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Should You Hide Your Tattoos When You Interview For a Job?
I got my first tattoo a few days after my 18th birthday, a small purple star on my lowest rib. And for my 20th birthday, all my friends pitched in $5 or $10 each
Read More »Study Explores How to Increase Productivity by Stopping Cyberloafing
A new study by Matthew McCarter, associate professor of management at The University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA), looks into the bane of managers in nearly every industry: employees slacking off by excessively
Read More »Amazon To Open Fifth On-Campus, Offline Location At University Of Pennsylvania
Amazon has spent the last year expanding its challenge to the existence of college bookstores, opening pickup locations on campuses scattered across the country. There, students can pick up things that they ordered on
Read More »Philadelphia Plan Offers Hope for Troubled Newspapers
The decision to donate Philadelphia’s two main newspapers to a nonprofit organization highlights the deepening woes of big US dailies, but also suggests a possible lifeline for the troubled industry. The Philadelphia Inquirer, part
Read More »Why Checking Your Emails After Work is so Bad for Your Health
Unless you’re very young or very old, it’s likely you have some kind of relationship with email, whether you get hundreds of messages a day or a few dozen a week. A new study
Read More »Retailers Are Losing Millions Because of the Warm Winter
This December brought some of the warmest temperatures on record, which meant people around the world were still comfortably wearing T-shirts outside in the winter. While most people rejoiced over the unseasonably warm temperatures,
Read More »Facial Hair Is Back in Style in Business Settings
A century or so after the handlebar mustache made boardrooms look like a convention of Kaiser Wilhelm II impersonators, facial hair has found its way back to the professional setting. As a new generation
Read More »The U.S. Postal Service is Testing a Service That Will Email You Your Mail
You’ve got E-mail. The U.S. Postal Service is currently testing a service that will email people photos of the envelopes of their letter-size mail. It sounds pretty invasive, but the service, Informed Delivery, will only send
Read More »Walmart Starting Cyber Monday On Sunday Because Murica
Here’s a proposal: why don’t we toss out all the special names for the big holiday shopping days and just accept the fact that retailers are going to throw sales at the public before,
Read More »Will Smartphones Kill the Tradition of Black Friday?
The obligatory chore of holiday shopping isn’t nearly as stressful as it once was—thanks in large part to our mobile devices. No longer are we required to dedicate entire days at the mall, maneuvering
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