Reinstate fun, family focus to recruit and retain ? Business ...

If your organization is suffering a post-recession exodus of its most valuable employees, here?s an old-school idea to stop the drain: Add job perks that your competitors don?t offer.

Plenty of businesses have reduced staff size and pay raises since 2008, but many scaled back family-friendly and fun benefits, too. Now savvy employers are finding that one way to hold onto high-producing employees their competition would like to lure away is to give them something unique to stick around for.

Nearly a third of employers in a CareerBuilder.com survey reported that they lost some of their best employees in 2012, and 39% said they are concerned about top-talent defection this year.

In another CareerBuilder survey, a quarter of 3,900 full-time employees who participated said they plan to find new jobs this year or next.

In search of better benefits

They told pollsters they?re looking for more money and better benefits, but that?s not all.

Nearly 60% want flexible schedules. ?Being able to make a difference? and ?challenging work? ranked high on their list of most-desired benefits. One-third said they wanted to work from home.

Still, 40% of them said the perk they want most is half-day Fridays. Other favorites included on-site gyms, a casual dress code, catered lunches and massages in the workplace. Some asked for a place to nap in the afternoon and help paying commuting expenses.

Sound familiar? In the years leading up to the recession, when unemployment was low and businesses had a tougher time filling jobs, work/life benefits and on-the-job niceties and conveniences became critical to recruiting and retention.

?Being compensated well will always be a top consideration,? notes Career??Builder HR VP Rosemary Haefner, ?but we?re seeing work/life balance, telecommuting options and learning opportunities outweigh other job factors when an employee decides whether to stay with an organization.?

Customized perks

As employees continue to feel more confident about changing jobs, employers once again are turning to nontraditional and sometimes unique job perks to help them meet their hiring needs and retain star staff members.

A new wrinkle with this recovery: These aren?t across-the-board, extra benefits to which everyone is entitled. More companies are customizing perks to suit the specific employees they have targeted for retention. Some hold out special benefits as rewards for a job well done.

Best of the benefits

Other benefits are unabashedly about add??ing enjoyment to the work experience.

Consider Fortune magazine?s 2013 top pick for its ?Best Companies to Work For? list for the fourth year in a row: Mountain View, Calif.-based Google. The search engine and Android operating system giant offers a slew of traditional benefits and quirky perks, including 100,000 hours of subsidized massages for employees last year. Google just opened a huge sports complex, complete with basketball and shuffleboard courts and a hockey rink.

Second on Fortune?s tally is perennial list-maker SAS. The Cary, N.C.-based enterprise software maker organizes family picnics, throws monthly parties?and pays a pianist to play live in one of its four staff cafeterias.

Third is CHG Healthcare Services in Salt Lake City, which holds talent shows and dress-up days, along with traditional health and vacation benefits and two new employee health centers.

Employees? choice

In fact, all the big Best Companies? lists that have announced their winners so far this year include companies with long menus of nontraditional and work/life benefits for employees.

Glassdoor?s fifth annual ?Employees? Choice Awards? list is notable because employees, rather than the organizations, nominated their employers for consideration. They also helped determine the winners by completing surveys about the companies. Glassdoor spokeswoman Samantha Zupan noted that employees were most enthusiastic about employers that ?create a positive and enjoyable workplace.?

For the second time in two years, Facebook took the top spot on the Glassdoor list for its mix of traditional and nontraditional perks, including free meals, a $4,000 gift to every new parent and even on-site photo processing.

Zupan notes that fun and family-focused perks don?t supplant serious business and bottom-line goals. Rather, they increase job satisfaction, which en??hances employee loyalty and commitment to their companies? business priorities.

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Rich political novice the favorite to win Paraguayan presidency

By Daniela Desantis and Hilary Burke

ASUNCION (Reuters) - Paraguayans began voting on Sunday in a presidential election that could return the center-right Colorado Party to power less than a year after the nation's first leftist leader was impeached.

