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- What Is a Millennial?
- What Is a Millennial?You are making a huge assumption herethat the baby boomers will retire immediately once they reach retirement age. Nothing is further from the truth. Every single boomer I know wants to continue working when they reach retirement age, although they are usually interested in flexible...
- Discussion threads 2008-05-20
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- 8 ways the American information worker remains a Luddite
- Computerworld - A Forrester Research study is showing that what is a hit in Silicon Valley or among the virtual "Twitterati" has yet to be picked up by most U.S. information workers. According to the results of an online survey of U.S. information workers at medium-to-large organizations and their technology...
- News items 2009-10-15
- Part 3: Understanding the Generation Gap
- Part 3: Understanding the Generation GapRe: Generation GapThis article represents yet another way in which firms are ignoring the new generation of workers and dropping the ball in leveraging talent.As a 'younger worker' I can relate. I can do any job, but the job that provides me with a...
- Discussion threads 2007-11-09
- Persuading clients to save for retirement.(Editorials)
- President Bush is pushing for Social Security reform as a key part of his second-term agenda, but there is no certainty he will achieve it. Democrats in Congress and outside will strongly oppose his efforts to allow younger workers to divert p...
- Research articles 2005-01-17
- Three Omaha, Neb.-Area Sears Stores Cited in Under-Age Worker Probe.
- Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News May 19 -- Two Sears, Roebuck and Co. stores in Omaha and one in Bellevue were found to be violating child labor laws in a Department of Labor investigation of 71 of the company's 825 stores nationwide. Sears...
- Research articles 1999-05-20
- Do Older Workers Have the Staying Power? | BTalk Australia
- Older workers are loyal and they can bring a wealth of experience to your business. Today on BTalk Australia, Grahame Doyle of Hays Recruitment talks to Phil Dobbie about how many recruiters still prefer younger staff, or place older people into lower-ranking positions. He says older workers need to compete...
- Blog posts 2008-06-03
- What Do Simple Investing Mistakes Cost? Try 75% of Your Wealth
- Everybody makes mistakes with their 401k. You already know that. Everyone knows that. Â Fidelity recently made the persistent errors of 401k savers the theme of their quarterly report on the 17,500 plans they administer. And on his last visit to the MoneyWatch office, T. Rowe Price PR director Ed Giltenan...
- Blog posts 2009-09-04
- Hiring Young Workers
- Federal and state law limit your right to hire employees younger than 18 years of age. Generally, these laws seek to protect younger workers by restricting the type of work they can do, the number of hours that they can work and the types of people for whom they can...
- Research articles 2004-09-15
- Job Searching When You Are Over 40
- Why does age discrimination happen? Younger hiring managers may feel uncomfortable telling someone older what to do like bossing around their parents. They may also feel that someone older is not as technically savvy or as physically and mentally "Quick" as someone younger. They may even suspect that you'll be...
- White papers 2004-07-14
- Gen X is Unhappy at Work
- Gen X is Unhappy at WorkGen X is ready for a changeI am in the same generation as you, we are now referred to as the J generation. In between the Boomers and Xs. I devoted more and more of my time to the Fortune company I worked for. I...
- Discussion threads 2008-05-15
- Whose Recovery Is This?
- Like most recoveries, this has been an uneven one. Wall Street, women, and older workers are thriving, while Main Street, men, and younger workers are simply surviving. Our scorecard shows some of the recovery?s biggest winners and losers so far. Here’s another option: Just ask...
- Articles 2009-11-05
- Understanding the Minimum Wage
- Every U.S. business must comply with the minimum wage laws of the Federal Fair Labor Standards Act FLSA. This article shows the current national minimum hourly wage, explains whom it applies to, and lists the exceptions. It also describes which elements of workers' pay are included in the minimum wage...
- Articles 2007-09-28
- Grey future ahead for ageing Scots; Economist warns jobs market will
- The shortage of younger people in Scotland ought to be good news for the older worker - but it doesn't turn out that way. The jobs market will become an increasingly hostile place for the older worker, warns one of the country's leading economists, with falling wage...
- Research articles 2002-07-07
- Don't like Obamacare? Here's an alternative
- NEW YORK Fortune -- This is the second installment in a series of health-care columns by Fortune's Shawn Tully. Unlike the House bill that fills 1,100 pages, my proposed health-care plan can be expressed in four simple bullet points. The marketplace, with more than 100 million consumers writing their own...
- News items 2009-08-19
- Are You at War With Generation Y?
- Last week, Sean Silverthorne's post "Gen X Is Unhappy at Work" got more hits than any blog post in BNET history. Clearly, the subject hit a nerve. Based on reader comments, one of the things that chaps Xers' hides the most is their younger coworkers: the millennials, or Generation Y....
- Blog posts 2008-05-20
- Will Republicans in Congress back Bush on Social Security reform?
- Many Seem Panic-Stricken by Democratic Attacks Abandoning his usual caution, George W Bush shifted Social Security to center-stage. He recently embraced Social Security choice allowing younger Americans the. option to vote part of their payroll taxes to privately owned accounts. "A worker who invests even a limited portion of his...
- Research articles 2000-05-26
- Benedict, Ruth
- BENEDICT, Ruth BENEDICT, Ruth (b. 5 June 1887; d. 17 September 1948), anthropologist. Ruth Fulton was born in New York City to a physician father who died before her second birthday and a librarian mother who never recovered from the loss of her husband. As a result of...
- Research articles 2005-10-25
- The A-Bee-Cs of CCD
- A consortium of scientists name a virus as one possible culprit in Colony Collapse Disorder.It sounds like the plot of a science-fiction thriller: One day the world wakes up to discover that billions of worker bees have mysteriously disappeared from their hives-never to be seen again-leaving the queen and younger,...
- Research articles 2007-11-01
- Working Longer and Liking It
- Like it or not, in today's rapidly shrinking economy you're almost certainly going to have to postpone your retirement by a few years. Alicia Munnell, who heads the Center for Retirement Research at Boston College, outlines how to stay in the game as long as you need — and...
- Articles 2009-03-09
- Facebook, Twitter and Other Social Network Use Soaring in Users Aged 35+
- Forrester Research found that more than four in five U.S. adults online use social media at least once a month, with half engaging friends, family, colleagues and strangers in social network sites such as Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, Digg and Reddit. Among those people who do embrace social media tools, adults...
- News items 2009-08-26
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