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The new stats from Xobni and Harris Interactive reveals that 79% of working Americans receive job-related emails during holidays and 59% check them. Harris Interactive conducted an online survey on behalf of Xonbi and polled 2,179 adults aged 18 and older on their holiday email usage. The survey, thus, found that 41% of those who receive work emails over the holidays were not terribly thrilled with it. Twelve percent of respondents said they "dreaded" seeing work emails, and 10 percent said they felt pity for those bosses who actually send work emails out over the holidays.

Germany is currently contemplating a law that would ban employers from using social networking sites like Facebook for hiring job candidates. 

From now, Facebook is not only an online platform connecting people with their friends and family, it also provides its subscribers with "job hunting" tool. Thus, Simply Hired a search engine and recruitment advertising network, recently launched a personalized job search tool that integrates with Facebook to help you find jobs based on the current or previous work titles you list on your Facebook profile.

According to a survey, conducted for CareerBuilder.com, an online jobs site, between August 20 and September 9, the number of workers calling in sick to work with fake excuses remains steady at about 30% each year, though fewer are getting fired for it.

 However, the amount of US employers who check up on absent workers declined to 29% this year from 31% last year and 35% the previous year.