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...less per week, they would have likely mocked the idea as a French socialist plot to undermine the British economy. But when the U.K. arm of accounting firm KPMG recently asked its staff if they would be willing to reduce their workweek - and thereby save jobs - in the event that business dried up, an overwhelming 85% signed on. About 200 employees in the tax division have already shifted to a four-day week, says spokesman Gavin Houlgate, who claims the deal is a first for a British financial services firm. It's unlikely to be the last. "There's been...
...backyard of his Dublin home comes equipped with floodlights. When his wife hauls him in after midnight, as she often does, the Irish golfer retires to a specially designed indoor range in his basement. At most tournaments, Harrington is the last golfer to leave the practice ground; at one event this year he hid a stash of balls behind a hospitality tent so he could sneak back out to practice after the staff went home. As is common to addicts, those close to Harrington try to wean him off his habit. His caddy, Ronan Flood, will often urge...
...despite the event's bleak inspiration, things at the Unemployment Olympics are generally cheerful. Contestants yell and clap and egg each other on, and no one seems upset when the Payday piñata breaks on the very first try - revealing Payday candybars. With New York easing its way into spring, being outdoors under a blue sky is almost as refreshing as the chance to stab a thumbtack into a fat, balding, caricature of a boss...
...This event is making me nervous," says Katina Garrard, a quiet, pale woman watching the phone toss. Garrard was a legal ethics assistant at International Paper in Memphis, Tennessee until three months ago, when her company announced extensive layoffs. Memphis is a small city and none of the major corporations were hiring, so Garrard picked up for New York, where she thought the opportunities would be - "well, not plentiful, but at least they would exist." She attended a job fair earlier in the day, but it just depressed her. "There were lines and lines of people hoping...
...bank from four of the capital's underground stations, each group led by a "horseman of the apocalypse." At London Bridge, protesters walked to the blast of a trombone with a medley of motives. "Can we overthrow the government?" bellowed Chris Knight, one of the event's organizers. "Yes we can!" Beside an effigy of Fred Goodwin, the former boss of the Royal Bank of Scotland, who is blamed for its collapse, Knight predicted that "bankers should be hanging from lampposts" later in the day. (See pictures of the global financial crisis...