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Paul Patinios, a Microsoft employee, took advantage of his employer's corporate volunteering policy by working at an elephant rescue centre in Thailand last year.

Volunteering

Doing good, on company time

Companies are paying workers while they scoop elephant dung in Thailand or renovate inner-city playgrounds


The dark side of mentoring

When the protégé backstabs or the mentor steals ideas, you know the feel-good process has gone awry


Open door, closed mind

The boss isn't listening

Managers' unwillingness to listen to tough issues leaves many underlings fearful of speaking frankly

The Office

Working overtime (at porn)

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Japanese employee logged more than 780,000 hits to porn sites over a nine-month period


Suitable: Work Couture

Business before pleasure on casual Friday

Amy Verner

How to dress down without abandoning your professional polish


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Gen Y wants to work it out

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Spirituality Inc.

Companies are hiring chaplains for heart-to-heart chats with employees. Their first challenge: skepticism

Liar, liar, résumé on fire

Industrial psychologists are borrowing techniques from criminal profilers to weed out liars during the hiring process

The traditional job interview: That's so yesterday

Employers are realizing candidates who rock the interview prove they've mastered the process, but not necessarily the job itself

Repenting post-rant pays off for women

Men, however, risk undermining status among co-workers by trying to explain workplace tantrum

Workplace Alcoholism: How boozy is your workplace?

New study ranks industries according to the number of alcoholics working in them

Is praise screwing up your staff?

It's natural to want to comfort an erring employee, but that well-intentioned pat on the back may only make the situation worse

Alberta plane crash: What's next after bosses' deaths?

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