Solutions for the highway blues come in a dozen different flavours. : But none of them sounds quite as tasty as telecommuting - that wonderful piece of business jargon that conjures up thoughts of lounging by the pool with a glass of iced tea in one hand and a laptop propped on your, well, lap. No bosses hovering over your shoulder. And no reason to remember where, exactly, you parked your car before coming into the office. Of course there’s more to it than that. And that’s what companies are learning as they look to telecommuting as a tool to counter traffic nightmares…

There is a lot of talk these days about finding new career models that no longer force people, usually women to choose between work and family and that provide better transitions back to work for those who take time off. The reasons are obvious. The 1950s-era model for success - a career with no employment gaps and ever-increasing responsibility suited a privileged class made up largely of white middle-class males with stay-at-home wives…

The KPO boom came, and it definitely seems poised to conquer. KPO, or the Knowledge Process Outsourcing, is a concept modelled on the very lines of the BPO. “But, the two of them digress on lines of technical evaluation,” says Prashant Sinha, of Patni Computers…

Most workdays, she slips into her sneakers and joins 68 of her co-workers as they log their mileage around the building, which is set in a wooded lot. To encourage fitness, the International Foundation is offering US$150 for each employee completing 420 laps (168 miles) by November…

Experts recognise sleep deprivation as the most ubiquitous malady in America - 70 million Americans live with some form or degree of sleep problems. In this mix, one malady has become quite common: shift-work sleep disorder . Shift work - a term for night work involving any shift between 7 pm and 7 am - isn’t your grandpa’s domain any more…..