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EXTREME MEASURES

Man Stabs Himself to Get Out of Blockbuster Shift

Winds up in jail after manhunt for imaginary assailant

Nov 4, 09 1:40 PM CST
(Newser) - Aaron Siebers was willing to go to some pretty radical lengths to avoid his shift at Blockbuster. On Monday the 29-year-old stabbed himself in the leg before going into work, claiming he’d been attacked by three men. He got out of work, but things swiftly got out of hand... More »

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work • police • Blockbuster • stupidity • manhunt

DUSTING=Intimacy?

 Couples Who 
 Share Chores 
 Have More Sex 

Housework amps up your spouse, but why?

Oct 21, 09 1:42 PM CDT
(Newser) - More housework equals more sex, a new study shows, though watchers are split on why that is. Two answers quickly spring up: For one, active folks tend to pour their energy into all pursuits. “This group of go-getters seem to make sex a priority,” a researchers tells... More »

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work • study • marriage • sex • housework • relationship • opinion polls • women's issues

h1n1 outbreak

County Will Fire Sick Employees for Working

Arizona municipality tries to put brakes on spread of swine flu

Oct 16, 09 1:13 PM CDT
(Newser) - In a desperate attempt to curb the spread of swine flu, Pima County, Ariz., has notified its employees that they could be canned if they come to work sick. Any employee with a fever over 100.4 accompanied by any other flu symptom will be sent packing. “It seems... More »

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Arizona • work • influenza • office workers • swine flu • H1N1 virus • Pima County, Ariz.

 Forget Fetching Coffee: 
 Interns Work From Home 

'Virtual internships' take among small business

Sep 29, 09 9:57 AM CDT
(Newser) - Companies have long used internships to avoid paying young people, but increasingly they don't want to see their interns at all. "Virtual internships," where recent grads do research and sales or work with social media from home, has expanded from an unheard-of practice to "something almost every... More »

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technology • work • employment • college graduates • telecommuting • internship • social media

TECH REVIEW

Some Software to Keep You Focused

Digital nannies keep you away from distracting web sites

Sep 17, 09 12:30 PM CDT
(Newser) - The PC is a devilishly distracting tool, with news, social-networking, and game sites—not to mention work—vying for your attention. To salvage his productivity, Farhad Manjoo turned to a number of programs designed to cut down on distractions, he writes for the New York Times. There are three types.... More »

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social networking • work • productivity • office workers • Web browsing • distraction

 Job Loss 
 Anxiety Hurts 
 More Than 
 No Job at All 

Smoking, hypertension worse than unemployment fear

Aug 29, 09 5:33 PM CDT
(Newser) - Worried about your job? It may be better for your health if you just quit, new research suggests. Looking at studies of nearly 2,000 adults, scientists at the University of Michigan have found job loss anxiety can be more harmful to your health than unemployment, hypertension, or even smoking,... More »

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health • hypertension • work • smoking • stress • University of Michigan • jobless

OPINION

 Ladies, Pick Up Thy Power Tool 


Aug 13, 09 1:55 PM CDT
(Newser) - Sara Mosle “came of age betwixt and between,” she writes on DoubleX—after feminism had freed women from the need to learn “traditional female skills” but before “they had begun to make real inroads into traditional male pastimes and professions.” So that left her with... More »

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feminism • housewives • work • women • home • physical activity • carpentry

OPINION

Live With It:
Retirement
Must Shrink

Longer lifespans, older population mean quitting age has to rise

Jun 26, 09 12:13 PM CDT
(Newser) - With people living longer and having fewer children in developed countries, the population is aging even as the workforce shrinks. And with retirement ages in the 60s, retirees are living longer on pensions. Those demographic shifts make a policy shift inevitable: we’re all going to have to work longer,... More »

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baby boomer • elderly • Japan • work • retirement • retirees • aging • baby boom • Hitachi • demographic trends





 Retire Later, Delay 
 Alzheimer's: Study 

Work keeps brain alert, cells connected

May 18, 09 1:27 AM CDT
(Newser) - It may be a bitter pill to swallow, but delaying retirement is one way to stave off Alzheimer's, a new study has found. Each extra year of work amounted to a six-week delay in the condition's development among patients studied. Alzheimer's is caused by brain cell loss, and the mental... More »

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work • retirement • brain • medical study • Alzheimer's Disease

OPINION

 Even in Geniuses,
 Hard Work Trumps IQ 

Latest research says greatness more due to sweat than brains

May 1, 09 9:25 AM CDT
(Newser) - In today’s scientific age, research suggests that genius isn’t a “hard-wired” trait, writes David Brooks in the New York Times: instead, it suggests “a more prosaic, democratic, even puritanical” perspective. Greatness may start with “slightly above average” talent, but what counts is thousands of... More »

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work • brain • research • geniuses • practice

