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Work may refer to:
- Manual labour, effort expended by people on productive activities in the home, school, or employment, or, by extension, one's place of employment or employer
- A place of employment
- Work (Mechanics), a force applied through a distance, defined in physics as the integral of dot product of force times infinitesimal translation
- Work (thermodynamics), a measure of the amount of mechanical work that can be extracted from a system as determined, typically, via free energy calculations
- Work (project management), the effort applied to produce a deliverable or accomplish a task
- Work (fine arts), a creation, such as a song or a painting
- Work (professional wrestling), a staged event – that is, one that enforces kayfabe; the term originates from "working a crowd"
- Work (Charlie Chaplin film), a 1915 Charlie Chaplin silent film co-starring Edna Purviance
- Work (painting), a painting by Ford Madox Brown
- Work Records (aka WORK or The WORK Group), a music label under Sony Records
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Patent Judgments Questioned in Appointment Flap
Sat, 10 May 2008 10:38:00 -0400
As many as two-thirds of United States patent-law judges may have have been appointed in a way that violates the Constitution.
Phliadelphia Police Suffer Loss, Scrutiny
Sat, 10 May 2008 10:37:00 -0400
Police in Philadelphia are having an especially tough week. First, one of their officers was fatally shot while responding to an armed robbery. Then, in an unrelated incident, three other officers were caught on videotape beating three suspects.
Week in Review: Obama Surges Forward
Sat, 10 May 2008 10:26:00 -0400
This week presidential hopeful Barack Obama made significant progress in his bid to be the Democratic nominee. Also this week, President Bush promised to veto a farm bill and a housing aid bill.
The Talk of the Town
Word Feast
Lauren Collins Mon, 05 May 2008 04:00:00 -0000
When Christopher Russell, a captain at Gramercy Tavern for many years, went to work at Union Square Café, where he is now the general manager, he decided to import a few traditions. (Both restaurants are owned by Danny Meyer.) He banished wordy descriptions from the wine list and switched from . . .
The Open Secret of Success
James Surowiecki Mon, 05 May 2008 04:00:00 -0000
In the current atmosphere of economic tumult, the announcement that Toyota sold a hundred and sixty thousand more cars than General Motors in the first three months of this year might seem like a minor news item. But it may very well signal the end of one of the most . . .
No Endgame
Elizabeth Kolbert Mon, 05 May 2008 04:00:00 -0000
Presidential-primary races tend to proceed along self-reflexive lines. The candidate who is ahead--or who is perceived to be--receives more press coverage. He collects more contributions and endorsements, and these generate still more media attention, which brings in more money, more votes, and so on. Meanwhile, his . . .
CBC Newsonline Special Feature: The Way We Work - Interactive media site examining changing trends in the workworld and the impact on Canadians. Includes features on freelancing, changing work hours, unemployment and looking for work, work vs. life and work culture. With articles, Realaudio and video.
Die? There Must Be More To Life Than This! - A website based on the book Ishmael by Michael Quinn which questions why people work hard to retire when the are old. In-depth reading to find the solution to the problem.
Meta Description: [ Get a job, make some money, work till you're sixty, then move to Florida and die. Can I have been the only person in the world who was disillusioned by this? There must be more to life than this. Ever wonder what's missing? ]
@Work on the web - The range of alternative work concepts is altogether insufficient. This independent, international co-operative program seeks to identify non-traditional insights, packages, architectures and implementation strategies.
Meta Description: [ @Work on the Web is the WWW site of the internatoinal cooperative program ]
An alein's view of life on earth - Advertising, globalization, immigration, and corporations induce us to work too much to the detriment of family life, and combined with genetic engineering this urge to produce more could result in humans becoming almost robotic workers.
Meta Description: [ Machines and computers were supposed to let us work less, but globalization and corpoate interests means more work and more stress, strain family and marital life, that and genetic engineering may turn us into robots whose only purpose is turning out goods and services. ]
Downsized People: Job Subsidies vs Income Supports - Analyzes the Disguised Unemployment Problem. Argues that downsizing and job subsidy proposals are wasteful, and squander an opportunity for root reform. Presents the case for income supports, and the partial separation of incomes from current employment.
Meta Description: [ Essay: Downsized People: Job Subsidies vs Income Support
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Fisher Vista - A marketing and PR firm focusing exclusively on the human resources industry with particular emphasis on work/life, EAP and related services.
Meta Description: [ Fisher Vista, LLC is a marketing services firm focusing on the human resource and senior care marketplaces. ]
Flexibility - Online journal about new ways of working.
Meta Description: [ Flexibility, the online journal of flexible work ]
New Ways to Work - A charity offering information and consultancy to individuals, trade unions and companies. News, resources, events, contact details, membership details, links.
Meta Description: [ The New Ways to Work Web Site. ]
PBS Work and Labor Series: 'Livelihood' - Companion site to the PBS series on work. Come share your thoughts, frustrations, and solutions to The Workday that Wouldn't Die. Plus, learn about alternative work schedules and compelling discussions on the workday.
Technology Making It Worse - How the second industrial revolution (miniaturisation and artificial intelligence) is relentlessly stagnating, frightening and impoverishing our community.
Meta Description: [ A description of how technology has changed from a powerful servant into a terrifying tyrant that is paralysing and impoverishing the community. ]
The Turtle Syndrome - The Mobility of Everyday Life - Mobility - both physical and social is enhanced by new transportation and communications technologies and by the new media. The emergence of alternative patterns of work are the result.
Meta Description: [ Ensconced in virtual shells, we move about, conducting our lives, attending to our businesses, absorbing, processing, creating and emitting information in endless streams of data and voice. ]
The Work Foundation - Research, practical consultancy and constructive advocacy to make workplaces more effective, more successful and more fulfilling.
Meta Description: [ Sometimes vision gets blocked by the banal, or caught up in triviality. Our aim is to set the vision free at the right time and in the right way. We develop and run a range of highly sought after programmes designed to deliver visionary, ethical and effective leaders ]
Third Age Careers and Avocations - Rethinking work for a new life stage? New forms of work such as mentoring can be very rewarding. Includes ideas and links.
Meta Description: [ To be competitive in today's workplace you need certain skills - these important skills will give you the competitive edge that will help you succeed ]
Virtual management - long distance teams - How to make teams work better over long distances using new technology to increase efficiency and reduce travel costs. Features, videos and slides by Fuurist Dr Patrick Dixon.
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