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Infographic: Workforce Trends to Keep in Perspective When Planning Your Future

4 Workplace Trends

Like a rising and falling tide each generation infuses our economy with new ideas, habits and standards. Understanding how the workforce has been changing and will continue to change over the coming years is an asset to anyone, but especially new grads, students, job seekers and entrepreneurs. It isn’t only a question of the rapid rise of a new generation this time around. We’re also enjoying the development of new …

Feeling Fine in Finance

Feeling fine in finance

There are many perks to working on Wall Street. They do vary though, and depend on the industry you’re in and the firm you’re a part of. But, for the most part, people who work in finance can certainly expect some common, and rather nice, benefits.

An impressive compensation is definitely one of those. Within the financial services industry, especially in Wall Street firms, compensation packages tend to be …

Calling All Leaders, You Are Wanted!

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As far as companies are concerned, leadership is a highly sought after quality. Not only is it needed in management levels but it is also needed in every level at a company. Leaders push their company forward and build employee morale in their company. It is up to the leaders to get their employees engaged in their work and motivated to work on and complete projects not just because it …

Who Runs The Office: A Story About Re-entering the Workforce

Who Runs the Office

Recent research has found that workplace stress is a (if not the) leading cause of employees quitting their jobs. Good leaders create environments that alleviate stress and good leaders can be found at any level within the organization.

I have had many titles: office Manager, facility coordinator, office administrator, even executive assistant, but secretly I’ve started to think of myself as having another title: the office mom. Sounds weird, …

The Curse of Connectivity

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Ivan Pavlov famously showed that associating the sound of a bell with the smell of food could cause a dog to become hungry just by hearing the bell. He died in 1936, nearly 40 years before the invention of the cell phone, but had he lived to see its invention, he likely wouldn’t have had to use dogs to test his theories in classical conditioning. For generation Y (born between …

The Perks of Working Happy

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Those tasked with giving motivational speeches almost inevitably include a variation of the phrase: “Love what you do and you’ll never work a day in your life.” While this is an oversimplification, new research is beginning to outline how important enjoying what you do, and taking breaks while you do it, actually is.

Unsurprisingly, employees who enjoy their jobs are more productive, in better health, and more loyal than those who …

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