Labor and Employment
“Digital Overload” Consumes Employee Time
The Wall Street Journal (subscription). What’s going on: “Researchers found that the 25% most active users of its apps—in other words, people who use Microsoft’s business software for much of their online work activity—spent an average of 8.8 hours a week reading and writing emails and 7.5 hours logging meetings.” In total, the average employee …
Union Pacific Railroad CFO Talks About Supporting Women Workers
hosted its annual Women MAKE Awards, honoring 130 standout women in manufacturing. Among those honorees was Jennifer Hamann, executive vice president and chief financial officer at Union Pacific Railroad, who swapped a fashion merchandising major to a finance major to become an influential leader in manufacturing. A flexible career: When Hamann reflects on her time …
