Just in case you haven’t been keeping up with the state of the workplace According to a recent employee survey, more than one third of the employees who responded indicated their compensation had been reduced or they haven’t had a raise in the last year. 11% indicated their work had increased as a result of [...]
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Last year amid multiple crises – energy and financial – the state of Utah implemented a 4-day work week for government employees. Sparked by a desire to save energy, the pilot had another surprising outcome. The change did, indeed, result in a 13% savings in energy but the State also found that employees took fewer sick [...]
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Recently I had dinner with an opera singer, artist, professional dancer, and a free-lance communicator. Since part of the crowd was from Europe, it was natural to compare notes between life in these United States and life elsewhere. As we discussed our financial predicaments, there was a strange realization that no one had a real, stable job anymore. [...]
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Don’t go there! We’re all born. It’s terribly hard to become anything without being born. See, not what you thought. I was recently reminded how much leaders impact people and also how much people don’t follow people they don’t respect. Years ago, I heard what I believe is the quintessential definition of a leader – [...]
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I recently watched a public television program spotlighting the photographs of a government employee who helped farmers during the depression file the paperwork required to get their subsidies to survive. While the photos were wonderful reminders of my life growing up on the farm, it was the reflections of those who survived the depression that [...]
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