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		<title>The $7,000 Computer Science Degree &#8212; and the Future of Higher Education</title>
		<link>http://business.time.com/2013/05/21/the-7000-computer-science-degree-and-the-future-of-higher-education/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 May 2013 12:30:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Martha C. White</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[While a new report puts the average debt load of new college grads at a stomach-churning $35,200, the Georgia Institute of Technology is rolling out an alternative program experts say offers a beacon of hope for both students and employers: A three-year master’s degree in computer science that can be earned entirely online — and that will cost less than $7,000.  The school is partnering with Udacity, a for-profit provider of MOOC (massive open online course) education, and AT&#38;T, which is contributing $2 million and will provide connectivity tools and services. “We believe this program can establish corporate acceptance of high-quality and 100 percent online degrees as being on par with degrees received in traditional on-campus settings,&#8221; a statement from the school says. This isn&#8217;t academia&#8217;s first foray into offerings that promise some combination of low cost and high tech education, of course, but it&#8217;s the first one that industry observers say has the potential to shake up the status quo. “Georgia Tech’s announcement probably is a game changer that will have other top-tier universities that offer degrees in computer science scrambling to compete,” says Asa Sphar, vice president of recruitment and profiling at tech recruiting company CSI Executive Search, LLC. The price is a key factor in that. &#8221;MOOCs are open and free—unless you want to attach any type of assessment, credentialing or professional certification to them. Certification, assessment and authentication of college level learning is not free,&#8221; blogger Vicky Phillips writes on GetEducated.com. According to research by GetEducated.com, the average cost of an online computer science master’s degree program is just under $25,000. Georgia Tech undercuts that average by more than two-thirds. “It’s big step forward here” for a school of Georgia Tech’s caliber to offer not just courses but an entire graduate degree online, says John Challenger, CEO of executive outplacement firm Challenger, Gray &#38; Christmas. Online education has a reputation — some would argue a self-inflicted one — as an inferior substitute for brick-and-mortar scholarship. Georgia Tech is a good candidate to pioneer an online degree program that could challenge those assumptions about<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=business.time.com&#038;blog=31173800&#038;post=80324&#038;subd=timebusinessblog&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>When Good Things Happen To Bad People: Disturbing News About Workplace Bullies</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 May 2013 09:45:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gary Belsky</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As if life isn&#8217;t unfair enough for the alarming number of people who are bullied at work—or otherwise adversely affected by such behavior—recent research suggests that a lot of workplace bullies achieve high levels of career success. In fact, their bullying and on-the-job achievements might just be related.That&#8217;s according to a new study (&#8220;Political Skill and the Job Performance of Bullies&#8221;) in the most recent issue of the Journal of Managerial Psychology, the first attempt to examine the correlation between bullying and job performance. It&#8217;s an important next step in understanding what appears to be a growing problem—or at least one that&#8217;s being discussed more often and openly—not least because it provides a new framework for understanding a significant aspect of the bullying dynamic. It might be a little counter-intuitive to imagine workplace bullies earning positive performance reviews, if only because we think of (and tend to characterize) bullies as cruel and angry individuals who target weaker colleagues. But while the latter notion is undoubtedly accurate, and the former quite often so, it&#8217;s also true that for a bully to carry on for any length of time her or she must hold onto a job. To be sure, some bullies survive and thrive because their employers and/or managers aren&#8217;t focused enough on the problem (more than half of U.S. workplaces don&#8217;t even have an official bullying policy). But many if not most are allowed to keep abusing colleagues because their bosses aren&#8217;t aware of their behavior, either because it goes unreported (many victims are too frightened or embarrassed to draw attention to their plight) or because the bullies are good at masking their behavior and/or fooling their superiors. That&#8217;s the focus of the JMP study, which was led by Darren C. Treadway of SUNY-Buffalo and Brooke A. Shaughnessy of the Technical University of Munich in Germany. The research  team analyzed dozens employees at a mental health organization—collecting data on behavior and job performance over two separate time periods—to capture the individual differences and social perception of bullies. They  were especially<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=business.time.com&#038;blog=31173800&#038;post=80383&#038;subd=timebusinessblog&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Car? House? Sorry: Graduates of 2013 Are Each $35,200 in Debt</title>
