Forget designer strollers and organic baby formula, just providing a child with the basics has become more than most parents can afford.
You work exhausting hours trying to hold onto your job and provide for your family in a scary economy. When you get home, you help prepare dinner, play with the kids, help with homework, read goodnight books. Then there are chores around the house and, finally, a chance to crash and have a little time with your wife -- unless you had to bring work home. You squeeze in however many hours of sleep you can.
Amid the highest unemployment rate in recent decades and massive job losses around the country, most workers feel happy to at least be employed. What they aren't feeling, however, is healthy.
Juggling work, family, friends and community may seem sometimes like an impossible task. A flexible work schedule may be one solution to a better work-life balance.
After months without a day off, it's official: You need a vacation.
Employees at the Seattle office of the U.S. Government Accountability Office know that they have to put in 80 hours of work every two weeks.
Employees at the Seattle office of the U.S. Government Accountability Office know that they have to put in 80 hours of work every two weeks. But they can configure those hours pretty much how they'd like, with the exception of the one day a week their managers require all employees to be at the office at the same time.
A piece of essential wisdom about our lives is broadcast every time a plane takes off. No, it's not about your tray table. It's this: If the oxygen mask drops and you're traveling with small kids, put yours on first -- before you help them.
We've reached the balmy days of August, but for a growing number of workers chained to their jobs, it might as well be January.
While pending motherhood itself can be a stressful time, working women have the added pressure of breaking the news to employers while trying to decipher just what benefits they are entitled to receive.
Money Magazine: Making Time for Time Offupdated: Fri Apr 01 2005 00:01:00
Which would you rather have: more time off or a $5,000 raise? When the folks at Salary.com first posed this question in 2001, 33% of respondents said they'd want more time. The rest said, "Show me ...
Tomorrow morning, take a good look around your desk at work. The files that haven't budged in years, the phone with the "1" almost worn off, the chair your body knows so well, the Sticky Notes.
Fortune: Working By Numbersupdated: Mon Jul 09 2001 00:01:00
25% "Brainstorming" ideas that improved a given process, according to a QualPro study of 471 process improvement experiments at 163 companies over the course of five years
THE REPUBLICANS IN CONGRESS AREN'T THE ONLY ONES BENT on cutting entitlements and promoting self-reliance. Chances are your employer has joined the crowd too. In the past several years, you've no d...
Most days, Cincinnati science writer and biology teacher Chris Curran (left and above), 37, starts cooking dinner at seven-in the morning. With a full-time day job, a part-time night job and three ...
Stressed-out dads are coming out of the closet. According to James Levine, a director at New York's Families and Work Institute, parenting seminars offered by corporations used to be women-only for...
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