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More Jobs, Less Pay
Would you rather have an iphone 5 or running water? It might seem like a “well, duh,” kind of question, but it gets to the heart of something important about the jobs and growth debate right now.
In Inbox Hell? Time to Admit You’re an Email Sinner
A SaneBox executive outlines the seven deadly sins of email. Are you guilty?
4 Secrets of the Most Productive People
The path to productivity is not a new assistant or project management software. It’s these four shared characteristics.
NCAA March Madness and Money, by the Numbers
It’s officially tourney time. Just how much is wagered on games? To what degree do workers slack off to keep up with the action on the court? What is your office doing to stop you from streaming video so maybe you’ll actually get …
Why Companies Should Force Employees to Unplug
It is quitting time, and you know the drill. You grab your coat and slip on your Bluetooth for a quick call with a client on the commute home. You stop at the grocery store and, while you are in line, pluck out your BlackBerry to …
We Lost $38 Billion Last Year Just Waiting Around for the Cable Guy
You know how the cable company gives you that huge window of hours when they’ll be able to stop by and fix your service? Well, it’s not just annoying — it’s expensive. Turns out that waiting at home for the cable guy, U.P.S., …
Creating not just jobs, but good jobs
Richard Florida’s recent piece in the FT, “America needs to make its bad jobs better,” presents a pretty interesting argument, one that a nation so focused on job creation might want to keep in mind. Florida points out, as plenty of others have before, that the sorts of service-sector jobs the U.S. is on track to create the most of in …
I thought Homer was Bart’s dad
Nope. Turns out a “homer” is something a worker makes, using company resources and on company time, for use at the home. This from Harvard Business School’s Working Knowledge web report:
A factory worker uses company time and materials to fashion a lamp he will take home for personal use—an artifact called a “homer.” The practice is
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One Reader Juggles Work and Life With the “Four Ps”
Reader Anne Witkavitch writes in a comment to a previous posting about the valuable commodity that is time:
As one who is juggling family, career, and graduate school pursuing my dream to write and publish, I hear the same comment over and over again: “I don’t know how you do it.”
I cringe each time I hear this phrase. Although
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Don’t Measure My Productivity By Looking Over My Shoulder
Your boss is obsessed about how you spend your time.
We workers squander hour after work hour gabbing on the phone to mates, surfing the web for hot new outfits, playing Sudoku on our Crackberries–that is, according to HR surveys, books and product promos meant to teach employers how to crack the whip. Time-wasting is apparently at an …
Fraternizing With Colleagues Boosts Productivity
I had lunch today with a blogger friend of mine. We met last spring when we both spoke on a panel of workplace reporters arranged by the Publicity Club of New York. She’s one of those people I instantly clicked with, due in part to our apparently parallel lives: we write for a living; we were both about to publish our first books; we …