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Are speed and quality really sacrificed when people work from home, as Yahoo! CEO Marissa Mayer said to explain her new ban on telecommuting? It depends on the employee, the company and the job, so pointing to any one study to argue either way is not very useful. Intangibles such as Mayer's need to create a culture of innovation are also hard to predict or measure. None of...
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French workers ‘who talk for 3 hours, work for 3 hours’ don’t cut it, U.S. tire maker tells France
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Americans' commutes aren't getting longer
On average, it took American workers no longer to get to work in 2011 than it did in 2000.
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Illinois CEO to France: 'Keep your so-called workers'
"How stupid do you think we are?" Morry Taylor, CEO of the Illinois-based tire maker Titan Tire Corp., asks French workers in letter published in Paris newspapers. He said French workers only work about 3 hours a dayThe CEO of a U.S. tire maker has delivered a crushing summary of how some outsiders view France's work ethic in a letter saying he would have to be stupid to...
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‘Business owners are happiest workers’
Despite working longer hours and having less time off, business owners are 50% more satisfied with their jobs than those who work for others, according to a new study.
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Tech firms upgrade HQs to lure workers to the office
Also upping perks to recruit, retain employees; Critics say such moves are simply ways to get longer hours out of workers
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VA Moves To Clear Massive Claims Backlog
WASHINGTON -- The Department of Veterans Affairs says more than 10,000 workers who handle disability claims will be required to work at least 20 hours of overtime each month in an effort reduce a sizable backlog. The overtime requirement will last through September and comes as many federal workers face furloughs because of mandatory budget cuts. The VA was exempt from those...
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Apple, Facebook, Google, Yahoo, many other tech firms try luring workers to the office
Also upping perks to recruit, retain employees; Critics say such moves are simply ways to get longer hours out of workers
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How The Average American Adult Spends 24 Hours Each Day
It may come as a surprise to some that when distributed across all American adults (15+, male and female), including weekends, the average American spent just 3.57 hours out of every 24 on work and work-related activities in 2011, according to the BLS' American Time Survey. The number one time consuming activity? Sleep, at 8.71 hours (an all time high for the series),...
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Bikes, trains, carpools: How do you get to work?
About 8% of workers in the USA commute an hour or longer; 4.3% work from home.
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