Both employees and employers say they would be open to having a day off to have sex with their partner, according to a new survey.
An adult employer even greenlighted one of them to operate the deep fryer despite numerous accident reports regarding adult employees using it.
The best gift is “You can all leave the office early Friday” not “You can all stay two hours later at the office for a party away from your family and friends.”
(Businessweek) — Rick Raymond parked his black Kia SUV behind a row of trees and peered out at his target. It was 4 a.m. on a recent morning, and Raymond—a seasoned private detective who has worked roughly 300 cases, from thieves to philandering spouses—was closing in on a different sort of prey. Recently, Raymond has […]
As countries expand efforts to gain Western technology, U.S. firms risk having employees expose secrets.
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(Inc) — Employees are valuable. So are referrals. That was the thought behind Meebo’s decision to offer a $5,000 reward to anyone who referred qualified potential employees to the company that launched in 2005. The only stipulation? People would only get paid if the candidates got hired. Read More…
(Entrepreneurs) — The only words printed more times than “Our people are our greatest asset” are the ones on matchbooks that say “Close Cover Before Striking.” Words are cheap, and your people know it. If you value your people as a critical asset, then you need to demonstrate that sentiment and not merely talk it up. Ask […]
(USA Today) — About 15 million Americans are jobless. Many of the 139 million still working are, well,really working. Welder Dave Hoskins is averaging 10 to 20 hours a week in overtime this year and sometimes puts in seven 12-hour days in a row. The 37-year-old’s arduous schedule often stresses his marriage, especially because he […]
(Inc) — Great workplaces aren’t born from some accidental confluence of motivated workers, bountiful benefits, and dogs in the office. They are created, purposefully, by leaders. Ken Lehman and Yvon Chouinard are two such leaders. Lehman is the co-founder of Winning Workplaces, a nonprofit that every year anoints America’s Top Small Company Workplaces. Previously, Lehman was […]
(Inc) — In the early 1970s, Bill Witherspoon lived for months in a school bus parked in the Oregon desert. A hundred miles from the nearest town, he spent day after day painting the sky and the clouds. He later sold his work for tidy sums. Witherspoon would spend the rest of his life alternating […]