A poll of 524 white-collar workers commissioned by fin­ancial comms agency FD has found worryingly high levels of employee dissatisfaction facing businesses bosses as they adjust to the economic downturn.

YouGov found that a minority of employees (44 per cent) felt their CEO showed strong, decisive leadership and only 28 per cent trusted messages from their CEO more than ‘a little’.

Only 15 per cent of respondents felt that their employer had communicated news about job security ‘very well’, with 37 per cent saying that the communi­cation had been poor or non-existent.

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Enterprise spending on Web 2.0 technologies will surge over the next 5 years, growing 43% each year to reach $4.6 bln globally by 2013, according to Forrester Research. 56% of North American and European enterprises consider Web 2.0 to be a priority in 2008.

Via ZDNet and BBC.