As you sit at your office working away, you hear a co-worker nearby hacking up a lung and blowing their nose into tissue after tissue. At this point, there are two common lines of thought that occur in response to this situation:
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Sick Days: Use When Under the Weather or Overworked?
Posted by Glassdoor Team • November 18th, 2009 • Comments
Two Weeks Left Until Glassdoor’s Best Places to Work Awards Deadline!!
Posted by Glassdoor Team • November 17th, 2009 • Comments
Is your company a best place to work? If so, there’s no time to wait – you have just two weeks left to meet the eligibility guidelines for the awards. Keep in mind that, unlike other workplace awards, this one is based off the company reviews submitted to Glassdoor by employees. Details on how to ... - Read full post
Job Recruiters Dish On What They Like About Their Careers, What They Don’t, And What They Get Asked In An Interview
Posted by Glassdoor Team • November 16th, 2009 • Comments
According to Glassdoor interview reviews, 15% have acquired a job interview with the help of a recruiter and 3% get an interview by working with a staffing agency. Given these findings, we were curious to find out what it’s like to be a recruiter or staffing agency professional in this market. What does it take ... - Read full post
Kate Gosselin Career Lessons
Posted by Glassdoor Team • November 13th, 2009 • Comments
Layered deep beneath all the makeup, hairspray and intense marketing jargon may actually be some useful career lessons from tabloid-media darling Kate Gosselin. You may be saying “yeah right,” but alas, it’s true. Even without the eight, Kate Gosselin may actually have more to offer the world than just a sensationalistic read at the grocery ... - Read full post
AT&T’s “There’s a Map for That” Lawsuit Against Verizon
Posted by Glassdoor Team • November 4th, 2009 • Comments
The gloves are off: the media has reported that AT&T is suing Verizon over the company’s “There’s a Map for That” ads with the claim that the spots mislead customers as to AT&Ts overall coverage area, representing only 3G and not wireless coverage overall. While this news is not unexpected, it does come on the ... - Read full post
Can You Visualize Work & Career Goals? Create A Vision Board
Posted by Glassdoor Team • October 28th, 2009 • Comments
About a year ago, Oprah Winfrey did a show with a panel of psychologists who discussed the power of a vision board. A vision board is a large presentation board that included cut outs of pictures, words or key phrases from magazines, newspapers or anything form of paper to capture something you hope to achieve. ... - Read full post
Goldman Sachs: An Insider Perspective
Posted by Glassdoor Team • October 27th, 2009 • Comments
Goldman Sachs has been in the spotlight as of late, namely due to excessive financial compensation for some of the company’s top brass. Case in point, protesters recently gathered outside the Chicago office to ask the company to donate its entire projected $23 billion bonus pool to prevent every foreclosure in America.
Apple / Microsoft War is Back On: New Products and New Marketing Campaigns
Posted by Glassdoor Team • October 23rd, 2009 • Comments
This was a big week for the computer industry – Apple continued to show strength with a favorable earnings report and new marketing campaign; Microsoft launched Windows 7 (in the hope of erasing Vista’s memory forever) and, while the company’s earnings fell 18% to $3.6 billion or 40 cents per share, they beat street estimates ... - Read full post
Glassdoor Q3 CEO Watch List Report: Highest and Lowest CEO Approval Ratings Reveal Employee Opinions May be Influenced by Proximity to CEO
Posted by Glassdoor Team • October 21st, 2009 • Comments
The Glassdoor quarterly report* on CEO performance is out, and it seems the down economy and internal actions may have impacted the popularity of CEOs across the board. More than 60% of CEOs on both the highest and lowest rated lists — ranking 25 CEOs each — recorded a decline in overall approval ratings since ... - Read full post
Top Signs You Are Overwhelmed At Work
Posted by Glassdoor Team • October 19th, 2009 • Comments
It’s already a crazy week, month or quarter, and you have been running ragged to complete one goal and then another. But are you aware of the signs or side effects that occur when you are under too much pressure and have way too much on your plate?
