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...What was a tragedy has turned into an institutional crisis. The air traffic controllers on duty the day of the disaster were removed pending further inquiries, causing manpower shortages. Those that remain on the job are angry at the levels of on-the-job stress, overwork and low pay and as a result are on a work slowdown. Problems with fiberoptic cables and radio transmitters have cut communications and left passengers stranded at airports. Hundreds of flights have been cancelled and many days a third take off late. Irate travelers have threatened staff, trashed check-in counters and even stormed...
...really blame companies for watching our Web habits, since 45% of us admit that surfing is our favorite time waster, according to a joint survey by Salary.com and AOL. A Northeast technology company found that several employees who frequently complained of overwork spent all day on MySpace.com Information-technology departments routinely receive automatic Web reports on what sites employees visit; they tend to review them only if there's a red flag...
...duplicitous schemer as a young man who harbored "a love for bloodthirsty thuggery." And then he turned really nasty. Mao purged and murdered rivals. He pigged out on exotic delicacies amid the mass starvation his policies caused. (The authors cite estimates that 38 million people died of starvation and overwork during the Great Leap Forward. Mao, meanwhile, stuck to his misguided industrialization plans, blithely commenting that "half of China may well have to die.") In the 1970s, Mao even forbade surgery for his loyal No. 2, Zhou Enlai, who was suffering from cancer of the bladder, in part to ensure...
...because even if a solution isn't found by then, she can keep working on it from her laptop at home. No one whispers that she's leaving. In fact, no one notices. That's because Janssen is part of an ambitious new experiment to solve the problem of overwork. Like many other U.S. companies, Best Buy has struggled to meet the demands of its business--how to do things better, faster and cheaper than its competitors--with an increasingly stressed-out work force...
...deprogramming begins with what Best Buy calls "sludge sessions," because they are where employees dig out the cultural barriers to change--the jokes and comments that reinforce overwork. "It's like, coming in at 10 o'clock and someone says, 'Wow, I wish I could come in at 10,'" Tobias says. "It's really hard to let that bounce off and not be defensive." LaMere, 32, says she used to gossip about who was taking an extra-long lunch break. "We were all watching each other," she says. "You don't want to be seen eating in the cafeteria." LaMere...