What you choose to not do is as important as what you choose to do.
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Research: Using a Smartphone After 9 pm Leaves Workers Disengaged
Just shut the damned thing off!
The Siren Song of Securities: The Perils of Expert Networks & The Risks of Insider Trading | The National Law Review
Expert networks are different than expert witness listings. I am not a member of any expert networks as defined by this article in The National Law Review.
Companies Take Steps to Curb Worker Burnout – News OK
One strategy Goldman Sachs has been trying is to make people feel less at risk in their jobs. That\’s not easy in most companies, much less so in investment banking.
To keep junior analysts from burning out, the bank has decided to start hiring first-year analysts as permanent employees, instead of taking them on as contract workers. It is also encouraging them to not work weekends.
via Companies take steps to curb worker burnout | News OK.
Life/work balance is a choice, not another corporate initiative. You have one life. Make the right choice.
US Hospitals Look to Provide Insurance for Poor Patients – FT.com
US hospitals are exploring ways to buy “Obamacare” insurance plans for their sickest and poorest patients as they strain under the weight of tens of billions of dollars in uncompensated costs from the uninsured.
via US hospitals look to provide insurance for poor patients – FT.com.
Blue Bunny to Lay Off 58 workers – The Des Moines Register | desmoinesregister.com
The cut comes at a time when Iowa also is being buffeted by big layoffs at Wells Fargo & Co. and the former Aviva USA insurance company, now known as Athene. The Iowa unemployment rate increased to 4.9 percent in August from 4.8 percent in July, but it remains one of the lowest in the U.S.
Memo to Blue Bell and Braum’s:
Bigger is not always better.
MetLife To Cut 117 Workers In Bloomfield – Courant.com
The layoffs are part of a plan MetLife acknowledged for the first time publicly in March. At the time, MetLife said it will cut 650 workers in Bloomfield, leaving 1,300 at the site, over a three year period.
Transamerica Laying Off 60 in Cedar Rapids, 140 Nationwide – TheGazette
Tucker said some of the work currently performed by Transamerica employees will be outsourced to contractors.
via Transamerica laying off 60 in Cedar Rapids, 140 nationwide | TheGazette.
Protective Life Completes $1 billion Acquisition of MONY | IFAwebnews.com
Is Business Prepared for A Three-Generation Workforce? | Disruptive Demographics | Big Think
Retirement looks a lot like work today. Studies, surveys and individual behaviors indicate that the next wave of retirees will be reporting for work longer than they or their employers may have planned.
via Is Business Prepared for A Three-Generation Workforce? | Disruptive Demographics | Big Think.
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