Author name: Dan Pink

One-third of Americans don’t believe in evolution. Scary. (UPDATE 8/28: I don’t mean to suggest that people who believe in God are dumb. Not at all. Belief in God and belief in evolution are fully compatible. Just ask Francis Collins. However, not believing that living things, including humans, are the way they are because of

“Hospice care in the United States has grown into a 10-billion-dollar industry in the last decade,” according to this wire story.

TSA isn’t kidding about its new liquids and gels rule. This morning at Dulles airport, TSA agents confiscated my toothpaste and shaving cream. (Update: U.S. airports are still apparently a mess. Security stations have begun to look like the remainder bins at CVS.)

I almost never write about politics here, but I feel compelled to say something about Joe Lieberman. The senator lost his primary campaign last night, so this morning he filed papers to run as an independent. That’s his prerogative, of course. But even though I like Lieberman (and agree with him on party-defying issues like

A recent Gallup Panel poll finds that “American workers most often say they like that their jobs offer them a sense of fulfillment, provide opportunities to help people, and give them autonomy in how they accomplish their tasks. More immediate concerns such as pay, benefits, and job security rank lower down the list.”

New Census Bureau data show yet another increase in what it calls “nonemployer businesses” — businesses without any paid employees. Those enterprises increased 4.7 percent in 2004 to a whopping 19.5 million. And that figure, of course, doesn’t include many other types of free agents — from several kinds of freelancers to independents who receive

Corporate recruiters are using games to assess business school hires, according to The Wall Street Journal. “As the battle for top talent intensifies, the games help companies stand out in the crowded campus-recruiting field and spot promising candidates ahead of their competitors,” the paper reports. “Through the business simulation games, they can see students in

Here’s an NBER study showing that left-handers (who depend on their right hemispheres for many functions) earn more than right-handers. We’ve heard this before. Meantime, another NBER paper reports that offshoring hasn’t had a huge impact on American labor markets. Indeed, preliminary data hint “that increased employment in the overseas affiliates of U.S. multinationals is

A few readers have pointed me to this Computerworld story that summarizes the findings of three research groups who’ve analyzed what the IT workforce will look like in 2010. “The most sought-after corporate IT workers in 2010 may be those with no deep-seated technical skills at all. The nuts-and-bolts programming and easy-to-document support jobs will