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Trouble with your Christmas lights? Here's what to do
Busted Christmas string lights can darken your holidays. Here's how to make simple repairs to burned-out bulbs, fuses, and other common problems.
Cosmopolitan
Attention, Jobseekers: Queen Elizabeth Is Looking for Someone to Run Her Social Media
*quits current job*
The Motley Fool
CPP Pension Users: 2 Crafty Ways to Avoid the 15% OAS Clawback
Worried about the OAS clawback? Learn two strategies to reduce the claw and invest in low-risk companies like Emera stock.
The Motley Fool
How Much Cash Do You Need to Retire? Here Are 2 Simple Rules to Follow
Are you nearing retirement? Here are two simple ways you can calculate how much you need, then you can invest in BCE stock to hit that number.
PA Media: Money
140,000 small business owners working past retirement age, study suggests
One in five directors of small companies are aged 66 or over, according to research.
Quartz
Trump is trying to make it too expensive for poor American immigrants to stay
The application fee for naturalization is about to go up from $640 to $1170.
Quartz
How to build a brave new world for the young, ambitious Indian woman
It's time to radically rearrange work so women can fully participate.
PA Media: Money
Disabled workers paid 88p for each pound made by non-disabled colleagues
Disabled employees were paid £10.63 per hour in 2018, compared with £12.11 for their non-disabled counterparts.
Sky News
Researchers believe brain study could help cut suicide deaths
Scientists reviewed 20 years' worth of literature relating to brain imaging studies of suicidal thoughts and behaviour. According to the study published in Molecular Psychiatry, they identified two brain networks - and the connections between them - that appear to play an important role. One involves
Quartz
This is what those Thanksgiving arguments are all about
The average millennial household is worth $100,800. The average boomer one is worth $1.2 million.
Quartz
The decade’s biggest gig-worker hiring spree is about to begin
Americans looking for a short-term job or a side gig are in luck. The US government is about to hire about 500,000 workers for the decennial Census.
Quartz
The special kind of narcissism that makes city people feel superior
Many rural workers will identify with the expectation that they travel both ways in a day to attend a meeting in the city. As for employees of the city office, they need a night’s accommodation and a little narcissistic praise for their intrepid travel to the country.
Sky News
Met Police officer who had a child abuse video on her phone avoids jail
A highly decorated police officer who had a child abuse video on her phone has avoided a jail term. Novlett Robyn Williams, who was commended for her work after the Grenfell disaster, was told her long career was all but over after being sentenced to 200 hours of community service for possession of
A Silicon Valley recruiting startup is offering tech workers $10,000 to leave the Bay Area
The rising cost of living in Silicon Valley is prompting alternative solutions.
Quartz
Can friendships between men and women at work promote gender equality?
Anecdotal evidence of allyship says yes.
Sky News
Goo Hara: Korean pop star, 28, found dead at her home
A Korean pop star who used to sing for the K-Pop group Kara has been found dead at her home in Seoul. Goo Hara was discovered by a friend in the Gangnam region of Korea's capital, according to the Yonhap news agency. Hara made her debut in 2008 when she joined the group Kara, which had a big following
Sky News
Thomas Cook stores owner Hays Travel creates 1,500 jobs and apprenticeships
The company that bought the Thomas Cook UK store estate following the tour operator's collapse is to create 1,500 new positions. Hays Travel, which paid liquidators £6m to acquire the 555 rented premises, said it had opened 450 of the sites since the deal was announced last month. The company said
Reuters - UK Focus
Shell UK gender pay gap widens slightly in 2019
Royal Dutch Shell's gender pay gap in Britain edged higher in 2019 following the acquisition of a utility company, with women earning on average 18.7% less than men. This year's figure, which compares to 18.6% in 2018, comes after Shell UK incorporated around 1,000 employees from First Utility
In the age of burnout, how companies keep their employees coming back
As workplaces become more flexible about leaves and sabbaticals, managing the return to the office is becoming a business in its own right.
Quartz
People are terrible judges of talent. Can algorithms do better?
Pymetrics argues it's easier to remove hiring bias from algorithms than from humans.
Reuters - UK Focus
Irish workforce grows 2.4% in Q3, approaches full employment
Ireland's workforce grew by 2.4% in the third quarter from a year earlier, pushing the unemployment rate down to a 12-year low of 4.9%, data showed on Tuesday. Employment growth is a key measure of the health of the economy in a country where the movement of large multinational assets tends to skew
Quartz
The arrival of Uber Works isn’t going to help fix the gig economy
Uber Works, which is being trialled in Chicago, enables casual workers such as cleaners, bar staff, and warehouse workers to find work.
PA Media: Money
Equal pay remains a distant dream, study suggests
Today marks Equal Pay Day - when women are said to effectively start to work for free for the rest of the year because of the gender pay gap.
Quartz
Women aren’t waiting for men to buy them jewelry
Jewelry is shifting from a holiday gift for others to a year-round treat we give ourselves.
Quartz
Spouses of H-1B workers can’t let their guard down just yet
The H-4 visa has been seen as a “golden cage” for long.

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