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Up close on personal emails and surfing
Next Thursday employers, unions and trade bodies will meet the Information Commissioner's Office to thrash out the law on monitoring employees' use of the internet.
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Health & safety: Firms urged to clean up
Doing your company's bit for the environment can save you money in clean up bills, delegates to the United Nations conference told
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Citywatch
Thanks gov, say facilities firmsThis second term Labour government's penchant for PFI contracts, which have been running since before 1997, is now strengthening. Under the Conservatives, only 50 deals were signed over five years — the Conservatives having devised PFIs as a way of clearing public spending from the UK ...
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Catering and support services: Sodexho goes west
Catering and support services giant Sodexho has beaten more than 30 other contractors to scoop a multi-million-pound, fixed-price contract to provide a wide range of services to Wiltshire County Council.
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Property: BT creates new client
Ray Jenkins, head of portfolio services at BT told property specialists last week that they must learn to deal with a new kind of client —outsourcing companies such as Trillium — as property outsourcing deals get off the ground.His comments to 'inClub' — a forum run by interiors firm insp@ce, ...
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Catering services: Blue-chip chips from Initial
Initial Catering Services, part of the Rentokil Initial group and the largest contractor in the school meals sector with some 3,000 contracts, has launched a new division in order to target business and industry catering clients more aggressively.
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Local authorities: Croydon to join e-government revolution
The way staff at Croydon Council work and the office space the organisation uses will 'fundamentally change,'over the next seven years, Jane Jordan, head of civic offices and facilities at the council has predicted.
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Opinion: Is anyone listening?
Tenants and landlords are singing from a different hymn sheet, says Dave Lawson. If the property industry cannot or will not listen to its customers' demands, it will have only itself to blame if those clients melt away and its fortunes sink
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The chatroom: Your queries answered
Do you have a problem or query and need some sound advice? Tell us about it and we'll make sure you get the answers you need. Or perhaps you have valuable experience of a similar situation that you can pass on. Query or solution, we want to hear from you ...
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Hospitals: Guards brought in to cut attacks on A&E staff
As more staff in hospitals and elsewhere are attacked at work, government, management and unions are trying to contain the problem and support victims
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Health & safety: Acoustic shock real says study
Call centre bosses are urged to protect their staff from hearing problems and voice loss
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Accomodation: Barrack room deal on offer from MoD
MoD prime contracts attract interest despite criticism that too much responsibility rests with the contractors and that the system is too slow
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Results: Accommodation leads way for Jarvis
Jarvis' latest results see a reduced profit, but the accommodation services area experienced a 36 per cent growth
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Wish you were there?
It's not only UK installers who have nightmares over false alarms … But is there a common Euro-wide cause? And have we been concentrating too much on technology when it's human error that's more to blame?
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Testing times
Factory built modules and pods are rolling off the production line and into real homes for sale and rent. We talk to homebuilders and manufacturers to find out if the emperors of the industry are giving the new processes the thumbs up or down.
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Set the Smartkontrols...
Heating and air conditioning specialist Smartkontrols has unveiled a range of intelligent controllers for the smart home market (pictured). Smartkontrols combines heating, air conditioning and lighting systems and its Smartserver allows residents to access systems remotely using WAP phones or Internet browser devices.
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A safe sell
Keith Holland, marketing director of the Air Tube Group, looks at the growing need for safes and highlights the increasing sales opportunities for installers ...
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Sick as a parrot over this noise
Reports in the National Press and on Tomorrow's World have created a big interest in the Inferno Mini, a product that makes intruders feel nauseous.
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Mixmaster
You know what increasing profit margin means, but how about statistical predictive modelling? We explain how it could help determine the most profitable mix of housetypes on site.
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Roger Milne
Flood plains are back on the agenda as the government publishes its new guidance on development and flood risk and what MPs in the last parliament said about planners and developers when the green belt was debated.