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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...
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8 Questions You Are Not Required to Answer During a Job Interview

Whether you're interviewing for a new position in person...

Following Up On Your Interview – a Five-Point Plan to Get the Job

You’ve just just aced the interview for the job...

Charging Helmet Reverses Effects of Executive Burnout

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

Managers Disciplined for Ingoring the Elephant in the Room

At the Swansong Group, nobody talked about the elephant in the room. “We assumed the bosses didn’t want to hear about it so we kept our mouths shut,” says a...

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!”...

Sting Operations Crack Down on Overly Friendly Workplace E-Mails

Sally Kaspers thought she was making a new friend. In reality, she'd been caught in an e-mail “banter sting” - a tactic used by over 10,000 American companies to...

More Employees Working from Home Means Less Need for “Cones of Silence”

With so many of their employees working from home, US companies report that their need for Cones of Silence has declined by over 85 percent since 2019. The clear plastic...

Excessive Pivoting Blamed for Over Five Million US Workplace Injuries

A health care system already strained by Covid-19 has also been dealing with another challenge – injuries caused by increased pivoting in the workplace. Since March 2020, over 15...

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...

Analyst Decides to Become One of Those Guys Who Calls Everyone “Boss”

The decision to start referring to everyone as “Boss” did not come easily for Leonard Tipton, a polemic analyst at Jackson/Tewksbury in Detroit. He had been mulling it over...

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...

With Clients Avoiding Each Other, Realtor Offers Shared Workspace for One

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...

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...

People Who “Grab” Coffee More Likely to Succeed Than People With Time to “Get” It

The word “grab” has become the second most popular word in business today, after “Exemplify.” It is employed by up and comers who wish to appear so busy they...

Office Gangs Wreaking Havoc at US Companies

While the problem of street gangs is well documented, a newer concern is the trouble being caused by office gangs, whose numbers have increased dramatically since the start of...

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How Many Times Do I Have to Say Hello to the Same People?

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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...