Workplace Buzz: Today’s Headlines

Workplace Buzz on October 19, 2007 7:14 AM

Email and Productivity
Ken Siegel doesn't beat around the bush. He doesn't like e-mail. "I don't even have an e-mail account," he says. "When I tell that to the executives I work with, first they look at me with surprise, and then they look at me with envy." Dr. Siegel, a psychologist and president of Impact Group, management consultants in Los Angeles, is on a bit of a crusade. He wants there to be less e-mail in the world. So he's helping his business clients organize activities such as a "no e-mail Friday" in order to increase productivity. Alternet.org

A Career Killer?
Snack. Just one little word, but it was enough to jolt me up at 4 a.m. and send me racing to the kitchen in a cold sweat. I had forgotten -- how could I have forgotten? -- that I had volunteered to bring snack food for 30 children to my daughter's preschool at 8:30 a.m. And not just any snack food. It had to consist of fruit and/or vegetable plus protein and/or complex carbohydrate and be prepared in individual, child-sized servings. Decades ago, when most mothers didn't work outside the home, there was far less cultural anxiety about child development, safety and "parenting skills." Los Angeles Times

Missing Women
The topic of gender equality in the workplace is a very tricky subject for discussion. There is no doubt that men and women with the same education and work experience should be given the same opportunities for advancement in the workplace. A recent survey compiled by the University of California at Davis shows that Apple is among the 30 percent of companies located in California that does not have a single woman serving as a top executive or sitting on the board of directors, according to Science Daily. Ars Technica

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