Got the Blues in Your Job?
Feeling sadness or loneliness in the workplace is not uncommon. There are times we go through a difficult work-life experience.
Posts Tagged: depression
Fear and Loathing in Middle Management
“You’re there so they can all hate you,” my father said helpfully when I called up to vent during my first experience as a middle manager.
Absenteeism in the Public Sector – Is cutting jobs really the solution?
A recent report by the CBC has pegged the cost of federal public service absenteeism at $1B per year. According to the CBC story, the average public servant is taking 18 days a year in sick leave, double what their private sector counterpart does in that same year. While the story does discuss fairly obviousRead… Read more »
Need a Job? Three Steps to Take Now
The fact that millions of Americans are unemployed or underemployed is not news. Although we seem to be engaged in Einstein’s infamous trap of ‘doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results.’ Policy makers are debating how to entice businesses into hiring more people and the unemployed are angry and frustrated overRead… Read more »