EEOC releases performance report The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission secured more than $482 million for victims in employment discrimination cases during fiscal year 2016. The agency's annual report, released Wednesday, also says the EEOC reduced its backlog to 73,508 pending charges as of the end of September. Bloomberg BNA (free content) (11/17)
Four Tips to Gain Influence at Work You have more power than you think—here’s how to harness it. Learn more through insights from Kellogg School of Management Professor William Ocasio.
Taxfyle requires job candidates to play table tennis during a tour of the company's facility for job interviews. The company has also created a ladder system for employees, complete with tracked standings. CNBC (11/14)
Get with the flow. How payment processing affects cash flow. Cash flow is the lubricant of business. Without a healthy cash flow, business dries up. It stops. It can't function. Which is why it is vital to keep the revenues coming in as the expenses go out. But there's one aspect of cash flow that many of us are not aware of. It is how managing credit cards and other such non-cash payments affect cash flow. Turns out it has a huge affect. Download the free guide today.
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LinkedIn learns how much family matters to employees The success of LinkedIn's annual "Bring In Your Parents" day suggests how much it means for employees to work at a company that values family and life outside the office, writes Sharon Florentine. "There was this commonality we noticed -- so much pride and curiosity and respect for what everyone did, and then it became emotional," said Catherine Fisher of LinkedIn. CIO.com (11/14)
Infographic: Behind the Scenes of a Breach Response Preview the findings of an industry-first study that benchmarks a business' level of breach readiness. Some insights include: • Missteps that anger customers after a breach • The most common struggles in executing a breach response • What executives agree on when it comes to breach readiness View the infographic >
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5 keys to better time management Trying to power through all day isn't good for productivity or recommended by what we know about brain science, writes former FBI agent LaRae Quy. "The way you successfully manage your time is less about a packed schedule and more about a clear and organized mind," she writes. SmartBrief/Leadership (11/16)
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Worrying about your stressful life just makes things worse A study in the journal Stress and Health found that people who constantly worry about their work-life balance experienced negative health outcomes and a relatively low level of satisfaction in all areas of life, writes Charlotte Hilton Andersen. "Essentially: You'll be happier if you accept that you can not be all things to all people and that there is no such thing as the 'perfect balance,' " she writes. Shape.com (11/14)