Millionaire businessman Horacio Cartes, 56, is the Colorado Party candidate and front-runner in the race, most polls show. A political novice, he vows to reform his party, which was tainted by corruption during its 60-year reign through 2008.

His main rival is Efrain Alegre, 50, a lawyer and career politician in the ruling center-right Liberal Party, which took over the presidency after withdrawing support for President Fernando Lugo and clearing the way for his impeachment in June.

Congress ousted Lugo, a leftist and former Roman Catholic bishop, after finding him guilty of mishandling a botched land eviction that killed 17 police officers and peasant farmers. Some of Paraguay's neighbors likened the two-day trial to a coup and imposed diplomatic sanctions on the South American nation.

"They're all the same to me, the Colorados, the Liberals, Lugo's people. I used to have faith in politicians but I don't anymore. What we need is jobs and they promise that but never deliver," said Evelia Benitez, a 38-year-old street vendor in the capital Asuncion.

Nearly 40 percent of Paraguay's 6.6 million people are poor. The landlocked country relies on soybean and beef exports, but is also notorious for contraband trade and illicit financing.

One of Paraguay's wealthiest men, Cartes primarily made his fortune in the financial and tobacco industries. Rivals have tried to link him to drug running and money laundering, but he has never been convicted of a crime and denies any wrongdoing.

"The accusations made during this campaign have no truth to them, and personally I am very serene," Cartes told reporters early on Sunday.

Brash and outspoken, Cartes won support for his candidacy even though he never voted before joining the Colorado Party four years ago.

Alegre, a more somber politician, led corruption probes in Congress. But his reputation as an honest administrator has been undermined by an investigation into whether he misappropriated state funds while serving as Lugo's public works minister.

"My leadership model is different from the traditional one. My project represents a 'decent Paraguay' versus the 'Paraguay of the mafias,'" Alegre told Reuters in a recent interview.

BUCKING THE TREND

Polls opened at 7 a.m. (1100 GMT). There is no second round of balloting so the candidate who captures the most votes wins. Voters also will elect local officials and members of Congress, with the left expected to gain seats in the divided legislature.

Paraguay's current president, Federico Franco, is barred by the constitution from running for re-election even though he is just serving out what remained of Lugo's five-year term. He will hand over the presidency in August.

Political instability has plagued Paraguay in the past and fears often arise that the election results could be disputed.

"I hope there's not much trouble and that democracy truly reigns today. I hope we don't fight each other because we have to vote in democracy and whoever gets the most votes should win," Diana Ayala told Reuters Television as she went to vote.

Paraguay will have a center-right government regardless of whether the Colorados or Liberals win, bucking the trend in South America where leftists have made steady gains in recent years. Only Colombia and Chile are ruled by conservatives.

The leftist bloc is especially strong in the Mercosur trade group, whose members include Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay and Venezuela. Mercosur suspended Paraguay after Lugo's impeachment and brought in socialist Venezuela, even though its inclusion was never approved by Paraguay's Congress.

Both Cartes and Alegre have said they would push for Paraguay's full return to Mercosur.

The country's economy hinges largely on crop weather. It is seen growing 13 percent this year after a severe drought caused a contraction in 2012, according to central bank forecasts.

Land conflicts have intensified in recent years and clashes occasionally break out between squatters and big landowners, including Brazilian soy farmers who live in Paraguay.

Cartes and Alegre promise to carry out agrarian reform, and they want to attract up to $2.7 billion in private capital to refurbish Paraguay's airports and build new highways.

They also have vowed to improve operations at state-run companies and modernize the bloated state bureaucracy, which employs about 10 percent of all workers.

(Additional reporting by Mariel Cristaldo and Miguel Lobianco; Editing by Paul Simao and Doina Chiacu)

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New York City aims to ban cigarette sales to under 21s

By Edith Honan

NEW YORK (Reuters) - New York City took the first step on Monday in outlawing sales of cigarettes to anyone under age 21, in an effort to reduce smoking among the age group in which most smokers take up the habit.

