What ever will become of Big Data now? Is it possible the Kansas City Royals might be able to help you get a raise? The Royals have now won the World Series. The bunting, stealing, just put-the-ball-in-play Royals. The we-don’t-strike-out-or-hit-many-home-run Royals. The team that rejected the ways of Moneyball sit [Keep reading]
There’s a new crisis looming in the way Americans plan for retirement, and it’s not a much feared stock-market correction. The crisis is much more fundamental. For years, the accepted wisdom has been this: Invest all you can in that 401(k) or you are crazy. Not contributing to a 401(k) is [Keep reading]
There’s a growing disconnect between working parents who say juggling home and office duties is driving them crazy and their managers who don’t seem to understand the magnitude of the problem, according to a new survey. That 98 percent working parents say they have experienced burnout is no surprise. The [Keep reading]
Think about your last raise. Struggling? You’re not alone. Raises are all but dead, I reported recently for CNBC.com. My editor there, Jennifer Barrett, recently pointed me towards a study with some curious findings: First, company bonus pools are falling short, so bonuses will be a bit disappointing this year. Second, [Keep reading]
Jim has a two-month old baby. He’s working at 10 p.m. when I meet him, and the baby — his wife stopped in to say hi. It unclear when she will go back to work. You’d think Jim is sleep-deprived from working long hours or a second job. But he’s not [Keep reading]
I had a depressing conversation recently with someone who does big housing construction deals for a big bank. There’s only two types of deals that work, he said. 1) Building pricey, premium granite countertop homes for well-off folks or 2) Building affordable housing with government subsidies. Roughly speaking: construction for [Keep reading]
Two recent stories about America’s underpaid workers and the effort to give them a break remind me just how much more we need to talk about class warfare, and propaganda, and economics…but most of all, what’s going on at dinner tables around the country. (That’s the point of The Restless Project.) [Keep reading]
In all the anecdotes I’ve run across while working on The Restless Project, this simple scene might be the most powerful. And depressing. It appears in a story I wrote for CNBC.com recently about a gruesome new trend which I’ll call “work-family multitasking.” “I spoke recently with a gentleman who works [Keep reading]
Half of all smartphone owners check their phones a few times per hour or even more, and most keep their phones by their side all day, every day….yet most think they look at their phones less than their friends. In the latest “everyone can’t be better-than-average looking” finding, a new Gallup [Keep reading]
It’s summer – Do you know where your vacation time is? Yet another study shows Americans leave a lot of their paid vacation time on the table, essentially giving free work to their employers. The average American donates $500 worth of labor, according to this study. You also know that [Keep reading]
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