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Buzz: Cord-eating bunnies and other late-to-work tales
Fri Jan 27, 2012 10:03 AM EST
We here at Life Inc. are always learning new things about our readers. This week, we learned that you all have given your bosses quite a few interesting and hilarious reasons for arriving late at work.
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Too little, too late? Factory jobs making comeback
Fri Jan 27, 2012 7:44 AM EST
President Barack Obama is on the road this week touting a plan to bring jobs back to the United States, in part by bolstering manufacturing here. It’s no secret that’s a tough challenge. The United States has lately seen an increase in manufacturing jobs, something O …
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Sorry I'm late, boss, my cat had the hiccups
Thu Jan 26, 2012 7:37 AM EST
The most common excuse for being late to work is also the most predictable one: Traffic. The least common excuses for being late to work? Now, those are much more interesting. CareerBuilder.com recently asked Harris Interactive to survey employees and employers on workplace tard …
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We love our debit cards, but not our banks
Wed Jan 25, 2012 7:37 AM EST
The recession served as a wake-up call for many of us to get a better handle on our finances, and for a lot of folks that meant replacing one piece of plastic, the credit card, with another, the debit card. But now, regulatory changes have made those debit cards less of a cash c …
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Discrimination complaints reach all-time high
Tue Jan 24, 2012 11:37 AM EST
The government received more complaints of worker discrimination its last fiscal year than ever before, but it was only a slight increase over 2010. The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission said Tuesday that it received 99,947 complaints of worker discrimination during its 201 …
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Tech sector layoffs fell dramatically in 2011
Mon Jan 23, 2012 11:35 AM EST
If you work in the technology sector, good news: You’re chances of losing your job fell dramatically last year. Challenger, Gray & Christmas said Monday that computer, electronics and telecommunications firms announced 37,038 planned job cuts in 2011, the lowest le …
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Financial infidelity: Take our survey on money secrets and lies
Mon Jan 23, 2012 11:03 AM EST
Maybe you snuck a latte in this morning even though you and your spouse swore off the coffee shop to save money. Maybe you told your boyfriend those shoes you bought were on sale, when really you paid full price. Or maybe you’re waiting for just the right moment to reveal …
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It's guys, not ladies, who splurge on lunch
Mon Jan 23, 2012 7:34 AM EST
The next time you stop in for a morning latte or head out for a restaurant lunch, take a look around – and don’t be surprised if you see a lot of young men standing in line. A new survey of workers finds that men spend significantly more on coffee and lunch than wome …
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Buzz: Losing your lunch (hour) and trouble finding workers
Fri Jan 20, 2012 10:33 AM EST
Yes, the job market is slowly improving. But employment, or lack thereof, continues to be among the hottest topics for politicians, economists, businesses -- and Life Inc. readers. Our most popular post this week was actually posted late last week.
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Lose a job, prepare for a really long job search
Fri Jan 20, 2012 7:20 AM EST
Here’s the good news: Employers are hiring more workers than they are firing these days, a welcome turnaround from the darkest days of the Great Recession. Here’s the bad news: If you are among those unlucky enough to lose your job now, you'd better prepare for a lon …
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Many Americans still not prepared for a job loss
Thu Jan 19, 2012 7:28 AM EST
The sudden loss of a job has become, if not commonplace over the last years, at least not very surprising. And yet, many Americans remain unprepared for not having an income.
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Defense cutbacks worry some military families
Wed Jan 18, 2012 7:29 AM EST
Hermes Corcuera joined the military because he wanted to give back to a country that has given him so much. But now that he’s done his duty, the 25-year-old Cuban immigrant is finding himself in a position that could be familiar to many soldiers in the coming months and ye …
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Let the tax season begin!
Tue Jan 17, 2012 4:06 PM EST
If you’re snowed in in Seattle or enjoying an extra long holiday weekend elsewhere in the country, here’s a nice way to spend the rest of the day: Filing your taxes. The Internal Revenue Service announced Tuesday that it has begun accepting electronically filed tax r …
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Slightly more are thriving than struggling, analysis finds
Tue Jan 17, 2012 7:22 AM EST
We may be living in difficult economic times, but a little more than half of all Americans are still considered to be thriving, according to a Gallup analysis. Gallup finds that for 2011, 52.5 percent of Americans would be considered thriving based on its analysis of peop …
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Buzz: Rich vs. poor, digging out of debt, Facebook fumbles
Fri Jan 13, 2012 11:23 AM EST
America has always prided itself on being the type of place where anyone with enough determination can climb the economic ladder. But these days, many Americans seem to be growing frustrated by the gap between those who are wealthy and those who are not. Our most popular Life Inc.
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Role reversal: Employers say they can't find workers
Fri Jan 13, 2012 7:37 AM EST
With 13 million unemployed people seeking work in this country, it would seem like anyone who wants to hire someone would have little difficulty doing so. But that’s not what many employers are saying. More than half of U.S.
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More see class conflict between rich and poor
Wed Jan 11, 2012 2:03 PM EST
More Americans are seeing a significant rift between rich and poor people, with most people saying there is a strong or very strong conflict between those who are wealthy and those who are not. A survey released Wednesday by Pew Social & Demographic Trends finds that 66 perc …
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Women finally seeing signs of a jobs recovery
Tue Jan 10, 2012 7:27 AM EST
The Great Recession of 2007-09 included job losses that were so much greater for men than for women that some dubbed it the “mancession.” But once the nation went into recovery – meaning the economy was expanding again, albeit slowly – men saw mu …
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The week's buzz: College debt and credit checks
Fri Jan 6, 2012 10:40 AM EST
There’s plenty of evidence that getting a college degree will give you better job prospects and more job security. The problem: Many people have to borrow tens of thousands of dollars to get to that point. More than 22,000 of you participated in our poll on student loan deb …
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Good Graph Friday: The majors with the best job prospects
Fri Jan 6, 2012 7:25 AM EST
Hey college students, do you want a job? Then you may not want to study architecture or the arts. A new analysis of government data finds that recent college graduates with degrees in fields such as health and education have much lower unemployment rates than those who ea …
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Loving the job, but hating the student loan debt
Thu Jan 5, 2012 7:26 AM EST
ROSEVILLE, Calif. — Here’s one thing that’s obvious about Vanessa and Chris Christman: They love their jobs as public law librarians for the state of California. Here’s another: They don’t love the more than $150,000 in combined …
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Procrastinators rejoice: Tax deadline extended to April 17
Wed Jan 4, 2012 2:53 PM EST
If you’re the type of person who likes to wait until the last minute to file your taxes, congratulations: You have two more days to procrastinate. The Internal Revenue Service announced Wednesday that 2011 federal tax returns will not be due until Tuesday, April 17 this yea …
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How to get rid of that holiday debt hangover
Tue Jan 3, 2012 12:44 PM EST
The holidays are over, but chances are there’s still one thing left to open: That credit card statement. For many people, January can be a tough month, financially, because people are working to pay off the debt they accumulated over the holidays, or start saving for the n …
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The buzz: Catastrophes, shopping and taxes
Fri Dec 30, 2011 10:09 AM EST
This is the time of year when many people are thinking about joy, giving, goodwill and other messages of cheer. But if you were the type to let your mind wander toward potential catastrophe, apparently you’d be worried about the economy. A Life Inc.
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