The bill, which was introduced by the City Council and has the backing of Mayor Michael Bloomberg, would make New York City, which already has the highest cigarette taxes in the nation, the first big city or state to set the smoking age at 21. Currently, individuals must be 18 to buy cigarettes.

Eight in 10 adult smokers in the city started smoking regularly when they were below the age of 21, and most smokers who are under age 18 obtain cigarettes from individuals who are just a few years older than them, city officials said.

While an increase in cigarette taxes contributed to a 15-point drop among youth smokers from 1999 to 2007, the number of high-school-aged smokers has held steady at about 8.5 percent over the last six years.

Cigarette packs sold in New York City currently carry a state tax of $4.35 and a city tax of $1.50 - making it the most expensive city in the nation to be a smoker.

"Too many adult smokers begin this deadly habit before age 21," City Council Speaker Christine Quinn said. "By delaying our city's children and young adults access to lethal tobacco products, we're decreasing the likelihood they ever start smoking, and thus, creating a healthier city."

The bill marks the latest effort in the city's decade-long fight to discourage smoking, which the city's health commissioner, Thomas Farley, said was the most significant cause of preventable death in the city. In 2003, Bloomberg outlawed smoking in bars and restaurants, and smoking has since been banned in other public places, including parks.

Quinn, who is running to become the city's next mayor, made clear that she would continue Bloomberg's aggressive public health agenda - which has led his detractors to dub him the "nanny mayor."

MOST TOBACCO USE STARTS IN ADOLESCENCE

While most of the city's anti-smoking initiatives have originated with Bloomberg, the mayor did not join Quinn in making the announcement on Monday, instead sending Farley to say that the mayor looks forward to signing the bill into law.

Every U.S. state prohibits retailers from selling tobacco products to minors and in most states the smoking age is set at 18. Four states - Alabama, Alaska, New Jersey and Utah - require that a cigarette purchaser be at least 19 years old.

In New York, Nassau and Suffolk counties on Long Island have already boosted their legal age for buying cigarettes and other tobacco products to 19.

Nearly all tobacco use starts in childhood and adolescence, according to the 2012 report by the U.S. Surgeon General, which declared smoking a "pediatric epidemic" both in the United States and globally.

According to the report, 99 percent of all first use of tobacco occurs by age 26. The report also found that if youth and young adults manage to avoid smoking or other tobacco products, very few will begin smoking after that age.

Evidence suggests that once youth start smoking, many find it hard to quit. Of all adult cigarette smokers in the United States who smoke daily, 88 percent started smoking by age 18, according to the report.

Currently, about one out of four seniors in high school - youth aged 17 or 18 - smoke on a regular basis. Among those who continue smoking, half will die 13 years earlier than non-smoking peers.

It was not immediately clear how the tobacco industry would respond to the proposed legislation, which Quinn said she hoped would become a model for the rest of the country.

"Our companies follow the law whatever it is in any jurisdiction," said Jane Seccombe, spokeswoman for Reynolds American Inc, the parent company of R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co, American Snuff Co and Santa Fe Natural Tobacco Co. "We believe no minors, however they're classified in those jurisdictions, should be able to access tobacco products."

She declined to comment on any potential sales impact from changes in the minimum age.

(Reporting by Edith Honan; Additional reporting by Julie Steenhuysen, Barbara Goldberg and Martinne Geller; Editing by Jeffrey Benkoe, Cynthia Johnston and Marguerita Choy)

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Artistic Wedding Films: Newport Hyatt Same Day Edit Film // Luke ...

This wedding has a much more special meaning than most weddings, my industry colleague and good friend Luke was married yesterday to his love, Jen and I was there to stand by his side and witness it. Yea-up, no shooting for me on this day, I was a groomsmen and it was fun! The wedding took place at the Newport Hyatt Regancy in Newport, RI. The weather was a concern in the morning, but the skies cleared and the plan for an outdoor ceremony in front of the Lighthouse was a go! So many of the industries' best played a part in making this wedding special, memorable and fun filled!

