NOW!!! (with three exclamation points) - is a new aerosol spray that has proven effective in reducing Decision Freeze - a condition where  a person needs to make a quick decision but, fearing the wrong one will result in disaster,  freezes up instead. Developed by the Lunderplex -- the researchers...

Not too many years ago, a civil engineer who dressed like a mechanical engineer would have been ostracized at the office – perhaps even asked to seek opportunities elsewhere.  Just ask Sandra McDermott, of Kansas City. Trained in civil engineering at the University of Wimshaw, she started to get “feelings”...

Over 40 people were arrested in Wyandotte, Michigan last Saturday in connection with a fight operation pitting two civil engineers against each other. According to city police spokeswoman Celia Minsle, officers were called to a home on Biddle St., by a neighbor disturbed by the noise of cheering spectators and...

Effective February 1, 2015, all employees will be required to use their own separate entrance music when coming into a room. Here are some staffers testing different songs and entrances. Mandatory exit music will become effective in 2016.

When employees return to the office after many months working from home, the idea of having to interact with colleagues again can cause anxiety and concern. "Before the pandemic people shook hands, slapped backs, even hugged," says Norma Kissane, HR Vice President at Chicago's Generational Placebos. "Some people may still...

Watch all 25 in your cubicle and chances are you won't get caught...

CEO Paul Lang introduces a major new initiative - one that will place the company on the both the leading and cutting edges!

Detroit-based phone app SSSSssss – which connects people who want to flatten someone’s tires with people who are willing to flatten them – has closed on $55 million in pre-seed funding from venture capitalist Millsap’s VC of Cartaret, New Jersey. SSSSssss founder and CEO Jennifer Spitzlin says her group had...

Upon ordering employees working from home to return to the office, US businesses are discovering that once they come back, many don’t like it and go back home. This has forced some to install invisible fences to keep them in.    The fences – actually wires buried underground – emit...

After nearly five years of research and testing, pizza chain Markko’s will introduce a self-eating pizza in March of 2026.  The product is targeted to today’s busy consumers who don't have as much time to eat as they once did. According to CEO Lou Markko, the process utilizes the same...

Even though it happened in July of 2007, Joan Fitzgibbon remembers it as if it were yesterday. “There were 12 of us meeting to hire a new window washing company,” says the 54 year-old former office manager for Brewin-Force of Boston. “Things got a little heated and I wanted to...

Because millions of people are now working at home, it has become more difficult for US companies to put employees in the hot seat. That’s why many have begun transporting the seats to the homes of under-performers. "Providing employees a hot seat experience is an essential part of their development,"...