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Archive for May, 2008

Soaring Gas Prices Force Employers To Respond



BY JOHN A. CHALLENGER As record gasoline prices make it more costly for the nation's workers to get to and from their jobs, a larger-than-expected number of companies have taken steps to help ease the financial burden on employees, including the expansion of telecommuting opportunities, public transportation subsidies and car pool ...

19 senior people to be cut or demoted



Bob Prosen is the author of Kiss Theory Goodbye and President and CEO of The Prosen Center for Business Advancement whose mission is to help business leaders rapidly increase performance, productivity and profits. He has been successfully teaching top business leaders how to apply his Five Attributes of Highly Profitable ...

Dan Pink on the last career guide you’ll ever need



OfficePolitics.com Interview with best-selling author Dan Pink Franke James, OfficePolitics.com Editor, interviewed Dan Pink, author of The Adventures of Johnny Bunko. We also enlisted Johnny Bunko's kick-ass-career-counselor, Diana, to bestow her wisdom on an Office-Politics reader's dilemma. Read the letter here. Franke James, OP: 'The Adventures of Johnny Bunko' trashes the 'career ...

I’m the scapegoat of jokes, being the only female



Dear Office-Politics, I have a situation in which I’m not sure how to look at. I am a programmer and I work with a team of six men (or boys). My direct boss and I get along one-on-one but when all of us are together for a meeting, I’m ...

Change is so good, I never want to go back!



Dear Office Politics, We were acquired last year and nobody wanted to change. Then we changed and I LIKED it. I liked it a LOT. I was excited to be part of the new company and play in a bigger sandbox and with a new director. Now my new director is returning ...

Making the jump from summer intern to full-time



BY JOHN A. CHALLENGER With evidence that the slowing economy is prompting employers to put the brakes on hiring, the summer internship assumes a new level of importance as the most effective road to post-collegiate employment. Even if the current downturn is brief, it could take several months, if not a couple ...

Lost a highly intelligent, motivated executive



Dear Office-Politics, We recently lost a highly intelligent, highly motivated executive to another firm. During her time she generated a lot of ideas and initiatives for helping the organization develop and expand. However, her style was in direct conflict with the rest of the executive team who are much more conservative ...