Australia is struggling to manage increased immigration. For a start, we don't have sufficient infrastructure (transport, housing, energy, health and education, and especially water), in place for the current 22 million citizens. Limited supplies of water top the list,...
According to a new survey released by wealth management firm UBS, French work fewer hours than others, yet they are one of the most productive countries in the world. The UBS survey compares the purchasing power in 73 cities, and when compared with the nations' GDP per...
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Celebrate National Take Your Dog to Work Day and take your pooch to work on Friday, June 26th. Register for the event and you could win a prize from FetchDog."The holiday was first celebrated in 1999 as a...
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A study led by Finnish researchers analyzed over 2,200 British civil servants, and found that those who worked more than 55 hours per week had poorer mental skills compared to those who worked a standard week....
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Want to get more productive and get noticed at work? A new color study suggests that that red aids recall while blue boosts creativity. Matching those two colors on work might thus boost your productivity! ...
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Good news for all Scrabulous fans - it's back on Facebook! It's pretty much the same, except it's now named Lexulous, and for those of us playing it when it went off last summer, our unfinished games,...
Feeling antsy at work? A new office treadmill configured for your desk could be your solution. Developed in part by Dr. James Levine of the Mayo Clinic, Walkstations could help you burn between...
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A recent survey has indicated that armed killings have cost countries billion of dollars.According to the survey conducted in the 90 countries, the economic cost from people killed by arms each year is estimated to total between US$95 billion and US$163 billion....
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TRIED TO CLEAN WORD 3The American government is wasting taxpayer's hard earned money by trying to uplift a growing population of unproductive Americans. Those deadbeats are not confined to any one ethnic or religious group. We all know who they are. Supporting deadbeats is...
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"The clipboard toting, clock-watching, quota-setting productivity expert, peering nosily over your shoulder at work, has been out of fashion in business schools for decades.Now he's back, in electronic form -- in the home office.In a budding trend some employment experts say...
I prefer face to face meetings, rather than internet meeting. But then that's me. What about you?" What's to love about LinkedIn? Melanie Lindner, Forbes Published: Friday, June 27, 2008 In the Internet age,...
MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. – E-mail management is a pain. One way to take charge of this problem is to hire a team of virtual assistants (VA) from a global outsourcing agency to do it for you. Companies large and small, from online dating sites to independent real estate agents,...
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Instant messaging are often perceived as an unnecessary means of communication in the office. Although many companies have banned IM at the workplace, they should rethink this banishment as it could...
Once you decide to construct a work environment that mentally “anchors” you in a positive way, you will start getting more done, faster, better and with less human effort.URLhttp://www.alexmandossian.com/2008/01/30/why-work-environments-influence-productivity/