What We DO at Work

With a growing business to administer built on her life as a wealthy heiress and celebrity, Paris says her world is nonstop hard work -- but also fun.

Celebrity Emma Watson recently announced that she would collaborate with designer Alberta Ferretti to create a new organic clothing line.

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Foxconn, Apple's largest manufacturing partner, is coming under renewed criticism over labor practices after reports that vocational students were being compelled to work at plants making iPhones.

After typhoon Haiyan smashed into the Philippines, citizens from around the world worked around the clock to analyze satellite imagery, generating maps to provide relief agencies with invaluable crowdsourced information.

People who think they multitask well test high for traits like risk-taking, sensation-seeking and impulsiveness. They are in fact less likely to be good at juggling things, as they are more easily distracted.

An integrated didactic training concept explains the tasks to students while the system monitors their achievement.

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Concerned that its network was being hacked, a company discovered an employee outsourcing his own job to a Chinese consulting firm. The worker spent his office hours surfing the web and checking Facebook.

“Space Lawyer” sounds like a job that’s too awesome to exist, but it’s not — you really can practice space law. It's a fascinating realm of study that's becoming more and more relevant as we get farther out into the galaxy.

Kim Chae-young crams five evenings a week, toiling deep into the night. But unlike most young South Koreans who spend hours at special schools to polish their English and math, she studies slide steps and bubbly lyrics.

Headphones or earbuds are becoming common in the workplace. They allow people to tune out their co-workers all day long. But in many cases, those same co-workers are still communicating — online.