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You’re Ending Your E-mails Wrong
It’s time to stop using “best.” The most succinct of e-mail signoffs, it seems harmless enough, appropriate for anyone with whom you might communicate. Best is safe, inoffensive. It’s also become completely and unnecessarily ubiquitous. That development is relatively recent: A University of Pennsylvania study from 2003 found that, out of hundreds of e-mailers, only 5 percent opted to close with best. It came in behind “thank you” and “regards.”
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We have reached a tipping point where technology is now destroying more jobs than it creates, researcher warns
The technology is here. But the jobs are nowhere to be found. Thanks to the efficiency of the internet and automated systems, productivity and GDP have grown during the last few decades, but the middle class and jobs are disappearing. In fact, we have reached a tipping point where technology is now destroying more jobs than it creates.
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Pink Slips at Disney. But First, Training Foreign Replacements
American tech workers in Orlando found their jobs and desks transferred to immigrants brought in under H-1B visas by an Indian firm.
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Making Victoria’s Secret Pay For Keeping Staff On Call
The controversial form of scheduling locks staff into shifts that can be canceled at the last minute, with no pay. But a lawsuit in California, and investigation in New York, could lead to big changes...
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Displaced IT workers are being silenced
A major problem with the ongoing H-1B debate is the absence of displaced IT workers in news stories. Much of the reporting is one-sided -- and there's a reason.
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Gawker to Vote on Unionizing, Because New Media Is Old Now | WIRED
Gawker writers are voting to decide if they should unionize. The result could spur tech workers in general to think harder about organizing.
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Employees 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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Heavy metal: Life at the world's largest shipyard
To a European visitor, the city of Ulsan on the southern tip of the Korean peninsula seems like a throwback to some lost world....
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Britain’s hotel workers – bullied, underpaid and with few rights
Exhausted cleaning staff, mainly women, are having to attend to more rooms for the same pay and are scared to join a union. But activists are recruiting more members and the workers are fighting back
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The True Reason Behind The 40-Hour Work Week And Why We Are Economic Slaves
Economic slavery, or wage slavery, refers to ones total and immediate dependence on wages to survive. Although people throughout history have had to ...
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Europeans are so sick of being unemployed that they're working fake jobs at fake companies
While Europe battles long-term unemployment, some people have grown so restless that they've started working fake jobs at fake companies all around the continent. The New York Times' Liz Alderman reports that thousands of fake companies across Europe hire fake employees to sell fake products to fake customers. Products like perfume, porcelain, and exotic pets.
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Millennials Aren’t Lazy: Millennials Aren’t Working Because the Economy Isn’t Either
Job prospects for the class of 2015 are better than for the several classes that graduated before them, but young graduates today still face many economic challenges, including stagnant wages and high levels of unemployment and underemployment.
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O Martyr My Martyr!
In most communities, teachers are compensated so poorly and afforded so little respect that in many cases the primary compensation is martyrdom.
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We are no longer paid what we are worth – just look at dog walkers
With some dog walkers now paid more than the average employee, it’s clear the days when pay was linked to effort, skill and the societal worth of a job are over
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Japan Tells Its Workers to Take More Vacation
Japan wants its workers to take more holidays and work fewer hours to cut down the number of people pushing themselves into an early grave. Decades after "karoshi," death from overwork, entered the Japanese lexicon, the government is still battling to get control of the problem. Leave entitlements and national holidays have increased, but the Japanese still shun vacations and the number of work-related suicides is little changed over the past decade.
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How Employers Get Out of Paying Their Workers
Employers illegally siphon billions of dollars out of low-wage workers' paychecks each year, but the vast majority of these crimes go unreported.
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Qatar refuses to let Nepalese workers return to attend funerals after quake
Nepalese minister says Fifa must pressure the Gulf state for better treatment of 1.5 million south Asian migrants
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The unemployed are dropping out like flies
At a time when 8.5 million Americans still don't have jobs, some 40 percent have given up even looking.
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What If You Didn't Have to Work for Money?
Advocates say that a guaranteed basic income can lead to more creative, fulfilling work. The question is how to fund it.
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The second job you don’t know you have
How self-checkouts, ATMs and airport check-ins are changing our economy.
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