Have you ever felt that your dedication to the job was evaluated by the number of hours you were physically present onsite, or the number of hours you were reachable? This is often used as a determination of work ethic.
We ourselves often boast about the number of hours we dedicate to the job, under [...]

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Recently a headline hit all of the major papers, asking, “Is Night Shift Tied to Cancer?” The International Agency for Research on Cancer is adding overnight-shift work as a probably carcinogen.
This doesn’t mean that working nights will, by itself, cause cancer. What happens is that the overnight work creates a risk when it disrupts the [...]

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In one of Scott Adam’s pointed Dilbert cartoon strips, the boss reminds employees to use their vacation time before the end of the year. When they do take the days, they are lambasted for not being there when there is so much work to do.
Have you accumulated vacation days that you should use before [...]

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Next week we observe National Take Back Your Time Day (Oct. 24). This date, nine weeks before the end of the year, recognizes the additional nine weeks that researchers say Americans are working in comparison with Western Europeans.
While we can counter that we may be more productive because of the extra hours worked, it [...]

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