		<link>http://business.time.com/2013/05/17/car-house-sorry-graduates-of-2013-are-each-35200-in-debt/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2013 12:00:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan Kadlec</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The typical college graduate will leave campus this month owing nearly as much money as they stand to earn in their first year of full-time employment, new research shows. At a personal level, graduates toting up their private and government student loans, credit card balances, and personal debt will find the sum shocking. On average, they owe $35,200 and half say they are surprised by how much debt they have accumulated, according to a Fidelity Investments Cost-Conscious College Graduates Study. At a broader level, this debt has far-reaching implications for the economy as young people with starting pay of $44,455 spend much of it servicing debt—not buying cars and homes or beginning to save for retirement or emergencies. Some 70% of college grads have loans; many won’t pay them off for a decade. (MORE: The Myth of the Four-Year College Degree) The upshot is that young people are getting a late start building wealth. People in their late 20s to late 30s have 21% less inflation-adjusted wealth than those in the same age range 25 years ago, according to the Urban Institute. That’s partly due to the housing bust, which socked young people who had bought near the top. But student debt is a big factor. “Student loans are the second largest source of debt for today’s Americans in their late-20s to late-30s,” writes Caroline Ratcliffe of the Urban Institute in her blog. “By way of comparison, student loans were a relatively small component of debt for their counterparts in the 1980s.” Mortgages remain the largest debt source. Ratcliffe shared this view with the Federal Financial Literacy and Education Commission on May 14 as part of the Commission’s inquiry into student debt issues. She said that educating high school kids about college debt should be a priority, and added: “But teaching financial literacy at younger ages is also critical. The earlier in life a person begins to build wealth, the more time those assets have to compound and become more valuable. So the key is to teach more people to<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=business.time.com&#038;blog=31173800&#038;post=80188&#038;subd=timebusinessblog&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Cure Your Work Addiction. Here&#8217;s How</title>
		<link>http://business.time.com/2013/05/08/cure-your-work-addiction-heres-how/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 May 2013 15:03:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lewis Schiff</dc:creator>
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		<title>When &#8216;Flex Time&#8217; Means Ripping Off Workers</title>
		<link>http://ideas.time.com/2013/05/03/when-flex-time-means-ripping-off-workers/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 May 2013 14:27:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Judith Warner</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The “Working Families Flexibility Act” is actually a business-friendly Trojan Horse.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=business.time.com&#038;blog=31173800&#038;post=79265&#038;subd=timebusinessblog&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Survey: Private Employers Add Just 119,000 Jobs in April</title>
		<link>http://business.time.com/2013/05/01/survey-private-employers-add-just-119000-jobs-in-april/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 May 2013 12:57:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>AP / Christopher S. Rugaber</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(WASHINGTON) — A private survey shows U.S. companies added just 119,000 jobs in April, the fewest in seven months. The report Wednesday from payroll processor ADP suggests that government spending cuts and higher taxes could be starting to weigh on the job market. And new requirements under President Barack Obama&#8217;s health care law may be prompting some small and mid-size companies to hold back on hiring. ADP also said that hiring in March was slower than first thought: the survey shows just 131,000 added, down from an initial estimate of 158,000. &#8220;This is a bit disappointing, it shows the economy is growing more slowly as we go into the spring and summer,&#8221; said Mark Zandi, chief economist at Moody&#8217;s Analytics, which compiles the report from ADP&#8217;s data. The slowdown in April was broad-based. Manufacturers cut 10,000 jobs, while firms in the service sector