My friend Jessica Kutash, a marketing exec at a consumer products company, writes:
Several vendors with whom I do business have recently sent me my token ‘thanks for doing business with us’ holiday/end-of-year gifts. Normally these gifts are trinkets or candy. I quite like trinkets and candy. This year, however, I am seeing a new kind
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I work in a field so competitive that few would consider me weird for having slogged through four internships before graduation. All involved little or no pay, soul-deadening work, and absolutely not one iota of glamour.
So you could’ve knocked me over with a feather when I learned today that one of my lame internships is going to be a …
Ah, retirement. For the 76 million people born between 1946 and 1964, those golden years of sipping Coronas by the pool don’t seem so far away. With the first wave hitting 60, baby boomers are only five years away from sailing off into the land of shuffleboard and bingo.
Not so fast, says a new study. Fully half of boomers are nowhere …
Next time your boss drops by your cube to slather you with praise, be afraid. Be very afraid.
He may be among the 74% of managers who believe praise can serve as a substitute for money in motivating employees. And that “attaboy” could mean “no bonus for you.”
That’s according to a survey released today by Sirota Survey Intelligence …
Seems like flex time is on everyone’s mind these days. The current cover of BusinessWeek features the flexible work program at Best Buy (which I might point out was explored in a July 2005 TIME article, “Reworking Work,” by my colleague Jyoti Thottam). “Smashing the Clock,” shouts BizWeek’s headline. “No schedules. No mandatory meetings. …
On the heels of a relatively cheery government jobs report comes news that American workers are hop-skippingly happy with their jobs. What’s more, we love our bosses.
The nation’s employers added 92,000 jobs last month, bringing the average monthly gain for 2006 up to about 150,000 per month. The unemployment rate fell to 4.4%–the …
Judging by the comments to my previous posting about holiday parties, workers feel strongly about their right to get pumpkin-faced at their year-end corporate do. Twelve months of pouring your very soul into PowerPoint pie charts deserves some alcoholic compensation, dangit.
You’re in luck. A fresh batch of surveys in my in-box today …
Unlike my friend and fellow CNNMoney blogger Roger Parloff, I don’t spend a lot of time reading legal documents. But I’m still pretty sure that the “Findings of Fact and Conclusions of Law” issued last night by U.S. District Judge Loretta A. Preska (and passed on to me this morning by a friend) in the case of Mastercard (MA) v. FIFA were …
I just took a quiz on our sister site CNNMoney.com, and it turns out I really don’t deserve a raise.
The quiz accompanies a smart article by career-advice guru Annie Fisher of Fortune on how to get a raise. It’s adapted from Are You Paid What You’re Worth?: The Complete Guide to Negotiating the Salary, Benefits, Bonus and Raise You …
Lately I’m reading a lot of surveys and tip sheets from HR experts about holiday parties and gift-giving: how many offices are having them (a shrinking number), what behavior to watch out for (don’t get drunk–just don’t), to what degree they torture employees (off the charts).
Turns out holiday parties can also be lawsuit magnets. …
The American Enterprise Institute, a conservative Washington think tank, has just relaunched its magazine (formerly known as–get this–“American Enterprise”) as The American.
The editor is James K. Glassman, who will never be able to escape the fact that he co-authored the book Dow 36,000 in 1999 but is otherwise a pretty great …
I hate my Aeron chair.
In fact, I hate it so much that I don’t have it anymore. I wheeled it into a conference room a while back and abandoned it. In its place is a brand-free, standard uphostery seat orphaned from before our office redesign. My new-old chair has …
