Sony OZ Silent On Further Job And Salary Cuts Sony Australia boss Carl Rose could be facing both a salary cut and a 40% bonus freeze as the electronics giant gets set to announce massive losses due to tumbling sales of their Bravia LCD TV's and PS3 gaming consoles.
Sony Sack 32 With Simple 98 Word Email At Sony a product press release is worth a thousand words but the sacking of 32 staff which was tipped by ChannelNews last week is only worth a 98 word email.
Telstra Gets New Boss Telstra has a new marketin boss after Telstra CEO Sol Trujillo today announced that Bill Stewart, the company's Group Managing Director (GMD), Strategic Marketing will leave the company at the end of the month, to return to his home and family in the United States. He wil be replaced by
Kate McKenzie.
Sony Set To Make Big Staff Cuts After Move To DHL Sony is set to start issuing pink slips this month following a major restructuring of their Australian operation. The move follows the appointment of DHL to handle the Company’s logistics and distribution operations.
Microsoft Pink Slip 5,000 Microsoft has given pink slips to 1,400 employees today with another 3,600 set to handed next month.
Telstra COO Winn Quits Telstra Chief Operating Officer Greg Winn is to return home to the United States at the end of this month, ending a three-and-a-half year association with the Telco giant.
Senior Telstra Executive Quits The controversial head of Telstra's communication division Dr Phil Burgess has quit and is returning to the USA.
IP Australia Tender: HR Software IP Australia has identified the need for a new Learning and Management System (LMS) and is inviting Expressions of Interest.
Vamos Pure Gold Say Headhunters After He Quits Microsoft Head hunters in Australia are set to grovel at the prospect of getting their hands on Australian high-flier Steve Vamos who this week resigned as US-based vice-president of Microsoft's online services group. "I can confirm that Steve has resigned and will leave the company at the end of September," a company spokesman told CDN yesterday.
Staff Needed For Ubisoft Singapore Venture Ubisoft, which is responsible for Xbox and PS3 games, will open a new development studio in Singapore, bringing the total number of the company’s studios up to 18. More than 300 new staff will be recruited from the area and abroad to man the studio, with a team of Ubisoft ‘veterans’ training the recruits.
Samsung Restructures Management After Record Sales Samsung Australia has increased its sales by more than 36 per cent for the first time ever, mostly due to favourable sales in the consumer electronics industry, leading the way for a restructured CE sales division, according to reports from the company’s Australian subsidiary.
IBM In Trouble After Cutting Staff Pays IBM is facing possible industrial action after announcing a plan to cut the pay of 7600 computer technicians by 15 percent
Trouble For Telstra, CEO Could Go Telstra has vehemently denied a report in yesterday’s The Australian newspaper that CEO Sol Trujillo will leave the company this year.
ALP Slams Gerry Harvey's "Agenda" The ALP has reacted strongly to a proposal put forward by Harvey Norman chairman, Gerry Harvey, to go further with its industrial relations policy by cutting foreign workers’ wages by 50 per cent, according to a report from Sky News.
"Hooters" Claim Proves An EyeFul For EMC Trips to "Hooters" and strip clubs was common practise for executives at storage Company EMC claim two female employees who were “forced” to go along to the sordid junkets. Now they are suing.
Finally Microsoft Discovers That Sex Sells Move over Bill Gates the geek look is out. Microsoft has instead turned to the curves of former former Miss Australia Erin McNaught, an effort to change their staid IT image.
Is Your Online Image A Bit Rough? Now You Can Clean It Up Are you worried about your online image? If so help is at hand with the revelation that a new breed of Companies have sprung up that will clean up your online image before you apply for that all important new job.
Australians Crave Live Contact Over Technology Despite the best technology in the world, Australians still crave the live "mate" contact when it comes to one on one or group interaction.
