Refinance your home, renovate and get a tax deduction
For homeowners wanting to refinance, the IRS usually requires that mortgage points, or prepaid interest, be amortized over the lifetime of the loan….
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The cost of web service: A big bet on satellites
Moneywise The cost of web service: A big bet on satellites Satellites will soon bring speedier web service to users across the globe, including areas of…
Book Review Productivity expert tells how to manage thoughts … and transform your work
Charles Duhigg has done it again, this time with his new book, Smarter Faster Better. It’s already a New York Times Best seller. The author talks to…
Motivation and longevity
A reader asked Sue Shellenbarger, The Wall Street Journal’s Work & Family advisor, what effect moving from a small town to a big city for a career could…
Want to be smarter, more creative, more motivated? Get enough sleep!
Have you heard them bragging about it? Managers, workers and business people of all stripes are telling about their 16-hour days. They try to make it…
Spending work hours browsing Facebook, shopping or watching cat videos?
Cyberloafing costs U.S. businesses as much as $85 billion a year, according to studies by the University of Nevada. Employee interviews by Kansas State…
Microlearning feature five-minute courses
‘Microlearning’ features five-minute courses How do you train people who gulp down information in 10-second bites then move on? Thanks to smartphones,…
Workforce participation rate slowly improves
Work Notes The workforce participation rate is slowly improving The portion of the U.S. population working or looking for work, known as the labor for…
Job hires and quits reach a nine-year high
The number of new hires and the total number of workers quitting recently reached to nine-year highs, reflecting a more dynamic labor market. Job openings…
For the fireplace, fire dogs abound
You can get plenty fancy — or at least expensive — buying andirons (or fire dogs) to hold up the logs in your fireplace. A fantastic variety are…