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Sick Days: Use When Under the Weather or Overworked?
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:
Kate Gosselin Career Lessons
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
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
Apple / Microsoft War is Back On: New Products and New Marketing Campaigns
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
Clearview Counterpoint: Is Corporate Recruiting Broken? Career & HR Experts Debate
Moderator: Liz Ryan
Here’s the issue: Observers of the current organizational recruiting-and-selection process, in place at most employers, have noted that it’s a contender for the dubious ‘least functional corporate process’ award.
Glassdoor Q3 CEO Watch List Report: Highest and Lowest CEO Approval Ratings Reveal Employee Opinions May be Influenced by Proximity to CEO
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
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?
Active Company Culture vs. CEO Presence: What’s More Valuable?
In Sunday’s New York Times, an article by Julie Creswell honed in on a CEO who ruled his business from afar. Sure, everyone has those days when our shoulders relax because we know the boss will be out of the office for a day or two, but is it a good thing for business and ... - Read full post
QUIZ: How Much is Your Office Like ‘The Office’?
While The Office satirizes uncomfortable work situations, we can bet that you can relate to an episode or two. But just how close does your work situation resemble Dunder-Mifflin’s Scranton office? Using Glassdoor’s eight company evaluation points which make up our company ratings, we’ve created a short quiz to see how much your office, either ... - Read full post
