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With the invention of this item, a wave of work has skyrocketed that did not exist 20 years ago.
What is email and the Internet?
100
Over 80% of employees said they would like to keep these separate.
What is work and personal time?
100
This technology company has yoga classes, volleyball and basketball courts, an indoor treehouse, and a bowling alley at its Mountain View, California campus to make work more enjoyable, collaborative, and fun for its employees.
Who is Google?
100
Millennials prefer this when it comes to communicating with their managers.
What is face-to-face/in-person communication?
100
This allows for a dialogue to discuss and brainstorm options, pros and cons, and solutions to problems.
What is face-to-face communication?
200
This activity takes up more than a quarter of the average workday.
What are emails?
200
Approximately 39% of working Americans believe this.
What is the percentage of Americans that believe work/life balance is unobtainable in today's work environment?
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According to a recent internal study at EY (Ernst & Young), this lead to employees getting higher performance reviews.
What is taking more vacation time?
200
This age group of working Americans report having the most control over whether or not they do work outside of regular office hours, as well as the best work-fit, and most satisfaction with both their work and non-work life.
Who are the Baby Boomers (55 and older)?
200
A person's responsibilities between his/her workplace, family, friends, and self.
What is work/life balance?
300
By this year, it is expected that the average employee will receive 140 emails per day.
What is 2018?
300
Rather than an employee taking personal needs leave or special leave for purposes such as caring for their sick children or accompanying them to dental or medical appointments, many choose to do this.
What is flex their hours and work at home?
300
This is a movement by companies to allow employees to use their own smartphones, tablets, and computers into the workplace.
What is Bring Your Own Device (BYOD)?
300
The Millennial generation says that this makes it easier to get more work done and makes them more productive.
What is work-related communication technology?
300
This technology lowers the quality of the message because people often use short forms such as btw, lol, ttyl, idk, wtf, lmao. Words which form part of a whole new language, which not everyone understands.
What is texting?
400
The number of emails the average employee receives per day has increased by this amount since 2011.
What are 13 emails?
400
Work/Life balance is the key determiner for a majority of men and women on whether or not they have this.
What is a successful career?
400
These two technology companies just announced that they will be adding egg-freezing to their employee benefits to retain more female employees.
Who are Apple and Facebook?
400
This generation group feels the most work overload due to technology.
Who are Millennials?
400
This allows Americans to be more productive and makes it easier to get work done. For example, it allows parents to attend school activities or celebrate and flex their hours of work so that they can work at home in the evenings, without having to drive back to the office.
What is work-related communication technology?
500
A new email management technique that goes by this name is aimed at keeping an email inbox empty or almost empty.
What is Inbox Zero?
500
This is a way for an employee to change their hours of work over a two-week, three-week, or four-week basis.
What is a compressed workweek (CWW)?
500
Along with email and IM's, companies are now using this social media for employees to communicate with one another.
What is Twitter?
500
More than half of employed adults, including all generations in the work place, admit to checking work messages at least once daily during this time.
What is a weekend?
500
This health issue can lead to numbness, tingling, weakness or muscle damage in the hand and fingers. It is pressure of the median nerve - the nerve in the wrist that supplies feeling and movement to parts of the hand.
What is carpal tunnel syndrome?