added the fewest in seven months. Construction firms added 15,000 jobs. The ADP report is derived from payroll data and tracks private employment each month. It has diverged at times from the government&#8217;s more comprehensive monthly jobs report, which will be released Friday. In March, the government said employers added 88,000 jobs, much lower than ADP&#8217;s figure. (MORE:  Survey: Private Employers Add 158K Jobs in March) Economists forecast that the government report will show 160,000 jobs added in April. But after seeing the ADP report, many economists said the figure will likely be lower. Some are forecasting only 125,000 jobs added. &#8220;While it cannot be said enough that the ADP report, while helpful, is hardly a perfect guide to Friday&#8217;s payroll report, weakness in the number is never welcome,&#8221; said Dan Greenhaus, an analyst with BTIG LLC, an institutional brokerage firm. &#8220;And by and large, that&#8217;s what today&#8217;s report was; weak.&#8221; Zandi said that hiring is being affected by an increase in Social Security taxes at the beginning of the year and across-the-board spending cuts that kicked in March 1. Along with higher taxes on wealthier Americans, which also took effect Jan. 1, the tax increases and<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=business.time.com&#038;blog=31173800&#038;post=79035&#038;subd=timebusinessblog&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Staying Aloft as the Cupcake Bubble Deflates</title>
		<link>http://business.time.com/2013/04/27/staying-aloft-as-the-cupcake-bubble-deflates/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Apr 2013 15:00:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sarah Max</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Before there seemed to be a Magnolia Bakery-inspired cupcake shop on every corner – or cupcake-themed reality shows on cable – Susan Sarich noticed that there weren&#8217;t many places to buy made-from-scratch baked goods. “Most people were getting their cakes and cookies from grocery stores,” says Sarich, who was previously director of catering for the Clift Hotel in San Francisco. “They were looking at the labels and wondering why there were 65 ingredients when there should only be five.” After spending more than a year developing a business plan and researching real estate in the Los Angeles area, Sarich and her partner, Houston Striggow, opened their first SusieCakes in Brentwood in 2006. The old-fashioned bakery was inspired by Sarich’s grandmothers, both avid bakers whose recipes for such goodies as Whoopie Pies and Vanilla Butter Cream frosting she inherited on 4&#215;6 index cards. (MORE: A Nation of Renters: Should We Be Worried That Fewer Americans Own Homes?) Today SusieCakes has eight locations in California and is working with a financial partner to expand into three to five more locations in the next 18 months. Sarich, who doesn&#8217;t franchise, says she plans to gradually build the brand nationally. “I see it becoming the neighborhood bakery in a lot of places,” she says. It might seem like a sugar-coated view, given that many experts are warning that Americans have had their fill of cupcakes, both from local shops and national chains. In June 2011 Crumbs Bake Shop went public on the NASDAQ stock exchange under the ticker CRMB. After briefly trading for more than $13 a share, the stock crumbled into the low single digits. A couple of weeks ago the stock took another big dive after the company said sales this year would be 22% lower than projected, and was recently trading around $1.40 a share – less than the price of one of its mini cupcakes. The Wall Street Journal met the news with this headline: &#8220;Forget Gold, the Gourmet-Cupcake Market Is Crashing.&#8221; SusieCakes does sell its share of cupcakes, but Sarich doesn&#8217;t worry about if and when the<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=business.time.com&#038;blog=31173800&#038;post=78424&#038;subd=timebusinessblog&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Who Is Happiest At Work? Probably Not Who You Think</title>
		<link>http://business.time.com/2013/04/25/who-is-happiest-at-work-probably-not-who-you-think/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Apr 2013 13:00:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brad Tuttle</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[How to find happiness in the workplace? One theory has it that the most deeply fulfilled workers are those facing the most daunting challenges. Another holds that the formula for contentment is being surrounded by colleagues that pick up your slack. For insights regarding happiness and performance in the workplace, let&#8217;s check out some recent research. Who Is Happiest at Work? Writing at Harvard Business Review, Rosabeth Moss Kanter, a professor at the business school and the author of Evolve! Succeeding in the Digital Culture of Tomorrow, says that the happiest people tend to be those facing the toughest—but most worthwhile—challenges. We&#8217;re talking stuff like teaching kids in inner city schools, working for solutions to homelessness, or improving health in developing countries. In her research concerning what motivates people at highly innovative companies, Kanter found, &#8220;Money acted as a scorecard, but it did not get people up-and-at &#8216;em for the daily work, nor did it help people go home every day with a feeling of fulfillment.