A new study shows that the nature of a person's Facebook profile can help predict the person's performance as an employee.
posted by reenum on Feb 25, 2012 - 50 comments

One Job for America. Carla Emil had a good idea. PBS has this report.
posted by GrammarMoses on Aug 6, 2011 - 43 comments

Edward Mike Davis was the owner or Tiger Oil, an oil company operating in Houston during the 1970's. His irascible memos have been an Internet sensation for the past few years. Good things are not meant to last forever, and in 1980, Tiger Oil filed bankruptcy. Davis' hatred of people did not confine itself to the office, as this case shows. Tiger Oil was in litigation in relation to the bankruptcy filing as late as 1989.
posted by reenum on Aug 3, 2010 - 45 comments

In an effort to explore the hierarchy and commonalities between maids and those who employ them, Justine Graham and Ruby Rumié created a photo exhibit entitled Lugar Común (Common Place) (pdf, text in spanish) of fifty female Latin-American employer-employee dyads. All women wear white shirts and no accessories. They sit in the same poses. There is no explicit indication of who works for whom. (via) [more inside]
posted by emilyd22222 on Jul 13, 2010 - 14 comments

The Toronto Star looks into the shambles that Canada's guest worker program finds itself in. [more inside]
posted by reenum on Jul 7, 2010 - 36 comments

Jarretta Hamilton, a teacher at a Christian school in Orlando, was fired after it was discovered that her baby was conceived before she was married.
posted by reenum on Jun 27, 2010 - 157 comments

Why Google Employees Quit
posted by Blazecock Pileon on Jan 18, 2009 - 141 comments