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All you system administrators out there, kick back and enjoy a cold one today, System Administrator Appreciation Day. If you benefit from a sysadmin's hard work (and you do), buy them said cold one...

Everyone is curious about how much money the guy in the corner office makes, but would actually knowing make work better or worse? Career advisor Penelope Trunk points out the benefits of...

ABC News writers recently demanded overtime pay for bringing work home with them—including attending to work-related email on their BlackBerries after hours. The spat between the Writer's Guild...

We all know instant messaging has great potential to lead down the path of non-productivity, but researchers at Ohio State University and University of California have found it can be a productivity...

Developer David Heinemeier Hansson says that sleep deprivation isn't a badge of honor that shows how hard you work—it just makes you dumb and miserable. Forgoing sleep is like borrowing from a...

Failing to listen during an important conversation not only requires you to ask questions later, it can give off the impression of not caring, even if it's really just bad habits. Workplace...

Developer David Heinemeier Hansson says he loves working with family people, because when there's a daily deadline—like his co-workers having to get home to their kids—people's jobs get...

Some companies are fining employees for smoking, while others reward non-smokers with healthcare benefit discounts, reports the NY Times. Think smokers should be penalized somehow at the office? ...

The New York Times' Shifting Careers column interviews Peggy Klaus, author of The Hard Truth About Soft Skills and noted proponent of the power of blogging, about the "soft skills" that...

The New York Times Shifting Careers blog discusses employees coming to work when they shouldn't, primarily when they're sick—a practice known as presenteeism (the opposite of absenteeism). The...