I am very lucky and so is Luke & Jen, because I have a fabulous and talented team! ?Crystal lead the team to capture a perfect film and she was helped by Chris, Neal and Myles. ?Besides turning on the Time-lapse GoPro and charging a few batteries, I was there to enjoy and I was in full trust of this great team! ?Not only did they do an amazing job of shooting the day, they allowed Crystal to produce another amazing Same Day Edit for the bride and groom and their family and friends to enjoy! ?As always, the SDE was a success and a great hit! ?See it for yourself and you be the judge!
- F. Mike

Cinematography: Artistic Wedding Films
Event Filmmakers: Crystal, Chris, Neal & Myles
SDE Editor: C. Burns

Venue: Newport Hyatt
Planning: Details with Love, Kristin Love
Entertainment:
DJ & MC: Luke Renchan Entertainment, Tony
Live Band: Felix Brown Band
Cake: Creative Cake Co, Karen Benjamin
Decor / Shears: Exquisite Events
Floral Designs: Golden Gate Studios
Lighting: Luke Renchan Entertainment
Photography: Sara Zarella Photography
Popcorn / Candy Girls: Infinite Events
Expresso Bar / Italian Cookies: Only the Finest Italian Cookies
Rentals: Rentals Unlimited

Tuxedos: Anthony's House of Formals
Dress: Helene's Bridal

Here was Crystal working on the Same Day Edit, the pressure was on!

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Transit officer still critical after shootout

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (AP) ? Doctors say the Boston transit police officer wounded in a shootout with the marathon bombing suspects had lost nearly all his blood and his heart had stopped from a single gunshot wound that severed three major blood vessels in his right thigh.

Surgeons at Mount Auburn Hospital in Cambridge say 33-year-old Richard Donohue is in stable but critical condition. He is sedated and on a breathing machine but opened his eyes, moved his hands and feet and squeezed his wife's hand Sunday.

Emergency workers started CPR on the scene to restart his heart. Doctors say he is expected to make a full recovery and that nerves and muscles in his leg are intact.

Transit officials say Donohue had gotten out of his cruiser and was shooting at the suspects when he was hit late Thursday night in a gunbattle in Cambridge.

"He went in there and engaged people who were shooting at his fellow officers," Donohue's brother, Edward, said at a news conference Sunday at the hospital. "I cannot describe the pride I have," said the younger Donohue, who is a patrolman for the Winchester Police Department.

The fellow officers included a friend, MIT police officer Sean Collier, who died in the shootout.

Richard Donohue has been a transit officer for three years, said Paul MacMillan, chief of the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority.

The bullet wound did not injure bone but severed the femoral vein and both branches of the femoral artery in Richard Donohue's right thigh, doctors said.

"The officer's blood volume was almost entirely lost to the point of the heart stopping," said Dr. Russell Nauta, chairman of surgery at Mount Auburn. It was a 45-minute effort to get it beating again, he said.

Doctors say Donohue's prognosis is good, and family members expect his sense of humor to return.

"His wife said: 'We'll never live this down. He'll never have to make himself another sandwich,'" the brother said.

Richard Donohue's wife, Kim; 6-month-old son, Reggie; father; sister; grandmother and others were with him at the hospital.

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MBAx.me Wants To Help Non-Technical Professionals Learn Key Technical Skills Online

It's not often that a guest post on TechCrunch turns into a startup Earlier this year, Googler Aditya Mahesh published a guest post on TechCrunch, which addressed what skills business students should take the time to learn before they start working in tech. As he writes, he wishes he had learned certain skills before entering the workforce at Google, such as Excel, basic HTML/CSS, web analytics, Photoshop, iMovie and other skills that he believes make you more valuable as a non-technical employee, even if you don't have a CS degree.

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Hack your nightstand into a Qi inductive wireless charging station

Remembering all the interest in Julie’s recent Gadget Diary about the Qi inductive wireless charger, I know some of you will be interested in reading an article I recently found on the Huffington Post site. ?They have an article about modifying a nightstand to turn it into a Qi inductive wireless charging station. ?Basically, a [...]

