E-mail is Making You Stupid
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The research is overwhelming. Constant e-mail interruptions make you less productive, less creative and – if you’re e-mailing when you’re doing something else – just plain dumb. Within the heart of your company, saboteurs lurk. Disguised as instruments of productivity, they are subverting your staff’s most precious resource: attention. Incessant e-mail alerts, instant messages, buzzing BlackBerrys and cell phones are decimating workplace concentration. The average information worker – basically anyone at a desk – loses 2.1 hours of productivity every day to interruptions and distractions, according to Basex, an IT research and consulting firm
Published on Tuesday 9th of March 2010 04:41:26 AM
Steny Hoyer's deep thoughts
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In what can only be described as a Joe Biden like, foot-in-mouth statement, Representative Steny Hoyer (D-MD) believes Americans work to pay taxes. CNSNews reports: "The projection of revenues has stabilized, not decreased. That is a very good sign because it is a sign that people are in fact making money and will be in a position, because they're making money, to pay a portion of that in revenues to the federal government." Only six days ago, an AT blog reported that Hoyer said public opinion was mistaken in 1994 and suggested that it is mistaken again today. This statement...
Published on Tuesday 9th of March 2010 04:41:26 AM
Advert for 'reliable workers' banned as discrimination by Jobcentre Plus
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Advert for 'reliable workers' banned as discrimination by Jobcentre Plus Published: 11:00PM GMT 26 Jan 2010 The boss of a recruitment firm said she was told she could not place an advert for ''reliable workers'' because it discriminated against unreliable people. Nicole Mamo, 48, wanted to post an advert for a £5.80-an-hour domestic cleaner on her local Jobcentre Plus website. The text of the advert ended by stating that any applicants for the post ''must be very reliable and hard-working''. But when Ms Mamo called the Jobcentre Plus in Thetford, Norfolk, the following day she was told that her advert...
Published on Tuesday 9th of March 2010 04:41:26 AM
The virtue of work (Sarah Palin)
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If there are seven American virtues, I’d guess hard work is either first or second. If I was making the list, it would be first. Early in Going Rogue, Sarah Palin writes of her team winning the state championship in basketball her senior year: " That victory changed my life. More than anything else to that point, it proved what my parents had been trying to instill in me all along: that hard work and passion matter most of all (41)." Isn’t it nice to hear a public figure extol the virtue of hard work for a change? The chattering...
Published on Tuesday 9th of March 2010 04:41:26 AM
Carry around a Clipboard (vanity)
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I have learned that when I carry around a clipboard or even a single sheet of paper, people think I am working. If I carry the clipboard tucked under my elbow and a pen in the other, the phenomenon is increased. I'm working hard Today the Senate is in session. The President is coming to visit them. Collectively, they are carrying around a clipboard
Published on Tuesday 9th of March 2010 04:41:26 AM
Idle Hands: Some Puritan Advice for the Unemployed
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Steve Lee, of Denver, Colo., is familiar with the despondency that unemployment brings. Laid off a year ago from a medical-sales position, he admits that depression hit just a few months into his unemployment. "All I could think about was how bad the economy was and how unlikely getting a new job as good as my old one would be," he said. With tips like "start exercising" and "try to stay hopeful," cyber-counsel for the 15 million currently out of work rings hollow at best, leaving those thigh-deep in unemployment wondering where to turn for practical advice. With Thanksgiving just...
Published on Tuesday 9th of March 2010 04:41:26 AM
U.S. lags in paid sick days, work benefits
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NEW YORK – The United States lags far behind other nations in offering paid sick days, paid parental leave and other workplace benefits that proponents consider vital to public health and workers rights, according to research released on Tuesday. The eight-year study found the most economically competitive nations offer forms of paid leave to workers that the United States does not, according to researchers at Harvard University and Canada's McGill University. Of the world's 15 most competitive nations, 14 mandate paid sick leave, 13 guarantee paid maternal leave and 12 provide paid paternal leave by law, they said. Eleven provide...
Published on Tuesday 9th of March 2010 04:41:26 AM
Kingdom Of The Dwarves at Kunming World Butterflies Garden, Yunnan province, China
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Performers take part in a show called Kingdom Of The Dwarves at Kunming World Butterflies Garden, Yunnan province, China
Published on Tuesday 9th of March 2010 04:41:26 AM
France Shows Us Our Future: Longer Work, Shorter Retirement
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France Shows Us Our Future: Longer Work, Shorter Retirement Joe WeisenthalNov. 9, 2009, 6:34 PM It's not all that surprising that France, with its generous labor and pension laws would find itself slamming into a brick wall, as pension systems begin to run dry. FT: Mr Sarkozy favours extending minimum contribution periods for a full pension, rather than raising the standard pension age beyond 60, the official suggested. The contribution period is already set to rise by one year to 41 years by 2012 but should be increased still further. The aim would be to make reform more politically palatable,...
Published on Tuesday 9th of March 2010 04:41:26 AM
Okay, so who else is in the 10.2%+ club? CAN'T FIND WORK! (vanity)
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Folks, it's taking alot of gumption for me to write this post. But I'm swallowing my pride to confess that I am distressingly unemployed and wallowing in frustration and anger. Maybe there are others like me in this forum. I'm actually in that "lost" zone between the 10.2% that's claiming unemployment and the estimated 20%+ that has exhausted benefits or just plain given up finding work. Well I HAVEN'T given up. I apply to dozens of jobs per week off of Craigslist, Monster, CareerBuilder and the like, but nothing's landing. I am represented by half a dozen temp agencies, but...
Published on Tuesday 9th of March 2010 04:41:26 AM
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