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You Can’t Really Trust a Survey That Doesn’t Give Details on How They Did it

Editor’s Note: Have a great Fourth of July. We’ll be taking off some time and back July 8.  IT WAS A HEADLINE that grabbed me because what it said was pretty amazing. The story was in Worklife, a website I don’t look at very often … until somebody flags a headline like this — Over

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What do college graduates want from employers? A four-day week is a good start

RESEARCH CAN BE GOOD or bad, but when it is good AND useful, it can help guide us to better insights that improve our decision-making moving ahead. Here’s some research from earlier this summer that caught my attention — a survey that shows what new college graduates really want from their would-be employers. It comes

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More reasons to embrace remote work: Silly pet peeves and dumb workplace data

WORKPLACE DATA COMES IN all shapes and sizes. It also highlights a variety of workplace issues. I try to showcase interesting data here. Sometimes I find it as I’m looking for things to share, but other times, the data finds me — usually courtesy of some PR or marketing professional. This data comes courtesy of a PR person working for blankcalendarpages.com, a company that touts itself as “a leading provider of

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Silly surveys we could do without: Insights into improving employee “bio-breaks”

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FAST COMPANY MAGAZINE IS NOT a publication I’ve spent much time with, but since they have a section on their website titled Work Life, it seemed like a periodical that might have some interesting articles worth sharing here. So far, I have not been disappointed. That doesn’t mean everything in Fast Company’s Work Life is great, because it’s not. There’s a definite Jekyll and Hyde quality

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Fake News or Pure BS? Why You Should Be Skeptical of Generation-Bashing Surveys

WHY ARE SO MANY people today so into generation bashing? For years, I’ve heard people gripe about the shortcomings of the Millennial generation, as if Gen X and the Baby Boomers (of which I am one) are somehow perfect and didn’t have their own challenges. I’ve written this before, but I’m sick and tired of

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