Tech employees over age 55 are actually less stressed using technology in the workplace, and better at using multiple devices than their younger peers.
Category Archives: Uncategorized
After-hours email expectations negatively impact employee well-being |Scienmag
Earlier this year, France passed a labor reform law that banned checking emails on weekends. New research–to be presented next week at the annual meeting of the Academy of Management–suggests other countries might do well to follow suit, for the sake of employee health and productivity.
A new study–authored by Liuba Belkin of Lehigh University, William Becker of Virginia Tech and Samantha A. Conroy of Colorado State University–finds a link between organisational after-hours email expectations and emotional exhaustion, which hinders work-family balance. The results suggest that modern workplace technologies may be hurting the very employees that those technologies were designed to help.
[…] Read the full article…
Highest-paid CEOs run worst-performing companies | The Independent
The highest-paid CEOs tend to run some of the worst-performing companies, according to new research.
The study, carried out by corporate research firm MSCI, found that for every $100 (£76) invested in companies with the highest-paid CEOs would have grown to 265 (£202) over 10 years.
But the same amount invested in the companies with the lowest-paid CEOs would have grown to 367 (£279) over a decade.
Australian insurers keep customers in the dark about climate risks, report finds | The Guardian
A WWF study shows Australian insurers tell customers far less than overseas insurers about the risks climate change could pose to their businesses.
Analysis of IP Chapter of the Trans-Pacific Partnership | EFF
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/10/final-leaked-tpp-text-all-we-feared
Today’s release by Wikileaks of what is believed to be the current and essentially final version of the intellectual property (IP) chapter of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) confirms our worst fears about the agreement, and dashes the few hopes that we held out that its most onerous provisions wouldn’t survive to the end of the negotiations.