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+11 +2Employees want a ‘family feel’ at the heart of their organisation’s culture, finds latest Employee Outlook survey
The latest Employee Outlook 2015 survey, published by the CIPD, the professional body for HR and people development, in partnership with Halogen Software, has found that regardless of organisation size, the vast majority of employees want to work for a firm that has a ‘family feel’ and is ‘held together by loyalty and tradition’.
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+10 +2What it’s really like to work for a tech giant
Morning ¶ It’s San Francisco or wherever. Is Silicon Valley in San Francisco? Either way, you probably live there. With…
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+2 +1The best software companies to work for in 2015
61% of employees working in Software 500 companies would recommend their company to a friend.
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+9 +2I am an adjunct professor who teaches five classes. I earn less than a pet-sitter.
My situation is not unique. 76% of instructional staff appointments in US higher education are now not even full-time jobs
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0 +1Take a break!
We work long hours and rarely take enough breaks for our own well-being or for our productivity. Let's explore the types of breaks we should be taking.
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+12 +1Will Baby Boomers Change the Meaning of Retirement?
“Now that we’re living so much longer, we do not know what we will be doing with all that time.”
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+2 +1Artist film: Mary Lloyd Jones
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+1 +1Go the Fuck Home: Engineering Work/Life Balance - Pam Selle Ignite Philly 9
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+3 +1Cool vs. powerful
Early this morning, this article crossed my transom: Why I Won't Run Another Startup. It's short, and it's excellent. Go read it. It brought to mind an interesting social dynamic that, I think, is ...
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+1 +1How I made 100k freelancing and absolutely loved it
To challenge myself, I have set a goal to earn 100k USD as soon as possible with freelancing gigs.
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+1 +1Headhunter tells millennials how to land jobs and keep them
Citrin, with three children in their 20s, wrote a book called "The Career Playbook" to help millennials — and anyone, for that matter — land jobs and keep them. We asked him to share some advice for job hunters.
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+2 +1Your Employer Is Not Your Friend, and Young People Know It
For all their faults, millennials are actually very well-equipped to handle the job market's current trends.
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+7 +2Career advice for millennials (and really, anyone) from Margaret Heffernan
How do you thrive in today's companies? Margaret Heffernan's advice is to invest time in getting to know people and ask for their help.
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+12 +1Managing the Millennials
Millennials will be a powerful generation of workers; those with the right skills will be in high demand. In reality, there are strong similarities between millennials and the generations that have preceded them: they want security and variety in their career; they want to be stretched and challenged; they want to work for a company of which they can be proud; and they have every intention of being loyal.
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+12 +3Do Disability Benefits Reduce Work Effort?
Though Duggan and other critics claim disability insurance reduces employment, the Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) program creates strong incentives for beneficiaries to stay in, or return to, the workforce. Beneficiaries are allowed to earn up to $1090 a month (the current threshold for “substantial gainful activity”) with no reduction in benefits.
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+21 +2This U.K. Company Offered Its Employees Unlimited Vacation Time. It Was a Total Failure.
Sir Richard Branson may be the most high-profile advocate of unlimited vacation days, but he's far from the only entrepreneur entranced by the idea. His announcement last fall of the new policy for some employees at Virgin set off a flurry of press coverage of other firms that were succeeding with similar policies (as well as a few pieces offering skeptical pushback).
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+13 +3LinkedIn's Weirdest Members: My Encounter With 'Alice Powell'
Some pranksters are working hard to create fake LinkedIn profiles. Why? The strange debut of "Alice Powell" sheds some light on this mystery.
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+25 +4Why telling kids to dream big is a big con
Our culture is rich with esteem-boosting platitudes for young dreamers, but the assurances are dishonest and dangerous. By Leslie Garrett.
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+2 +1Mother quits market stall after complaints about son with Down Syndrome
Jackie Macedo has been cooking at Sydney's Orange Grove Markets for 14 years. And for the last few, she's been bringing her little boy Noah with her. But this week Jackie received a phone call from the market operators saying there'd been complaints about him being there. "The manager has said it's a duty of care issue so I guess they feel I'm neglecting my child by bringing him along here," Jackie told SBS. She was told other stall holders too are concerned.
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+1 +19 common behaviours that hurt your chances of success
Don't worry -- you aren't doomed to failure.
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