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When one of his employees phoned in sick last year, Scott McDonald, CEO of Monument Security in Sacramento, Calif., decided to investigate. He had already informed his staff of 400 security guards and patrol drivers that he was installing Xora, a software program that tracks workers' whereabouts through GPS technology on their company cell phones. A Web-based "geo-fence" around work territories would alert the boss if workers strayed or even drove too fast. It also enabled him to route workers more efficiently. So when McDonald logged on, the program told him exactly where his worker...
...worse, acting as a double whammy to the city's psyche. "You see kids who were picked up off rooftops during Katrina who don't want to go to school now. They run screaming out of the school because of separation anxiety," says the 33-year-old clinical social worker. Boys and girls who used to get good grades are cutting up, having fistfights; others are withdrawn...
...Granny" - and other relatives and shared a quick meal of chicken, porridge and cabbage. Obama told reporters gathered outside the house that he had apologized to his grandmother for all the attention she had received "because of me." "He's gone a long way," says Auma Obama, a social worker in London, who accompanied her brother on his latest trip. "He's grown...
Larry Hayes drove from New Orleans to Atlanta three days before Katrina hit to stay with relatives, learning later that his Gentilly neighborhood home - situated between the London Avenue Canal and Lake Pontchartrain - was destroyed. A licensed social worker, Hayes found that his clients and livelihood were gone too, so he began showing his resume around Atlanta, and today is the Fulton County Supervisor for Project Hope, a FEMA-funded mental health program within the Georgia Department of Human Resources, where Hayes now numbers fellow Katrina evacuees among his clients. "I'm going to stay in Atlanta," he says...
Other nonprofits are catching on, offering flexible hours, leadership roles and assignments that tap individual skills. Habitat for Humanity, whose volunteers build homes for the poor, has begun organizing worker Care-A-Vans that travel the U.S., stopping here and there to pound nails. That setup holds special appeal to those looking for adventure, physical activity and tangible results. Peace Corps Encore allows former Peace Corps volunteers to sign on for stints of just a few months rather than two years--attracting folks who have flexible jobs or sabbaticals...