THOUGHT LEADERSHIP
What we're reading & what we think about it
Need to Attract Employees? Subsidize their time AWAY from the office.
I once worked for an Australian bank here in the U. S. What was even more shocking than the amount of their annual vacation time (at least four weeks to start), was the fact that while on vacation, employees were paid 117% of their typical salary. Why? “Because, it...
The Return on Idleness
Returning from vacation, it only seems fitting to produce something profound on the merits of vacating, being idle, and staring up at the ever-changing clouds. Luckily for me Brian O’Connor, a professor of philosophy at University College Dublin, wrote a significant...
The Return on Idleness
Returning from vacation, it only seems fitting to produce something profound on the merits of vacating, being idle, and staring up at the ever-changing clouds. Luckily for me Brian O’Connor, a professor of philosophy at University College Dublin, wrote a significant...
The Return of the Summer Puzzle
Two summers ago, we posted an article, "Is the Economy Getting Better Or Worse?" Still perplexed, this year, we're hearing from the Kansas City Fed. They strike a cautionary note that if 14.3% of workers haven't received a raise in the last year, then there aren't...
The Return of the Summer Puzzle
Two summers ago, we posted an article, "Is the Economy Getting Better Or Worse?" Still perplexed, this year, we're hearing from the Kansas City Fed. They strike a cautionary note that if 14.3% of workers haven't received a raise in the last year, then there aren't...
The skilled labor shortage we were worried about? It’s here.
You may have seen the article in Monday's WSJ that spoke about towns and companies enticing younger people to move with $5,000 to help pay student loans or pay for a house. Mike Allgrunn, an economist at the University of South Dakota, dubs these “a modern-day...
