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Her Magazine April/May 2013

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Avoid working from home Some of the best decisions and insights come from hallway and cafeteria discussions, meeting new people, and impromptu team meetings. Speed and quality are often sacrificed when we work from home. Read more here: www. fastcompany.com/3006244/ creative-conversations/realreasons-no-one-yahoo-willbe-working-home Baby Boomers taking more risk A new report has found 41% of Gen X employees (loosely defined between ages of 30-49 years) and 45% of Boomers (loosely defined between ages of 50-69 years) consider themselves to be more entrepreneurial compared to only 32% of Gen Y (loosely defined between ages of 18-29 years) workers. And while younger workers tend to be drawn to start-ups and smaller companies in order to have more creative freedom and decision making ability, the Monster Millennial Branding research demonstrated the concept of intrapreneurship is alive across all generations of workers within many companies today. Source: Monster Worldwide 3 Reasons you should quit social media in 2013 1. It harms your self-esteem 2. Your blood pressure will thank you 3. Online is no substitute for offline Source: Forbes More than words Here's a list of words that have been under scrutiny as superfluous to the english language 1. Administrate: A back-formation of administration and an unnecessary extension of administer. 2. Commentate: A back-formation of commentator and an unnecessary extension of comment. 3. Dimunition: Erroneous; the correct form is diminution (think of diminutive). 4. Exploitive: A younger, acceptable variant of exploitative. 5. Firstly: As with secondly and thirdly, erroneous when enumerating points; use first and so on. 6. Heighth: Rarely appears in print, but a frequent error in spoken discourse (Why isn't height modeled on the form of depth, length, and width? Because it doesn't shift in spelling and pronunciation from its associated term, tall, like the others, which are derived from deep, long, and wide, do. Neither do we say or write weighth). 7. Irregardless: An unnecessary extension of regardless on the analogy of irrespective but ignoring that regardless, though it is not an antonym of regard, already has an antonymic affix 8. Miniscule: A common variant of minuscule, but widely considered erroneous. 9. Orientate: A back-formation of orientation and an unnecessary extension of orient. 10. Participator: Erroneous; the correct form is participant. 11. Preventative: A common and acceptable variant of preventive. 12. Societal: A variant of social with a distinct connotation (for example, "social occasion," but "societal trends"). 13. Supposably: An erroneous variant of supposedly. 14. 'Til: Also rendered til and till, a clipped form of until that is correct but informal English; use the full word except in colloquial usage. 15. Undoubtably: An erroneous variant of undoubtedly. Source: DailyWritingTips.com www.h e rmagaz in e .co.n z | 45

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