&#8221; On the other hand, when workers feel like they can make a difference, it leaves them more fulfilled. That&#8217;s a deeper level of happiness that money just can&#8217;t buy. (MORE: There&#8217;s One Upside for Unemployed Older Workers: Happiness) A study by Leadership IQ offers a very different perspective on what makes workers happy. The study found that in 42% of companies, the lowest-performing employees were more engaged and motivated than their middle- and high-performing colleagues. And why did the slackers enjoy their jobs more? A Fast Company post theorized: In most organizations, low performers are pretty much left alone. They are happy as clams because no one notices or bothers them. They can just sit there quietly and won’t be discovered as long as no one does anything to alter the terrain. As for their higher-performing colleagues, no wonder they&#8217;re not quite as happy: They have to pull more weight to make up for the low performers. Many of the best workers are stressed out and feel undervalued—often because, in fact, they are. Which<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=business.time.com&#038;blog=31173800&#038;post=78454&#038;subd=timebusinessblog&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Survey: Americans Felt More Secure in Jobs in 2012</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Apr 2013 08:52:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>AP / CHRISTOPHER S. RUGABER</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(WASHINGTON) &#8212; Confidence in the U.S. job market has rebounded to roughly a normal level from its record low after the Great Recession, a trend that could help boost the economy. Americans increasingly feel they could find a new job if necessary, according to the results of the 2012 General Social Survey, a long-standing poll of public opinion. And fear of being laid off dropped last year from its 2010 peak to roughly its average for the 35 years the question has been asked. (MORE: How &#8216;Made in the USA&#8217; is Making a Comeback) The percentage of Americans who said it would be somewhat or very easy to find a job if they lost theirs rose to 54 percent last year from 46 percent in 2010. The 2010 figure was the lowest since 1983, when the United States was also emerging from a deep recession. On average in the survey&#8217;s history, about 58 percent of respondents have said it would be very or somewhat easy to find a job. As layoffs have declined, fewer Americans fear losing their job. Last year, 11 percent of adults thought it was somewhat or very likely that they&#8217;d lose theirs. That was down from a record-high 16 percent in 2010. And it matches the 11 percent average the survey has found since it began asking the question. Americans may be feeling even more secure now than when the survey was taken last year. The number of layoffs fell in January to the lowest level in the 12 years the government has tracked the data. Fewer people are seeking unemployment benefits. And employers have stepped up hiring, though the job gains slowed in March. Employers added nearly 2.2 million jobs in 2012, an average of about 180,000 a month. That&#8217;s enough to slowly lower the unemployment rate. Even though the rate remains high at 7.6 percent, greater confidence among those who have a job could encourage more consumer spending and boost economic growth. &#8220;If you&#8217;re not afraid of being laid off, you&#8217;re going to spend<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=business.time.com&#038;blog=31173800&#038;post=78537&#038;subd=timebusinessblog&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Efficiency Backlash: Businesses Find Too Much Downsizing Can Hurt the Bottom Line</title>
		<link>http://business.time.com/2013/04/23/overdoing-efficiency-when-businesses-discover-they-cant-keep-downsizing-the-workforce/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Apr 2013 09:45:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brad Tuttle</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One national restaurant chain realizes that overburdening its employees hurts sales, as well as the company brand. Will more businesses follow its lead? In the business world, efficiency is king. The corporate quest to cut salaries and get more out of employees, thereby maximizing profits, is never-ending. At some point, however, increasing the workload on employees backfires. The burden becomes too much for workers to bear, and when employees are overwhelmed and can&#8217;t keep up with their duties, it&#8217;s just plain bad for business. Last week, Red Lobster basically admitted that it had crossed the line with the introduction of a policy aimed at increasing efficiency and lowering restaurant costs. In July 2012, the restaurant chain, owned by Orlando-based Darden Restaurants, eliminated the busboy position, demoted many waiters to lower-paid status as &#8220;service assistants&#8221; and forced the remaining full-fledged servers to increase the number of tables they handled from three to four. At the time, Red Lobster said the changes were being made after testing showed that diners and restaurant employees alike approved of the new policies. An Orlando Sentinel story published at the time of the switch offered some other perspectives: &#8216;We&#8217;re going to be completely worn out,&#8217; said Bob Meehan, a longtime server at Red Lobster in Lake Worth. &#8216;It&#8217;s definitely going to hurt service.