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Aug. 24 is America's unofficial call out sick day
According to analytics from Flamingo, Aug. 24 is the most common day for employees to call in sick, February is the sickest month and most sick days are for stomach issues.
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Disconnecting From Work
Dr. Lisa Orbe-Austin talks about the challenges when trying to disconnect after work and what you can do about it.
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Why Gen Z Isn't Giving Two Weeks Notice
Dr. Lisa Orbe-Austin joins Current to talk about a growing trend: younger workers giving employers less of a heads-up when they’re leaving.
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Stop Saying “I'm Sorry” At Work
Usually, when a minor inconvenience happens at work, the first thing we tend to say is sorry. Dr. Lisa Orbe-Austin talks about some other things we can say instead, and how saying sorry too much can be a bad thing.
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State Crime Lab: Noose Discovered at Office Not ‘Amenable' for DNA Testing
New details are emerging about a Black employee who alleged racial discrimination and retaliation at his union job. The worker, Rich Summers, said he found a noose on his desk chair when he arrived at the National Association of Government Employees office building last November. The discovery launched an investigation by the Quincy Police Department. When we first reported on…
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HubSpot in Cambridge Rated as Having Some of the Happiest Employees in the Country
HubSpot in Cambridge, Massachusetts, has some of the happiest employees in the country, according to a new set of rankings from review site Comparably, which collects data on workplace culture and companies. HubSpot, a leading customer relationship management (CRM) platform, was ranked very first in employee happiness among top-rated large (over 500 employees) companies, based on feedback from employees on…
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‘Terror, Trauma and Rage': Worker Reports Noose Found at Union Office Desk
Rich Summers was hired as a union representative in March 2020 at the National Association of Government Employees in Quincy, Massachusetts. The position at NAGE took him on the road to meet with government employees at RMV branches around the state. “I loved the job,” Summers told the NBC10 Investigators while sitting at the kitchen table inside his Arlington home….