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Where Working-Age Americans Are Moving
Barrels of ink and money have been devoted to predictions of where Americans will migrate, particularly younger ones. If you listen to big developer front groups such as the Urban Land Institute or pundits like Richard Florida, you would believe that smart companies that want to improve their chances of cadging skilled workers should head to such places as downtown Chicago, Manhattan and San Francisco, leaving their suburban office parks deserted like relics of a bygone era.
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The 7 Habits of Highly Overrated People
Being overrated can mean that you’re mediocre but people think that you’re great, or it can mean that you’re completely incompetent but nestle in somewhere and go unnoticed, doing, as Peter Gibbons in Office Space puts it, “just enough not to get fired.” The common facet is that there’s a sizable deficit between your actual value and your perceived value — you appear useful while actually being relatively useless. Here’s how.
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Everyone Wants to Be a Flight Attendant
Whenever airlines advertise openings for flight attendants, the applications gush in. Southwest Airlines (LUV) recently received 10,000 applications for 750 attendant positions—in about two hours. A year ago, 114,000 people sought 2,500 flight attendant spots at the airline, known for its laid-back work environment. It’s the same at other carriers: US Airways (AAL) had 16,500 applicants this past January for 450 spots, and Delta Air Lines (DAL) got 22,000 for 300 to 400 positions a year ago.
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The Top 11 Innovative Workplace Stories Of 2013
Do you like working from home? Do you like open offices? The debate raged this year about what makes workers happiest--and the best workers. Just be glad this scary rolling conference room isn't where you have your meetings.
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Zappos is going holacratic: no job titles, no managers, no hierarchy
Zappos is known for its zany corporate culture. The company’s Q4 “All Hands” meeting in November was aptly-themed “Gone Wild”: one female employee voluntarily climbed into a case filled with tarantulas to win a $250 gift card. The event opened with a Lion King performance put on by employees at the Smith Center in downtown Las Vegas and closed with an after party at the museum next door.
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Tim's Place Albuquerque: Service With A Smile
Tim Harris, owner of Tim's Place, is the country's only restaurant owner with Down's Syndrome, and the joy he gets from serving people good food carries over into his diner's most famous export: hugs! Tim's restaurant is located in Albuquerque, New Mexico, and is open 7 days a week.
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Zappos says goodbye to bosses
The Las Vegas-based retailer is now going even more radical, introducing a new approach to organizing the company. It will eliminate traditional managers, do away with the typical corporate hierarchy and get rid of job titles, at least internally. The company told employees of the change at a year-end meeting, Quartz first reported.
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Bullying at work: Hard to define, even harder to ban
Since 2003, workplace anti-bullying bills have been introduced in 25 states. All have failed. Why this may be a problem best solved outside of the law.
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For Ian’s sake — change
Police officers face stresses inherent to the job and need more helping dealing with them than they’re getting
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5 Skills You Need to Be a Leader at Work
If you've got your eye on a management role — especially one on the top of the totem pole — you have your work cut out for you. After all, there's more to being a boss than, wel...
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The strange science of how names shape careers
Can we blame Ron Paul’s political ambitions on his last name? Research suggests that people choose—or are unconsciously drawn to—careers that resemble their own names. The effect is stronger for women’s first names and men’s last names; psychologists hypothesize that women are less attached to their last names because they anticipate taking their husbands’.
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How a Fake Beard Can Get You Hired on the Internet
Javier Sanz recently decided his oDesk profile pic needed a fake beard. Sanz has spent a fair amount of time searching for work on the site, and this past fall, he ran a little test, Photoshopping a beard into his profile picture. He knew he looked a little young for his age, and he figured a beard would make him look older — and more trustworthy.
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The World's Best Bounty Hunter Is 4-Foot-11. Here's How She Hunts
At 4'11" and just over 100 pounds, Michelle Gomez doesn’t look like the sort of person you’d hire to retrieve earthmoving equipment stolen by a Peruvian crime family. But in the summer of 2013, that’s exactly what she was doing. Gomez, the proprietor of a one-woman operation in Lockhart, Texas, called Unlimited Recoveries, is one of the best skip tracers in the world.
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Readers' tales of extreme commuting
For many people commuting is a modern-day necessary evil. But for some, a six-hour journey is time well spent.
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On the Phenomenon of Bullshit Jobs
Ever had the feeling that your job might be made up? That the world would keep on turning if you weren’t doing that thing you do 9-5? David Graeber explored the phenomenon of bullshit jobs for our recent summer issue – everyone who’s employed should read carefully…
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Why I Let My Daughter Get a ‘Useless’ College Degree
My oldest child, Emma, just returned to campus after a long holiday break to finish up her last semester of college. But even before she has put the final period on her senior thesis, friends and family have been bombarding me with one question: What is she going to do after graduation?
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Elites embrace the “do what you love” mantra. But it devalues work and hurts workers.
“Do what you love. Love what you do.” The command is framed and perched in a living room that can only be described as “well-curated.” A picture of this room appeared first on a popular design blog and has been pinned, tumbl’d, and liked thousands of times. Though it introduces exhortations to labor into a space of leisure, the “do what you love” living room is the place all those pinners and likers long to be.
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Your Next Job Application Could Involve a Video Game
Brittni Daron jumped through a lot of hoops before she landed her job as a solution consultant at Oracle. At the tech giant, as at other firms in Silicon Valley to which she applied, she endured weeks — and occasionally months — of phone interviews, in-person interviews, mock presentations, personality tests and technical tests for both the skills she claimed to have and those she didn’t. This might sound a little ridiculous, but it’s not unusual.
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Why you should always back up your smartphone before telling off your boss
An unexpected side effect of the bring-your-own-device (BYOD) policy many companies are adopting is that smart device owners who either quit their jobs or are fired are finding that their former companies are wasting no time in wiping every last piece of data from their devices.
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Career and Business: Do You Know How to be Authentifake?
One of the interesting concepts I learned about recently was the idea of being authentifake to sell yourself at work.
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