&#8217; Chris Muller, dean of Boston University&#8217;s hospitality school, said worker morale will likely suffer. &#8216;If you don&#8217;t like the people you&#8217;re working with and for &#8230; it&#8217;s going to show,&#8217; he said. (MORE: Why Restaurants Have Been Holding Back on Hiking Menu Prices) Lo and behold, it appears as if Red Lobster is now acknowledging that these critics may have been on to something. Less than a year after the four-table policy was launched, the company announced it is reversing the decision, and waitstaff will go back to serving three tables at a time. A Red Lobster spokesperson told the Orlando Sentinel that while some customers liked the four-table policy, once it was introduced around the country, &#8220;far more folks told us that<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=business.time.com&#038;blog=31173800&#038;post=78213&#038;subd=timebusinessblog&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Don&#8217;t Multitask: Your Brain Will Thank You</title>
		<link>http://business.time.com/2013/04/17/dont-multitask-your-brain-will-thank-you/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Apr 2013 19:28:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Issie Lapowsky</dc:creator>
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		<title>Can You Afford to Start Parenting at Middle Age?</title>
		<link>http://business.time.com/2013/04/11/can-you-afford-to-start-parenting-at-middle-age/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Apr 2013 11:21:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Martha C. White</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Advances in reproductive technology and a trend towards marriage later in life have led to an increase in older parents. But do these old fogies know what they&#8217;re getting themselves into, financially speaking? Actually, there are some economic advantages to having children when you&#8217;ve reached a more mature age (for more, read Jeffrey Kluger&#8217;s story in the new issue of TIME, available to subscribers here). Older parents tend to be more financially stable. They&#8217;ve (hopefully) eliminated their student loans and dug out of any ill-conceived credit-card debt run up in their young adult years. They’re more likely than parents who are barely out of their teens to own a home and have money set aside for retirement and emergency expenses. There’s a “but” here, though. Taking on parenthood at a more advanced age can mean paying for things like tuition and textbooks when many of your peers are enjoying the financial freedom of being empty-nesters. And with a growing number of adult children returning home to live after college, there’s a good chance that your kid could still be raiding the fridge when you’re eligible for Social Security. None of this has to be a dealbreaker, of course; it just requires more forethought and planning. Here are some questions experts in financial planning and late-in-life parenting suggest that you should ask yourself before trying to have a child. Who’s paying for college? The biggest financial challenge for older parents is that they’ll probably be looking to retire just when some major financial obligations hit. &#8220;Retirement dates coincide with college and wedding expenses,&#8221; says David Lamp, a certified financial planner at Brighton Jones. &#8220;I&#8217;d say the cluster of life events is a little bit tighter now.&#8221; (MORE: Got Stuff? Typical American Family Home Cluttered with Possessions &#8212; And Stressing Us Out) As a parent, the impulse to give your child the best of everything is only natural, but it also can be financially devastating, he says. The smart move is to &#8220;favor putting money towards retirement, with the idea being that there<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=business.time.com&#038;blog=31173800&#038;post=58452&#038;subd=timebusinessblog&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>How &#8216;Made in the USA&#8217; is Making a Comeback</title>
