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Culture Is ‘hot-desking’ our future? Ask a Manager weighs in on the future of work
I cook something from scratch for lunch most days — quickly sauteing some vegetables to throw over pasta, or reviving leftovers with a fried egg and some experimental sauce. It’s never anything particularly gourmet, yet it’s one of the little luxuries of working from home that I am loath to relinquish. Of course, it hasn’t…
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Life Gender in the Workplace, in Your Words
Forward readers were surveyed about their experiences in the workplace. Here are some responses: “I realized that my emails included ‘just,’ ‘don’t want to bother you,’ ‘if that’s okay.’ Men’s emails include statements. I was making way too many excuses and apologizing for having ideas and taking up space.” “If you are in the right…
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The Schmooze Zac Efron Proves He’s Jewish By Unzipping
Zac Efron is Jewish. Really. He can prove it. In fact, he did. In a new video for Comedy Central’s “Workaholics,” Efron and Seth Rogen (his co-star in “Neighbors”) interview for a job with Adam (Adam DeVine), Blake (Blake Anderson) and Ders (Anders Holm). “I think if you add a Jewish person, you’d probably be…
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Opinion A Labor Agenda for the 21st Century: Less Work
There are many icons of American labor: the Haymarket martyrs, Cesar Chavez, Joe Hill. But often overlooked are a cartoon pair who taught us a lot about resisting the wage system: Beavis and Butthead. In an episode titled “On Strike,” America’s favorite chuckleheads get inspired by the ongoing baseball strike to start their own work…
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Breaking News Israeli Airline Workers Strike Over ‘Open Skies’
Israel’s cabinet on Sunday approved an open skies agreement that aims to boost airline traffic to and from Europe, defying a strike by workers at El Al and two smaller airlines who fear for their jobs due to higher competition from foreign airlines. Supporters of the open skies deal – which will go into effect…
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Opinion Raise Minimum Wage and Protect Workers Rights
The minimum wage was created in 1938 to help reduce poverty. Today that goal has been abandoned, as Congress has resisted raising the minimum wage to keep up with the cost of living, and millions of full-time workers are unable to make ends meet. A person paid the current minimum wage of $7.25 an hour…
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Life So Are We Colleagues, Allies or Friends?
In the first episode of “Downton Abbey,” Lady Cora asks her mother-in-law, the Dowager Countess, “Are we to be friends then?” In response, her mother-in-law wisely says, “We are allies, my dear, which can be a good deal more effective.” In other words, there is a significant difference between women being friends and women being…
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