With increased downsizing and more online options – and now the pandemic – US businesses don’t require the services of notary publics like they once did. Unable to find work, over 100,000 of them have been forced to move into a notary shelter      “It’s a desperate situation,” says...

Employees receive a gift card for reporting colleagues who don't use the word "team."

We take a look at a few stories that may or may not happen this year - from the Michigan Central Station to the D.I.A. Quicken Loans Chairman Dan Gilbert purchases his 100th building in Detroit – Stanley Freeman’s Barber Shop on Oakland Ave. Mr. Freeman stays on as...

The new Cortex phone app offers users the convenience of at-home neurosurgery - and at an average savings savings of over 95 percent. “If you have to have brain surgery, where's a better place than in the comfort of your own home?” says Sandy McClain, CEO of app developers XBam2....

Two managers at the Danzig Co. were injured this week in a “Hallway Rage” incident, the second occurrence in a month at the San Antonio condiment dispenser maker – and the latest of over 5,000 similar confrontations across the US so far in 2019. Hallway rage is caused when business...

Since the beginning of January, 30,233 US business people have been injured taking the bull by the horns - an improvement over 2022, when over 60,000 were injured out of a total of 3.65 million who took the bull by the horns "Companies are finding it harder to hire and...

When a staffer is passed over for a promotion she'd been expecting, she develops an alternate strategy: She simply moves into the office and takes the job.

When major auto companies began instituting massive layoffs across the country this month, those affected were invariably “walked out” – that is, provided with a box in which to place their belongings, then escorted from the premises as dozens of their former colleagues pretended not to see what was...

Fourteen percent of US businesspeople have stopped talking at work since the start of 2019, due to the fear they might say something offensive to another person or group.  Since not talking severely limits one’s ability to interact with colleagues who speak, hundreds of companies have established separate divisions...

Ignoring what her superiors considered a pretty clear directive, Sheila Cosgrove, a conformities specialist at Denver’s Pomeroy Trust, re-invented the wheel last Thursday. “We were asking that she conduct a standard Melson pre-analysis,” says Cosgrove’s boss, VP/Strategies Tamara Lansing. “We reminded her five times that it was pro-forma, needed to...

Shared workspace provider Jam’D was losing thousands of clients last summer, due to people not wanting to get within six feet of each other. Faced with the expense of maintaining 3400 workspace facilities averaging 16,000 square feet apiece, the company was within days of going under.  Then founder and CEO...

By Business Behaviorist Miles Rumphley.... Bosses are always on the lookout for trouble. A poor boss will run and hide the minute she sees trouble coming. A mediocre boss will wait until one of her employees comes into her office and says, “Boss, we have trouble.” But a...