For office workers on a regular schedule, the breaking point was 38 hours per week. Given a flexible schedule and the option to telecommute, employees were able to clock 57 hours per week before experiencing such conflict. From a recent study by researchers at Brigham Young University (Telecommuters with flextime stay balanced up to 19 [...] [Posted: 11 Jun 2010]
Studying the humanities will give you a familiarity with the language of emotion. In an information economy, many people have the ability to produce a technical innovation: a new MP3 player. Very few people have the ability to create a great brand: the iPod. Branding involves the location and arousal of affection, and you can’t [...] [Posted: 10 Jun 2010]
Sweden had already gone further than many countries have now in relieving working mothers: Children had access to highly subsidized preschools from 12 months and grandparents were offered state-sponsored elderly care. The parent on leave got almost a full salary for a year before returning to a guaranteed job, and both could work six-hour days [...] [Posted: 10 Jun 2010]
“If a woman is merely perceived as having the intention to gain power … people are likely to make a wealth of inferences about her character, and judge her accordingly,“ write Tyler Okimoto and Victoria Brescoll of the Yale School of Management. “Specifically, the intention to gain power may signal to others that she is [...] [Posted: 9 Jun 2010]
Photos from a Sunday, May 30th, 2010 protest at Jackson Square in New Orleans. Found on Flickr in the Humid City pool. And this isn’t from the protest, but I’m including it here because I found it amusing: Oil. Spill. Dead fish cupcakes. [Posted: 6 Jun 2010]
The financial calculus is pretty clear. But from a moral standpoint, the rationale should be just as obvious. The bank was not doing you a favor when it extended you a loan. It was trying to make money off of you. If that effort doesn’t work out for the bank, it’s not your fault. The [...] [Posted: 6 Jun 2010]