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As Fred Sanford would say, “I’m comin’ to join ya’ honey!”
October 21, 2004 by jim stroudA German study has found people caught in traffic are three times more likely to have a heart attack within the hour than those who are not stuck in a jam. READ: Heavy traffic bad for your heart
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Psst… Wells Fargo is hiring! Pass it on…
October 19, 2004 by jim stroudSan Francisco-based Wells Fargo tops a list of job-creating firms in the United States in a survey to be published in the November issue of Business 2.0 magazine. Wells Fargo leads “who’s hiring” list
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If you are sick, STAY HOME!!!
by jim stroudA widespread shortage of flu vaccine and the oncoming flu season has workplace experts worried about a significant enemy of productivity in the months ahead – a phenomenon known as presenteeism. A recent study by CCH, an employment law consultancy in Illinois, found that 40 percent of employers complain that their workers come to work sick, unproductive and contagious.
Kenny Colbert, president of the Employers Association, a HR consulting firm in Charlotte, North Carolina, says he doesn’t want any heroes at work. “I made a point last year with several of my employees I could hear sneezing, hacking and coughing, ” said Colbert. ” I said, `You can either stay in your office with the door closed and spray Lysol when you leave or you go home now.’ ”
John Challenger, chief executive of the outplacement firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas, advises employers to let their workers know they should stay home when they get sick.
“The fact is sick employees coming to work are not only damaging productivity, but they are infecting other workers,” he said. The flu hits 10 to 20 percent of U.S. residents each year, according to the Centers for Disease Control.
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Bosses need love to…
by jim stroudDid you celebrate “Boss Day?”
National Boss Day is Oct. 16 every year. Even this year, when Oct. 16 landed on a Saturday.
The day was started by Patricia Bays Haroski, a State Farm secretary from Illinois, in 1958. She worked for her dad, whose birthday was Oct. 16, and wanted to do something special to honor him.
In 1962, Illinois Gov. Otto Kerner proclaimed Oct. 16 National Boss Day.
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Turn up the thermostat!
by jim stroudIf your office is too cold, chances are that you might not be typing as accurately, or as much, as you could be.
READ: Study Links Office Temperature to Keyboarding Performance:
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How to play well with others…
October 15, 2004 by jim stroudThe guy next door clipping his toenails. The takeout that leaves the whole office smelling of Chinese food. Hour after maddening hour of listening to your neighbor’s Kenny G.
Seems like everyone who works in a cubicle has a horror story.
In today’s workplace, cubicles are as ubiquitous as e-mail — and so, too, are their problems. Prized by employers because of their cost advantages and embraced during the 1990s as facilitators of open communication and teamwork, cubicles are more often loathed than loved by the estimated 40 million Americans who work in them.
But our carpeted walls aren’t going anywhere. Even while annual sales of new cubicles have fallen nearly 50 percent since a high of $4.3 billion in 2000, cubicles are too portable and affordable for companies to ignore, says Mitchell Kirsch, co-CEO of New York-based Cubicles.com.
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One strange recruiting job…
by jim stroudWhat if your job description went something like this: “Chasing people through woods in scary clown costume with weapon of choice — be it a meat hook, chain saw, or machete.”
Sounds scary, but being a seasonal monster for $5.15 an hour may not be a bad part-time option for some.
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“The Apprentice” on the cheap…
by jim stroudMEA (Merit Employment Association) was formed in 1965 by 34 leading Atlanta employers representing a wide cross-section of the Atlanta business community. MEA was set up as a support system to provide knowledge on how to establish Affirmative Action programs. At that time, the organization focused on a number of projects to carry out MEA
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A touchy subject…
by jim stroudAt a time when the nation’s minority population is fast-growing, the government under President Bush is implementing new guidelines that could scale back a decades-old effort to diversify a federal workforce that is largely white and male.
Under the new guidelines, known as Management Directive 715 and handed down by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, the word “underrepresented” is no longer used to describe women and minorities, who in fact still are, the EEOC’s own numbers show.
The directive instructs managers at federal agencies to de-emphasize the statistical makeup of their staffs while making hires and promotions, as called for in prior directives. Instead, they are being asked to evaluate potential barriers that stymie the advancement of women and minorities. EEOC officials say statistics alone do not indicate if discrimination is at play.
“Conclusions concerning the existence of workplace barriers cannot be drawn from gross numerical assessments,” the directive says. “Rather, the identification of workplace barriers will require a thorough examination of all of the circumstances.”
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The National Association for the Self-Employed
October 13, 2004 by jim stroudIf you are a business of one, check out this resource.
The National Association for the Self-Employed (NASE) is the nation’s leading resource for the self-employed and micro-businesses (up to ten employees), providing a broad range of benefits and support to help the smallest businesses succeed.
The NASE was founded in 1981 by a group of small- business owners in search of a structure of day-to-day support, benefits and consolidated buying power that traditionally had been available only to large corporations. Today, the NASE represents hundreds of thousands of entrepreneurs and micro-businesses, and is the largest non-profit, non-partisan association of its kind in the United States.