		<link>http://business.time.com/2013/04/11/how-made-in-the-usa-is-making-a-comeback/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Apr 2013 11:15:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rana Foroohar</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The U.S. economy continues to struggle, and the weak March jobs report — just 88,000 positions were added — briefly spooked the market. But step back and you’ll see a bright spot, perhaps the best economic news the U.S. has witnessed since the rise of Silicon Valley: Made in the USA is making a comeback. Climbing out of the recession, the U.S. has seen its manufacturing growth outpace that of other advanced nations, with some 500,000 jobs created in the past three years. It marks the first time in more than a decade that the number of factory jobs has gone up instead of down. From ExOne’s 3-D manufacturing plant near Pittsburgh to Dow Chemical’s expanding ethylene and propylene production in Louisiana and Texas, which could create 35,000 jobs, American workers are busy making things that customers around the world want to buy — and defying the narrative of the nation’s supposedly inevitable manufacturing decline. The past several months alone have seen some surprising reversals. Apple, famous for the city-size factories in China that produce its gadgets, decided to assemble one of its Mac computer lines in the U.S. Walmart, which pioneered global sourcing to find the lowest-priced goods for customers, said it would pump up spending with American suppliers by $50 billion over the next decade — and save money by doing so (for TIME&#8217;s new cover story, written by myself and Bill Saporito, and available to subscribers, click here). And Airbus will build JetBlue’s new jets in Alabama. (MORE: The Cult of Apple in China) Some economists argue that the gains are a natural part of the business cycle, rather than a sustainable recovery in the sector. But I would argue that the improvements of the last three years aren’t a blip. They are the sum of a powerful equation refiguring the global economy. U.S. factories increasingly have access to cheap energy thanks to oil and gas from the shale boom. For companies outside the U.S., it’s the opposite: high global oil prices translate into costlier fuel for<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=business.time.com&#038;blog=31173800&#038;post=77508&#038;subd=timebusinessblog&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Free Lunches at Work? The Tax Man Wants a Bite</title>
		<link>http://business.time.com/2013/04/10/free-lunches-at-work-the-taxman-wants-a-bite/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Apr 2013 09:45:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher Matthews</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In Silicon Valley, the employee perks are the stuff of legend. Parents-to-be at Facebook are given a bonus to help with expenses and extensive maternity and paternity leave. Software company Evernote will pay to have their employees&#8217; apartments cleaned twice every month. And Google — perhaps the most generous when it comes to fringe benefits — lavishes its employees with free concierge service and a cafeteria chock full of gourmet food. While these benefits are partially a product of the intense competition for qualified tech workers, they may also be a way for companies to simply increase compensation without giving the tax man a cut. And according to an article in yesterday&#8217;s Wall Street Journal, the IRS is taking notice: There is growing controversy among tax experts about how to treat these coveted freebies. The Internal Revenue Service also has been focusing on the topic, according to attorneys who practice in the area, examining whether the free food is a fringe benefit on which employees should pay additional tax. The Journal report describes the conundrum the IRS faces when deciding how hard it should try to collect taxes on these fringe benefits. On the one hand, it&#8217;s not fair for cash compensation to be taxed while perks like free food aren&#8217;t. At the same time, taxing fringe benefits isn&#8217;t as simple as taxing cash compensation, and the law allows for exceptions, like when workers are stationed in remote locations where purchasing lunch isn&#8217;t feasible. (MORE: Apps and Sites That Make Filing Taxes Easier) It makes sense that the IRS would be looking into these practices at this time, as fringe benefits are a growing component of employee compensation overall. According to a recent USA Today study, employee-paid benefits now account for 19.7% of total compensation, up from 16.6% in 2000 and less than 10% in the 1960s. One key driver of this phenomenon is the rising cost of health care. As health care costs have risen, many workers have received a larger percentage of their compensation as health care benefits. But there has been a cultural shift as well<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=business.time.com&#038;blog=31173800&#038;post=77113&#038;subd=timebusinessblog&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>How to Fight Right: 3 Tips</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Apr 2013 15:00:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jessica Stillman</dc:creator>
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		<title>Financial Independence? Today&#8217;s Young People Don&#8217;t Expect It Anytime Soon</title>
