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Are Entrepreneurs Happier Than Employees?
Posted by adoex in Employees, Entrepreneurs on December 31, 2011
Looking through the Gallup polls on employment and the job market I came across some interesting statistics and how Americans feel about the current job market. The numbers for underemployment haven’t changed at all over last year and still hover around 18 1/2 %. Job creation also remains flat and probably will stay that way for a while.
Some other statistics I read about are also pretty gloomy. Nine out of ten Americans think it’s a bad time to find a good job, and their perception of the job market is the worst in a decade. This would help to explain another statistic. 71% of Americans are not engaged in their work. In other words, they are emotionally disconnected from their jobs. This means they are also more likely to be more unproductive at work.
That’s a total switch from 1987 when the same percentage of people were happy with their jobs. That’s when the Conference Board Research Group started calculating this data.
These days fewer people find their jobs interesting and are therefore less likely to be creative or innovative at work. Many find that there is no sense of teamwork and more competition among co-workers. That will kind of suck the fun out of the room when you’re always looking over your shoulder to see who’s going to get the axe and who will get the promotion, if anyone.
Also, the fact that more people are being laid off means that the bulk of their work is divided among the ones left standing and that means longer hours. People who still have a job are now worried that they will lose it.
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Custom Name Badges – Getting One for Your Employees
Ordering a custom name badge
A name badge is a tag worn on the clothing as a means of displaying the wearer’s name in for others to recognize them. Name badges come in three forms – paper, plastic and metal. Paper badges can be designed and made at home whereas metal and plastic badges needs to be custom ordered. Various office supply companies have a printing division that handles name tag engraving and printing. You should review your font option and badge designs before ordering custom name badges. You will need to fill an application form while ordering custom badges. You can select your font style, size, color and background design as well. Everything should be spelled properly while filling the form because once the order is printed then one has to get it reprinted at his cost.
Making paper badges at home
Paper badges can be designed and printed at home. There are two options while making paper custom name badges. You can make use of a name badge kit or you can construct badges from scratch. When using the kit, all you have to do is search through the templates in your word processor that will suite the kit you have selected. If you buy a basic name badge kit, then you should read the box to check what product they are modeled after. You can then use the corresponding template in Word to design your custom name badges.
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