The Workplace

Denver Woman Placed on National Business Cliche Offenders List for Two Years

Carla Millington was ready to make the big move...

Poodle’s Behavior at “Take Your Dog to Work Day” Gets its Owner Terminated

Sterling Heights marketer Stella Winkler was fired Friday after...

SUCCESS! Employees Celebrate Raising Funds to Give CEO 20% Raise

With big companies continually looking to increase shareholder profits,...

As Gen Xers Bring More to the Table, Bigger Tables Needed

During the past four years, American businesses have increased...

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...

Workplace Injuries from Taking the Bull by the Horns Increase 30 Percent

The number of US business people injured taking the bull by the horns has risen by over 30 percent in the past year, from just under 13,000 in 2019...

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