The Workplace

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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...

Court Will Decide if Clerk Can Keep Asking, “Working Hard… or Hardly Working?”

Norman Williston, a file clerk at Palmeri Marketing in Columbus Ohio, asks the same question every time he passes someone in the hallway: “Working hard…or hardly working?” He’s been...

Chicago Financial House Appoints Jester to Relax Stressed Out CEO

On July 1, things weren’t looking so good at Chicago’s Plunsett Group: Revenue was down 50 percent compared to 2018, the stock was tanking, and an employee had filed...

Employees Receive Gift Cards for Turning in Non-Team Players

MysticTwist, the San Francisco recapitulation conglomerate, stresses the concept of teamwork so strongly that all employees are required to refer to their department as their  “team” and to their...

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...

Director Postponing Birth of First Child to Complete Project

As far as Nora Millison is concerned, she had no choice but to postpone the birth of her first child for five weeks.    Morkin/Weaver - the Kansas City ramifications...

Work/Life Balance Reports Now Mandatory at Over 30,000 US Companies

Employees with a healthy work/life balance have long been perceived as more valuable than their unbalanced peers - usually invited onto more task forces and getting smiled at more...

Insurer Now Covering Slapped Wrists and Other Job Performance Injuries

Mutuality of Modesto, the USA’s 84th largest corporate health care provider, announced this week that it is expanding its coverage to include certain workplace injuries that have become increasingly...

Kicked Out of Bar for Being Sad During Happy Hour, Auditor Sues

A downtown Columbus, Ohio, bar is being sued is being sued for in excess of one million dollars by an auditor who says she was asked to leave it...

Lifelike Stand-Ins Enable Parents to Spend More Time on the Job

With American parents working increasingly longer hours so they appear indispensable to employers, the time they spend with their children has decreased by 76 percent over the past five...

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...

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