Diversions

You may have some unusual colleagues in the office on Friday, June 26: the 17th annual Take Your Dog to Work Day.

Only one person in 10 has the rare talent that makes a great manager, a Gallup poll says.

Personal knowledge questions may defeat their own actual purpose of maintaining account security.

Small-business owners brim with confidence in most areas of running their business—handling finances, knowing when to hire and managing employees—until it comes to their own retirement.

Is office housework—pitching in on tasks, sweeping spills, cleaning the coffee pot—a widespread burden? And do women workers do it because they feel they have to?

Work/life balance seems harder than ever to attain, finds a survey of workers in eight countries.

Wealthy families fear big windfalls might do more harm than good for the next generation, according to a survey of high-net-worth parents.

Workers give their definition of success at work in a new survey, and surprisingly, it doesn’t have that much to do with performance or productivity.

Half of all Americans plan to use Facebook to share memories of their vacations this year, a survey says.

Only 2% of investors who expect to receive a federal tax refund intend to invest the money in their workplace retirement account.

Users feel productive and happy when they use a smartphone, a survey says, except when they don’t. About half of users report feelings of distraction and frustration.

Bad decisions, debt and for-pay work figure in parents’ new tough-love approach to teaching kids about money, finds T. Rowe Price’s 2015 Parents, Kids & Money.

Who is achieving work-life balance? The answer depends on whether you ask HR professionals or actual employees.

Which counties have the lowest and highest closing costs when buying a home?

Federal government workers show greater signs of financial health than the rest of the country’s workforce, according to the latest Gallup Healthways Well-Being Index survey.

Internet users still overwhelmingly think that personal technology makes the world better, according to Microsoft’s second annual survey of Internet users around the world.

The industry says improving the way passengers go through various processes is the biggest IT investment priority for airports.

How do financially savvy adults get their money skills? Research shows that childhood is a great place to start.

What fuels most workplaces? No surprise, the Coffee Break Survey says it is coffee, essential in networking and even helping some secure the best business deals.

A recent Gallup analysis of Boomers’ personal spending patterns suggests these patterns vary more than stereotypes suggest.