is expected to be sentenced to six months in jail, [...]
Prudential CEO Tidjane Thiam and his AIG counterpart Robert Benmosche are leading a series of ‘town hall’ meetings across Asia that aim to allay concerns among staff of both companies.
