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You don't have to be smart or honest to work for the state. A smart person wouldn't use a government computer to store pornographic material, fail to delete the dirty [...]

ROCHESTER, NY - The grade school bully may have grown up to become the office oppressor, according to a new nationwide poll by the Employment Law Alliance released yesterday, which [...]

Breaking the law never kept David Fry from playing fantasy sports, filling in March Madness brackets or betting on those perennial playoff losers, the Oakland A's, with his employees. Instead, [...]

Peggy Post, Emily Post's great-granddaughter-in-law, is spokesperson for the Emily Post Institute and co-author of The Etiquette Advantage in Business. She offers these pointers on a few problem areas. Smelly [...]

Damon gonzalez is suffering from olfactory overload. One female co-worker sprays on enough perfume to make him sneeze. There are so many fragrances available for sampling at the major fashion [...]

By Kimberly Sweet, Editor The 25 best remodeling companies to work for Colleagues who trust each other. Managers who mentor. The chance to develop new skills and advance professionally. These [...]

Amid growing employer interest in wellness programs, a new survey finds that Southeast Michigan corporate leaders peg workers' personal health habits as one of their greatest challenges in managing health [...]

Forty-two percent of employees check their business e-mail accounts while on vacation, according to a survey conducted by GARTNER, a Connecticut-based research firm. 'Business use of cell phones, instant messaging [...]

Employees of Brockton-based All Seasons Services Inc. participated in the second annual Champions Fighting Cancer Walk, which was organized to support oncology services at Brockton Hospital and research programs that [...]

Baseball fever is a workplace problem. A survey shows that more than 12 percent of Americans who follow baseball have faked an illness with their employers to spend a day [...]

'Why does this keep happening to me?' That might be the toughest career question you ask yourself. Take the case of the company president who can't understand why his senior [...]

Like everyone else these days, I'm stretched and stressed. The vice president of the product development group at a manufacturing concern recently lamented, 'The best new product we could develop [...]

The definition of workplace violence just expanded. Walk into just about any business today and you'll hear the hum of computer terminals, the clackity-clack of keyboard keys and the random [...]

New study finds today's fast pace fosters 'desk rage' Do some of your co-workers burst into tears at their desks? Is the guy two cubicles over known for verbally abusing [...]

'It's not what you know but who you know that counts.' When you don't get the promotion you wanted, it's tempting to evoke that old line to salve your wounded [...]

Oct. 20 was Bruce Gudenberg's last day of work. It's certainly not what the AssociationCentral.com executive had in mind when he took this job 15 months ago, but Gudenberg says [...]

If you're staying too late at the office, you're wasting all those health club fees As the Stairmasters hum and the treadmills pound a steady beat at 24 Hour Fitness [...]

Note how employees handle their errors Self-criticism is a unique aspect of criticism in which the individual engages in a dialogue as both giver and receiver. Even though it's an [...]

There's a lot of talk these days about get ting a life. You overhear people in coffee shops talking about how they need more balance in their lives. You see [...]

Business groups hope to match their campaign contributions this year with grass-roots efforts to get business owners and their customers, vendors, friends and employees to vote. 'There are a surprising [...]

Whenever I walk into a business, subconsciously I notice its, physical appearance. Things like dust, cobwebs, dirty floors and messy desks all tell me this company has issues. The surprising [...]

An addiction to being competent can sometimes keep people mired in careers that aren't a good fit. I have worked with individuals who hate what they do, but who by [...]

I was hosting a book signing at a Barnes & Noble to share concepts from my book, 'Work Less, Make More.' I always start my talk by asking the audience [...]

The implications of the new Hawaiian legislations on recycling the office wastes like cans, bags etc., on workers are discussed. Though the workers are willing to pay some amounts for a waste collection point, the building managers are short of room. Solution seems to be stashing the waste and taking it home. The reactions of the workers to the proposed recycling law are discussed.

Richard Kulbeida, new president of Citizens Financial Group opines that the merging of the bank with Charter One Bank has not introduced the element of culture conflict and resistance to change among employees. Employees seem to be morally high with great deal of enthusiasm in them.

A young executive was invited to water the boss' plant. It came about as an apparent afterthought. Jim, the executive, had delivered a summary of a proposed project. His boss [...]

The author outlines tips for new, young employees which can help them integrate into and succeed in an office environment.

Being self-employed--a term I prefer to 'being a guy who sits around the house in sloppy clothes, unshaven, making fun of things'--I worry that I might have trouble adjusting, were [...]

Tips to adjust with personality clashes at workplace are presented highlighting the peculiar psychological characteristics of different types of personalities. By sensing the overtones of their psychology and adjusting with it, we can restore peace at workplace despite the personality clashes.

Tips for managing and converting an arrogant and manipulative employee into a productive employee are presented.

ONE OF MY FAVORITE QUOTATIONS about change comes from Antoine St. Exupery, who said, 'If you want to build a ship, don't gather workers to collect wood or assign them [...]

E-mail and online shopping are no longer the only concerns employers face regarding employee use of the Internet. Employees spend time both during and after work disparaging their employer on [...]

WASHINGTON -- The Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers (CPI-U) decreased 0.2% in July, before seasonal adjustment, according to the U.S. the Bureau of Labor Statistics. The July level [...]