OBJECTIVE To determine whether there is an excess risk of breast cancer among female employees of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC), especially outside Queensland, compared with women in the general populations of the states and territories. DESIGN, SETTING AND PARTICIPANTS We used an occupational cohort design. Information from ABC staff records was linked with data from state an...

Purpose: This paper illustrates how a company’s current 24-hour e-mail culture impacts on employees’ lives outside of their contracted working hours. There were two objectives of the study – firstly, to calculate the average time spent on work e-mails by employees per day outside of working hours and, secondly, to identify what impact e-mail had on employees’ work-life balance by addressing thr...

As white-collar employees are more concerned and value the job's intrinsic aspects, this study concentrated on motivation of employees. This was dedicated to measuring general status different groups gender, age, education, experience, designation. Moreover, whether there differences in between among various terms their demography (i.e., designation). Data were collected working Nepalese insura...

BACKGROUND Prior research has shown increased risk of injury for female employees compared to male employees after controlling for job and tasks, but have not explored whether this increased risk might be moderated by manager gender. The gender of one's manager could in theory affect injury rates among male and female employees through their managers' response to an employee's psychosocial stre...

I n this issue of World Journal of Pediatrics, Lin and co-workers report an interesting study on the effect of rotating shift work for female employees on childbearing and infant birth weight (page 129). [1] In their study of female workers in a semiconductor factory, they found a significant lower birth rate among women working shifts compared to women on consisting daytime work. Furthermore, ...