There’s a line in one of my favorite songs that’s been tripping me up recently. “We Take Care of Our Own” kicks off Bruce Springsteen’s 2012 album, “Wrecking Ball,” a late-career masterpiece that sifts through the rubble of the Great Recession. After a few verses lamenting the American political system’s abandonment of the working class, “from Chicago to New Orleans,” Springsteen launches into the bridge. “Where’re the eyes, the eyes with the will to see?” he thunders. “Where’re the hearts
In 1959, the same year in which the term “knowledge work” was coined, a chemical engineer turned consultant named James T. McCay published “The Management of Time,” one of the first professional-productivity guides. Early in the book, he lays out the fundamental challenge posed by this new type of work. “Almost without exception, executives have expressed in one form or another their keen and ever present awareness that they haven’t time to do all that should be done,” he writes.
A Michigan man said ‘I’m not sorry’ after a bloodthirsty rampage which saw him gun down his ex in broad daylight as she left the care home where she worked, prosecutors have said.
Barry Garza, 58, is accused of killing Amber Jo Thomas, 40, by shooting her in the neck as she walked towards her car in the parking lot of Linden Square Assisted Living Center in Saline, Michigan, around 11.30am Thursday.
Thomas reportedly had a personal protection order against
“Not only illegal but absolutely demoralizing”
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“I cannot anticipate what the next Commission will do. But we are attaching high importance to this issue of AI in the world of work.”
-Nicolas Schmit, European Commissioner for Jobs and
We’ve been given no shortage of digital tools that should, in theory, help us work better, with more focus and efficiency, and connect us more easily with our colleagues. Instead, email, instant messaging, remote-meeting apps, work-flow and project-management software and so on can feel like so many buckets with holes in the bottom, maddeningly inadequate to the task of keeping us from drowning in work. It’s clear that something in the great digital-workplace experiment has gone wrong. Or maybe
Im Juni forderte Elon Musk, der die Verlagerung der Pandemiezeit zur Fernarbeit satt hatte, seine Mitarbeiter auf, vierzig Stunden pro Woche im Tesla-Büro zu verbringen, sonst riskiere er die Ausweisung. Er war nicht der einzige Industriekapitän, der gegen die Auswirkungen der Pandemie auf die Arbeitskultur protestierte. Letztes Jahr erklärte der CEO von JPMorgan Chase, Jamie Dimon, dass die Arbeit von zu Hause aus keine praktikable Option für „diejenigen sei, die sich beeilen wollen“. In diesem Frühjahr musste er eine teilweise
Even though you probably wish you were on summer vacay, your July 2022 career horoscope is proof that a job well done can feel even more satisfying than a day at the beach! After all, it’s knowing you’ve worked hard that makes taking time off feel *so* good. And if you want to take advantage of every opportunity at your disposal this month, your horoscope will point you in the right direction. After all, there’s room for everyone at the … Read more
Working women are at a crossroads. While they earned 82 percent of what men did in 2018, at the end of that year they made up half the paid workforce. “Women are not just working,” Claudia Goldin states in her new book, Career and Family. “They have meaningful careers that many manage, or intend, to combine with a family in an equitable marriage…. In all of world history, this has never happened before.”
Yet despite
