The Workplace

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...

Systems Verifier Types Same Sentence 16 Million Times to Look Busy

William Harris, a systems verifier at Cleveland's Palmerton-Inge, was...

Shortening Mandatory Phone Greeting Will Save Company $72,000 a Year

An employee of The Altman Group of Madison Heights, Michigan has been recognized by the US Assoc. of Tm. Svrs for suggesting that his company shorten its mandatory phone...

Told to Hire Trouble Shooter, HR Mistakenly Hires Trouble MAKER

In early February, Littman Manueverables of Des Moines was encountering unexpected difficulties with its newly installed Tricon-Plus system. The already complicated user instructions suddenly switched from English to Portugese,...

Company Plants Roses in Office to Discourage Employees From Leaving to Stop and Smell Them

As part of its 2019 mandate that employees achieve a healthy work-life balance or face disciplinary action up to and including dismissal, management at Newark’s Rembison Group begin requiring...

Employees Receive Gift Cards for Turning in Non-Team Players

MysticTwist, the San Francisco rehabilitation conglomerate, stresses the concept of teamwork so strongly that since June 2019 all staffers have been required to refer to their department as their...

Two Fast Walkers Injured in “Hallway Rage” Incident

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 –...

Nurturing Hamsters and Other Ways Companies Are Giving Back

  Statistics show that over 12 percent of US businesses encourage employees to “give back” to the community during the holidays. Here are five examples: Every third Monday in December, the...

Corporate Protection Program Provides Bullied Workers With New IDs, Jobs, Offices

For months, cost accountant Steve Dilman (not his real name) endured the bullying of an older, bigger colleague at a Cleveland brokerage house. The bully would stomp on Dilman's foot...

Chicago Financial House Appoints Jester to Relax Stressed Out CEO

On January 1, things weren’t looking so good at Chicago’s Plunsett Group: Revenue was down 50 percent year over year, the stock was tanking, and an employee filed a...

Dozens Become Sick During Agency’s Excessive “Visioning” Sessions

A total of 47 persons – including 21 requiring overnight hospitalization – became ill following a Detroit ad agency’s effort to formulate its vision statement for 2020. Over a period...

Heaven to Businesses: Stop Having “Come to Jesus” Meetings

On July 15, every US business with more than 25 employees received a notice from Heaven strongly suggesting they stop threatening staffers with “Come to Jesus“ meetings. “Jesus is not...

Lifelike ScareBosses Keep Employees on Their Toes

PROXITOL - developers of the popular Stand-In Parent - announced this week that its long-awaited ScareBoss will be mass marketed staring in January of 2022. The mannequin-like figures, made of...

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...

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Banked Restroom Visits, Guaranteed Compliments Among Amenities at New Capitol Park Eatery

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