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Instacart’s Service Fee Riles Tipped Workers
Image Credit: Kwangmoozaa/Getty Images Depending on your point of view, tipping is either a way to link compensation to quality of service — or a way to give workers a lower hourly wage and put the...
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President Trump Says 94M Americans Are Out of the Labor Force. Is He Correct?
Voice of America via Wikimedia Commons Last night, President Donald Trump gave his first address to a joint session of Congress. Note that it wasn’t technically a “State of the Union” — starting with...
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PayScale’s VIP Blog Roundup: How to Make Your LinkedIn Profile Into an Online...
Image Credit: stevendepolo/Flickr Take a look at your LinkedIn profile through the eyes of a hiring manager. Do you see what you as a candidate can do to help the company hit its goals? Or is your...
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The 10 Worst Employee Appreciation Gifts of All Time
Today is Employee Appreciation Day, and if you didn’t know that, well, chances are your company didn’t get you anything. But before you get mad, consider: sometimes no gift is better than a bad gift....
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3 Ways to Beat Age Discrimination at Work
Image Credit: vgajic/Getty Images Age discrimination is illegal (as long as it’s against workers aged 40 and over). However, unless the hiring manager is a real dummy, he or she is not going to say,...
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5 Productivity Tips From Famously Productive People
Image Credit: Veri Ivanova/Unsplash Highly successful entrepreneurs and business moguls might seem like they have more hours in the day than you do, but often, they’re just better at using the time...
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The Good News and the Bad News About the GOP’s Obamacare Replacement
Yesterday, House Republicans announced a pair of bills intended to fulfill their promise of repealing and replacing the Affordable Care Act, a.k.a. Obamacare. Known as the American Health Care Act, the...
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ADP: Private Sector Added 298,000 Jobs in February
This month’s ADP National Employment Report beat expectations, showing 298,000 jobs added to private payrolls. Prior to the report’s release, economists polled by ADP were projecting the addition of...
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What You Can Learn About Salary Negotiation From the Cast of ‘The Big Bang...
Image Credit: MelodyJSandoval/Flickr Would your coworkers take a pay cut to give you a raise? That’s what the five stars of CBS’s hit show The Big Bang Theory have offered to do. Jim Parsons, Johnny...
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Jobs Report: Economy Added 235,000 Jobs in February, While Wages Grew
Non-farm payrolls added 235,000 jobs last month, according to this morning’s Employment Situation Summary from the Labor Department, beating economists’ expectations of 200,000 jobs added. Unemployment...
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PayScale’s VIP Blog Roundup: 8 Habits That Make a Likeable Leader
First things first: focusing on whether or not your direct reports like you is a losing game. If you succeed, you may have squandered true leadership for temporary validation; if you fail, well, you...
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Research: An Active Sex Life Equals a Happy Work Life
In perhaps the ultimate argument for work-life balance, a recent study from the Oregon State University shows that an active sex life boosts both job satisfaction and engagement at work. (Image Credit:...
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5 Ways to Cope With Daylight Saving Time
Did you feel a little jetlagged today? It’s not all in your head – or at least, you didn’t make it up. The effects of Daylight Saving Time on health and well-being are well-documented, including...
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Rude Coworkers Could Affect Your Health, Study Finds
Rude coworkers bringing you down? You’re not alone. Ninety-nine percent of people have experienced “workplace incivility,” according to reports cited by Sandy Hershcovis, lead researcher for a new...
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5 High-Paying, Part-Time Jobs That Let You Work From Home
Image Credit: verbaska_studio/Getty Images When you think of work-from-home jobs, do you think of low-paying gigs? If so, it might be time to adjust your perspective. While there are plenty of...
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Pi Day: 10 Quotes From Scientists to Inspire Your Career
Pi Day has been with us since at least 1988, when physicist Larry Shaw first led a parade of fruit-pie eating staffers at the San Francisco Exploratorium. It’s hard to believe, though, that some...
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Man and Woman Switch Email Signatures. Man Has Worst Workweek of His Life.
In addition to doing the same job as men (statistically for less money), working women have an additional full-time occupation: convincing clients, bosses, and coworkers that they’re worthy of the same...
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CBO on Obamacare Replacement: 14 Million Will Lose Coverage by 2018
Monday, the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office released its report forecasting the effects of the American Health Care Act, the Republican plan to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act...
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Dream Job Alert: Be Kate Middleton’s Private Secretary
Kate Middleton, a.k.a. The Duchess of Cambridge, is in the market for a new private secretary. Could you be her right-hand woman (or, one assumes, man)? Image Credit: tsaiproject/Wikimedia Commons The...
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Iceland Will Become First Country to Require Employers to Prove Equal Pay
Last week, on International Women’s Day, Iceland announced that it will introduce legislation requiring employers to prove that they pay employees equally, regardless of gender, ethnicity, sexuality or...
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