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Why Supporting Small Businesses This Holiday Season Is More Urgent Than Ever

Success

If you don’t know where to look, seek out marketplaces that cater to small businesses like Etsy, Uncommon Goods or a new marketplace called Spouse-ly , which sells a wide variety of handmade products and services created by military and first-responder families. Courtesy of Orangewood Guitars. Orangewood Guitars. Photo courtesy of Nuzzie.

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When the chairs took over the world and what it all meant

Workplace Insight

Of all the things we buy, with the exception of our clothes, furniture is the most intimate, the one item we spend most time in contact with. Back in the mid Nineties, the proportionate cost of a typical workstation would consist of about three-quarters systems furniture and other products and about one quarter seating.

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Podcast 110: What’s in your cache?

Clutter Coach

You keep your stapler on the desk, but the box of staples is in the cabinet. You could apply this to clothes you realize you just don’t wear anymore, old newspapers and any product that has an expiration date. That applies to supplies also. That’s a helpful criteria to take into account.

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How to Nail a Great Internship

On The Job

Hundreds of college students are buying dress clothes, running off resumes as Kinkos and removing nose rings and covering tattoos. I live in a city with a major state university and things are starting to get a little crazy this week. It can only mean one thing. Employers are in town. It's a way to identify our future leaders."

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We’re facing famine, extinction, natural disasters: 3 takeaways from the new IPCC report

Ideas.Ted

The drought also reduced water availability for firefighting; the heat exhausted the firefighters in their protective clothing; and the fires generated their own fire weather, spreading the fire faster while also disrupting communications, power networks, and fuel and banking systems – all of which severely hampered the disaster response.

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What happened to customer service at Sears?

Service Untitled

According to online surveys, over 80 percent of customers now give Sears poor customer service grades citing reasons of inept management, unreliable products, poor customer service, and a profound lack of employee training. After all Craftsman tools have always been a male Christmas present staple; for all those weekend home chores.