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...norm. Yet somehow neither work nor the family has changed enough to make this a tenable situation. Day care is still catch as catch can. Employers still demand 110%, while spouses and children still need clean socks and a ride to the dentist. Add stagnating wages and layoff anxiety, and for millions of Americans, each week becomes a stressful triage between work and home that leaves them feeling guilty, exhausted and angry...
According to Assistant Provost for Information Technology Anne H. Margulies, the meeting was designed to provide OIT employees with all the information they need to decide whether to participate in the voluntary layoff program being offered...
...HUCTW said that compared to the usual layoff package its members receive, the severance pay offered is marginally better, but other measures such as benefits are worse...
...voluntary layoff program, Harvard reserves the right to decide when staff members leave so that it can have some control over which positions are empty at what time, Margulies said...
Reporting a loss of $69 million for the quarter ending Dec. 29, Apple Computer announced a layoff of 1,300 employees, at least 8% of its worldwide work force. The company is expected to pull away from making entry-level computers, concentrating instead on more sophisticated, expensive machines...