Home-based call-center agents have tripled since 2000, estimates Art Schoeller, a senior analyst for research concern Yankee Group.
The bride's father retired as a senior economist at the Rand Corporation, the research concern in Santa Monica, Calif.
"Companies don't particularly want to share this kind of stuff," said Sarah Emerson, head of petroleum research at Energy Security Analysis, a research concern in Wakefield, Mass.
Darpa awarded a $60,000 contract to SRI International, a research concern based in Menlo Park, Calif., to investigate the concept.
The concept was similar to an approach advocated by Paul Baran of the RAND Corporation, a research concern in Santa Monica, Calif.
Server sales fell 20percentt in 2001 compared with the previous year and are expected to decline another 5percentthis yearaccordingding to the research concern IDC.
If penny stocks are excluded, no stock has ever risen so sharply on the opening day of trading, said the Securities Data Company, a research concern in Newark.
For Sun, work stations are a mainstay, generating $3.5 billion in revenue last year, according to an estimate by the International Data Corporation, a research concern.
"Western businesses work wonderfully with dictators," said Mikhail G. Delyagin, an economist and director of the Institute of Globalization Problems, a research concern.
The Society for Human Resource Management, a research concern in Alexandria, Va., found in a recent survey that 87percentt of office workers now had the freedom of "casual day" every day.
"I have to say that what they have done so far has not been effective," said Toshinari Ogino, chief researcher for the Institute of Labor Administration, a research concern.
