1 in 3 of IT Staff Spies on Your E-mails, Passwords

One in three information technology professionals abuses administrative passwords to access confidential data such as colleagues' salary details, personal emails or board-meeting minutes, according to a survey.

Yeah. The geeks are readin' your stuff.

Want to read more? Check out this story on Yahoo News today.

Legal Secretaries' Roles are Changing

Lawyers don't always know how to utilize their secretaries. In one post on the legal tabloid Above The Law, a former big-law attorney confessed to not using his own secretary very much. Other attorneys, particularly junior ones, commiserated with gripes like, "I have no idea what to do with mine."

What are legal secretaries doing? What's changed in recent years? Is technology making secretaries unnecessary?

Read more in an article at Law.com.

Quit Smoking, or You're Fired?

The owner of a health care benefits administrator in Lansing, Michigan, gave his 200 employees an ultimatum in 2004: Quit smoking in 15 months or lose your job. He refused to hire smokers. Ultimately, he extended his smoking ban to employees' spouses and monitored compliance through mandatory random blood testing.

Read more in the San Francisco Chronicle.

Employers Pushing Women Out of Workforce?

Rigid work schedules, bias, scarce child care, unpaid caregiving leaves, little sick time. Policy analysts say these realities help explain U.S. women's sagging work-force participation -- according to this article by Sharon Johnson.

Men Would Be Mr. Mom, If They Could.

73 Percent of Working Dads would be a Stay-At-Home Parent if Money Were Not an Issue -- so says a new survey released by Monster. Read more at Business Wire.

New York Discourages Telecommuting by Double-Taxing

Did you know that New York State tax laws are set up to financially punish people who telecommute from another state for New York employers? That means all you Jersey people who fantasize about convincing your employer to let you work from home might want to reconsider. That is, unless the Telecommuter Tax Fairness Act is passed. Learn more.

Glassdoor: A Web Site for Reviewing Your Employer

Employers love to give us performance reviews. But did you ever wish you could review THEM? And in PUBLIC?

Now you can. Check out this article from Wired on Glassdoor, a new web site where you can talk frankly about your employer, and learn about other companies where you may (or may not) want to work.