Word: workdays
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...trip, along the electric-powered silver train that in normal years carries about 13,000 passengers a day in relative comfort, has seen daily ridership spike to over 17,000 at points in recent months. What was once a leisurely, relatively pleasant way to start off and end the workday has become an exercise in elbow wrestling...
...company and school time, a number of immigration rights groups across the country are now viewing May 1 with the same wariness. Rather than looking at this day as an opportunity to paralyze the country, many coalitions are instead starting to promote activities that will coordinate with the workday, promote economic growth and help educate the public. That includes talking to their children about immigration before dropping them off at school, organizing a work lecture on voter registration, taking family to an evening vigil and, by all means, breaking out the wallet, especially for a community fundraiser. "People need...
Doesn't a 9-to-5 workday sound quaint? It's true. The world is just so pressured. Look at the generation we're creating, with Survivor and all that stuff. You're supposed to outwit everybody and double-deal. Nine to Five was trying to bring a female sensibility to the corporate world, which can really grind you down to nothing...
...Plan on face time. Research shows that the No. 1 cause of interruption and delay in a workday is a colleague stopping by. That's because we are a social creatures and we crave human contact and connection. Psychiatrist Edward Hallowell calls this Vitamin C. If we have a deficiency, we wander the hallways seeking human connection at inopportune times for ourselves and others. The answer: schedule a coffee break or water cooler rendezvous. Schedule some lunches. You need it. It will fortify you for the less social parts of the workday...
...things Ochs' team of observers looks at is what happens at the end of the workday when parents and kids reunite--and what doesn't happen, as in the case of the Coxes. "We saw that when the working parent comes through the door, the other spouse and the kids are so absorbed by what they're doing that they don't give the arriving parent the time of day," says Ochs. The returning parent, generally the father, was greeted only about a third of the time, usually with a perfunctory "Hi." "About half the time the kids ignored...