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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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Finding Freedom at Work | 5/30/2008 | See Source »

None of this is to be confused with hurricane tracking, whose famous "cone of probability" has indeed become a dependable asset to those of us in a storm's path. The accuracy with which the National Hurricane Center here in Miami now forecasts a storm's strength as well as...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hurricane Season: Cloudy Forecasts | 5/30/2008 | See Source »

Another round of turmoil broke out Thursday as government officials sought to explain how the 35-hour week would remain the legal reference despite draft legislation that would effectively allow companies to make their own rules on overtime. The draft being prepared by Employment Minister Xavier Betrand ignores existing agreements...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: France Debates 35-hour Work Week | 5/30/2008 | See Source »

Fair-play, rather than any affection for France's 35-hour work week, motivated Parisot's comment; elsewhere, she reiterated Medef's conviction that the 2000 law that created the institution should simply be repealed. Most members of France's ruling Union for a Popular Movement (UMP) agree, and have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: France Debates 35-hour Work Week | 5/30/2008 | See Source »

Despite that assurance, the 35-hour week is viewed as so damaging to businesses - and so offensive to conservative attitudes to work - that the right remains bent on finding ways of gutting the entitlement even as they promise to preserve it. A prime example came Thursday, as Betrand sought to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: France Debates 35-hour Work Week | 5/30/2008 | See Source »

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