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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.

The latest data from the Conference Board showed that consumer confidence rose slightly in October but it still remains near historically low levels. The group reported that its index of consumer attitudes rose to 50.2 in October from a revised 48.6 in September.

Meantime, the median of 72 forecasts from analysts polled by Reuters was for a reading of 49.2. Forecasts ranged from 45.0 to 53.0.

The expectations index rose to 67.8 in October from 65.5 last month. The present situation index increased to 23.9 from 23.3.

According to the data provided in the research from the Equality and Human Rights Commission men are suffering heavier from the recession than women and young people are taking it worse than other people. The survey shows that the over-50s seem to dealing with the downturn better, maybe because they're prepared to be more flexible.

Besides, the survey found that disabled people with few qualifications are less likely to find the job now than in 1970s. Nearly 38% of low-qualified disabled men are working now, compared to 77 per cent in the '70s.

While the White House together with economists are trying to persuade Americans that the economy is improving and that it has already turned the corner the study conducted by The Harris Poll of 2,755 adults shows that people in the United States are not inclined to believe optimistic reports and forecasts.

The poll reveals that 67% of the Americans give President Obama negative ratings on the overall job he is doing on the economy while 33% give him positive ratings.

Jeffrey Lacker, President of the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond, said that the US recovery is "sustainable" and the economy is unlikely to see another meltdown. He cited Friday employment report as evidence to that “the labor market is bottoming out.”

In March US non-farm payrolls increased 162,000 after February’s drop of 36,000. Jobless rate remained unchanged at 9.7% for the third consecutive month in accordance with the experts’ expectations.

U.S. employers unexpectedly cut 85,000 jobs in December, limiting optimism on the labor market's recovery and pressing on President Barack Obama to find ways to spur job growth.
The Labour Department said on Friday that November payrolls were revised to show the economy actually added 4,000 jobs rather than losing 11,000 as initially reported, breaking a streak of consecutive losses that dates back to December 2007.
With revisions to October, however, the economy lost 1,000 more jobs than previously estimated over the two months.

 According to a research by Cyber-Ark Software 25% of office workers admitted they would steal sensitive data that could help them or their family members to save a job or to be promoted to a higher position.

 A writer Stanley Bing in his work titled "How to Relax Without Getting the Axe. A Survival Guide to the New Workplace” explained how an employee can create an image of important and hard working person at his work place while in fact indulging in a recreation. In his book the author elaborates on some tricks and methods used by successful people so as to do less and get away with it.

 It seems the financial crisis isn't all doom and gloom: one in four people are glad the world's economy slumped like it did, because it helped them realize their priorities in life, according to a global survey.

Market research firm Synovate polled around 11,400 people across the world and found more than half had permanently changed their attitudes toward money over the last 12 months.

Another 47 percent, however, said they were looking forward to being able to spend freely again.

 As large and small companies in the United States are increasingly cutting their workforces the federal government meantime continues hiring employees with 600,000 scheduled to be employed with the next four years which is 50% more than it was hired over the previous four years.

 While the tough economic times press many companies cut their spending on workforce and the number of people unemployed is increasingly growing as it turns out there are still many people who are happy without jobs while their peers who remained at their work places feel unhappy.

Academic researchers who conducted a study during a period of 1996-2006 at Boeing were surprised to find that survivors can suffer just as much, if not more, than colleagues who get laid off.

 A new survey commissioned by Adecco Group North America, part of Zurich-based Adecco Group, and conducted by Harris Interactive, showed that most of American workers think that their bosses are not honest with one in our wishing to dismiss their bosses if allowed.

On the other hand the survey found that only four in ten workers would take the job of their boss if offered. 2/3 of workers said that they would not change anything about their relationship with their boss.

 Recent researches have found that contractions in economic activity like crises and recessions may lead to improvements in health condition. The study covered health trends during the 20 years around the Great Depression. The study was analyzing correlations between economic woes and health improvements in various countries.