A new online survey from Right Management, which says it’s “the world’s leading provider of integrated human capital consulting services and solutions across the employment lifecycle”:
1. Downsizing or restructuring (54%)
2. Sought new challenges or opportunities (30%)
3. Due to ineffective leadership (25%)
4. Poor relationship with
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Since I posted about John McCain being too old—if not to work, then to lead—I feel it’s only sporting for me to add what I think about the upcoming Senate elections in my home state of New Jersey.
Frank Lautenberg is a Senator up for reelection. After serving for 18 years, he retired in 2000…only to run again in 2002. At age …
I just read Why Work Sucks—and How to Fix It, a book due out June 2 by Cali Ressler and Jody Thompson. They’re the duo behind ROWE, the Results-Only Work Environment program created at Best Buy, the electronics retail giant. (My colleague Jyoti Thottam wrote about it in 2005 in TIME.)
A few things I’d like to point out: I read the …
That’s the positive spin. The latest S&P/Case-Shiller home-price numbers (pdf) are out. I may put together a pretty chart later, but I’ve got a column to write today. The headline is that the national home price index, which they only calculate once a quarter, is down 14.1% for the year ending in March. That’s, um, a lot. Las Vegas is …
Lest I appear ungrateful for Justin’s invitation to post at will, I should mention that I’ve been in India for the past two weeks. I was there for a friend’s wedding, though macroeconomics was never far from my heart.
Wholesale inflation (India still doesn’t use consumer prices) has jumped over the past few months and now stands …
For reasons I’m not entirely clear on, the May Monthly Mustache Interview at the American Mustache Institute website is with me. As for why it is only now, with just a week left in May, appearing online, I am entirely clear on that: I was embarrassingly slow about answering the questions.
Anyway, the AMI interview subjects seem to …
I recently did a little piece on the Today Show on this topic. In the 120 seconds allotted me, I managed to squeeze in one source citation for the survey—and not the other. A very nice lady from Apartments.com contacted me to let me know I’d forgotten to mention its equal participation in the “10 Best Cities for Recent College …
It’s always fun when a future Nobel-prize-winner comments on your blog. It’s even better when the comment can be recycled as a post of its own.
First, a little context. I was annotating James Pethokoukis’s list of “five ideas that both liberals and conservatives might agree on that also could actually improve economic growth” (itself a …
We’re approaching the season here at TIME of fresh young faces roaming the corridors, expressions eager and unlined with worry or fatigue, eyes bright, tails busy. Yes, tis the season of summer interns. Time Inc. pays its interns—quite handsomely, from what I hear. But a lot of businesses don’t. Instead they dangle college credit or …
A lack of conveniently located electrical outlets to plug your laptop (or phone charger or whatever) into at the airport is one of the great scourges of American travelers. So I was really impressed with this seemingly jury-rigged solution at the Charlotte airport. A long outlet strip was attached to the outside of a moving walkway, …
My Pop retired the other day. He’s been hobbling toward that inevitable outcome for a while now, but up until this year, he was still making the one-hour-plus commute by train to his ad agency up to three times a week. After a hospital stay weakened him, however, the commutes became untenable. So the other day, my older brother George …
Just because I go ballistic on people who claim that tax cuts increase tax receipts doesn’t mean I think the conservative case on taxes is wrong. In fact, I think people like Stephen Moore and Larry Kudlow are actually damaging that conservative case in a big way by spouting such obvious nonsense about the impact of changes in tax rates. …
