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One long-held taboo of office life is that you're not supposed to talk about what you make. It appears that may be changing.
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Are there ways to make your work-from-home routine a bit more productive, and you, yourself, ever so slightly more efficient, all the while remaining firmly planted upon your own couch?
One long-held taboo of office life is that you're not supposed to talk about what you make. It appears that may be changing.
If Twitter is the new résumé, will any of us ever have a job? Or will we just stop wanting to tweet?
The desire comes around at a certain time of year, when it's just starting to get nice, when the office workers of America and beyond have been cooped up for too long, too long, in the too-hot or too-cold confines of their offices. Working outside! Can we work outside today?
Enough people are working from home in their beds (and, no, this is not a sex scandal thing) that Sue Shellenbarger has addressed it in a piece in The Wall Street Journal. "Is clacking away on a laptop while sprawling on bed sheets more comfortable and productive than hunching over a desk?" she asks. Of course it is! Right?
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Cady Herron. Miranda Priestly. What's her name, that new British woman on The Office. As one linguist explained to Fast Company's Drake Baer, you can—and should—be comfortable calling women like them (fictional or not), a-holes.
Like Casey James Fury, we've all wanted to get out of work early. Unlike Fury however, we've never been alleged to have set a fire onboard a nuclear-powered submarine to do so.
Working from home is no longer the carefree happy maybe-I'll-just-get-up-and-wash-my-dishes-midday proposition of yore. Your bosses are watching you.
The Internet seems to agree today: America is working really hard. Perhaps too hard.
Want a quick way to ruin your Thursday? Have the number of hours you work and the number of vacation days handy.
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