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The New York Times raised an interesting point on Friday: Although many employees at companies shedding staff like dead skin now find themselves saddled with two and three times the workload they once had, many others find themselves embracing the busywork they used to dread for lack of...
I'm not a smoker. Nor am I a fan of breathing in other people's smoke. But I found this news report on Friday particularly disturbing: "Smoking bans in public buildings, workplaces and at some outdoor venues are commonplace. Becoming more common is the practice of barring...
Consult your media outlet of choice this week and you'll see or hear the words "history being made" no less than 500 times. Yet unless workers took today off as a vacation day or personal day, most will be toiling away while Obama gets sworn in as president...
Tina Brown seems to think so. "No one I know has a job anymore. They've got Gigs," she wrote on Monday in her Daily Beast essay "The Gig Economy." To back up her assertion that the recession has us all headed for free-agentdom, she polled 500...
Speaking of surveys, there were a rash of them from outfits like CareerBuilder.com in 2007 and early 2008 saying that many workers -- especially parents -- would gladly cut back their work hours and salary in exchange for more quality time with their family, friends, and hobbies. I have a...
After Friday's bleak Bureau of Labor statistics report (unemployment: new, improved, and now at a 16-year high of 7.2 percent!), it was refreshing to find a couple of hopeful nuggets in CareerBuilder.com's annual jobs forecast for 2009. Sure, there was the depressing news that out of the 3,200+ U.S....
"Research shows that about 80 percent of people who make resolutions on Jan. 1 fall off the wagon by Valentine's Day, according to Marti Hope Gonzales, an associate professor of psychology at the University of Minnesota." When I read this sentence in the New York...
