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In a recent survey, when Penn Mutual calculated the actual median value of services, a women’s contribution to the home was $34,256 and men’s was $19,322. In addition, men were 9% more likely to overestimate their contribution by $30,000 or more, while 36% of women underestimated their value by at least $30,000.

As President Obama prepares to unveil his new job-creation plan Thursday night, he doesn’t exactly have the strongest lead-in. Last week’s jobs report revealed the economy added zero jobs last month, leaving unemployment at 9.1%. The report also showed unemployment is particularly high among young Americans (age 18-24) — an eye-popping 16.4%.

According to 541 SHRM members polled, the majority say a job candidate’s social media activity is a non-issue when it comes to hiring.

Stop the presses! If you were planning to roll out an employee survey to coincide with this fall’s open enrollment season, you may want to hold off, survey results show.

“Garden leave,” a transitional period during which a terminating employee "is paid to remain at home and out of work, but to be ‘on call’ to his or her former employer for as-needed transitional services.” To me, this concept is wholly interesting and if I were in a position to choose, I’d prefer it to phased retirement.

Workplace walking programs sure are taking big steps forward these days. For years now, I’ve been hearing about programs from Florida to Colorado walking toward better employee health armed only with a pedometer and a dream, but it seems that recently the programs are really hitting their stride, so to speak.

A new report from EAP provider ComPsych suggests that employees’ emotional health likely will not support healthy lifestyle changes -- indicating that stress, anxiety, depression and poor social support may be hampering employees' efforts to achieve wellness goals.

With uncertain economic times having American employees highly stressed and otherwise emotionally on edge, it doesn’t come as much of a surprise that a new survey from CareerBuilder shows that 34% of hiring managers say they’re placing greater emphasis on emotional intelligence when hiring and promoting employees post-recession.

Strategic adviser Davia Temin says that when it comes to corporate social media, “It is the Wild West out there. Every organization knows it should be doing something, but is not sure what." Temin has written a series on Forbes.com to help employers avoid the 10 don’ts of corporate social media efforts.

Every year, around mid-August, I think three things: I can’t believe the summer is almost over. I can’t believe it’s been almost X years since Katrina. I can’t believe next month it will be X years since 9/11.