		<link>http://business.time.com/2013/04/04/financial-independence-todays-young-people-dont-expect-it-anytime-soon/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Apr 2013 11:00:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Martha C. White</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In a mere two years, the proportion of teenagers who expect to be financially dependent on their parents until their mid-20s has doubled. That gives us all another reason to feel sympathy for parents who have teenagers right now.  A new survey conducted by Junior Achievement, a group that teaches kids about money and jobs, found that 25% of teens think they won’t be able to support themselves until their mid-20s. Two years ago, just 12% of teens surveyed said that they&#8217;d have to reach the 25-to 27-year-old age bracket before being able to pay all of their own bills. Correspondingly, the proportion of teens who expect to achieve financial independence by the ages of 18 to 24 has plummeted, from 75% in 2011 to 59% today. Are these kids just unmotivated? Maybe some of them are, but many more are facing escalating college costs and poor job prospects. An alarming number have a poor understanding of budgeting and basic finance as well. Plus, the old stigmas attached to relying on one&#8217;s parents well into adulthood, and even moving back home after college, seem to have faded. To make ends meet, Generation X crowded in with roommates, ate Ramen and slept on futons. Post-college millennials still have roommates, but they increasingly call them &#8220;mom&#8221; and &#8220;dad.&#8221; The number of young adults living with their parents spiked during the Great Recession era. Today&#8217;s teens apparently don&#8217;t mind the idea of moving back in with the &#8216;rents, or they at least understand the necessity of making such a move given the state of the economy and the likelihood of large student loans down the road. (MORE: Being 30 and Living With Your Parents Isn’t Lame — It’s Awesome) Providing a place to live isn&#8217;t the only way parents are helping out their adult children. In many families, it’s become the norm for parents to step in and pay bills for smartphones, Internet access, music and TV subscription services like iTunes and Hulu. A survey of parents with adult children up to 35<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=business.time.com&#038;blog=31173800&#038;post=76494&#038;subd=timebusinessblog&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>9 Core Beliefs of Truly Horrible Bosses</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Apr 2013 16:01:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Geoffrey James</dc:creator>
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		<title>Hey Walmart, It&#8217;s Hard to Make Sales When Store Shelves Are Empty</title>
		<link>http://business.time.com/2013/03/27/hey-walmart-its-hard-to-make-sales-when-store-shelves-are-empty/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Mar 2013 15:39:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brad Tuttle</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One way that Walmart keeps prices low is with minimal staffing levels in stores. But shoppers and workers alike are complaining that Walmart is understaffed, and the results include annoyingly long checkout lines and shelves that are barren—because there&#8217;s no one available to restock them. A new Bloomberg News article lays out the argument that Walmart stores just don&#8217;t have enough employees on the job: In the past five years, the world’s largest retailer added 455 U.S. Wal-Mart stores, a 13 percent increase, according to filings and the company’s website. In the same period, its total U.S. workforce, which includes Sam’s Club employees, dropped by about 20,000, or 1.4 percent. It&#8217;s not surprising that the story features plenty of anecdotal evidence from customers relating their frustrating experiences dealing with Walmart workers, who seem overburdened and/or inept. “You wait 20, 25 minutes for someone to help you, then the person was not trained on mixing paint,” said one customer, a father of six from California who was trying to buy wall paint. &#8220;It was like, you have to help them help you.” (MORE: Is Walmart&#8217;s Buy American/Hire Veterans Initiative Anything More Than a PR Stunt?) What may be surprising, however, is that Walmart employees feel strongly enough about understaffing that they&#8217;re talking to the press about it. “The merchandise is in the store, it just can’t make the jump from the shelf in the back to the one in the front,” a meat and dairy stocker who works at a Walmart in Erie, Pa., said. “There’s not the people to do it.” Other workers say that stores miss out on sales because there aren&#8217;t enough employees to answer customer questions and get items out from behind jewelry counters. Walmart workers also claim that store managers get bonuses partly by keeping employee payrolls down. The story comes one month after another Bloomberg News piece featured the minutes of a Walmart meeting, in which executives reportedly said stores were &#8220;getting worse&#8221; at restocking shelves, and that &#8220;self-inflicted wounds” represented the &#8220;biggest