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By MARGARET HEFFERNAN — “Despite the economy, morale is really high,” a CEO recently told me. I said: “That’s great. How can you tell?” The CEO replied: “People just seem buoyant, smiling. There’s a lot of energy around the place.” On the face of it, nothing is wrong with this conversation. Morale is high, people […]
Continue reading …By Mary Agnes Carey, KHN Staff Writer– The Supreme Court Thursday, 28 June 2012, upheld the 2010 federal health care reform law, dismissing the challenge by states to the law’s requirement that individuals get insurance. The justices, however, did give states the right to opt out of a critical provision requiring them to expand Medicaid […]
Continue reading …By RICH MORIN and RAKESH KOCHHAR, Pew Research Center– Long-term unemployment takes a much deeper toll than short-term unemployment on a person’s finances, emotional well-being and career prospects, according to a new Pew Research Center survey that explores the attitudes and experiences of workers who have lost jobs during the Great Recession. Of those who have experienced […]
Continue reading …Women In Business, Breaking The Glass Ceiling
Continue reading …Infographic – How Happy Employees Can Fuel Success In a down economy, not very many employers think, or continue to think, about keeping their employees happy. And in tight economic times happy doesn’t always need to include pay increases. As the inforgraphic below explains, studies show that happy and engaged workers and members of organizations […]
Continue reading …By KIM PARKER, Senior Researcher, Pew Research Center– Women now make up almost half of the U.S. labor force, up from 38% in 1970. This nearly 40-year trend has been fueled by a broad public consensus about the changing role of women in society. A solid majority of Americans (75%) reject the idea that women […]
Continue reading …The Pitfalls Of Freelancing Thinking of taking up the freelance life? Read this first. Click image to view full size
Continue reading …Work Is Killing You, This Fun Chart Tells You How Work is killing you. You know it is. And now this handy chart tell you exactly how it is killing you. Click image to view full size. And you better hurry too…
Continue reading …By SCOTT BARRY KAUFMAN– Every business wants workers who passionately love their work. And for good reason: workers who are inspired are more productive, and passion can provide the energy necessary to fuel engagement, amidst obstacles and setbacks. But while passion seems clearly desirable, recent psychological research suggests that not all forms are adaptive. In […]
Continue reading …A plurality of the American public believes that young adults are having the toughest time of any age group in today’s economy—and a lopsided majority says it’s more difficult for today’s young adults than it was for their parents’ generation to pay for college, find a job, buy a home or save for the future. […]
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