Article: Office politics can cost a firm an hour's productivity a day; SURVEY: Temps blow the lid on pounds 7.8bn cost of time-consuming diversions.(News)

Article: When office politics creates a minefield; Stress, ...
The Evening Standard (London, England);  July 1, 2002 ;     651 words ... ... day caught up in office politics, as bitchy emails ... make destructive office politics ever more common ... experts. Of 1,600 temporary workers polled by reed ... have experienced office politics in every temporary ...

Article: Office politics `costs UK businesses pounds 7.8bn'
The Independent - London;  July 1, 2002 ;     433 words ... ... co.uk. "Temporary workers are the new ... shows that office politics is a huge problem ... country where office politics took up less ... says. Most temporary workers said they preferred to ignore office politics and get on ...

Article: Temporary Workers Are Now Commonplace in Silicon ...
Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News;  February 21, 1997 ;     700+ words ... ... tens of thousands, temporary workers are twice as common ... swelling ranks of temporary workers, drifting through ... a tricky kind of office politics, a mixture of legal ... But organizing temporary workers is a daunting task ...

Article: The 'just in time' worker. (part-time and temporary ...
U.S. News & World Report;  November 23, 1987 ;     700+ words ... ... estimates, the number of temporary workers alone is likely to grow ... group of part-time and temporary workers is managers and white ... about two thirds of all temporary workers and 68 percent of part ... them or get involved in office politics. And if they are stuck ...

Article: Office Politics, Laws Complicate Use of Temporary ...
Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News;  February 20, 1997 ;     700+ words ... ... It's a tricky kind of office politics, a mixture of legal snares ... compensation, but not the seven temporary workers, including the acting ... than drawbacks to using temporary workers. Temps help them ramp ... keep clear lines between temporary workers and staffers. But ...

Article: When temping is a permanent job: temporary workers ...
Kiplinger's Personal Finance Magazine;  June 1, 1994 ;     700+ words ... ... similar job for the same company. That's the price you pay for the freedom to control your work schedule and stay out of office politics. Wildermuth says some of his temporary colleagues at Microsoft grouse about the pay differential, which amounts to around ...

Article: Involving temporary workers in process improvement ...
Quality Progress;  February 1, 1997 ;     700+ words ... ... BUSINESSES are employing legions of temporary workers. This trend is being driven largely ... desire to become more flexible. Using temporary workers allows businesses to meet increases ... expected to increase their use of temporary workers in the coming years.' While temporary ...