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The 5 Best Ways to Get Noticed at Work
Getting noticed at work can be difficult, but we've got a few tips to help make that happen—and to make sure it's for the right reasons.
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Bring on the Holiday Office Parties! Even Though Employees Would Rather Skip ‘Em.
Oh those holiday office parties...if you want to be a good employee you have to go. But you can't have too much fun or you'll risk ending up dancing on a table with someone else's shirt on your head, and the video will get thousands of hits on youtube.
A study by Forbes says 90 percent of offices will have holiday parties this year. That's good news! It's a sign that the economy is back on track.
Only 5 percent of employees actually want a holiday office party.
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Your Smartphone or Tablet Adds Two Hours to Your Work Day
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Thanksgiving Doesn’t Always Mean a Day Off
What's your family tradition on Thanksgiving Day?
For many of us, Thanksgiving means getting up early to put the turkey in, smelling the aroma of baking turkey and coffee-brewing while watching parades all morning, then expecting family to arrive promptly at 11am. The rest of the day is all about grazing over piles of turkey and green casserole and putting black olives on our fingertips to make puppets, and then watching the Cowboys on TV. That's what my family does and I thought perhaps you could relate.
Will you be asked to work on Thanksgiving Day? Heaven forbid! But more and more bosses are expecting it!
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How Much Coffee Do You Drink?
Coffee is part of life for many of us.
Before making the big decision about whether or not to become pregnant, I asked my doctor if I could still consume my daily 2.5 cups of coffee during pregnancy. It's a must. If I have a sip less than that, I can feel it. And I knew I may not survive pregnancy if I had to ween myself off, or worse yet, quit cold turkey.
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What’s the Biggest Way to Waste Time at Work?
Telecommuters may have some creative ways to while away the day, but at least they’re not shooting the breeze with colleagues — something a new survey finds is the biggest time-waster at work.
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Can Music Make You More Productive at Work?
Having trouble getting things done at work or staying focused on the task at hand? Fire up your iPod.
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How Many Americans Work More Than 40 Hours Per Week?
The eight-hour workday is fairly standard in the United States, and June 19 marks the 100th anniversary of it becoming law for federal workers back in 1912.
Private companies began to follow suit four years later, but these days, working only eight hours a day sometimes seems downright quaint.
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School’s Out for the Summer, So Why Can’t the Same Be True for Work?
We grew up having our summers free, out of school. Why can’t that yearly sabbatical continue into adulthood?
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What Are the Happiest and Unhappiest Cities in Which to Work?
If you work in Miami, congratulations! According to a recent survey by online employment advice forum CareerBliss, you earn a living in the happiest American city in which to work.
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Insomnia Costs America $62 Billion in Productivity
Insomnia isn’t just a bad deal for those who suffer through it.
It’s also a bad deal for the nation’s economy.