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We hear from many executives striving to operate in a virtual office environment. One of the challenges they have is bringing in support personnel to handle the administrative requirements of their businesses. In fact, J.P. is a green-business owner we know who operates virtual from the sprawling Upper Midwest farm where he lives; J.P. . . . → Read More: The Virtual Assistant  The San Jose Mercury News reports that at Yahoo! and several other Silicon Valley-based companies, green teams are popping up to peer-pressure co-workers to go green. Yahoo! green team members’ “Chuck The Cup Day” promotion discouraged continued use of disposable paper cups; they handed out 1,500 green ceramic mugs to employees at Yahoo! offices . . . → Read More: Green Teams Work to Help the Environment According to Green Jobs: Towards desent work in a sustainabile low-carbon world, a study published in September 2008 by the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP), there are several business sectors and industries that provide excellent long-term green job potential. Among them: Renewable energy (such as electric motor vehicle fuel-cells); Agroforestry and Sustainable forestry management; . . . → Read More: UN Publishes Landmark ‘Green Jobs’ Study According to a new Gallup poll, employers are overwhelmingly resistant to telecommuting and four-day work weeks. In other words, (these) remain “rare perks” for company employees. From Gallup’s website: Despite the recent spike in energy costs, only 12 percent of employers are offering telecommuting, while a slightly higher number – 16 percent . . . → Read More: Gallup Poll: Telecommuting Acceptance Remains Low The C-level is no longer exclusively for CEOs, COOs, CIOs and CMOs. With the rapid rise of corporate sustainability consciousness has come an entirely new entrant to the C-Suite: The Chief Green Officer Green or Sustainability executives – at senior or middle management levels – are popping up all over. Most major U.S. corporations . . . → Read More: The Rise of the Chief Green Officer In their new book, Millennial Makeover, authors Morley Winograd and Mike Hais analyze in great detail the generation that is now entering the American workforce. The book deals primarily with The Millennials (a.k.a. Gen-Y’s) current and future impact on politics. However, according to the authors, this generation born between 1982 and 2003 and raised . . . → Read More: The New Green Execs: The Millennials With the cost of hiring being impacted heavily by the skyrocketing price of energy, some talent acquisition managers have already started considering alternatives to the traditional face-to-face interview. But now, many are opening up to the idea of staging parts of the process virtually, with the Video Interview. Over 40 years ago, AT&T was . . . → Read More: The Video Interview Hiring managers often battle with the notion of allowing their team members to tele-commute, or, work from a virtual office (at home). And some believe that if (their) team members are not working from the same physical location as they are based – and not visible to them – then (the team members) won’t . . . → Read More: The Virtual Office It seems like 1998, all over again. Ten years ago, the clamor was over the Internet. Businesses scrambled to determine best practices for using it to attract consumers to new products and services, or assure consumers’ continued satisfaction with the brands they already prefer. Overcoming early resistance, the Internet, and the opt-in email marketing, . . . → Read More: The Green Business Revolution |
 
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