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Tuesday, 3 February 2009, 13:03

AUSSIE businesses are turning to software to work out who they are supposed to sack in the current economic downturn.

Purveyors of Human Resource Software are apparently making a killing down under as companies need to trawl their databases to find out which employees need to be given their pink slips and P45s.

Popular is a software tool called Focus from Business Decisions, which is designed to show you which are the best areas to downsize or outsource. µ

L'Inq
Sydney Morning Herald

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Funny..

..it's telling us to sack all the management and ignore IT again. Wonder why?

posted by : Peter Kay, 03 February 2009 Complain about this comment
If a manager has to use software

to figure this out, then that manager is the one that should be sacked. It's simple enough to do, sack the least productive, the one's who take Monday's off, more than 5-6 sick days a year, the one who argued with you over nothing much just because you can sack them! ;-)

posted by : interested_party, 03 February 2009 Complain about this comment
Just saying . . .

Personally, I'd just fire the ones who misuse apostrophes.

posted by : Gramma, 04 February 2009 Complain about this comment
Unbelievable

It's incredible how the ancient rituals (reading entrails, portents, dice, divining cards, whatever) transform and change but do not disappear.
This new fad is nothing but electronic chicken-slicing-to-read-the-guts, and it's just as disgusting.
I wouldn't be surprised to learn that certain religious groups of ill repute are behind this, pushing insecure managers to give their decision-making process to The Infallible Decider, thus enslaving them in moronic status for the rest of their lives. Maybe the contract was signed in blood ?
Any software is subject to the GIGO law - Garbage In, Garbage Out. And any management software is, in addition, submitted to internal politics and subjective data. Thus I predict that all of these software packages do nothing but put a nice electronic stamp of approval on whatever preconceived notion inhabits the CEO that approves this silly experiment.

posted by : Pascal Monett, 04 February 2009 Complain about this comment
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