Articles filed under Washington Post
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The secret to getting more women to the top could be giving fathers more time offFeb 13, 2016 10:00 pm - WASHINGTON — A huge study released Monday reveals yet more unsettling statistics about the low numbers of women in leadership jobs. In the report, the Peterson Institute...
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Your tax preparers might not know what they're doingFeb 13, 2016 10:00 pm - For several years, researchers have been sending people into tax preparation offices to test the quality of the work. The results have been scary: • A tax preparer in No...
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How a 'superboss' turns employees into bossesFeb 13, 2016 10:00 pm - Most of us just want a decent boss. Someone who doesn't take credit for our work. Who doesn't mind if we don't immediately respond to an email sent after 11 p.m. Who act...
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Falling stocks raise fears among retirement saversFeb 13, 2016 10:00 pm - As the economy struggled to take off in the years after the financial crisis, Americans had at least one shining source of optimism: a booming stock market that not only...
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Work advice: Still seeing red over pink slipFeb 13, 2016 10:00 pm - Q: I was laid off almost three years ago, after 20 years with the company. I had been a solid performer, working on interesting, challenging things. Then I took a month ...
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How Taco Bell tricks America's youth into loving its tacosFeb 13, 2016 10:00 pm - True taco savants could only shake their heads Sunday night. After weeks of hype, including breathless news releases, YouTube videos and a preordering campaign - Taco Be...
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The 'Uber for friends' plans to save millennials from lonelinessFeb 13, 2016 5:28 am - Clay Kohut's pitch for his new app, Ameego, is so absurd that it's best to let him deliver it. "With Uber, you rent a stranger's car," he begins. "With Airbnb, you rent ...
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Relive the nightmare of an old-school computer virus at the new Malware museumFeb 13, 2016 5:07 am - In the early days of computer viruses, a lot of malware had a tendency to announce its presence with some text or a flashy graphic. Now you can relive the sometimes funn...
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Swiping for BFFs: Dating-style apps are breaking into the friendship marketFeb 12, 2016 10:00 pm - If you're in your 20s or 30s, the idea of swiping right to find your next date sounds pretty unsurprising by now. But what about swiping to find your next best friend? L...
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This is how Twitter's new timeline worksFeb 12, 2016 10:00 pm - Well, Twitter fans. The apocalypse has come. Twitter's reordered timeline is here. And it's, um, not so bad, actually. In a company blog post, Twitter engineering manage...