risk&#8221; to<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=business.time.com&#038;blog=31173800&#038;post=75846&#038;subd=timebusinessblog&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>7 Things Your Employees Think About You (But Would Never Say)</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Mar 2013 14:32:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Suzanne Lucas</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[You have an open door policy, so of course your employees come to you and tell you everything that bothers them, and you work together to fix it. All in all, it&#8217;s a blissful place to work. So why is your turnover through the roof? Because open door policy or not, it&#8217;s highly unlikely that your employees are telling you everything you need to know. Here are 7 things that your employees may be thinking, and what you should do about it. You&#8217;re underpaying them. Are you sure this statement isn&#8217;t true? When you hired each of your employees, you negotiated a salary based on their skills, your needs, and the market demands. It was fair then, so isn&#8217;t it fair now? Maybe, maybe not. The Fix? Pay attention to the market. If they could make more money elsewhere, you&#8217;re underpaying. If it would cost you $5,000 more to replace someone, you&#8217;re underpaying that person. You never listen to their ideas. You&#8217;re the idea person. Your idea to start the company. Your idea to hire. It&#8217;s your ideas that made their jobs possible. All that is true. But, you hired them because you needed them and their ideas. Are you listening? And by listening I mean actually considering their ideas. The Fix? Show you are listening by actually studying out (or asking them to study out and present) what the ROI would be on that particular idea. Maybe you&#8217;ll find some good ones. You need to fire someone. Employees hate it when bosses ignore bad (or incompetent) behavior exhibited by their coworkers. It causes a tremendous strain on the office, lowers productivity and makes for generally unpleasant workforce. The Fix? Fire the jerks. You need to drop a client. All clients are hard earned and we all know it&#8217;s easier to maintain a relationship than it is to go out and find a new client to replace them. But many businesses have at least one client that demands more than they are paying, causes more headaches than they are worth, and makes it difficult to meet<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=business.time.com&#038;blog=31173800&#038;post=74997&#038;subd=timebusinessblog&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>March Madness Will Cost Businesses $134 Million. Why Aren&#8217;t Employers Concerned?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Mar 2013 09:45:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Josh Sanburn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The NCAA men’s basketball tournament will cost U.S. companies an estimated $134 million in “lost wages” this week. But do employers care? Not really. A survey released last week by job outplacement firm Challenger, Gray &#38; Christmas found that the men’s college basketball tournament – which lasts three weeks – will cost $134 million in just the first two days (Thursday and Friday) of the tournament. An estimated 3 million U.S. employees will spend one to three hours at work watching the games, and two-thirds of all workers will follow the tournament at some point during work hours. (MORE: How Sesame Street Counted All the Way to 1 Billion YouTube Views) A few decades ago, the idea that employees would be able to spend hours watching a sporting event during normal working hours would’ve been unthinkable. But our work and personal lives have become completely tangled, and today most bosses are not only fine with employees who watch a few games or set up an office pool, they almost encourage it. According to a separate survey by staffing firm OfficeTeam, when office managers and executives were asked whether the NCAA basketball tournament had a negative effect on employee productivity, 75% said there was no impact, and 16% said there was either a very positive or somewhat positive impact. And one-fifth of employers said those activities elicited a positive impact on employee morale. That’s despite the fact the tournament likely takes more than $100 million out of productivity in just two days. “That’s a big number,” says John Challenger of Challenger, Gray &#38; Christmas, referring to how much the tournament is expected to cost businesses. “And yet, I think companies that allow their employees freedom and autonomy recognize that the workplace brings people’s personal lives in. It’s the way the modern workplace works.” The acceptance of March Madness into the workplace is of course just one example of how the workplace has changed. Today, employees check Facebook, share YouTube videos, or instant message with friends throughout the work day. But more<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=business.time.com&#038;blog=31173800&#038;post=74869&#038;subd=timebusinessblog&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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