Thanks to years of working in circles focused on gender-based employment discrimination and barriers to women’s success in the workplace, I’m very familiar with the glass, or brass in the military world, ceiling. Women have a harder time breaking into leading roles in the workplace than men do, and there are all sorts of excuses …
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Outsourcing? Lax US Labour Laws Attract Overseas Companies
Outsourcing has been the great bogeyman of discussions about jobs of late, with complaints that the United States is sending jobs overseas. There’s a reason, of course, that many US companies like to work overseas. It’s because of lax labour laws and a lower cost of doing business. It’s far cheaper for Apple, for example, …
Sagging Cartons
Neil Morris at Indyweek: Morgan Spurlock gets irrelevant in POM Wonderful Presents: The Greatest Movie Ever Sold There’s rich irony behind Morgan Spurlock making a documentary about the virulent infiltration of product placement into movies. Jonathan Meador at Leo Weekly: Mission accomplished? But now that bin Laden’s corpse is literally sleeping with the fishes, thus …
