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How To Talk To Your Boss And Fix Your Job

It's all too easy to spend long stretches simmering at your desk instead of having a straight-ahead talk with your boss. Here are a few strategies to help you start the conversation.READ»

How To Work From Home Like You Mean It

Working from home requires a new mindset and a good system, not just a nicer pair of pants (but put those on, too).READ»

7 Telltale Signs Your Best Employees Are Job Hunting

In a bad economy, talent is everything. Unemployment and lowered budgets force companies to cling to their most productive employees to fill the voids left by downsizing. In tech and other industries, it can be even harder as the top talent is well aware that their services are at high demand. How can businesses determine when a rockstar is on the verge of leaving?READ»

Microsoft's Envisioning Lab Reveals The Future Of Productivity

Microsoft's Envisioning Lab has a vision of the future, and you can watch it in HD. Learn how the lab sees the future of contextual data, smarter interfaces, and a "five-minute mode" on your phone.READ»

Low-Hassle Ways To Cloud-ify Your Work

Having everything on the web is handy, minus, of course, when it goes down, or you forget to sync something. Here are the best no-worry means of keeping your important documents accessible from any computer.READ»

Should You Let Your Employees Work From Home?

Many companies offer employees the option to work from home. But common sense tells us that some rotten apples would sooner fill their day playing "World of Warcraft" than actually working. This decision tree will help you decide if you should let your employees work remotely.READ»

Need A Career Pep Talk? Lessons From Teddy Roosevelt On Going "All In"

Think how silly Lady Gaga would look spending 10 hours a week working on her CPA license in case her music career flopped. Life is short and opportunities are fleeting. If you hope to achieve your full potential, you must put all your weight behind each punch. Of course, this isn't new advice: Theodore Roosevelt said it best all the way back in 1910. READ»

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How To Stream Great Music While Keeping Your Work Groove

Spotify, Pandora, Turntable.fm, and other services give us all the music we could want, right away, for free. Can this actually be good for productivity?READ»

Colombo's Curiosity

Colombo took the unconventional route, and so can you. By awakening your curiosity, you can tune in to the limitless possibilities at your disposal. It's time to unleash your creative potential and stick your thumb in the eye of conventional wisdom.READ»

Unpaid Work (such as cleaning the house) Differs Around the World

There are many tasks that we can either do ourselves or pay someone else to do for us. Depending on which country you live in, the level of paying for work to be done compared to the level of unpaid work performed "inhouse" differs dramatically. Does it coincide with the relative financial condition in each country?READ»

Welcome To The 168-Hour Work Week: The Tablet PC Revolution Never Sleeps

A new report says that 41% of mobile workers have a tablet, and another 34% plan on buying one inside six months. READ»

I Can't Get My Work Done: A New Industry Survey Looks At Workplace Distractions

A new industry survey finds that almost 60% of work interruptions are digital, people waste over an hour a day at work, and two thirds of workers will tune out of meetings to connect digitally with someone else. READ»

Would $12,000 Convince You To Move Closer To Work?

A program in Washington, D.C. is bribing people to move from the suburbs to downtown. Is it money wisely spent?READ»

Tsunami of Tears

Japan's tsunami brings back memories of another natural disaster for Dayna Steele.READ»

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How to Talk About Work and Life on the Job Without Getting Into "It"

What's my vision of work+life fit nirvana?READ»

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Hacking Work: A Little Help From Your Friends

Bill Jensen and Josh Klein's new book, "Hacking Work" is about righteous rule-breaking. Here, the authors explain how, with a helping hand, you can improve your situation at work.READ»

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Hacking Work: Redesigning a Bad System

Bill Jensen and Josh Klein's new book, "Hacking Work" is about righteous rule-breaking. Here, the authors explain how one bus company had a broken system and how a fix for it emerged.READ»

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Hacking Work: The Social Network Hack

Bill Jensen and Josh Klein's new book, "Hacking Work" is about righteous rule-breaking. Here, the authors explain how most people are already hacking their work but just don't know it.READ»