I’M a technical service assistant at PrintingForLess.com, an online printing company based in Livingston, Mont. I’m part of a three-person team. We provide quality control for print jobs, call local customers to notify them their orders are ready and send sample packs to potential clients. We also help other departments
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Mediation can often help resolve difficult working relationships. They say compromise is the key to a happy relationship, but in the workplace it’s just not that easy, as the ongoing dispute between Royal Mail and the Communication Workers Union proves.
But even though hours of negotiations appear to be failing between
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The number of men losing their jobs has risen by 50% during the recession. When Ria Wilkes’s husband lost his job as a pipefitter earlier this year, she never imagined she would become the family’s breadwinner several months down the line.
A mum of two little boys, the eldest aged two
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‘I’m a man,” says Tom, “therefore I work. Therefore I don’t do childcare, or at least not much. That’s what my wife does.”
Tom, 37, is one of those unreconstructed fathers whose world-view flies in the face of today’s report from the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) which suggests
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IMAGINE a workplace where all the plum assignments, all the bonuses and all the promotions are steered to relatives, friends and other members of an executive’s inner circle. In any self-respecting organization, such a practice wouldn’t be tolerated.
Sean Kelly
Most companies purport to be meritocracies, claiming to reward, recognize and
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At the age of 16, Robyn Steward’s first taste of a career in IT seemed to augur a world of possibilities. “It was four months’ work experience, supervised one-to-one by a computer technician,” she recalls. “He saw that I was good and would trust me to do stuff on my
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Everyday there are millions of Americans dreading going to work due to the ongoing office rumors and gossip that they disdain but yet feel it necessary to participate in, in order to be a part of the group and to also feel that they are well-liked and welcomed at work.
Your
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Politics in the workplace is a fact of life. If you don’t like it, get over it, or quit. Organizations are made up of people and nobody is perfect. People see from their perceptions and often have conflicting goals and objectives. Because of these factors, it’s inevitable that politics will
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A line of doors flew open and a lot of men stepped out headlong. They had high hats, healthy pale faces, dark overcoats and shiny boots; they held in their gloved hands thin umbrellas and hastily folded evening papers … Joseph Conrad, The Return, 1898
Conrad’s description of London commuters at
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Work stress is extremely common. Striving to do your best, competing for promotions, and struggling to separate work and home can all add to workplace stress. However, all these are normal. The last thing any employee should have to deal with; though, is inappropriate advances from their
boss.
A boss should be
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