Business Columns
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Work Advice: Is it fair to force vacation in winter?Nov 23, 2014 6:14 am - Q: My employer has recently implemented a policy where offices will be closed for the week between Christmas and New Year's. Noncritical employees are required to use a ...
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Aurora first of 6 new sites for ILoveKickboxing.comNov 20, 2014 12:01 am - Dennis de Ramos was a marketing manager at IBM in Schaumburg and had worked for the company for about 20 years. But he had longed to be his own boss. Since he enjoyed w...
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Just like mom would like, Frontier Soups founder continues to be resourcefulNov 17, 2014 12:01 am - When Trisha Anderson of Lake Forest thinks about soup, she thinks of her mother, Jane Clarke of Evanston. Anderson is founder and president of Waukegan-based Frontier So...
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Business owners, what will you do better next year?Nov 17, 2014 12:00 am - Even though Santa already has been sighted at more than one suburban mall, there's plenty of time for business owners to plan for next year: • In our short-attention-spa...
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Work Advice: 'Just say it' isn't always easyNov 16, 2014 6:35 am - Reader 1: A new employee in our school counseling office has a plug-in air freshener that we can smell from the end of the hall. A couple of other counselors also use mi...
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Reader has suggestion for steering problemNov 15, 2014 11:00 pm - Here is a follow-up from one of our readers regarding the steering problem on an Astro van, which I wrote about several weeks back. “In your Nov. 2 column, there was a p...
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Wheaton expert: Online shoppers should stay vigilant against privacy hackersNov 14, 2014 4:30 am - More of you are expected to shop online this holiday season and that means more vigilance is needed to protect your private information, a Wheaton expert said. A Nationa...
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Businesses create internships to meet specific needsNov 10, 2014 12:00 am - There's more than the prospect of low-cost labor that makes internships interesting to small businesses. • Six smaller CPA firms have banded together to offer internship...
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Career Coach: The power of a 'thank you' at workNov 09, 2014 6:32 am - We've all watched leaders give talks when they use the "I" word over and over again. It never ceases to amaze me. I mean, how can these leaders honestly believe that the...
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Work Advice: An accidental snoop, a flu-phobic managerNov 09, 2014 6:31 am - Reader 1: While looking up a position description for a friend interested in applying for a job at my company, I inadvertently discovered that I have network access to p...