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I was in San Diego last week, speaking at a conference for independent professionals. My significant other had some vacation time he needed to use, and flights to Southern California were fairly inexpensive, so he decided to join me on the four-day trip. As my...
Earlier this month, the Wall Street Journal wrote about an interesting war being waged in some of New York's independently owned coffee shops: Tired of freelancers and telecommuters camping out at their tables all day -- often nursing one cup of coffee for hours -- owners...
Ah, back-to-school season. Parents scramble to pick up last-minute school supplies. Teachers pull together their September lesson plans. Summer revelers squeeze in those last few barbecues and beach getaways. And the government tells us that swine flu could infect half the U.S. population by winter....
In her recent Wall Street Journal column, Alexandra Levit makes the fantastic point that returning to an office job after working for yourself should not be viewed as a step backward. Besides benefiting from the steady paycheck and company perks (hello, health insurance!), employees often...
On Sunday, a source I hadn't been able to reach during the workweek for an article I'm writing about labor laws and work/life balance called. She'd just picked up my voice message and was calling from her vacation in the San Juans. Amused by the...
We all have coworkers who drive us crazy: the sneaky saboteur, the chest-beating bully, the spreadsheet-happy micromanager, the naysayer who's allergic to change, and the guy who's always popping his head into our office to ask one more question, to name a few. A...
John de Graaf thinks so. "One of the things that bugs me most is that right now vacations are seen as a luxury we can't afford in this economy," said the co-founder and executive director of Take Back Your Time, a Seattle-based non-profit that takes...
I get a lot of flak from friends about my fondness for napping. But give me one rotten night's sleep and I take three times as long to write a sentence as I normally would and the better part of the morning to make even...
Unemployment numbers improved ever so slightly this month. And a new report from the Society for Human Resource Management anticipates hiring in the manufacturing and service sectors to outpace layoffs, too. Still, we're nowhere near out of the economic woods yet. Given how far we've fallen...
Last week, I mentioned that telecommuting consultant Pat Katepoo of WorkOptions.com was offering a free teleclass on convincing your manager to let you telecommute. In case you missed the class, Katepoo was kind enough to answer a few questions about trying to nab telecommuting privileges...
