Rising costs of office space, time lost to stressful commuting, and a slow recognition that workers have lives beyond the office—all are strong arguments for letting staff work from home.For the small business, there are additional benefits too—staff are more productive, and happier, enabling ...
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If you've ever been that corporate slave whose forsaken a personal life, or for that matter simply sex or sleep, in the name of climbing the corporate ladder only to see everything go up in a puff of smoke thanks to a narcissistic, sadistic blood-sucking boss, thenHorrible Bossesis likel...
Teachers unions, and the (largely Democratic) politicians they back, have relentlessly limited parental choice in the name of maximizing the autonomy of teachers to opt out of classrooms while still getting paid. No other country in the industrialized world has closed schools down to this degree....
Summer comes and goes, I have roughly $3500 to my name due to my summer "job". In the meantime, I baby-sit roughly twice a month for this family. Again, I am paid well for my troubles, earning slightly better than minimum wage on a fairly easy sitting job. The couple is always ...
My last two bosses in a cube farm were referred to as "GQ" (Lumberg from Office Space with nicer cufflinks) and "super bitch" (she gave <I>herself</I> that name!). Watching her rip into a late-night television commercial attorney was poetry in motion. ••• More options Repor...
TADELIS: There is a lot of discussion about privacy and privacy regulation these days. And you hear a lot of people saying how their privacy is important to them. And then you turn to them and say, “Here’s a Snickers bar. Could I have your mother’s maiden name?” And they say ...
One of the oldest motivational methods has a rather innocent name: the Carrot & Stick. It's a belief that rewards like financial bonuses coupled with strategic punishments is the best way to motivate and retain your people. As we move to a workplace requiring more creativity and adaptability,...
With this service they are provided with an email address that is a combination of their name and the name of the ISP, for example oliver@isp.net Other options include web-based email systems like Hotmail®. These are great for private email but using these for business is unprofessional ...
Reported to a VP who would spend hours focusing on tiny details of a press release that had already been issued and posted on the website. He would come into my office wondering if there should be a space in front of that hyphen in the second paragraph. Meanwhile, I was working on his...