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Employees in the United States have an average of 18 paid vacation days a year. But will they use them all?

While some Americans are still feeling the reverberations of an unstable economy, many are now putting in longer hours in an attempt to catch up.

About 50 years ago, after ad agencies in New York discovered that Friday productivity during the sunny summer months was almost zero, many of them instituted “Summer Fridays” that would give employees long weekends. The idea soon caught on in other industries, but a new poll reveals that even people who can take Fridays off are often too overworked to do so.

You may already know your computer keyboard and mouse can be incredibly germy items, but you may be surprised what a new study says is probably the dirtiest place in your office.

In an incident that’s sure to rattle your faith in emergency services, a 911 dispatcher in Maryland nodded off and started snoring after taking a panicked call from a woman whose husband had stopped breathing. Yeesh. Not a great time to fall asleep on the job, guy.

There are many different elements within the workplace that can increase a person’s risk of depression, but a new study suggests that men and women are affected differently.

Many of us do our banking via ATM or other electronic means, but how would you feel if actual in-person tellers didn’t exist? A few banks are testing out new systems with the possible goal of making that idea a reality.

With the unemployment rate being what it is, a lot of people these days are being forced to work for minimum wage. But exactly how much you get could depend largely on what state you’re in.

Just because the unemployment rate is high doesn’t mean everyone is desperate for work — some are even willing to leave their jobs altogether. And when they do, the reasons they sometimes give are rather eyebrow-raising.

DENVER (AP) — A union representing about 350 Dex One Corp. advertising sales representatives in seven states says most have gone on strike as contract talks continue. The International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local Union 1269 says workers in Colorado, Arizona, New Mexico, Idaho, Wyoming, Montana and Utah went on strike Tuesday as the union negotiates a contract to replace one that expire