CHICAGO — It’s Cyber Monday, and much of your workday has been spent clicking through 50-percent-off offers on winter sweaters. Is your boss watching? Chances are good that your holiday deal-seeking is not going unnoticed at work, even as employers become more relaxed about letting workers shop online on company time, a recent survey shows.
CHICAGO — Union workers at Ford’s assembly plant on the far South Side of Chicago have emphatically voted to reject a national contract that was described as the richest in the automaker’s history, dealing a serious blow to Ford’s hopes of ratifying the deal nationwide. Production workers with United Auto Workers Local 551 at the
Here’s a terrifying fact for you: research shows that thanks to vacation-phobic Americans, a million years of work is “donated” each year in the US alone. Nope, that’s not a typo. There are plenty of us who bury our heads in work only to look up moments (read: two years) later realizing that we’ve become scary, pasty
There are two kinds of people in the world: early birds and night owls. While early birds rise at the crack of dawn and typically do really well working a traditional 9 to 5 work schedule (or one that starts even earlier), many night owls are just starting to get into the groove around dinner
Great careers are built on great career advice. Unfortunately, with all the career advice available online and in the media, it can be difficult to sort the good from the bad. To help you differentiate, here are five characteristics of great career advice: 1. The advice comes from a great source Have you ever heard
In a day and age where our phones contain (and control) our lives, distractions are aplenty. While most people are busy all the time, most people aren’t actually productive. With this in mind, it’s time to take back some control and organize your workday in the name of productivity. Lizzi Hart, a Marketing Assistant at
High school students approaching graduation have two choices: enter the job market or go to college. Those who choose the latter then have another decision to make in four years: enter the job market or go to graduate school. Unless you’re a career student, ultimately you have to choose a career that not only pays
What’s the #1 key to success? We uncovered words of wisdom from Confucius, Vincent van Gogh, Albert Einstein and Steve Jobs, all which point to one very specific trait – one that is without a doubt the secret to their success. We spend roughly 100,000 hours of our lives at work. For many, a job is just a
Workplaces are awash in statistics. Surveys and studies pop up weekly on every issue imaginable — diversity, health, engagement and job satisfaction, to name a few. I approach such data with reasonable suspicion, not because I doubt the validity of the reports but because they are, to paraphrase Shakespeare, full of words and numbers, diagnosing
BALTIMORE — East Coast bank M&T Bank recently announced expanded parental leave benefits for all its employees, joining a flurry of corporate parental leave expansions as employers respond to societal shifts and increasing demands on employees on the job and at home. Companies such as Accenture, Microsoft and Netflix all have announced enhanced policies in