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 …
It’s been one of those weeks. It started out crazy, then got insane, and finally spun out of control. The work load is driving us mad, and when I walk the corridors I see my colleagues look pooped.
That is, except for the ones who are leaving. They look refreshed, rejuvenated and positively sparkly. Like someone spiked their decafs with …
We read books and take workshops and practice in front of mirrors to look smart in a job interview. But what if the person conducting the interview is a dolt?
This occurred to me as I read a listserv discussion today among my fellow Asian American Journalists Association members. One member had recounted her cousin’s encounter with an …
My workplace is pretty unsexy. The glass-doored offices and the gray decor and buttoned-up coworkers just don’t do it for me.
Most offices are downright sterile, aren’t they? Yet workers around the world apparently manage to get something on amid their furry walled cubicles. Excuse me, but I find this totally ew. (Unless it happens on …
Valentine’s Day is coming up. I know because my daughter–along with recruiters, temp agencies, employment lawyers and even my employer–keep telling me so.
My kid, I forgive; she’s just aping her teachers, who are possibly brainwashing her so that I’ll remember to supply the cupcakes. In the spirit of Cupid, I also forgive the PR folks: …
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 …
Last week I blogged about the perils of corporate blogging. I cited a study, the Corporate Blogging Survey of 2005 by Backbone Media. Its lead author, John Cass–who is also author of Strategies and Tools for Corporate Blogging (to be published in April by Elsevier Butterworth-Heinemann)–writes in with some interesting points:
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So I was ambling down the hall on my way back from the kitchen with some decaf green tea when I saw my colleague Amy Goehner packing boxes. The sight filled me with dread. A lot of people at my company are volunteering for severance packages amid rolling layoffs, and lately it seems like all my favorite coworkers are taking the …
Yes, according to no less an expert than the health minister of Japan. Hakuo Yanagisawa made the comments recently as he addressed Japan’s low birth rate. According to Reuters:
On January 27, Yanagisawa told his supporters in a speech touching on Japan’s low birthrate: “Because the number of birth-giving machines and devices is fixed,
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My blog got me in trouble the other day.
I had just published a posting referring to a company event. It turns out the event is hush-hush. I had no idea. My supervisor came tearing down the hall, and–thanks to the magic of the Internet–I turned back the clock and took the posting down.
Corporate blogging can be tricky. Employers …
This week I returned to the office after three months away. My leave was unexpected, so I hadn’t tidied up. I knew I’d return to a bit of a mess: an unwashed tea mug, an unemptied in-box, stale cereal in my snack drawer.
Here’s what I confronted when I opened the door: piles and piles and piles of mail.
Journalists get a lot of mail. …
