Word: environmentalism
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In 2003, Best Buy's corporate headquarters in Minneapolis was just another cubicle beehive buzzing with nine-to-fivers. Today, the electronics retail giant is leading a workplace revolution. Two employees - Cali Ressler and Jody Thompson - brought about the change by proposing a radical approach to work. Dubbed ROWE, or...
Thompson: Best Buy was considered a great place to work, but the work environment was much like any across America: lots of face time, lots of hours, lots of meetings. When we started to think about destructuring, we did not benchmark. Work-life programs have been around for 40 years...
Ressler: Sludge is the toxic language that judges how people are spending their time. Like: "Oh, it's 10 o'clock and you're just getting in?" "Boy, smokers sure get a lot of breaks." "Did you see Jody leave early? I wish I had a kid." This kind of...
Tibet and Nepal, the long-standing darlings of the Himalayan tourist trade, have not been the most welcoming countries for visitors over the past few months. Foreign tourists have been barred from Tibet since March's anti-Chinese protests. Political troubles in Nepal, where recent elections were marred by bombings...
Two decades after banning nuclear power, following the 1986 Chernobyl disaster, Italy announced it will begin building new nuclear facilities, spurred by surging oil prices and concerns over the effect of fossil fuels on the environment.