Carolyn Gregoire released an article entitled “An Introvert’s Guide To Surviving (And Thriving) In the Workplace”. What is an introvert, you ask? According to Wikipedia, introversion is “the state of or tendency toward being wholly or predominantly concerned with and interested in one’s own mental life”. Introverts tend to keep to themselves and don’t favor […]
In Tennessee’s Hamilton County, thousands of school employees did not receive their paychecks due to an error. About 3,700 teachers went without pay last Friday – a $3.8 million mistake. According to an article by Kevin Hardy in the Times Free Press, Superintendent Rick Smith said the school system, the county trustee and the bank […]
Heather Huhman wrote a piece for Business Insider which lists the top 10 tips for working from home. Of course, working at home might seem like a dream, but there Huhman brings up some useful advice as not let the work day slip through your comfortable fingers. In other words: how to be more productive […]
Work is, well, anywhere you get work done these days. Sure, the typical cubical-ridden offices still prevail in the work force, but with technology advancing faster than you can say “fax machine,” that’s becoming less and less the case. In a WIRED article by Naveen Narayanan, he wrote that the notion of “work’ is ‘very […]
Emma Ines from Mail Online wrote an article regarding open-plan offices. She reported that open-plan offices make employees “less productive, less happy, and more likely to get sick.” Ines goes on to say that Scandinavian research revealed that people who work in open plan offices take 62 percent more sick days than those who work […]
Columnist Bob Sullivan wrote an NBC News piece over the weekend that stated our ability to unplug and relax is “under assault” due to an average smartphone user checking his or her device 150 times per day or about once every six minutes. This means people who do check their smartphones that frequently do an […]
The 9-season mockumentary-style sitcom, The Office, recently aired its final episode on NBC. Adapted from the British sitcom of the same name (starring everyone’s favorite award show host, Ricky Gervais), The Office started out as an observation of an ordinary paper company called Dunder-Mifflin, its lovable but moronic manager Michael Scott (played by Steve Carrell) […]
