The more people focus on their salaries, the less they will focus on satisfying their intellectual curiosity, learning new skills, or having fun, and those are the very things that make people perform best.
- Dan Schawbel
Honeywell International Inc. introduced a $1,000 penalty for employees who go through with certain types of surgery without consulting a company support program, which lays out other options.
- Dan Schawbel
One in Five Employees Fear Being Laid Off In Next Six Months; Glassdoor Employment Confidence Survey (Q113) | Glassdoor Blog - http://www.glassdoor.com/blog...
organizational behavior, representing more than 3,500 business units and many different industries, and found that the link between employee giving and desirable business outcomes was surprisingly robust.
- Dan Schawbel
slacking colleagues cause a quarter of workers to put in more time each week, and 4 of 5 employees report their work quality declines when they have to cover for a co-worker.
- Dan Schawbel
between 1982-83 school year, and the 2012-13 school year, the cost of private four-year institutions rose by 167% and the cost of public four-year institutions rose by an unbelievable 257%.
- Dan Schawbel
two hundred years ago, 70% of American workers lived on the farm. Today automation has replaced all but 1% of their jobs...It may be hard to believe, but before the end of this century, 70% of today’s occupations will likewise be replaced by automation
- Dan Schawbel
And it seems to be paying off. Companies that allow their staff to work from home, from their car, a business centre or even a café are reporting boosts in productivity from a more motivated workforce enjoying a better work/life balance.
- Dan Schawbel
If you look under the Self-Help heading on Amazon, you'll find roughly 5,000 books listed under the subhead Self-Esteem. The vast majority of these books aim to not only tell you why your self-esteem might be low, but to show you how to get your hands on some more of it. It's a thriving business because self-esteem is, at least in Western cultures, considered the bedrock of individual success. You can't possibly get ahead in life, the logic goes, unless you believe you are perfectly awesome.
- Dan Schawbel
Five Career Predictions for 2013: Apollo Research Institute identifies workplace trends and job opportunities - Yahoo! Finance - http://finance.yahoo.com/news...
Fifty-eight percent of women describe their career path as "nonlinear," and nearly 90% of women executives and managers shift careers in midlife.
- Dan Schawbel
Although businesses haven’t added many people, they’ve certainly bulked up on machines. Spending on equipment and software hit an all-time high in the third quarter of 2011. “Huge advances in technology have allowed businesses to do more with less,” v
- Dan Schawbel