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U.S. Boy Scouts set to end ban on gay members: spokesperson

By Atossa Araxia Abrahamian

NEW YORK (Reuters) - The Boy Scouts of America called to end a long-standing ban on openly gay members, a spokesman said on Friday, but the organization's board must still vote in May on whether to ratify the resolution.

If the vote is approved, "no youth may be denied membership in the Boy Scouts of America on the basis of sexual orientation or preference alone," Deron Smith, the organization's spokesman, told Reuters.

Smith noted that the decision drew from three months of research, surveys and discussions and was "among the most complex and challenging issues facing the BSA and society today."

The deliberations over whether to admit openly gay and lesbian members to the Boy Scouts has divided organizers, polarized its corporate and religious sponsors, and placed the group at the center of a nationwide debate over gay rights over the past two years.

"This is a historic change for the Boy Scouts," said Patrick Boyle, whose 1994 book "Scout's Honor" examined sexual abuse in the Boy Scouts of America.

"You have a more than hundred-year-old organization changing what it considered a fundamental belief just a decade ago. That says a lot about the Scouts and a lot about how far the gay rights movement has come in the United States."

(Reporting By Atossa Araxia Abrahamian; Additional reporting by Chris Francescani; Editing by Vicki Allen)

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Broadband internet arrives in California's Gold Country through white spaces deployment

While select outfits race to make satellite broadband an acceptable solution for those who need ping times south of three digits, there's another game in town looking to quietly revolutionize rural access. As LTE slowly rolls out to major metropolitan areas in the United States, vacated spectrum is allowing companies like Carlson Wireless to offer up another option. TV white spaces -- unused TV channels freed up after the analog-to-digital transition of 2009 -- have long since been eyed as the answer for distributing high-speed internet to areas that aren't economical to reach via wireline, or are otherwise shunned by conventional wireless operators.

Armed with an FCC-granted Special Temporary Authority to validate the efficacy of the product in real-world scenarios, Carlson has partnered with Cal.net in order to bring internet to sections of California's Gold Country; the project comprises multiple transmission sites delivering broadband to several hundred heretofore un-serviceable subscribers in El Dorado County. There's no word on pricing, but we're sure hoping it's a runaway hit -- we can think of plenty of gorgeous locales in this country that could stand a pinch of internet. (Yellowstone National Park, we're looking at you.)

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Gorbachev sees global failure to address eco-risks

GENEVA (AP) ? Former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev on Thursday painted a dim picture of the world's environmental progress, two decades after he founded the environmental group Green Cross International.

Laying much of the blame on a lack of leadership and vision, he railed against governments for falling short on nuclear disarmament, waste, development and climate change.

The Nobel Peace Prize laureate launched the Geneva-based organization in 1993 as a kind of Red Cross that could help countries in environmental trouble.

Reflecting on the 20 years since then, the 82-year-old Gorbachev acknowledged deep frustrations as an environmental crusader.

"The current economic crisis is being aggravated by the growing pressure on the environment, by poverty, by persisting international conflicts and by the worsening state of the global environment," a bespectacled Gorbachev said in Russian to reporters in Geneva by video link.

"The gap between the poor and the rich is unacceptably wide. The response to climate change has been weak and disunited," he said. "The possibility of building a more secure, more just and more united world has been largely missed."

U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon says that among his top hopes for 2013 is reaching a new agreement on climate change. Two-decade-old U.N. climate talks have so far failed in their goal of reducing the carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gas emissions that a vast majority of scientists says are warming the planet.

Last December, a U.N. climate conference in Doha, Qatar, agreed to extend the Kyoto Protocol, a treaty that limits the greenhouse gas output of some rich countries, and affirmed a previous decision to adopt a new global climate pact by 2015.

Green Cross, an international organization with affiliates in Switzerland, the United States and two dozen other nations, has helped facilitate destruction of some 57,000 tons of chemical weapons and promoted nuclear disarmament.

