Entrepreneurs
How to Identify Your Peak Productivity Hours During Your Work Day
The business world forces everyone into a standardized 9-to-5 time box, but research suggests individuals are more productive at different times of the day.
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Thought Leaders
Nearly Half of Your Hourly Employees Are Ready to Leave Unless You Make These Changes
Remember the Aretha Franklin classic? Show some r-e-s-p-e-c-t to your hourly workers and they'll respect you back.
Entrepreneurs
Is a Shorter Workday Actually Better for Businesses?
In a Swedish study, a six-hour workday resulted in a 4.7 percent reduction in total sick days taken and a noticeable reduction in absenteeism.
Building a Business
5 Easy Ways to Relieve Your Overworked Employees
Are your staffers working overlong hours? Disabuse them of the notion that that's the way to get ahead.
Building a Business
How to Make a 5-Hour Workday Work for You
The idea that workers are expected to endure 70 percent of their week so they can enjoy the other 30 percent? That's collective insanity.
Business News
Link Found Between Working Night Shifts and Increased Risk of Heart Disease
Nurses in the study who worked at least three nights per month were more likely to develop heart problems over the next 24 years than nurses who stuck to daytime shifts.
By Reuters
Building a Business
Warehouse Workers Accuse Target of Not Paying Overtime, File Lawsuit
The lawsuit seeks class action status for misclassifying a position as exempt from overtime.
By Reuters
Business News
This Timeline Explains How the 40-Hour Workweek Came About
The fight for an eight-hour workday began in 1866 and ended in 1940.
Building a Business
Urban Outfitters to End On-Call Shifts in North America
The change will affect the chain's 23,000 employees.
Thought Leaders
9 in 10 Surveyed Choose Entrepreneurship, Despite the Sacrifices (Infographic)
A new study explains why business owners think the extra time and energy is worth it.