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Back to work (and to blawg)
Apologies to regular readers for the week of silence. I spent time in Indiana with family and friends, returning Saturday.
Unfortunately, last night my home computer went totally on the fritz.
I will resume blogging tonight from work as time permits, while trying to log some good billable hours this week to [...]
Debit cards for employee-directed benefit spending
Workforce Management has this article by Rachael King on an interesting benefits trend: “Employers Give Workers Debit Cards to Access Benefit Dollars.”
Diana Andersen wanted to eliminate the shoebox effect. Employees at Zions Bancorporation would collect their receipts for visits to the doctor’s office or for their children’s day care in shoeboxes to submit for reimbursement [...]
Latest on Calif. grocery strike — talks collapse
Yahoo News (Reuters) reports: “Calif. Grocery Strike Talks Collapse.”
Talks between supermarket chains and striking employees collapsed shortly after they resumed late Friday as store owners rejected labor’s first broad proposal to end a 10-week-old dispute that has idled 70,000 California workers.
Owners balked at a proposal by the United Food & Commercial [...]
Survey on internet use at work
The following graphs from an Information Week survey, as reported by Parry Aftab may be of interest:
The article says:
While the statistics are enlightening, the comments given to us by respondents are even more enlightening.
Several respondents commented that taking the survey on company time was violating their acceptable-use policies. Most, however, agreed that as long [...]
Interesting studies on gender pay equity issues
Employment Policy Foundation (EPF) has this: “Women in the Workplace Make Large Gains over the Last Decade.”
Highlights include:
The real earnings of women in full-time, year round jobs increased 19.1 percent from 1991 to 2001, and the number of women earning over $80,000 per year in real (2001) terms increased from 624,000 to 1.7 million—a 166 [...]
