It is 20 years since Tim Berners-Lee working at CERN submitted a paper called "Information Management: a Proposal" to his supervisor Mike Sendall. This document, called "vague, but exciting" by Sendall, became the blueprint for the World Wide Web, (the foundation of the internet) which launched the following year.

E mail and the internet has changed the way we communicate and look at the world. By the time the current generation of school students finish their education they are likely to be doing jobs which don’t even exist today. Things will be done differently.

In this issue we present a way for you to do things differently using Gemini's outsourcing service. Gemini currently handles the payroll and MPF administration for a range of clients. The whole process of issuing employment contracts, administration of pay and MPF contributions and end of year reporting to the Inland Revenue Department are all included in the service. If you are looking at ways of reducing the time you spend on administration, look closely at what Gemini's outsourced services provide.

Similar arrangements apply at our offices in China.

We also look at some of the issues surrounding good communications.

As always your comments and feedback are welcome at any time gprice@gemini.com.hk

If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant; if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome.

Anne Bradstreet (1612–1672), British-American poet