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...
When it comes to under-30 workers' approach to safety--and their trainability--safety professionals such as Mike Byington of LaCrosse, Wisc.-based Inland Label and Marketing Services believe there is a difference between them and their older (or pe When it comes to under-30 workers' approach to...
Tap-dancing star of music hall IN 1997, the 85-year-old tap-dancing pioneer Josie Woods was "rediscovered" by the production team of the BBC TV current affairs programme Black Britain. In a short but enjoyable profile, filmed on location at the Brick Lane Music Hall, Woods recalled her...
NEW YORK, Aug. 22 /PRNewswire/ -- Most companies do not have a plan to manage and transfer knowledge and even fewer factor cross-generational challenges into business strategy, says a new report from The Conference Board, the global research and business membership organization. "As the Baby Boom generation...
CHICAGO -- Let them do work! That's the Labor Day anthem for mature workers according to a newly-released study by Age Lessons, a Chicago-based intergenerational consulting firm, that identified the workplace "3 Rs" that keep Baby Boomer employees up at night--fear of redundancy [layoffs, firings], relevance [keeping skills current] and...
The tightening of the high-skill labour market in recent years has been mirrored by a rise in environmental awareness and a focus on environmental problems, and the solutions needed to solve them have become a vital part of the younger generation's thinking. And now, with the labour...
For decades, the U.S. fielded gold-medal-winning basketball "dream teams" in the Olympics. Then the rest of the world caught up, so this year's team is calling itself the "redeem team." Something similar is playing out in higher education, where for decades the quality of U.S. universities led the...
Generation blend; managing across the technology age gap. Salkowitz, Rob. John Wiley & Sons 2008 254 pages $29.95 Hardcover HD6279 This volume explores interconnections between generational issues and workplace technology relevant to the management...
JFK and the unspeakable; why he died and why it matters. Douglass, James W. Orbis Books 2008 510 pages $30.00 Hardcover E842 Douglass a longtime peace activist with the Catholic Workers borrows the term...
WASHINGTON -- When server Anne Lettieri needs to know the weekly schedule for her shifts at The Tombs restaurant here, she checks her e-mail, or she can opt to get the schedule in a text message on her cell phone. If she wants to add a shift at the casual-dining...
Being an out-of-the-closet communist in 1950s America was no easy task. But Mary Davis of Berkeley, known to friends as "Bolshevik Mary," was up to it. Friends and family say Davis, a San Francisco native, was a true activist for workers, peace and justice...
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Balanchine 'baby ballerina' Irina Baronova was one of the original "baby ballerinas" recruited in 1932 by the choreographer George Balanchine to be the stars of the Ballets Russes de Monte Carlo. She was just 13 at the time and for the next 15...
Bob Wassom was at the top of his career when the advertising company he worked for merged with another. Five years later, his contract was not renewed. That was in 2006. Wassom's buyout kept him going about a year. Now the freelance writer,...
Utah's county clerks are looking for a few good people to serve as poll workers on Election Day in November. What good timing, then, that professors at Kent State and Brigham Young universities just released a study that emphasizes how important those workers are to the...
HAVANA AFP — Cuba this week rounded up and detained more than 30 dissidents after accusing the United States of "instigating" opposition to the Communist regime, a top rights activist told AFP Saturday. As many as 35 people were arrested and around 70 targeted in all,...
Centenarian political activist Andy Andrews admonished those present at his 101st birthday party in Taunton in February for going on too much about his lifetime of political activism. After messages of congratulations from Tony Benn, the CND chair Kate Hudson and other left-wing...
The recent rush of news about construction accidents around the country provides an unfortunate - but important - opportunity to pause and reconsider the reasons safety should be among the highest priorities for our industry. In the next decade, one of the greatest...
Now is the Time to Plan for Employee Flu Vaccination Programs ATLANTA -- Businesses that want a dose of preventive medicine to maintain healthy productivity levels among workers - and protect profits - during a sick economy should look for healthcare partners now to protect...
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