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Column: Why bosses should let employees surf the web at work

New research suggests "cyberloafing" can help workers cope with an exceptionally stressful work environment.

By Stephanie Andel, The Conversation

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How employers kill worker motivation and what they can do to change

Bemoaning America’s productivity slowdown, behavioral economist Dan Ariely set out to find what really motivates us. Behavior is driven by emotion, he concluded, not rewards like money; the ability to help other people, feel that we’re useful, feel that we’re…

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Nation Feb 20

Will your job exist in the future, or will a robot have replaced you?

In the long view of history, technological advancement unleashed by the Industrial Revolution has come to be seen as a net positive for economic development and everyone’s well-being, even those workers who initially lost their jobs. There’s reason to wonder,…

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Nation Sep 01

The high cost of labor efficiency — and the ‘Good Jobs’ alternative

What do Costco, Trader Joe's, QuickTrip and Spanish supermarket Mercadona have in common? They treat labor as assets, says Zeynep Ton, author of "The Good Jobs Strategy," and therefore, avoid even bigger costs than labor.

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The White House announced a year reprieve on the Affordable Care Act mandate that says companies with 50 or more full-time workers must provide insurance by Jan. 2014. Gwen Ifill gets debate from Ron Pollack of Families USA and Tom…

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