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That Time of the Month: Boss Tags Women With Red Bands

You know, to monitor bathroom breaks

(Newser) - We're apparently not making this up: One Norway boss makes female staffers wear red wristbands during that time of the month to explain frequent bathroom breaks. That tidbit popped up in a new report about "tyrannical" bathroom rules at Norwegian workplaces. The report found that some 66% of managers...

59% of Us Will Check Email on Thanksgiving

We interrupt this dinner to bring you a message from the boss

(Newser) - Who's really the turkey on Thanksgiving? It may be the 59% of us who will interrupt our holiday to check our email. And of those inbox slaves, 55% will check their work email at least once. The stats come courtesy of a Xobni/Harris Interactive survey of 2,179 adults, which...

Top 10 Ways Employees Waste Time at Work

Using Facebook, shockingly, makes the list

(Newser) - 24/7 Wall St. looked at a number of workplace studies on how people spend time online, and found that most say employees with PCs spend 20-plus hours a week on the Web while at work—and about a quarter of that is for personal use. 24/7 Wall St. broke...

Teacher Throws Self Down Stairs to Avoid Review

Not surprisingly, she resigned

(Newser) - Apparently calling in sick just wasn’t challenging enough for a Brooklyn teacher who decided instead to throw herself down the stairs in an effort to avoid a bad performance review, the New York Post reports. The untenured high school teacher, who already had one poor review under her belt,...

Teacher Faked Brain Cancer to Skip Work

Cops say Leslie Herneisey lied about tumors for decade

(Newser) - What to do when you're too old to have mom write you a sick note to get out of school? Fake a really, really serious disease, apparently. Pennsylvania police say a special-education teacher has spent the last 9 years claiming she had an inoperable brain tumor in order to skip...

What Not to Wear to the Office

 What Not to Wear to the Office 
summer fashion
Jun 5, 2010 8:02 AM CDT

What Not to Wear to the Office

Skip the shorts, and the stockings

(Newser) - Temperatures are rising and necklines are plunging—but showing too much cleavage can turn you into the office boob. Don't let your summertime sartorial choices tarnish your workplace reputation, writes Anna Post, a rep for the Emily Post Institute, for Reuters . Her fashion tips:
  • Mix high and low: Pair one
...

50% of Workers Bring Jobs Home

Personal lives suffer for rich, educated

(Newser) - Nearly half of all American workers bring their work home, with many saying that it affects their family, social or leisure lives. Those worst affected are professionals, the wealthy, and the highly educated, reports Live Science . It’s “what we refer to as ‘the stress of higher status,...

Man Stabs Himself to Get Out of Blockbuster Shift
Man Stabs Himself to Get Out of Blockbuster Shift
EXTREME MEASURES
Nov 4, 2009 1:40 PM CST

Man Stabs Himself to Get Out of Blockbuster Shift

Winds up in jail after manhunt for imaginary assailant

(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...

Couples Who Share Chores Have More Sex
 Couples Who 
 Share Chores 
 Have More Sex 
DUSTING=Intimacy?
Oct 21, 2009 1:42 PM CDT

Couples Who Share Chores Have More Sex

Housework amps up your spouse, but why?

(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 the...

County Will Fire Sick Employees for Working
County Will Fire Sick Employees for Working
h1n1 outbreak
Oct 16, 2009 1:13 PM CDT

County Will Fire Sick Employees for Working

Arizona municipality tries to put brakes on spread of swine flu

(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...

Forget Fetching Coffee: Interns Work From Home

'Virtual internships' take among small business

(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...

Some Software to Keep You Focused
Some Software to Keep You Focused
TECH REVIEW
Sep 17, 2009 12:30 PM CDT

Some Software to Keep You Focused

Digital nannies keep you away from distracting web sites

(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....

Job Loss Anxiety Hurts More Than No Job at All

Smoking, hypertension worse than unemployment fear

(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,...

Ladies, Pick Up Thy Power Tool
 Ladies, Pick Up Thy Power Tool 
OPINION
Aug 13, 2009 1:55 PM CDT

Ladies, Pick Up Thy Power Tool

(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...

Live With It: Retirement Must Shrink
Live With It:
Retirement
Must Shrink
OPINION
Jun 26, 2009 12:13 PM CDT

Live With It: Retirement Must Shrink

Longer lifespans, older population mean quitting age has to rise

(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,...

Retire Later, Delay Alzheimer's: Study

Work keeps brain alert, cells connected

(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...

Even in Geniuses, Hard Work Trumps IQ
 Even in Geniuses,
 Hard Work Trumps IQ 
OPINION
May 1, 2009 9:25 AM CDT

Even in Geniuses, Hard Work Trumps IQ

Latest research says greatness more due to sweat than brains

(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 hours...

11:45am Tuesday the Most Stressful Time of Week

Move over Monday

(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 day...

Boob Jobs Latest Aids in Boom, Bust Cycle

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

(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...

American Dream Dies in Our Wallet
 American Dream 
 Dies in Our Wallet 
GLOSSIES
Mar 8, 2009 7:26 AM CDT

American Dream Dies in Our Wallet

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

(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...

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