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Year: 2014

Balancing work/safety when storms hit

When a storm strikes, it can be a tough call between staying safe at home or braving the weather to avoid being penalized at work. But, is there a better way for organizations to plan for storms that will keep everyone safe and free from worrying about being penalized?

It’s a business trip, not a famly gathering

Q: “I have been asked to travel with ‘Myra,’ one of my co-workers, to attend a three-day conference. The trip is about five hours each way. We will be taking a company van, which I will be driving. Last week, Myra said, ‘I hope you don’t mind, but I’m planning to bring my one-year-old son along on the trip. Myra said that her mother will also be coming to help care for the baby. So now I am expected to take a business trip with two members of her family. Our boss has said we should just ‘work it out,’ but I’m not sure how to do that.”  Frustrated Traveler

Building a strong professional network

Building a powerful LinkedIn network takes more than taking a great headshot for your profile and projecting a friendly attitude. Marketing entrepreneur Kevin Daum offers these tips for what else you should be doing.

Inside an ‘untethered’ office

In a move uncommon in the United States but more popular in Europe, international real estate brokerage CBRE Group took away its em­­ployees’ personal space—offices, desks and file cabinets—and converted to an “untethered” office. Even the CEO has no home base within the office, writes Los Angeles Times reporter Roger Vincent, who took a look inside.

Etch passwords in stone

Or if that’s a bit extravagant, at least write them on a permanent, immobile structure to make sure they’re always exactly where you expect them to be—not hiding on rogue slips of paper, or in an online folder you might delete or whose location you could forget. Write them on a secret part of a […]

Don’t delete the bad job from the résumé–explain it

Q: “I want to know whether I can omit my last job from my résumé. For three years, I worked in a toxic organization with a controlling, verbally abusive boss. Her manager was just as bad. Any reference from these two would not be accurate, so I would prefer not to mention this job at all. Instead, I would like to tell potential employers that I was staying home with my young children during those three years. If the truth was discovered later, would that be a problem?” Worried Applicant