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July 29, 2019

The survey conducted by Harvard Business Review and Analytic Services included 587 business leaders. 58% of the respondents agree that having a strong travel culture brings valuable business results. ...

Americans don’t have access to retirement plans

Diana Coker

July 19, 2019

We’re getting older. But that’s not the ugly, unspoken truth. For the first time, Americans as a whole aren’t saving nearly enough for retirement. According to data from Northwestern Mutual’s 2019 Planning &am...

US Jobless Claims Fall; Single Mothers and Minorities Face Lower Barriers in Jobs Market

July 11, 2019

US Jobless claims dropped to 209,000 in the week ended July 6, which included the July 4 holiday, according to Labor Department data released Thursday. The closely watched claimant-count level of US unemploymen...

Asian Cities Most Expensive for Expats, New Mercer Survey Finds

Diana Coker

July 8, 2019

Hong Kong ranks first in Mercer’s annual Cost of Living Survey for the second consecutive year. Eight out of the top ten costliest cities for expats are Asian cities. The survey measures the comparat...

Organizations Strengthening Sex-Partition in the Workplace

July 7, 2019

Survey: Men in workplace evading solo interactions with women Sixty percent of male managers are uncomfortable participating in common work activity with a woman, such as mentoring, working alone, or soc...

Flexible jobs can make work life balance harder, study finds

July 6, 2019

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Flextime is supposed to promote and facilitate work-life balance. A study from Germany suggests otherwise. Men and women with children reported that flexible working left them with less free time than working ...

Should women always wear high heels in the workplace?

Diana Coker

June 7, 2019

A 17th-century law in Massachusetts, which was later introduced into the British parliament, placed penalties on women who lured men into marriage using high heeled shoes. Though ‘chopines’ (a platform that rai...

CEO Turnover Rate Has Hit a Record High

May 28, 2019

According to a new study by Strategy&, the consulting arm of PwC, CEO turnovers reached 17.5 percent last year, the highest since the inception of the survey in 2000. The study, which analyzed CEO successio...

Forced to Smile at Work? Fake Smiling at Work May Lead to Heavier Drinking, Study Finds

April 30, 2019

A group of researchers at Penn State University at Buffalo conducted a study on the drinking habits of people in the service industry and found that workers who are forced to smile at work, drink more after hou...

Employees Don’t Trust Anti-Retaliation Statutes

April 27, 2019

Corporate compliance officers already know that violation of anti-retaliation statues is an unjustifiable risk. The magnitude of this significant problem is outlined in ECI’s Global Business Ethics Survey. It ...

Overtime: What Proposed DOL Overtime Exemption Could Mean For Employers?

April 25, 2019