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World Cup Fever and Employee Productivity
The FIFA World Cup is one of the few events capable of diverting the world’s attention from the BP oil spill. I’m sure for many it’s a relief not to have a world-class disaster as the focus of their...
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Employment, Smokers, and Fundamental Ethical Conflicts
I’ve seen two interesting stories recently about smokers — of various kinds — facing trouble with their employers. Both stories raise difficult, perhaps intractable, ethical difficulties, because in...
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Ethics of Inefficiency
The current way of thinking seems to imply that small-scale production is the way to go. Of course, for much of the 20th century, small-scale production was a sign of affluence: only the wealthy could...
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Workers vs Machines
A recent item in the NY Times dealt with the fact that many companies these days seem relatively reluctant to invest in new employees, but comparatively willing to invest in new machinery. The evidence...
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Surfing Porn at Work
As someone once said, ‘let he among you who has a free hand cast the first stone.’ Canadian Business recently reported that the head of Houston’s public transit agency has been suspended (for a week)...
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Flexibility in the Workplace?
What kind of workplace do you want? Should your workplace experience be determined by regulations, or instead be negotiated between you and your employer? A recent survey sheds interesting light on...
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