Loose change

By Times wires

© St. Petersburg Times, published February 25, 2001

ELECTRONIC OVERLOAD: E-mail may be extending your workday. Some 150 executives from some of the nation's largest companies say they spend an average of 108 minutes a day reading and sending e-mail messages.

IDENTITY CRISIS: Motivated by mergers, changing business strategies and the search for new business worldwide, a record 2,976 U.S. companies changed their names last year, according to Enterprise IG, a New York company that has tracked such changes for 31 years.

KEEP THEM SEPARATE: Religion and work don't seem to mix well. About 60 percent of 1,500 people polled by New York research group Public Agenda say employees should bring up their religious beliefs at work "only with care." Three in 10 say the topic should be avoided.

E-EDUCATION: Brandeis University is putting the "e" in education. This fall, the Boston school will begin offering an undergraduate minor in Internet studies that will focus on how the Web affects society.

IT'S ONLY MONEY: Most kids would rather be smart than rich. A Lutheran Brotherhood survey of sixth- through 11th-graders nationwide found 80 percent would choose more intelligence, 78 percent more friends and 70 percent more athletic ability over more money. "Kids seem to understand that money doesn't guarantee success or happiness," the group's Nathan Dungan says.

- Compiled by Cathy Keim from Times wires

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