Take all the vacation you want

I recently added a Delicious feed in a sidebar to the right that features links to some of my latest writing. I would have simply added this story to that list, but the Globe And Mail chose not to put the story online. (Shocking!) So, here’s my recent Saturday feature about “unlimited vacation” policies in the workplace. Enjoy. All the …

An examination of “arousal procrastination”

I recently discovered that one of the world’s leading experts in procrastination is based in Ottawa. His name is Dr. Timothy Pychyl and he runs the Procrastination Research Group at Carleton University. I wrote an article about him for The Globe And Mail, and you can read it below. This story looks at some of Dr. Pychyl’s most recent research. …

Surveillance and screen envy in the office

As an editor noted in an email to me yesterday, Monday’s Life section in the Globe And Mail was something of a “Silverman Show.” I wrote two features in addition my usual Monday Office column for the paper, which means my name was pretty much splashed on every page. Apologies. The first feature was about the supposed productivity benefits of …

The 2007 Office Awards

It’s been about nine months since I started writing The Office column and blog for The Globe And Mail, and my December 31 offering was a look back at the year in workplace stories. It’s online here and the full text is below. The 2007 Office Awards Looking back at a long year on the job CRAIG SILVERMAN December 31, …

Too busy organizing to be productive

Below is a feature I wrote for The Globe And Mail (link) about the exploding productivity industry. Too busy organizing to be productive The quest to find better ways to manage work and life may slow people down in a flood of paperwork, e-mails, blogs and books CRAIG SILVERMAN The Globe and Mail September 24, 2007 Colin McKay begins most …

LibriVox and the power of distributed communities

I recently published a feature article in the Montreal Gazette about LibriVox.org and its remarkable growth. (I wrote a related piece for the New York Times in late August.) The paper decided not to put the story up online, so here is the full text of the piece, with three sidebars at the end. Montreal Gazette Saturday, October 7, 2006 …

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