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Careers & Workplace
Free Lunches at Work? The Tax Man Wants a Bite
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 …
How to Fight Right: 3 Tips
When it comes to conflict at work getting to a Goldilocks moment – not too much, not too little – is hard. Here’s how to get your team to debate productively.
Financial Independence? Today’s Young People Don’t Expect It Anytime Soon
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.
9 Core Beliefs of Truly Horrible Bosses
The worst managers have a fundamentally broken understanding of workplace, company, and team dynamics. Don’t make these mistakes.
Hey Walmart, It’s Hard to Make Sales When Store Shelves Are Empty
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 …
7 Things Your Employees Think About You (But Would Never Say)
Have you stopped to consider that your employees may talk about you the way you used to talk about your boss?
March Madness Will Cost Businesses $134 Million. Why Aren’t Employers Concerned?
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.
The Most Important Task You’re Ignoring
Answering emails, putting out fires–those are important. But one founder suggests something else should take up at least 25 percent of your day.
So Your Video Went Viral: Great! Just Don’t Expect to Get Rich
Thanks to the Internet, it’s never been easier to become briefly famous. Posting an especially creative, embarrassing, funny, or otherwise highly “shareable” video or blog online will usually do the trick. But becoming rich and famous? That’s far more difficult.
How to Play Clean Office Politics
Here is a simple four-step process to ensure that the right decision gets made.
Weird Money: 9 Odd Factoids from Recent Consumer Surveys and Studies
Ever wonder which alcohol brands are most popular … among consumers who are too young to buy alcohol? Is daylight savings harmless, or does it cost us hundreds of millions of dollars annually? And most pressing of all, which celebrity do you wish was your insurance agent?
