We found this article on CNN Fitness reshapes the bottom line By Nick Easen for CNN (CNN) –Workplace health is not a new concept, but the way employers assess its value is shifting. Businesses are waking up to the fact that reshaping the fitness of their staff could also shave pounds off their bottom line. [...]

We saw this article on BPM today. Bangalore Bust: India’s I.T. Labor Pinch At India’s 1,200 technical colleges, just 400,000 engineers graduate each year. Among those, only a fourth have the skills to start work at a multinational or major Indian I.T. firm. Contrast that to 35% of engineers in Malaysia and 50% in Poland [...]

We found this article on topix.net Homeland Security rated low by workers By BEVERLEY LUMPKIN, Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP) – The Homeland Security Department received the lowest scores for job satisfaction on a federal survey, “a clear and jolting message,” the No. 2 official told agency workers. The most satisfied employees worked at NASA [...]

We found this article on Inc.com Bully Rulebook How to deal with jerks. From: Inc. Magazine, February 2007 | By: Leigh Buchanan Call them jerks, bullies, louts, boors, or–as Robert Sutton prefers–assholes. Whatever you call them, such characters are a part of every organization, and Sutton, a professor of management science and engineering at Stanford [...]