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In the beginning of March, we reported on CareerBuilder’s annual survey about strange reasons for being late for work. Among the weirdest of excuses: waking up in someone else’s yard, a cat stuck in the toilet, and thinking Halloween was a work holiday.
Is modern technology making you ill? You may want to vacation to this Wi-Fi-free small town in West Virginia to unplug and detox.
There is a problem twice a year that could be worse for your employees than their 6-month performance reviews—and has them in physical danger! With workstations in cube farms often out of view of an outside window, you know that proper lighting is essential to productivity and wellness. However, what your employees go through when […]
It’s spreading from India to the British Isles, and it’s ready to jump the Atlantic to infect Americans with an unsightly condition. If you love your cell phone or tablet, or are downright addicted, you may have to buy a lot of scarves and turtleneck sweaters to allay this condition, which is a lot more […]
Social media has once again stirred up trouble in the employment law landscape. This time the moral of the story isn’t “be careful what you post online,” it’s “be careful what your child posts online”!
“Technology can simplify life,” says Deadspin, quoted by Yahoo! Shine, “but it can also screw it up.”
A disgruntled (and clearly sexist) male customer was miffed that a woman was running the workplace. But he couldn’t just leave, well, unless he had a parachute!
It’s that time again, for CareerBuilder’s survey on extraordinary employee excuses for being late. From wild animals on the loose, to missing milk, these excuses will have you scratching you HR head. Usually we pick a few, but we had to include them all here.
Employees love to multitask, and now a new high-tech hybrid will help them take it to a new level.
Most jobs will give workers a headache once in a while. But a hair-raising job highlighted in a new series of articles on workplace pain gives discomfort in the scalp, neck, and shoulders—and the danger of falling 35 feet to the ground! In the pain.com original Web series “Pain in Unique Work Places,” Documenting Causes, […]