The Foundation for Economic Education (FEE) isn’t a website I follow very much. But then again, I don’t really follow many websites or blogs very religiously. I get almost all of my news from Facebook (my friends list to be more exact) and it’s generally a pretty reliable way to get the news without using…
Health concerns aren’t a new topic on this site and certainly stress isn’t either. But this time around we have even more data to support the obvious: Stress kills in the long-run and stressful jobs are a locus of stress, therefore working too hard and too much can damage our health and in the long-run,…
A relatively uninteresting study came out earlier this year stating that people who are over 40 are going to benefit more if they work less than 40 hours. Their ideal time is more likely to be around 25 hours a week (see the actual study here) instead of 40 and any higher than that would…
One of my fondest memories of working at Kohl’s was when I purposefully went slow on a particular night. We were doing the usual drudgery of taking clothes off a container and putting them in them in the appropriate place. This was fairly mindless, uninteresting, repetitive and frankly, insulting work that I generally disliked. It…
I got emailed another one of these fancy info-graphics about work and this time it revolves around countries and the average amount of work their citizens do in a given week. You can find the graphic here (see an isolated version, here) and you can find its citations (which I’ve skimmed over, but most of…
There’s some data here about what sort of organizations millennials might prefer. It involves more sharing of information, less hierarchy and less of the usual rat-race. I haven’t dug into the data but if so, it seems promising. It’ll at least make some of the worst parts of capitalist less harmful and thus perhaps inspire…
Last August we discussed a Gallup Poll that determined the obvious: we work more than we’re technically “supposed” to work. The study found based on a summary of the 2013-2014 numbers that Americans are more likely to work an average of forty-seven hours a week instead of the forty hours that is more commonly associated…
A few months back a Reddit Thread had this headline: Workplace Loyalty is Declining: 69% of Employees Say Looking for New Opportunities is Part of their ‘Regular Routine’ which in turns links to this which links you to a Forbes article about job hopping which takes it’s data from a FastCompany article on “the four-year…
In mid December of last year Mashable published an article called, “A bad job is harder on your mental health than being unemployed” saying: There’s a clear link between being engaged in “good work” and mental health. An important contribution to our understanding of this link has come from the Household, Income and Labor Dynamics in…
In the ongoing debate over the crony capitalist “Export-Import” bank, job statistics get thrown around a lot. On its website, the bank boasts that “Ex-Im Bank’s mission is American jobs,” claiming to have “supported 1.2 million private-sector, American jobs since 2009, supporting 205,000 jobs in 2013 alone.” Economist Veronique de Rugy points out that these job numbers…