I got to start my first Monday of the new year without my laptop.\u00a0 It died over the weekend so I come to you via a desktop system that is not my “home.”\u00a0 It is a strange feeling being on another system.\u00a0 It seems like there should be a resolution in here somewhere.<\/p>\n
In that light, BusinessWeek.com went to the streets<\/a> looking for input from managers.\u00a0 The survey was literally conducted walking the streets of Boston so keep that in mind.\u00a0 Two items were the winner:<\/p>\n Managers want to find a better work\/life balance<\/strong>. As you saw in the video, one person is working 16 hour days. So much for exercising, seeing friends, or even having a family. There’s no time for balance\u2014it’s all work all the time.<\/p>\n Managers see talent management as a pressing need for 2008<\/strong>. Companies need to pay greater attention to recruitment, employee development, and retention. One individual echoed this is a priority for his firm, and jokingly quipped, “If you have any answers, please email me.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n We have the answers.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I got to start my first Monday of the new year without my laptop.\u00a0 It died over the weekend so I come to you via a desktop system that is not my “home.”\u00a0 It is a strange feeling being on another system.\u00a0 It seems like there should be a resolution in here somewhere. In that light, BusinessWeek.com went to the streets looking for input from managers.\u00a0 The survey was literally conducted walking the streets of Boston so keep that in mind.\u00a0 Two items were the winner: Managers want to find a better work\/life balance. As you saw in the video, one person is working 16 hour days. So much for… Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"bgseo_title":"","bgseo_description":"","bgseo_robots_index":"","bgseo_robots_follow":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[11,24],"tags":[195,196,1767],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5Oho-m2","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1366"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1366"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1366\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}