If there was money hanging off a tree, you’d be sure to stop and grab it, right? After all, free money is awesome. However, researchers found that when they hung dollar bills off a low hanging tree branch, most people didn’t appear to even see it. Except, they did
My spam filter is not working at the moment, so my blog has been overrun with people just dying to know what platform I’m using because my blog loads so much faster than their’s does! Sigh. I’ve just added a second spam filter so hopefully the spam inundation
When Hard Rock Cafe wanted to open a new restaurant in Florence, Italy, they had no existing restaurants to draw staff from, which means they were hiring from scratch. Everyone from manager to busboys had to be sourced, interviewed, hired, and trained. Plus, Hard Rock Cafe wanted to make
Family owned businesses are big business in the United States. While some are the stereotypical “Mom & Pop” store, others are Fortune 500 companies. In fact, there’s a pretty good chance that you’re working for a family owned business. According to the Conway Center for Family Business, family owned
Six out of 10 Americans believe the American dream is dead according to a recent poll. And lots of people are talking about how terrible that is. But, what I haven’t seen addressed is that 4 out of 10 Americans believe the American dream is not dead — that
For many young job-seekers, the usual order of things is that you enroll in school, and sometime when you are close to finishing you start looking for a job. But Work America is trying to change. The startup aims to help unemployed, “under-qualified” people find a job. Formed in 2013,
Have you ever had a problem with another person at work? A co-worker who doesn’t do her work. A boss who’s never there. An employee who’s constantly sick and spreading germs over the whole place? It would be shocking if you haven’t encountered at least one of these
Pinterest is awesome for finding ideas for just about anything. From baby showers to gardening to funny pictures, it’s got it all. It’s like a big search engine where the results have been pre-screened for awesomeness. Except, there’s one problem: No resume is required to pin things on
The average American has a 23 minute commute, which isn’t all that bad. But for many Americans, that trip is much longer. Some of those long commutes are by choice — some people choose to live far away from the office for better schools, a bigger house, or
Google isn’t the only company that gives employees time to tinker. Michael Dubakov, CEO of Targetprocess, a project management software company in Amherst, New York, allows employees to devote 20 percent of their time to development activities. They call this “Orange Fridays,” and it means he gets a lot less
