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If you believe human assets are your number one asset, you need to read this article in Business Week.
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A recent study from LeadershipIQ asserts that workers today are wasting 44 percent more time than they did a year ago. It seems that worry and financial research are now the top non-work activities conducted at the office.
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More than a million low-wage workers will get a pay raise this week. The federal government's minimum wage is set to jump by 70 cents to $6.55 an hour on Thursday.
The hike is the second of three annual increases in the minimum wage that were ordered by Congress last year, following a decade with no increase.
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Many small business owners are finding themselves in painful conversations with employees these days, chats that start with "Boss, I'm really strapped for cash — I need a raise." But many companies are also hurting and an owner may need find a way to help a staffer without involving money.
Human resources professionals say that by being crea
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The results of a new study, conducted by consumer intelligence firm BIGresearch, into the media and shopping behavior of consumers at work, finds that Americans are spending 60% of their waking hours at work, more than ever before. Marketing chiefs are rethinking their ad budgets and advertisers are preparing to meet a new, highly coveted, yet ent
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Interesting and funny story about research into what really goes on in the minds of meeting attendees.
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The Supreme Court on Tuesday adopted a broad reading of two federal civil rights laws to protect employees from retaliation when they complain about discrimination in the workplace.
Retaliation complaints are a growing subset of workplace discrimination cases, because it is often easier for employees to demonstrate that they were retaliated aga
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Imagine a country of 146 million workers, where a massive database maintained by hapless bureaucrats determines who can hold a job. It's a place where simple statistical error alone can annually deny work to half a million of these workers, and those lucky enough to appeal the error must wait months, even years, to reenter the labor pool.
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As people find themselves consumed by the demands of the workplace, it becomes more difficult to block as much time as one would like for outside social activities. One of the results is that the number of romantic relationships among co-workers has been increasing.According to a Vault.com nationwide survey, office romances increased from 47% in 2
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Small-business owners have an incredible amount to juggle, but typically don't have the budget to hire even temporary help.
SerebraConnect is a service that helps individuals, corporations and governments outsource tasks to skilled workers in developing nations.
That's where we come in. We post our business need on SerebraConnect, then w
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Many managers assume that when a worker takes a "duvet" or "mental health" day it is because they are simply being lazy or not committed to their job. But it may in fact be a warning signal that they are working too hard or in the midst of a family or relationship crisis.
A survey of more than 1,000 U.S workers by Chicago-based employee ass
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Ya got me on this one - who knew I could bundle my worker's comp with my medical benefits and potentially save on both?
In one company I'm working with, we just changed insurance providers for our group health benefits as our old provider wanted to increase premiums 20%.
Once that was done, our new broker made us aware that Blue Cross coul
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There appears to be a marked difference on how small and large companies deal with the aging U.S. workforce. And according to one survey, small businesses appear to be ahead of the curve when planning for this major demographic shift.
In a survey of 404 small business owners, 28% percent of the respondents reported that they had developed plans
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Small businesses say years of crushing health care costs have them backing major changes this time around. The NFIB helped derail President Bill Clinton's effort to overhaul the health insurance system during the 1990s. Now, small companies with an average of 10 workers are bearing the greatest burden of insurance premium increases, which have gr
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If it seems like more people are flirting around the water cooler at your office these days, it may not be your imagination. Four out of 10 U.S. workers admit to being involved with another colleague at some point. But within a small business the possibility of increased tension and drama because of a tryst intensifies.
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