I recently read a report from the Conference Board that showed that less than half of US workers – 45% to be specific – like their job which is the lowest result in the 22 years that they’ve been measuring it. When the survey started in 1987, 61% of respondents were happy in their jobs [...]

I recently got an email from a friend who just got laid off several weeks before Christmas. She works for a major bank and figured that the layoffs were finished and that her job would be safe but alas, it wasn’t. Two of her family members also lost their jobs in the past few months [...]

When I was in university, I worked for a company that was rumored to be close to having a fairly sizeable downsizing in their office area. I worked part time in an area that was not going to be affected but the rumors were floating around as to who was getting chopped and how big [...]