National Edition - November 12, 2006
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Workplace jargon 'isolates staff'
Has jargon outlived its utility? In most cases, new employees have to learn the local lingo before feeling completely at ease with their co-workers. Now, talking the talk has become a tougher challenge-akin to learning a second language-tripping people up at every step when it comes time to walking the walk, or accomplishing anything at all.
(Source: BBC News)
Fast and the curious
So you daydream about taking off in your four-cylinder puddle-jumper import parked in the company lot. It speaks of your youth, love of the open road and suggests a common disregard for the posted speed limit. You'll never become one of those law-abiding, sedate bosses in a starched shirt and stuffy suit. Well, think again. Here's the truth about what executives are really up to on their weekends-not just endless rounds of golf and sojourns in cottage country-or at least proof positive of the expression about the difference between men and boys.
(Source: Wired)
California encourages people to bring worms to work
California's Integrated Waste Management Board has a handy guide to creating an environmentally friendly workplace. The "Business Waste Reduction" section of their website is an extensive resource. In fact, it goes so far as to encourage businesses to provide free compost as an employee perk, by investing in earthworms and aquariums to generate fertilizer from the lunchroom's organic waste.
(Source: CNews)
Commuting to work isn't such a nightmare: study
A recent survey of Canadian commuters reveals that not everyone is a boiling cauldron of road rage in stop-and-go traffic. Rather, some people actually enjoy it, as it's the only time that they are alone during the day. However, public transit commuters were less likely to enjoy traveling to-and-from work than their car-loving cohorts.
(Source: CTV)
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Do you often travel on business between time zones? Or, perhaps more importantly, do you believe that lab mice are like humans?
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Unusual schedules of light and darkness took a deadly toll on elderly mice in tests. |
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Based on these results, scientists suggest that working unusual shifts and flying back and forth across time zones could have ill effects on peoples' health. |
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A study of more than 100 mice found that older creatures forced to live on such schedules died sooner than those on gentler schedules. |
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However, young mice treated in a similar way did just fine. |
(Source: International Herald Tribune)
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Research and editing: Austin Macdonald
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