Water cooler: CSX treats its veterans right, magazine says
CSX Transportation, the Jacksonville railroad company, gets major kudos in the latest issue of GI Jobs magazine, which just published its list of the country's top 50 military-friendly employers.
By Times Staff
Published December 16, 2007
CSX treats its Veterans right, magazine says
CSX Transportation, the Jacksonville railroad company, gets major kudos in the latest issue of GI Jobs magazine, which just published its list of the country's top 50 military-friendly employers. The company leapfrogged from No. 45 last year to No. 8 this year, and is the only Florida company on the list. One in five CSX employees have military experience, the magazine noted. It praised CSX's programs for the families of Guard and Reserve members, and for its role in helping disabled veterans find work in the private sector.
Times are tough, so we need to party ...
You can take the party out of the company, but you can't take the company out of the party. Or something like that. Despite a sluggish housing market, a pervasive credit crunch and slowing job growth, most companies are collectively partying for Christmas. Ninety percent of companies plan to hold holiday parties this year, up from 79 percent last year, according to Challenger, Gray & Christmas. And 38 percent of the party-throwers are throwing caution to the wind and boosting the party budget. Perhaps it's a way to make employees feel appreciated in tighter times ("I would have preferred a bonus, but this cheese log is almost as good!"). Perhaps it's just a way to just ignore reality. Whatever the case, we're betting that Florida's real estate companies will be serving pretzels and soda, not hors d'oeuvres and Scotch.
... and here's who likes to party most
More on the company party front, this coming from Spherion, a Fort Lauderdale staffing firm: Female workers feel more obligated to attend the soirees than their male counterparts, workers earning more than $75,000 also feel a good bit of obligation, younger workers are most likely to care whether the company throws a party and workers making less than $15,000 were most likely to have embarrassed themselves at a company party.