Comments on: A thought bubble about service-level agreements. http://clubtroppo.com.au/2009/07/08/a-thought-bubble-about-service-level-agreements/ Fearlessly dispensing political, legal and economic analysis (and some whimsy) since 2002 Fri, 25 May 2012 13:31:17 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: John Quiggin http://clubtroppo.com.au/2009/07/08/a-thought-bubble-about-service-level-agreements/#comment-358970 John Quiggin Mon, 13 Jul 2009 11:33:12 +0000 http://clubtroppo.com.au/?p=8909#comment-358970 I guess it depends on whether failures imply data loss. If so (as with a power loss) the duration isn't that important, it's the frequency that matters. I guess it depends on whether failures imply data loss. If so (as with a power loss) the duration isn’t that important, it’s the frequency that matters.

]]> By: billie http://clubtroppo.com.au/2009/07/08/a-thought-bubble-about-service-level-agreements/#comment-358734 billie Thu, 09 Jul 2009 08:36:05 +0000 http://clubtroppo.com.au/?p=8909#comment-358734 Service level agreements should also include a statement of corporate social responsibility along with maximum expected downtime. Should organisations be able to offshore jobs leaving educated, experienced and skilled Australian workers on the unemployment scrap heap. Retrenched workers are generally told to retrain for hospitality or computer programming. Hospitality wants young, good looking workers with pleasant personalities. Computer jobs are being off-shored on a daily basis. It makes you question the value of a technical education if you are going to end up in the back room operations. back room operations can easily be offshored, the secure jobs are the face to face marketing positions. God help us - we are becoming a nation of marketers, all BS no substance! Service level agreements should also include a statement of corporate social responsibility along with maximum expected downtime.

Should organisations be able to offshore jobs leaving educated, experienced and skilled Australian workers on the unemployment scrap heap. Retrenched workers are generally told to retrain for hospitality or computer programming. Hospitality wants young, good looking workers with pleasant personalities.
Computer jobs are being off-shored on a daily basis.
It makes you question the value of a technical education if you are going to end up in the back room operations. back room operations can easily be offshored, the secure jobs are the face to face marketing positions.
God help us – we are becoming a nation of marketers, all BS no substance!

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