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• Aluminum smelters employees die of lung cancer

  Published: August 1, 2007, 4:48 pm

  Tags: Aluminum Smelter, Aluminumsmelter, Carcinogens, Compensation, Exposure, Factory, Workplace

  dangerous carcinogens in the workplace. Although the 10 workers were smokers, it's believed that their deaths were ultimately a result of their working conditions. It's not specified exactly how much the families will receive, but it's expected to be 'thousands of dollars.' That seems a bit cheap when you consider that it's compensation for

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• Robust recruitment = $4,500

  Published: August 3, 2007, 2:42 pm

  Tags: Workplace Labor

  Lots of companies have employee referral programs, but the amount of money that online advertising agency Avenue A/Razorfish is willing to put up for some fresh blood is robust, to quote the senior veep of the agency's Philly office. Employees had until today to submit resumes of mid-level to senior candidates for all types of jobs --

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• Video Games at Work Are a Fashionable Trend

  Published: August 7, 2007, 1:47 pm

  Tags: Gamer Life, Productivity, Progressive, Workplace Video Games

  Games Coming to a Workplace Near YouGames as a Work ModelGaming Trends That Need to Stop - AnnouncementsGaming Trends That Need to Stop - Collecting ThingsMore People Getting Hurt Playing Video Games

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• Tragic Event Forces Man To Spend Rest Of Life Confined To Office Chair

  Published: August 4, 2007, 1:01 am

  Tags: Jobs, Human Interest, Health, News, Workplace

  WILMETTE, IL—The impact of Fahey's employment was so crushing that it has since left the former high school track star paralyzed in front of his work computer.

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• New Lion Tamer Shocked By Vast Amount Of Paperwork

  Published: August 9, 2007, 1:01 am

  Tags: Jobs, Work, Animals, News In Brief, Workplace

  BARABOO, WI—Traveling circus performer Scott Mueller, who said he has dreamed of becoming a lion tamer since childhood, was dismayed Monday...

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• Worker dies in cherry picker accident

  Published: August 13, 2007, 6:29 pm

  Tags: Disasters Accidents, Workplace Accidents, Brisbane 4000, Indooroopilly 4068

  A 55-year-old road maintenance worker has been crushed to death while working with a cherry picker under Brisbane's Western Freeway.

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• Study: Smokers Bad For Workplace

  Published: August 23, 2007, 2:04 am

  Tags: Workplace, American Voices

  A new study shows that smokers have a poorer-than-average work performance and call in sick more than non-smokers. What do you think?

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• Fabled Burger King Employee Places Single Onion Ring In Everyone's Fries

  Published: August 23, 2007, 1:01 am

  Tags: Workplace, News In Brief, Jobs, Fast Food, Food, Service Industry

  MUNDELEIN, IL—A legendary Burger King employee, known across the land for the heroic and selfless deed of randomly inserting a single onion...

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• Study: Smokers Bad For Workplace

  Published: August 23, 2007, 2:04 am

  Tags: Workplace, American Voices

  A new study shows that smokers have a poorer-than-average work performance and call in sick more than non-smokers. What do you think?

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• Fabled Burger King Employee Places Single Onion Ring In Everyone's Fries

  Published: August 23, 2007, 1:01 am

  Tags: Workplace, News In Brief, Jobs, Fast Food, Food, Service Industry

  MUNDELEIN, IL—A legendary Burger King employee, known across the land for the heroic and selfless deed of randomly inserting a single onion...

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• Printers Hounded From Offices

  Published: August 1, 2007, 9:18 am

  Tags: News, Comedy, Fake News, Funny, Health Safety, Humor, Humour, Inkjets, Laser Printers, Laser Toner, News, Office, Satire, Satirical, Wit, Witty, Workplace Safety

  Printers have taken to hanging around the doorways to offices across the country as they join smokers as the latest outcasts in our increasingly health conscious society. ‘I’ve caused no trouble in years,’ said one Lexmark E352dn laser printer standing out in the cold. ‘Then all of a sudden Bam! I’m not wanted

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• New is a requirement

  Published: June 20, 2007, 8:26 am

  Tags: Work Life Balance, Idea Generation, Leader, New Ideas, Personal Growth, Creative Thinking, Lee Iwan, Workplace Issues, How To Be Creative, Seeking Innovation, Strategic Thinking, Lee Iwan Accumulated Experience, Sharing Ideas, Leaders, Attitude, Ideas, Creativity, Learnin

  and chaos in the workplace

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• Improve your leadership profile

  Published: June 19, 2007, 9:16 am

  Tags: Business Leadership, Business Executive, Team Leadership, Team Participation, Leon Guanajuato, Workplace Issues, Lee Iwan Accumulated Experience, Leadership Style, Group Leader, Perception Of Leadership, Effective Leadership, Business Leader, Employee Motivation, Leei

  Ever wonder if your leadership style should be less interactive, less personal with your team? Do you believe that the “cold emotionless leader” approach will bring better results to the organization? Teresa Amabile in an interview entitled How Team Leaders Show Support-or Not in The Harvard Business School Working Knowledge

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• Can we allow ourselves to work and enjoy it?

  Published: June 5, 2007, 5:58 pm

  Tags: Lee Iwan Accumulated Experience, Business Innovation, Business Attitude, Business Entrepreneurship, Business Culture, Workplace Issues, Fun At Work, Leeiwan, Tim Smit, The Eden Project, Management Ideas, Corporate Management, Business Leader, Lee Iwan, Corporate World

  great definition of my ideal workplace. Take a look at some of his management “rules” for his current project, The Eden Project Wants to work with people he likes, interviewers must provide a 10 minute performance of something entertaining Seeks extroverts with opinions, not seeking “yes men” Job interviews take two

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• Unions buying union

  Published: September 3, 2007, 4:06 pm

  Tags: Workplace Labor, 973

  Today's Labor Day parade was a rainbow of T-shirts, each union sporting its characteristic colors. But how many of those are made in America by union members? That's where Belinda Lader sees her niche. Lader, who was hawking her wares at the Labor Day post-parade party at Penns Landing, works for Geiger Bros., a Maine-based distributor of

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