Labor Department against cleaning companies in Chicago, Illinois and Ohio for violations under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) in 2012. It says that the companies failed to compensate their employees for the time that they spent on work-related travel. It notes that employers should pay all...
MY FIRST, CHARMED week as a student at Harvard Business School, late in the summer of 2001, felt like a halcyon time for capitalism. AOL Time Warner, Yahoo and Napster were benevolently connecting the world. Enron an...
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Hello. I am having a hard time figuring out how to use functions to count the number of staff I have working during each hour of the day. I am a beginner,...
First, what counts as a complex decision? And second, what counts as a good outcome? As social psychologist Kurt Lewin (1890 - 1947) noted, a ‘good’ decision that nobody respects is actually bad. His classic studies of decision making showed that participating in deliberative processes ...
1. Define full-time hours. Decide what counts as a full-time workweek for your company. Typically, full-time employees work 40 hours per week, or 2,080 hours per year (40 hours x 52 weeks), but some countries have different standards. For example, 40 hours a week in the UK differs...
Velocity of speech counts as well as volume: we rank fast talkers as more competent and likable than slow ones. Even the word introvert is stigmatized — one informal study, by psychologist Laurie Helgoe, found that introverts described their own physical appearance in vivid language, but when ...
Teachers’ qualitative classroom observations immediately and opportunistically arise; teachers must filter, prioritize, and make sense of these data as they are collected and accumulated over time. But practice often requires teachers to engage in on-the-spot decision making. These micro-moments challen...
When it comes to headcount reporting, consistency is the key. Companies must establish clear guidelines for what counts as an employee and stick to them. This means deciding how to handle part-timers, contractors, and seasonal workers. Maintaining up-to-date records is crucial to ensure prompt ...
What Counts as a Public Good? A public good is any product or service that is available to all residents of a society, such as national defense, police and fire services, clean air, and drinking water. What Are the Main Differences Between Private and Public Goods? A private good is cons...