You want time off during the holidays. So does everybody else. Here’s how to make your request go smoothly, so you can be one of the people sipping hot cocoa in your bathrobe and relaxing with the newspaper on a weekday …
Careers & Workplace
Flummoxed by Benefits Options? So Is Your HR Rep
The shifting landscape around retirement and healthcare has human resources professionals struggling like the rest of us. The good news: employers are offering more access to third-party advice.
The 10 Absolute Worst Buzzwords to Put on a Resume
Are you a responsible, innovative expert who’s driven but patient? You and everybody else. Social networking site LinkedIn revealed the 10 most overused buzzwords of 2013 by its 259 million members. If you’re trying to stand
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What It’s Really Like to Be a Santa Claus for Hire
Working as Santa Claus during the holiday season can be a jolly, potentially lucrative gig. But it’s not always an entirely magical experience.
5 Reasons You Should Look For a Job Right Now
Sick of your job? Give yourself the holiday gift of a fresh start by pounding the pavement now, experts advise. Counterintuitive as it seems, given the number of empty desks and out-of-office autoreplies most of us will encounter
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6 Tips for Surviving the Office Holiday Party
After a few years when companies avoided throwing holiday parties, corporate America is kicking back with the eggnog again. Executive search firm Battalia Winston’s annual survey found that 96% of companies are going to have …
Pizza Hut Manager Who Was Fired for Closing on Thanksgiving Gets Job Back
Manager refuses to open his store on the holiday
Working at Amazon Could Literally Make People Lose Their Minds
Undercover worker: “We are machines, we are robots.”
Study: Fewer Workers Using Cocaine and Marijuana, But Prescription Drug Use Is Up
New study shows increased use of prescription meds in workers
3 Ways Being a Jerk at Work Pays Off
You don’t want a reputation as the office bully, but it turns out there are some attributes of narcissistic or Machiavellian personalities that could give your career a boost.
Will Your Facebook Profile Sabotage Your Job Search?
Facebook, Twitter and their ilk are digital catnip for hiring managers, but this addiction isn’t a harmless buzz: New research shows that what’s in our profiles has little bearing on how well we do our jobs, even though a large …
Two Surest Ways to Boost Millennials’ Retirement Savings
Millennials understand that they need to save. Two simple policy shifts will give them the means.