26 Feb 2012
| by Matthew Gwyther and Elizabeth Anderson
On the day that the Olympus board names banker Yasuyuki Kimoto as its new chairman, here's MT's interview with whistleblower and former Olympus CEO Michael Woodford.
'Digital natives' are Facebookers, tweeters, BBM addicts and blog-junkies with a minimum of 10 tabs open on their web browsers at all times. David Dumeresque of Tyzack has these top tips on making the most of this tech-savvy tribe.
Both Barclays and Oracle will have to face down vocal opposition over their latest controversial appointments...
02 Jun 2010
Foxconn has raised wages by a third in an effort to prevent more suicides...
16 Apr 2010
Protesting employees at a cable factory in central France are holding two bosses captive over pay.
07 Sep 2009
Workers at retailer DSG International are keeping bang up to date, using Facebook to insult customers.
26 Nov 2007
In the recent row over private equity and the potential rewards available to City whiz-kids, much was made of the growing gap between rich and poor in the UK – in fact some commentators were gloomily warning that this could lead to social unrest. But according to a new study, we’ve got a long way to...
07 Nov 2007
MT has always championed flexible working – if done right, it can lead to a happier, better-motivated and more productive workforce. But the government’s plans to extend this right, announced yesterday in the Queen’s Speech, will have expensive implications for British businesses – so however noble...
04 Jun 2007
There are ways and ways of letting people go. It's a nasty business showing loyal employees the door and few ways of doing the deed are perfect but Dell seems to have chosen one of the less perfect ways of telling its employees that 7,000 of them are getting the chop.
29 Nov 2006
Online dating. The three certainties of online dating are exclamation marks, emoticons and, inevitably, economy with the truth.