Alexander Likhotal, the Green Cross president, said leaders must be honest about the size of the real challenges facing them and recognize that "incremental gestures will no longer suffice."

Gorbachev, whose democratic changes led against his will to the collapse of the Soviet Union, urged governments to step up their efforts and use his policies of "perestroika" (restructuring) and "glasnost" (openness) to address global climate change and overconsumption of resources.

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Idaho construction workers not returning to the industry | Idaho ...

Worker shortage handicaps building recovery?

Across the country, the homebuilding industry is facing a potentially critical labor shortage. In Idaho, workers that left the area or the trade after years of little activity appear not to be returning. Steve Martinez, president of the Idaho Building Contractors Association, said workers left for greener pastures when the recession hit and construction work ground ...

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Fort Hood hearing may hold key to death penalty for shooter

Apr 15 (Reuters) - Leading money winners on the 2013 PGATour on Monday (U.S. unless stated): 1. Tiger Woods $4,139,600 2. Brandt Snedeker $3,137,920 3. Matt Kuchar $2,442,389 4. Adam Scott (Australia) $2,100,469 5. Steve Stricker $1,935,340 6. Phil Mickelson $1,764,680 7. Dustin Johnson $1,748,907 8. Jason Day $1,659,565 9. Hunter Mahan $1,553,965 10. Keegan Bradley $1,430,347 11. Charles Howell III $1,393,806 12. John Merrick $1,375,757 13. Russell Henley $1,331,434 14. Michael Thompson $1,310,709 15. Kevin Streelman $1,310,343 16. Bill Haas $1,271,553 17. Billy Horschel $1,254,224 18. ...

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How to selectively back up app data to iCloud in order to save storage space

If you use iCloud in order to back up your iPhone or iPad, you're probably already aware that you only get 5GB per iCloud account for free. Depending on how many devices you have linked to your account, this may not be a lot at all. Unless you pay for additional storage, you may find your devices unable to back up after your storage is filled.

Choosing which app data you want to back up can save tremendous amounts of space in some cases. Follow along and we'll show you how to turn off backups for storage hungry apps.

1. Launch the Settings app from the Home screen of your iPhone or iPad.
2. Now tap on iCloud.
3. Scroll down and tap on Storage & Backup.
4. Now tap on Manage Storage under the Storage section.
5. Here you'll see all the devices that are currently backing up to your iCloud account. Tap on the device that says This iPhone or This iPad underneath its name. You can't alter other devices remotely, you'll have to do each from the actual device.
6. Under the Backup Options section, you'll see a list of apps and how much data they are storing in iCloud. You can toggle some of these to Off in order to save storage space.

Keep in mind if you turn off app data, it doesn't mean that app will not return to your device during a restore, it just means the app data will not return. Typically the camera roll and document-centric apps are the most storage hungry. If you decide to turn these off, just make sure you're okay with losing the data within them in the event of a restore. We'd suggest saving any documents or photos to your computer frequently to free up storage space.

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EA terminates Sims Social, Pet Society and SimCity Social | Game ...

Publisher not offering refunds for in-game currency in soon-to-be closed Facebook games

EA has continued its sweeping company-wide restructuring by shutting down three of its Facebook games.

The publisher said The Sims Social, SimCity Social and Pet Society will go offline from June 14th as a result of a large decline in player activity.

In a statement on the closure of The Sims Social, EA said it had made the decision to close the title so it could reallocate development resources to other projects.

EA has also told users to spend any remaining Playfish cash or other existing currency relating to the titles, as it will not be valid after June 14th.

According to AppData, The Sims Social still has more than five million monthly average users, with over 500,000 playing the game daily.

Pet Society has more than one million MAUs and 500,000 DAUs, while SimCity Social has one million MAUs, and 100,000 DAUs.

The news of the game cancellations comes as EA has made a number of layoffs at its studios in Montreal and Ireland as it looks to streamline its operations.

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