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COMPANY NEWS:  Ricoh has been awarded the highest Platinum rating for sustainability performance from EcoVadis, the world’s most trusted provider of business sustainability ratings. Placing Ricoh among the top 1% of companies assessed, this is Ricoh’s first Platinum rating, following ten consecutive years of Gold ratings from 2014 to 2024.

COMPANY NEWS:  97% of surveyed ANZ executives say they understand challenges facing frontline workers, but only 73% of workers agree

GUEST OPINION: All major cloud providers (AWS, Azure, GCP etc.) offer an online calculator developed to help organisations assess the estimated total cost of ownership (TCO) of migrating to their service. These calculators value TCO based on variables such as server workload, the amount of networking bandwidth typically consumed by the organisation, and database and storage infrastructure.

The UK will have to change parts of its Investigatory Powers Act, after the High Court upheld a legal challenge brought by human rights campaigning group Liberty.

The Good Electronics Network which works for human and labour rights has published a nearly two-decade profile on Nokia from a workers’ perspective.

Apple is once again fighting allegations of worker rights violations at Chinese factories after fresh reports that over 10,000 underage and student workers work in crowded production rooms at parts supplier Pegatron.

The remarkable cancellation of the National Broadband Network building tender, followed by the dramatic resignation of the head of network construction at NBN Co, Patrick Flannigan, shows that all is not well with the costing of Australia's biggest ever infrastructure project.