Boeing’s confrontation with its older workers

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Boeing’s simmering confrontation with its older workers gets hotter

President Obama meets with Boeing workers

“Diversifying our engineering workforce reflects changes in our business and is not related to the age of our employees,” Boeing said in an emailed statement.

That’s not how workers see it. During the implementation of 2,500 layoffs in the past year, a handful of whistleblowing managers alerted the Society of Professional Engineering
Employees in Aerospace (SPEEA) of possible bias, according to Roy Goforth, executive director of the union. In addition to those layoffs, the company announced in April that it
will be laying off another 1,000 people in the Puget Sound area by the end of 2015 as part of a shift of some engineering work to Southern California.

The Internet of Things is overwhelming IT networks

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But it also seems like there is a business in solving this problem: The IoT is overwhelming IT networks

IoT is overwhelming existing business networks

By 2020, the Internet of things (IoT) is expected to interconnect 26 billion computing devices in businesses, homes, cars, clothes, animals and pretty much everything else,
according to Gartner. That’s a thirtyfold increase over the past five years. While the potential for innovation is exciting, it’s taking a toll on IT resources, according to survey
research from Infoblox. Many tech professionals surveyed said that any required deployments for the IoT will become part of their existing IT network, even though most said
their network is already at capacity. It doesn’t help, findings reveal, that the business side often does not keep the IT organization informed about their IoT-related projects.
“It’s encouraging that IT professionals recognize the demands the Internet of things will make on their networks,” says Cricket Liu, chief infrastructure officer at Infoblox.
“But business units often get deep into the buying process before calling IT, sometimes forcing IT to scramble to provide support for devices that lack the full set of connectivity
and security protocols found in established categories such as PCs, tablets and smart phones.” On the positive side, IT employees feel their companies are committed to
providing the budget and staffing needed to accommodate IoT-related demands. A total of 400 IT professionals from the United States and the United Kingdom
took part in the research.