Workplace Buzz: Today's Headlines

Workplace Buzz on July 4, 2007 7:22 AM

A Midweek Break

Midweek holiday doesn't give much time away from work writes Corinne Reilly for the Merced Sun-Star.

For all those who look forward to the long holiday weekend that often unfurls with Independence Day, this year will likely be a star-spangled bummer.
Monday and Friday holidays are ideal, and even a Tuesday or a Thursday holiday often can be finagled into a four-day weekend.

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Restarting Your Career

Marilyn Gardner for the Christian Science Monitor advises how to restart your career.

Making the transition back to the workplace after a significant absence – a year, two years, or more – can be both challenging and rewarding. It's a step more people are facing as the traditional approach – continuous, linear employment – gives way to a new approach marked by flexibility.

"The corporate-ladder model of career progression doesn't fit the majority of workers today," says Anne Weisberg, a senior adviser at Deloitte in Boston. The new model, she explains, is a "corporate lattice," which allows people to move in many different directions.

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Are you being slandered in the office?

Annie Fisher, Fortune Senior writer, suggests ways to handle a backstabber at work.

(Fortune) -- Dear Annie: I am the head of what I thought was a pretty strong, cohesive team. But I just heard from one of the people who reports to me that another subordinate went to my boss and said she could do my job better than I can. I'm not sure if there's some kind of ax to grind between these two subordinates, but this troubles me, since the person who allegedly badmouthed me is my top performer. (I jumped through flaming hoops to get her an extra 2% bonus last year.)

Now I don't know what to do. Ignore it? Feel out my boss to see if he's taking the criticism seriously? Confront the employee who is supposed to have stabbed me in the back? Your advice, please. -Vexed and Perplexed

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