Work and the workplace
A poll (...) found that employees spend an average of 36 minutes a day — the equivalent of three hours a week — doing personal tasks at the office, anything from surfing the Internet to chatting with the babysitter. There were also significant generational differences, with younger workers more prone to taking personal
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About 62 percent of small-business employees think pay is better at larger companies (and 72 percent think benefits are better), but they stay at their jobs anyway, according to the survey of 474 employees at both large and small firms. Small-company workers cite a better working environment as
Work and the workplace
from csmonitor.com Every 10 minutes workers spend discussing the likely outcome of Sunday's Super Bowl on company time will cost the nation's employers as much as $162.1 million in lost productivity, the outplacement specialist Challenger, Gray & Christmas estimates. And that doesn't
Work and the workplace
... and why we hate it. The sentence is wayyyyyyyyyyy too long, but he makes a good point. [It] is an occupational hazard for most adults -- the political, social, educational, technological, communication and economic systems in which we are forced to work, and which use simplistic, bizarre and absurd mechanisms to
Work and the workplace
The Great Place To work Institute just released its annual survey of the "Best Small and Medium Companies to Work For in America". Here is background on how they conduct the survey. Here are lessons learned from some of the companies that made the Top 25.
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An author who has had a significant influence on my work (before he won the Nobel prize!) by confirming that the observation of everyday events is a good (though not necessarily "academic") way to start. An excerpt from a paper published recently (in pdf format) on his approach:
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Tom Peters in his usual enthusiasm: Big companies understand the importance of brands. Today, in the Age of the Individual, you have to be your own brand. Here's what it takes to be the CEO of Me Inc. From a classic article from 1997 that Seth Godin has