We’re undergoing performance evaluations here at TIME, and, although none was offered to me during mine, I believed that a raise that would more than double my salary would erase most if not all of my complaints. But big bucks don’t bring happiness, according to Execunet, which recruits execs:
According to a survey of 2,149 executives
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Japan, as you may know, has been dipping in and out of a recession for the better part of two decades now. Are the country’s workers depressed? No! So long as there’s air to breathe, water to drink and fig leaves to wear over their privates, life is good! So says this insane video (thanks to my husband’s friend Janey Choi for the heads-up).
Been pretending to know what’s up when everybody at work is all web 2.0 this and that? Here’s a handy glossary from McKinsey Quarterly:
What’s in Web 2.0
Blogs (short for Web logs) are online journals or diaries hosted on a Web site and often distributed to other sites or readers using RSS (see below).
Collective intelligence refers
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I just took three days off, so imagine my alarm when an e-mail shows up in my inbox today with this subject line: “Had a good vacation? Great. You’re fired.” Turns out it’s a news item from the AFL-CIO plugging its online legal resource for workers. Here, according to the union, are
Top Ten Strange But True Reasons Used to Fire
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…but this guy does. Check out this treatise on InsideHigherEd.com by a professor who lives in Pittsburgh about why he loves his 120 mile commute. He’s tired of defending his reasons for taking a job so far away:
Sometimes my inquisitors are mollified by these justifications; more often they still seem to doubt my veracity and/or my
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Marci Alboher has a smart piece on the New York Times’ online edition about the art of self-promotion. The writer she refers to in the lede is actually me; before we met, I had cheerfully and, in retrospect, rather insensitively complimented her on her horn-tooting skills. It appears she didn’t take it so well, at least at first.
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So here goes another Sunday in which I did not attend Mass. What I attended instead was a rigorous total-body workout at the gym, before which my husband let me sleep in and after which I came home and made lunch. In other words, no extenuating circumstances prevented my going, which, according to longstanding family rules, means I have …
…WiP on holiday.
How are you rewarded for a job well done?
Where I work, people like me are thanked, occasionally, by a one-line e-mail from the big boss: “Nice article.” I treasure these missives as a court jester might a flower from his queen. Hmm. Put this way, it occurs to me my employer-employee relationship might be a tad dysfunctional.
We are a …
Maybe I’m turning into a Green Office Nazi. But check this out: nearly 62.4 million work PCs are being left on overnight. So says a new report by Harris Interactive commissioned by the Alliance to Save Energy and software provider 1E.
Know what 62.4 million computers left on overnight does to the environment? It pumps 14.4 million tons …
A funny thing happened after I wrote an essay in the magazine about how my relationship with my dog changed after I had my baby.
First, a little back story: the essay was one of those I’ve been writing in my head for years. It’s not exactly a subject for polite company; I couldn’t quite go around crabbing to my dog-rescuing …
If you recognize that line, I empathize: your head, like mine, must be filled with the inane and insanely catchy ditties on TV shows beloved by little children. That particular lyric comes from Wonderpets, the grossly adorable show on Noggin in which a guinea pig, turtle and duckling fly from the classroom in which they live to Hawaii or …
