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A Little Bird Told Me

Two former Twitter employees were recently exposed as spies for Saudi Arabia. The employees had access to personal information and account data for millions of Twitter users. Mike Chapple, former NSA

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Civility in the Workplace

In a recent podcast, author Christine Porath speaks to incivility in the workplace, and its effect on work environment and morale. Porath emphasizes that (1) incivility is toxic to all (not just

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The Changing Workday

Recent experiments with shortened workweeks (and fewer work hours per day) suggest that we are going through a work transformation. Author and professor Cal Newport suggests that “work today is where automobile manufacturing was

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A Good-ish Idea

We all like to think of ourselves as good people; however, such thinking may be detrimental, according to psychologist Donny Chugh. Individuals assuming that they are good will resist challenges

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McDonald’s CEO Makes Supersized Mistake

McDonald’s recently fired its CEO, Stephen Easterbrook, following the discovery that Easterbrook and another McDonald’s employee had been engaged in a consensual sexual relationship. Even though the relationship was consensual,

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The Dwindling Wisconsin Workforce

U.S. Census data suggests that Wisconsin is losing working-age men and women and that the under-18 population is also decreasing. Such population changes could indicate a future worker shortage (particularly as increasing

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New Illinois Labor Laws

Chicago recently passed the Chicago Fair Workweek Ordinancewhich addresses employee concerns about irregular schedules, short notice of shift changes, and other unpredictable elements of their work. The ordinance requires employers to

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