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Year-over-year weekly earnings for U.S. workers rose 3.5%

Author: RP news wires
Median weekly earnings of the nation’s 106.9 million full-time wage and salary workers were $682 in the fourth quarter of 2006, the U.S. Department of Labor’s Bureau of Labor Statistics reported January 19. This was 3.5 percent higher than a year earlier, compared with a gain of 1.9 percent in the Consumer […]

Working With Highly Sensitive Persons (HSPs)

Have you encountered an office mate or employee who seems to be an excellent performer when left alone but get the shakes when the manager comes and looks over the employee’s shoulder? You have, most likely, a highly sensitive person (HSP) in your midst. These are persons with a fine-tuned sense of their surroundings and […]

Bad Managers Contribute to Employee Misbehavior

There are things that bad managers do that can push employees including those who were usually described as “dedicated workers” to misbehave at work. Authoritarian managers most often apply Machiavellian techniques to make employees become more productive at work, but what these managers do not realize is that a manager-employee relationship built on mistrust and […]

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