In a recent survey of workers, 50 percent said they checked email while in bed, and 38 percent “routinely” checked it at the dinner table.
New research suggests that asking too much of workers during off hours can seriously backfire.
—By Clive Thompson, Mother Jones
Illustration: Shout
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By A. O. SCOTT New York Times Scroll through the famous kisses of classic Hollywood, and you find yourself in a dense forest of sexual semiotics. There is yearning and hostility, defiance and pleading.
Gizmodo Every month, the bills get paid on time. The emails get answered, and any orders filled. Which, for HeavensGate.com, is positively extraordinary. Because as far as the public is aware, every last member of the suicide cult died 17 years ago from a cocktail of arsenic and apple sauce. A few stayed behind, though….
Brigitte Bédard, journaliste « J’avais remarqué depuis le début de l’année scolaire que mon garçon de deuxième année n’inscrivait jamais la deuxième personne du singulier quand il faisait la conjugaison de verbe. Tous les pronoms y étaient, sauf le “TU”… Trouvant la chose fort étrange, je demandai à mon garçon pour quelle raison il omettait…
Un résumé de Claudine Souchon En mai 1940, les Allemands écrasent l’armée française. Ils occupent ensuite plus de la moitié de la France, mais laissent l’administration du pays à un gouvernement français, le régime de Vichy, dirigé par le maréchal Pétain, qui collaborera largement avec les Nazis. En 1944, après les débarquements de Normandie et…
David Owen New Yorker The product was called Purell. Today, you see it everywhere. My local supermarket has a dispenser at the entrance, a pump bottle at every cash register, and a second dispenser at the exit. My doctor uses it several times during every office visit. Cruise-ship operators squirt it into the hands of…