Generations
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A Poor Dating Policy Could Break a Company's Heart—and Wallet
With employees and companies becoming more accepting of office romances, companies should make sure they protect themselves from any potential sexual harassment or discrimination lawsuits.
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Study Touts the Benefits of Internal Social Networking Sites
A recent study conducted by Baylor University found that developing an internal social networking site could help a company acclimate its new hires into the corporate culture, improve employees' morale and reduce turnover rates.
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The Rules of Professionalism: Getting Millennial Workers Onboard
Should professionalism be defined by wearing specific attire and being at work at a designated time? One thought leader says human resources should focus more on communicating the results expected and allowing flexibility in achieving those results.
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Advisers Reveal the Proper Care and Feeding of Interns
Skip the clerical work. Bring on the client meetings, mentoring and day-to-day business.
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New Research Shows Retirees Are Bailing on 401(k)s Earlier
The data suggest that more retirees are taking their money and bailing from their plan even sooner after they stop working than used to be the case.
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Survey: More Companies, Jobs to Head Back into Chicago
Almost 80 percent of 12,000 area professionals surveyed by Ernst & Young LLP say they believe companies will keep moving from the suburbs to Chicago.
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Automakers Try New Recruiting Strategies to Fill Engineering Vacancies
Threatened by a chronic shortage of engineers -- exacerbated by years of industry restructuring -- auto companies are having trouble filling job vacancies in Detroit now that the industry is coming back to health.
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Study: Generational Job Seekers Not Using All Their Tools
Recruiters take note: Baby boomers, Gen X and millennials are spending almost all their time job searching online instead of offline. Boomers turn to LinkedIn first, while Gen X and millennials are first using Google and Google Plus.
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Working Longer No Lock for Comfortable Retirement
In the past, most workers figured they'd be able to retire at the age of 65. But following 2008's financial crisis, the idea of working a few more years to recoup lost savings became commonplace.
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Many Moms Leave Maternity Leave Behind Early
When Divya Gugnani, founder of accessories e-commerce site Send the Trend, gave birth to her son in May, she took two weeks of maternity leave—far less than the 12 weeks of leave that many corporate women get.
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Skilled Workers Scarce Despite Unemployment
Staffing company ManpowerGroup of Milwaukee said in a 2011 survey that 52 percent of employers were having problems filling critical positions. That number was up 14 percent from the previous year.
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Harvard Grads Flooding Wall Street
Any time so many bright young folks flood into Manhattan's concrete canyons to take jobs in investment banking or private equity, it's a clear sign the market has topped out.
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Move Over, Millennials
When many people envision digital startups, they think of young, would-be Mark Zuckerbergs in hoodies and T-shirts spending late nights coding at a company with a name that's missing a vowel. There is, however, a small but growing number of over-forties trying their hand at Web 2.0 entrepreneurship.
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The Young and the Carless
Among millennials, the love affair with the automobile is turning chilly.
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Women Facing 'Retirement Income Glass Ceiling'
Savings totals are being crimped by lower wages and the time they've spent outside the workforce.
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Journalism School Grads Turn to Startup Scene
There's a small but growing number of recent journalism-school graduates who are eschewing conventional career paths to newspapers, magazines and even internships and choosing instead to launch their own digital startups.
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Gen Y Execs Shake Up Office Culture
Young, tech-savvy CEOs are transforming the workplace at New York startups.
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Rapidly Growing Older Workforce Demands Employer Attention to Injuries
The number of older U.S.
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Older Workers Affect Workers' Comp Loss Costs Less Than Expected
Despite an increasing number of aging U.S. workers, older employees have had a smaller-than-expected effect on workers compensation loss costs, according to NCCI Holdings Inc.
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Millennials Italiano
It seems milllennials Italiano aren’t so different from millennials Americano. When I wrote my book The Trophy Kids Grow Up: How the Millennial Generation Is Shaking Up the Workplace a few years ago, there were signs that across the globe millennials share many of the same traits.
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EEOC to Hold Public Meeting on Guidance for Age Discrimination in Employment Act
According to background information issued by the EEOC last year, the proposed rule emphasizes the need 'for an individualized, case-by-case approach to determining whether an employment practice is based on reasonable factors other than age.'
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Shellshocked Gen Y Crossing Off Stocks as Investments
Their principal concern is protecting what they have now, seemingly taking a page from their grandparents' book on saving for retirement.
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Online Café Serves Up a Heaping Helping of Training for Staff
Studies suggest companies are getting comfortable using social software to drive employee learning. Cheesecake Factory, Kelly Services and Amway are among the early adopters.
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Not-for-Profits Woo Veteran Executives
As executives are laid off or choose to leave the corporate world, not-for-profit organizations are taking advantage of a rare opportunity to snap up some of the best talent to be had.
