The new stats from Xobni and Harris Interactive reveals that 79% of working Americans receive job-related emails during holidays and 59% check them. Harris Interactive conducted an online survey on behalf of Xonbi and polled 2,179 adults aged 18 and older on their holiday email usage. The survey, thus, found that 41% of those who receive work emails over the holidays were not terribly thrilled with it. Twelve percent of respondents said they "dreaded" seeing work emails, and 10 percent said they felt pity for those bosses who actually send work emails out over the holidays.

Men who bottle up their anger at being unfairly treated at work are up to five times more likely to suffer a heart attack, or even die from one, than those who let their frustration show, a Swedish study has found. The study by the Stress Research Institute of Stockholm University followed 2,755 employed men who had not suffered any heart attacks from 1992 to 2003.

 According to an expert in the career management business it may turn out that people who have realistic plans about their career do not move their goals while those who have unrealistic ideas about their ideal jobs usually follow to their dreams. Waffles Pi Natusch, President of The Barrett Group, says, “No path is unrealistic, but expectations can be.” 

 As large and small companies in the United States are increasingly cutting their workforces the federal government meantime continues hiring employees with 600,000 scheduled to be employed with the next four years which is 50% more than it was hired over the previous four years.

 Recent researches have found that contractions in economic activity like crises and recessions may lead to improvements in health condition. The study covered health trends during the 20 years around the Great Depression. The study was analyzing correlations between economic woes and health improvements in various countries.

Fortune magazine published advices to help people stay optimistic in these tough economic times. The edition cites Shawn Achor, head of Aspirant, a consulting firm that advises clients like Microsoft, American Express, Credit Suisse, and UBS on how to keep morale and productivity up in these extraordinarily difficult times. Achor is also resident psychology tutor at Harvard. He has done 5 years of research into "positive psychology," otherwise known as the formal academic study of happiness.

A recent survey commissioned by Credant Technologies reported that over ¼ of 329 London workers polled admit they usually take their laptop or other mobile computing device to their beds to do work. Meantime, the same survey says that 57% of their bedmates think that such form of ‘labor’ is "a very annoying habit."

Microsoft Corp. announced it would be training unemployed people in Washington State to help get new computer skills, as a part of a new national program Microsoft announced at the National Governors Conference in February.Over the next 90 days the company plans to give away more than 30,000 vouchers that will entitle them to take computer classes for free and take Microsoft certification exams at no or low cost.

Like it or not, most of us are working for someone else. That’s why it is so important to avoid saying something dumb or regrettable to your boss. Just like you, he is a human being (surprise!) with his own emotions, fears, issues and problems. Some comments that you think were innocent could seriously reduce his credibility. It can damage your work relationships and even your career.

The USC Annenberg School Center for the Digital Future released the results of the study that found a major part of U.S. online users admitted that the Internet helped them to become more productive. From 2000 to 2007 the number of users who believed in Internet productivity constantly increased with 57% of online surfers who said the Internet had improved their productivity “a lot” or “somewhat” in 2000 and 71% in 2007.

Thunder burst out… These words were used by mass-media to present us the world financial crisis which has penetrated into various sectors of the economics more than a month ago, and have sterilized them from superprofits and excessive number of employees. As a confirmation the western consulting agencies have already established the increase in a quantity of the CVs and the job-hunting announcements on the Internet.