The Workplace

Detroit Team Building Facility Makes Backstabbing Fun

It’s a typical night at STABB, a new Detroit...

Charging Helmet Reverses Effects of Executive Burnout

As recently as 2021, Executive Burnout cost US business...

Requiring Signatures on Anonymous Attitude Survey Boosts Positivity by 1600 Percent

Sears/Wills, the international travel aggregator, achieved a 1598 percent...

Strenuous “Ah-Ha Moments” Taking Toll on Older Workers

A 63 year-old Troy, Michigan marketing manager was in...

Consortium Says Giving 110% No Longer Enough, Mandates Increase

The Nevergo consortium of St. Louis notified its 1300 employees this week that it is no longer sufficient to give 110 percent. New requirements – which increase expectations to...

Six Ways to Avoid Being Perceived as an Office Pushover

It’s impossible to succeed in the workplace if you’re perceived as a “pushover” – that is, a person who is taken advantage of and, in some instances, actually pushed...

Speed Disclaimers Save Their Companies’ Butts

Covering the company’s rear end is rarely mentioned in the mission statement, but it is always the number one priority. Many US businesses have long assigned staffers to end...

Up and Coming Ad Man Mistakenly Gets His Foot in the Wrong Door

Steve Wilson was on top of the world. Three years after first sending out his resume, then following up with over 100 query letters, he thought he’d finally gotten...

As Employees Return to Work, Alabama Company Reassigns Their Comfort Zones

As its employees began returning to the workplace after over a year at home, the management at First Transitional Bank of Birmingham observed that most of them were staying...
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Company Mandates That Employees Spend 12 Minutes a Day at Water Cooler

When employees of Milwaukee's Turner-Marx failed to gather around the new water cooler, which had been purchased solely to facilitate conversation and encourage camaraderie, CEO Paul Lang launched a...

With “Walking Out” Fired Staffers Now Common, Companies Seek More Humiliating Methods

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...

“Writing on the Wall” Strategy Transitions From Workplace to Home

To avoid paying expensive severance packages to terminated employees, HR departments have long utilized the strategy of writing on their office walls to get them to quit on their...

Servers at Midtown Eatery Will Specify When Telling Diners to “Enjoy!”

Mishap, the Corktown bistro nouveau whose glazed prawns were recently featured in Swallow magazine, is requiring its waitstaff to tell customers what to enjoy instead of just saying “Enjoy!”...

Researcher’s Career Takes Off When He Starts Asking, “What Can I Do You For?”

For 14 years, Level II Researcher Carl Mortons languished in anonymity at Cincinnati's Penrod Group, spending day after day analyzing Midwest auto mileage trends. He’d all but given up...

Terminated Employees Will No Longer Be Shown the Door

For the first time since 1966, employees who are terminated by Cleveland’s Loxon Group will no longer be shown the door. Instead, they will be presented with two options: They...

Ad Rep Gets Out of Comfort Zone, Gets Right Back In

It took Sandra Standish, a Chicago advertising sales rep, four years to work up the nerve to get outside of her comfort zone. Once outside, however, it took her just...

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Utilizing the “Penny Tray” Strategy to Meet Budget Goals

January 2022 was a grim time at Santa Fe's Silver & Post.  For the first time in the company's 105-year history, it was going to...

Tired of Constantly Being Eliminated, Middleman Finds Another Career

After 40 years and thousands of businesses hell bent on getting rid of him, the Middleman has finally thrown in the towel. On December...

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Whether you leave a job on your own or against your will, it’s likely that a potential new employer will contact your former company...

Unable to Find Qualified Staffers, Nevada Company Goes All Employee-less

In 2019, when Masters Customization set out to hire a new employee, one human resources staffer could make it happen in less than an...

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Business people who are skating on thin ice now have only a couple weeks go get off it – around a third of the...