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Apple Employees Confess All The Worst Things About Working At Apple
If you want to work in tech, you want the words "Apple Inc." somewhere on your resume. That experience is widely regarded as a key that can unlock virtually any other type of employment opportunity.
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The '77 Cents on the Dollar' Myth About Women's Pay
April 8 is "Equal Pay Day," an annual event to raise awareness regarding the so-called gender wage gap. As President Obama said in the State of the Union address, women "still make 77 cents for every dollar a man earns," a claim echoed by the National Committee on Pay Equity, the American Association of University Women and other progressive groups.
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Amazon offers employees $5,000 to quit if they're unhappy
Amazon.com is expanding an internal policy of paying employees cash to leave their jobs if they're unhappy and not engaged in the company long term. In an annual letter to shareholders Thursday, Amazon CEO Jess Bezos outlined details of the longstanding offer, under the header "Please Don't Take This Offer."
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24 People Who Applied for the World's Toughest Job Were In for Quite a Surprise
Here's a pretty cool project from Mullen for a client we won't immediately reveal, lest we spoil the surprise. (Scroll down to the bottom of credits, or watch the video to find out.) The Boston agency posted this job listing online for a
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How Being a Doctor Became the Most Miserable Profession
Nine of 10 doctors discourage others from joining the profession, and 300 physicians commit suicide every year. When did it get this bad?
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Yahoo's fired COO gets $58 million severance package
Yahoo's recently fired chief operating officer, Henrique de Castro, left the internet company with a severance package of $58 million even though he lasted just 15 months on the job. The disclosure in a regulatory filing may lead to more second-guessing of Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer's decision to hire de Castro as her second-in-command in October 2012.
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Skip to the loo
One of the reasons people these days are so unfit compared to just a generation or two ago is that we have become quite sedentary. We spend our work days in front of a screen. We spend our leisure time in front of another screen. And too many channels on TV means more butt time and less foot time. We simply don’t move enough.
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Pursue a career in open source with these 7 tips
Seven skills needed to help you land that dream job you want in open source.
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RadiumOne CEO Has Been Fired
The board of RadiumOne has fired its CEO Gurbaksh Chahal, the company announced today.Kara Swisher of Re/code was the first to report that Chahal was out. Bill Lonergan, the COO, will be RadiumOne's new CEO. This comes just a few hours after Chahal wrote a blog post saying he did not beat his girlfriend.
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Project Sponsorship 101
Everything you need to know about project sponsorship.
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Inside Amazon's Bizarre Corporate Culture
Yesterday, we brought you one Amazon warehouse worker's account of what it's like working for the blue collar side of the operation. Today, we bring you an account of what it's like working on the corporate side. (Hint: "weird.")
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Is Working From Home Easier For Women?
Women can actually struggle with working from home, even if it benefits their families. Alexandra Levit offers some advice for managing the isolation issues that often arise.
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Girl Quits Job Using 33 White Board Messages. Her Boss Comes Back And Nails Her
She was not expecting him to come back with such a clever response. Embarrassing!
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5 Things High Performers Do to Drive Better Results
Were you born to succeed? Not necessarily. As it turns out, even if you’re mid-career and feel you’ve never shined in school or work, you can completely transform your ability to contribute. I recently had the opportunity to meet David …Read »
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What to Do If Your New Job Isn't What You Expected
According to a new survey by staffing firm Robert Half, 41 percent of workers said the role they accepted at a company was different than what had been outlined to them during the interview process.
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No matter what the boss says about flextime, get to work early
Flex-time is not as flexible as you might think. The belief that getting an early start to the day is virtuous is widely held. In fact, finds a forthcoming study, it’s so pervasive that managers rate workers who get an early start higher than those who get in and stay late, no matter how many hours they work in total or how well they do their jobs. And it could explain why other research has found that workers who have flexible schedules have less successful careers.
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In B-School, Is That a Syllabus, or an Itinerary?
One weekend in February, about a third of Sean Pool’s classmates at the McCombs School of Business at the University of Texas at Austin went on a three-day ski trip to Park City, Utah. The event included nighttime, après-ski outings in town, as well as time to relax in a hot tub, according to the itinerary posted on Facebook. The Graduate Business Adventure Team, a student-run group, planned the trip.
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Why Are We So Busy?
Since the 1930s, U.S. G.D.P. has grown, in real terms, by a factor of sixteen. Why hasn’t that wealth translated into more leisure time?
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11 Surefire Ways to Turn Your Dreams Into Reality
The loftiest goal I ever set in the early stages of my professional career was to become a Navy SEAL. Achieving that milestone gave me a new perspective and set the foundation for the rest of my life. Nothing seemed too far from my grasp.
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Memories Of My 16-Year Career In Video Games
After 16 years covering the game industry, playing hundreds of games and interviewing thousands of people, I've slowly developed a catalog of life events tied around memories of games.
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