Too much, too soon in Elkhart?
Embattled workers might lose motivation to go back to school, thus putting them in an even worse position in the long run.
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Mad about work? Let it out
If you’re angry about unfair treatment at work, and don’t let it out, you’re much more likely to have a heart attack, a new
study shows.
Lilly snags talent kudos
Fortune magazine ranked the drug company among the best in the world for managing talent.
Layoff euphemisms
Corporations simply don’t like direct language, a Butler University professor says.
Should Indiana take Gates’ money?
Indiana wants to apply for controversial funding from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to seek federal education grants.
The right mix of work and vacation
Americans have long desired the comparatively lavish vacations enjoyed by peers in other industrialized countries, but the
higher productivity of the U.S. economy is the trade-off.
Federal workers dodging layoffs
One of the best places to have waited out this recession was in federal government. Federal workers have pretty much gotten
a bye on pink slips at a time private sector employees have taken it on the chin.
Surprise: Moms not opting out of jobs
Census researchers have debunked the common perception that rising numbers of the most accomplished mothers in the work place
are opting out for full-time family life.
Lilly as an employment destination
Eli Lilly and Co. has experienced a string of setbacks in recent years. Is it still a good place to work?
On the hook for bariatric surgery
An Indiana Court of Appeals ruling favoring an obese employee is likely to make employers think twice about hiring
overweight people.
Community Health hires a maverick
Today’s announcement that Community Health Network named Tony Lennen to head its Community Hospital South was a bit
of an eye-opener.
Shifting health benefits
The end of sweeping cuts in employee health benefits and the beginning of another trend is in sight, says
Mike Miles, vice president and senior benefits consultant at Gregory & Appel Insurance.
Employers have slashed benefits so deeply that the cuts…
Myrland on the chamber, church
Thereâ??s nothing like a little time away from a job to refine oneâ??s perspective. Which makes John Myrlandâ??s
distance from the Indianapolis Chamber of Commerce all the more interesting.
Myrland, 58, resigned as president of the chamber at the end of 2005…
Smart phones and meetings
The days of only the powerful few getting by with tapping their Blackberries during meetings are long gone.
When was the last time you were in a gathering where more people seemed interested in the topic or the
speaker…
Reining in bouncers
Thereâ??s nothing like a menacing bouncer to keep the peace at some nightclubs. Now, though, cities weary of
bouncers causing more havoc than calm â?? think beatings and assaults â?? are forcing them to get licenses.
San Diego…
The future of anger management?
A prediction by a military historian in a recent issue of Foreign Policy has something for everyone, including
people interested in companies right here in Indiana.
Writing in a special section about the future, Martin van Creveld notes that…
Measuring your performance
From the beginning of time, engineering and the hard sciences have been held to account by laws of nature
because results of faulty reasoning are obvious. Heavy airplanes wonâ??t leave the ground, patients given the
wrong drug die.
In recent decades…
Indy’s best leaders
Conseco has seen a string of leaders since the company began to stumble and co-founder Steve Hilbert stepped
down nearly nine years ago. The insurer still doesnâ??t have its footing, saying today its auditors arenâ??t
Coming to work sick
Now that smokers are mostly banished to the outdoors, thereâ??s a new work place pariah â?? those who show up
coughing, sneezing and otherwise obviously sick.
In the not-so-recent past, failing to make it to work while under the weather could be…
WellPoint brass and rank-and-file
WellPoint unwittingly made an interesting point this morning when it announced it expects to save $24 million
by laying off 600 workers.
Those 600 workers in affect are being valued at about half the $47.5 million in total compensation…