Kay Cunningham's List: Work and Workplace

'Even though your boss may be delighted to remind you that you should just be grateful to have a job and get over your case of "survivor guilt" or whatever the hip corporate term is now, it's hard to be happy about working longer, harder, and sicker for the same or less money. '

'It's called 'information rage', and one in every two Aussie employees is affected by it. LexisNexis conducted a survey, which revealed that 49 percent of respondents are unable to manage all the information coming their way. Of those, 51 per cent said they're close to giving up.'

'In the business world, victims of a micromanager will flee for other jobs. According to studies reported by Robert Sutton, a business professor at Stanford University, the average yearly turnover in business personnel is 5 percent. But when the boss is, in Sutton's term, "an asshole," the turnover jumps to 25 percent or more. Employees are constantly applying for other jobs. Those who stay, as most academics must in today's tight job market, are demoralized. They take more sick days; their families suffer.'

'Whenever companies start hiring freely again, job-seekers with specialized skills and education will have plenty of good opportunities. Others will face a choice: Take a job with low pay - or none at all.'
'Pay for future service-sector jobs will tend to vary from very high to very low. At the same time, the number of middle-income service-sector jobs will shrink, according to government projections. Any job that can be automated or outsourced overseas is likely to continue to decline.'

"The growth in these jobs -- and the decline in tenure-track positions -- was found in all sectors of higher education, but was most apparent at community colleges. However, one of the most notable shifts was at public four-year colleges and universities, where over the period studied, tenured and tenure-track faculty members went from being a slight majority to less than 40 percent of faculty members. "

"Casualization emphasizes cost reduction but conceals negative costs of precarious employment for teachers and students. Comparing the 1997/98 and 2007/08 York University Factbook shows a 46 per cent increase in full-time undergraduate enrolment. The tenu

"Although most nontenure-track faculty members are assigned to lower-division courses, they also teach a significant share of the upper-division courses offered to undergraduates — at least 22 percent at baccalaureate and master’s institutions, and at lea

Without anyone paying much attention, professors have substantially been replaced by part timers and those off the tenure track when it comes to teaching English and writing to undergraduates."

"The AFT and other faculty groups have argued that while many adjunct instructors are great classroom teachers, their working conditions — such as lack of office hours, being cut off from curricular decisions, being forced to move from campus to campus —

Elon colleges decreases numbers of adjuncts and increases numbers of tenure-track faculty.

News article on the burdensome teaching loads (and mininal pay)of adjunct faculty in Tennessee public colleges and universities

"But much as the rhetoric surrounding the stimulus legislation has portrayed it as focusing on creating jobs related to “shovel ready” infrastructure and other projects, significant numbers of the jobs that will be either created or saved by the financial

By Dan Schawbel. "Here at Mashable(), we’re trying hard to help you stay afloat and succeed in the current economic crisis. We’ve told you how to build the ultimate social media resume, sites to visit if you’ve been laid off, and the secrets to finding yo

"Since the recession began, the economy has eliminated a net total of roughly 4.4 million jobs, with more than half of those positions — some 2.6 million — disappearing in the last four months alone. This rapid deterioration has prompted talk that some in

"A comparison of the number of people being thrown out of work in this recession with that of the severe recession of 1981-82 will indicate why. The peak unemployment rate was higher in that earlier recession than today’s 7.6 percent, largely because the

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"The number of job postings in the MLA’s Job Information List will be down 21 percent in 2008-9, the steepest annual decline in its 34-year history."

"In the humanities, however, data are starting to come in that suggest that — even if you heard about this or that great position — there will be significantly fewer searches this year."