11:45am Tuesday the Most Stressful Time of Week

Move over Monday

Apr 6, 09 3:18 PM CDT
(Newser) - Move over Monday. Researchers have found that mid-Tuesday morning is the most stressful part of the work week, the Daily Telegraph reports. In a poll of 3,000 British adults, nearly half picked 11:45am Tuesday as their most hectic time. “Traditionally, people associate Monday as the worst... More »

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work • stress • workload

Boob Jobs Latest Aids
in Boom, Bust Cycle

Breast jobs balloon as workers try to catch employer's eye

Mar 17, 09 5:17 AM CDT
(Newser) - When the going gets tough, the tough get boob jobs. That's the theory from some British experts who point out that breast augmentation surgery has ballooned 30%. Laid-off female employees have time for recuperation—and apparently hope to capitalize on the boost bigger breasts appear to give women workers when... More »

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plastic surgery • work • recession • breast implants • breasts • job • fiscal crisis • Howard Stern Grid

GLOSSIES

 American Dream 
 Dies in Our Wallet 

Lust for fame and fortune have hijacked the nation's true promise

Mar 8, 09 7:26 AM CDT
(Newser) - To the dreary lexical suite that defines our times—greed, foreclosure, stimulus and debt—we must add humility, David Kamp writes in Vanity Fair. Our gluttonous pursuits and ridicule of middle-class life has landed us in the grip of a recession and twisted the shape of the American Dream, he... More »

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work • middle class • recession • American dream • founding fathers

Long Work Hours Weaken Mental Skills

Putting in 55 or more hours per week hurts memory, reasoning

Feb 25, 09 4:38 PM CST
(Newser) - Working long hours may weaken mental skills, the BBC reports. Researchers administered a series of reasoning and memory tests to 2,214 British civil servants and found that those working more than 55 hours a week did significantly worse than those who worked around 40. The effect was cumulative, meaning... More »

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dementia • depression • work • mental health • stress • employment • cognitive science • employee

Desperate Times: UK Mulls 3-Day Week

Gov't may compensate workers to avoid higher cost of mass layoffs

Jan 25, 09 10:39 AM CST
(Newser) - Now officially in recession amid the global downturn, the specter of a three-day work week has emerged in Britain, the Independent reports. Though officials say it’s "not imminent," the government has discussed paying firms to cut hours with public cash going toward compensating employees for the lost... More »

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work • Gordon Brown • recession • unemployment • Britain • Alistair Darling • employees • hours • recession depression

 The Best  
 (and Worst)  
 Jobs in America 

Findings confirm it's good to be nerdy

Jan 6, 09 2:55 PM CST
(Newser) - How desirable is your daily grind? A new study aims to answer that question with a list ranking the best and worst jobs according to five factors: “environment, income, employment outlook, physical demands, and stress,” the Wall Street Journal reports. In the end, the CareerCast list suggests, nerds... More »

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work • list • worst jobs • logging • job • career • mathematicians

It's a Stressful Day—Have
You Tried Shouting?

Survey ranks today as most trying of the year

Jan 5, 09 3:16 PM CST
(Newser) - Today is the most stressful day of the year, as back-to-work blues meet the cold weather and economic gloom, the Telegraph reports. And a survey by RNLI found that co-worker behaviors such as noisy eating, sniffing, and talking loudly on the phone rank as the most annoying things to endure... More »

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work • poll • stress • holiday • survey • temper tantrums • holiday season

New Maternity Leave Means Bring Your
Kids to Work

Firms go ga-ga over not losing mom for months

Jan 4, 09 6:00 PM CST
(Newser) - Every day can be bring-your-child-to-work day, the New York Times reports, as more companies are allowing parents to bring their babies into the office. The move helps moms and dads dodge the financial hit of parental leave while simultaneously spending time with their kids. “I have not heard anyone... More »

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parenting • work • children • parents • baby • office • working mothers • maternity leave

 Work Eases Madge's 
 Tough Times 

Music steadies Material Girl through divorce from Guy Ritchie

Nov 24, 08 3:10 PM CST
(Newser) - Madonna is saddened by her impending divorce, but work motivates her to soldier on, she tells the AP. Though her split with husband Guy Ritchie weighs heavily on her, touring and promoting a new movie “provides a distraction that keeps me going,” the star said. She recently made... More »

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music • work • Malawi • Madonna • celebrity divorces • Guy Ritchie • David Banda

opinion

Plastic Surgery: Your Own Personal Stimulus Package

Studies link better pay to better looks, so a face-lift helps you—and your surgeon

Sep 11, 08 3:36 PM CDT
(Newser) - Rising gas prices, fewer jobs and the slumping economic has many craving a face-lift, literally. Most would-be patients make less than $60,000, so why not have "tax breaks on cosmetic surgery for low-income Americans," Rosa Brooks suggests in the Los Angeles Times. It’s a completely rational... More »

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plastic surgery • work • beauty • workplace discrimination • cosmetic surgery

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