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• The World Beyond 9-5

  Remember when you were a kid and stayed home from school because you were sick? Remember how weird it was to watch all those daytime TV talk shows and think, “so this is how the other half lives.” Remember how it was even stranger when you accompanied Read More... Posted Wednesday, April 02, 2008 7:00 AM by AlexandraLevit | 2 Comments Filed under: Employment Trends, Life Balance, Technology, Daily Life, Work

• Working Remotely or Remotely Working?

  The HR Capitalist has a great post about the distrust of those working from home. Are they really working, asks writer Kris Dunn, or are they simply squeezing 3 hours of work into an 8-hour day? More importantly, can a remote worker/telecommuter even Read More... Posted Monday, March 03, 2008 7:00 AM by AlexandraLevit | 0 Comments Filed under: HR Issues, Life Balance, Personal Marketing, Productivity, Professionalism, Technology, Daily Life, Work

• The Next Frontier of Exercise: Training Your Brain

  My fellow Huffington Post columnist Alvaro Fernandez writes about the recent news emphasis on brain fitness and "brain training,” which reflects a growing interest in natural, non-drug-based interventions to keep our brains sharp. Fernandez says that Read More... Posted Monday, February 25, 2008 7:00 AM by AlexandraLevit | 0 Comments Filed under: Personal Development, Productivity, Technology, Work

• Starting Your Own Gig: Entrepreneurism "at Work"

  Leaving the business world to start one’s own gig is a hot topic these days. I read blog posts about it every day, and my friend Pam Slim just sold a new book about it. Over lunch a few weeks ago, I asked my good friend Keith Alperin if he’d be willing Read More... Posted Friday, February 22, 2008 7:00 AM by AlexandraLevit | 0 Comments Filed under: Cool Careers, Discovering Your Passion, Entrepreneurship, Technology, Work, Plans, Hopes, Goals

• Work E-mail Usage Survey Results a Tad Unsettling

  According to a new national survey by Harris Interactive for The Marlin Company , 10% of U.S employees say their company has used e-mail to fire or lay off employees. And 17% indicated their boss used e-mails to avoid other difficult face-to-face conversations. Read More... Posted Wednesday, October 03, 2007 7:00 AM by AlexandraLevit | 0 Comments Filed under: Communication, Current Affairs, HR Issues, Technology, Daily Life, Work

• Ingenuity Pays Off When Recruiting Millennials

  Thanks to Steven Rothberg at CollegeRecruiter.com for sharing news of the innovative, first-ever Deloitte & Touche Film Festival. The festival invited employees in the accounting and consulting firm’s US operations to make short videos that answered Read More... Posted Monday, October 01, 2007 7:00 AM by AlexandraLevit | 0 Comments Filed under: Best Practices, Current Affairs, Employment Trends, Technology, Work

• Promoting Work/Life Balance

  Now that I’m a manager, I’ve found that it’s partly up to me to ensure that my reports have good work/life balance. I’ve seen other supervisors ignore this issue, expecting that work should be the only thing that matters to employees, and the department Read More... Posted Thursday, September 06, 2007 7:00 AM by AlexandraLevit | 1 Comments Filed under: Best Practices, Life Balance, Management, Productivity, Technology, Work

• Thought Please Was the Magic Word? Think Again.

  Will Schwalbe , a guest blogger at Penelope Trunk’s Brazen Careerist , is senior vice president, editor in chief of Hyperion Books , and has just published a cool new book called Send: The Essential Guide to Email for Office and Home . I’ve yet to receive Read More... Posted Friday, May 11, 2007 7:00 AM by AlexandraLevit | 0 Comments Filed under: Communication, Technology, Daily Life, Work

• Out-of-the-Office AutoReply Mayhem

  When I saw this post about out-of-the-office auto-replies on the BNET Business Hacks blog, I couldn’t resist chiming in. It all started with a scathing critique of the technology by PC Magazine columnist J ohn Dvorak . Said Dvorak: What's most annoying Read More... Posted Tuesday, February 20, 2007 7:00 AM by AlexandraLevit | 0 Comments Filed under: Technology, Daily Life, Work