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Old Navy Celebrates The Holidays With The Griswolds

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Chevy Chase, Beverly D’Angelo, and Juliette Lewis reprise their roles as the perpetually dysfunctional Griswold family from the “National Lampoon’s Vacation” films in a series of commercials for Old Navy.

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The Numbers Don’t Lie: We Need More Breaks, More Vacation Here In The US

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BY DOUG ZANGER Just did a little top-line scan of some work/vacation-related stats. And, at least here in the United States, the numbers are not looking too good. You really want to dig in, take a peek at what Joe Robinson, an AWSC contributor and author of “Work To Live” (and others) has to say. But here were the ones that…

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This Week’s Theme: Vacation = Productive

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BY DOUG ZANGER It all started with this post from Joe Robinson. The more we thought about it, the more we realized we should probably talk about vacations/breaks and how they can really fuel productivity. Here in the United States, we don’t really have a deep work vacation/break culture. We tend to salivate when we hear of our global colleagues…

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Los Facebookers de San Sebastián

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  By BRIAN DOHERTY   I recently returned from a much-needed vacation in Puerto Rico. Prior to the trip, I hadn’t traveled (for fun) in just over five years. To say that I was “excited” to be escaping real life and New York for a week on a Caribbean island would be like saying political parties in the U.S. “sometimes” have differences…

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