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I've always been fairly ambivalent about office Halloween celebrations. One the plus side, any festivities your department has scheduled (haunted house, costume contest, orange-and-black cake, people bringing in their kids to treat or treat) can provide a nice distraction on an otherwise dull Friday. On...
I know many of you are swapping your Seattle mayoral picks and your thoughts on I-1033 and Ref. 71 around the office water cooler. But how about on Facebook and Twitter where many of your officemates and customers lurk? When I've written about talking election...
With today's cost-cutting employers keeping close tabs on worker productivity, no one wants to look like they're operating at less than 200 percent. Of course all this goes out the window if your body throws you a curve ball. Suddenly, recovering from an accident, treating...
I was a cellular holdout for a long time. Like years. And while I maintain a landline and have been known to leave the house without my mobile phone on occasion, I can't imagine returning to the days of worrying about missing a client's urgent...
Ask anyone who's ever had a bad boss how much time they spend stewing about their supervisor each week and they'll likely answer, "Far more hours than I spend at work." It doesn't have to be this way, says Joe Takash, behavior strategist and author...
Welcome to another Hallmark holiday, National Boss Day, which falls on October 16 each year. Rather than rushing out to buy their bosses greeting cards, flowers, or bottles of scotch, HR solutions provider Adecco Group suggests that many Americans may be silently stewing about their...
There's been a lot of talk of the "new normal" this recession has brought on -- workers spending less, saving more, and feeling far less certain they'll be able to retire as early as they'd hoped, if at all. Now the good folks at international staffing...
A lot, says Kate Lister, co-author with Tom Harnish of Undress for Success: The Naked Truth About Making Money at Home and principal researcher at the Telework Research Network. Aggregating the latest U.S. Census American Community Survey figures and data from more than a dozen studies,...
The good folks at the Alliance for Work-Life Progress want you to know that October is National Work & Family Month. To help raise awareness for the American worker's need for better balance, Kathie Lingle, executive director of the Alliance, wrote a Huffington Post article offering seven work-life balance...
During the past week, I've conversed with several hiring managers and recruiters about helicopter spouses who play far too prominent a role in their significant other's job search. I'm not talking about proofreading your husband's resume or introducing your wife to a professional contact who...
I was going to be predictable and write about dating in the workplace sometime around February 14. But since everyone's talking about David Letterman's office dalliances now, why wait? It's no secret that being bed buddies with the boss can cause all sorts of workplace...
Yesterday a writer pal working at a neighborhood café posted the following as her Facebook status: "The bizspeak happening at the next table is making my ears bleed." Wondering what catchphrases had set her off, my brain quickly brimmed with sentences like: "Let's leverage this." "I don't have the bandwidth...
