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...trade publication in Manhasset, N.Y., knowing that she can have lunch every day with her two children, Christopher, 3, and Beatrice, 13 months, makes all the difference to her job. The company's on-site, full-service day-care center allows Lechler to see her kids anytime during the workday if they aren't feeling well--or if they just need a hug from Mom. She pays the company about $165 a week for Christopher's care and $150 a week for Beatrice's, which, Lechler says, costs her about 20% less than some independent day-care centers located near...
Today energy bars are increasingly being targeted to weekend warriors and office workers. They're pitched as a way to eat breakfast on the run or to dose up with a burst of energy late in the workday--to help, as PowerBar says, with "life's daily marathons." But as they enter the mainstream, many are dropping the ascetic rubber-brick ethos in favor of more savory--and fat-laden--formulas that appeal to a wider market...
...boss was sympathetic about the sharp decline in her job performance. He knew that Pam, a recovering alcoholic, had been battling manic depression and grieving over a death in her family. What he didn't know, however, was that Pam had been spending up to six hours of her workday sending e-mail to friends and playing electronic games. The consequences of Pam's compulsion extend beyond the work time lost. "Sometimes I forget where I'm at, and I might put the wrong solution on a slide and blow the experiment for the day," she admits. "I have many...
...without experiencing some sort of Nike moment. Recently he was sitting in a waiting room in Hollywood when he was greeted by a studio president toting two large Nike shopping bags. Curious, Moore asked why the executive was shopping for athletic gear in the middle of his workday. Simple, the mogul replied, you can't beat the price...
...mail sent over the court's computers. The book discusses legal history and doctrines, but it is the tales out of school that will no doubt attract the most attention. Lazarus repeats accounts that Thurgood Marshall, the court's legendary first black Justice, watched soap operas during the workday, and says he let his law clerks do almost everything but cast his vote. Lazarus says it was "received wisdom" among the clerks that Justice Sandra Day O'Connor was so peeved at Justice William Brennan for having "hoodwinked" her in a case that she refused to join...