Click’s Sumi Das reports from inside Google on the company’s quest to perfect workplace efficiency by going the extra mile for their employees.

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VIDEO: Inside Google’s lair

The nation’s chief of nuclear safety announced his resignation Monday after a turbulent three-year tenure that included debates over regulatory guidelines, the U.S. response to the Japanese nuclear disaster last year, and whistleblower and congressional allegations that Jaczko spoke abusively to women in the workplace. Read full article > >

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Gregory Jaczko, chief of Nuclear Regulatory Commission, resigns

All federal government organizations are potentially at risk for workplace violence, not just those in high-crime areas or dealing with violent members of the public, according to an agency studying the issue. Read full article > >

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Risk of violence in federal workplace examined

After nearly a month of stories about federal workplace scandals, we now return to the more familiar saga of House Republicans going after employee compensation. Yet, as aggravating as the Republicans’ plan might be to the workforce, the effort to make federal employees pay more for retirement benefits doesn’t have nearly the lasting power of the Government Services Administration and Secret Service debacles. Read full article > >

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WHITE HOUSE press secretary Jay Carney spent a good chunk of his time during a briefing last week trying to explain why President Obama has declined to issue an executive order barring federal contractors from discriminating on the basis of sexual orientation. Read full article > >

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Editorial Board: A fairer workplace in federal contracting

Reader: My girlfriend told me that her boss (married with children) asked her out for dinner and drinks to “discuss her performance.” When she told me she accepted, I was less than pleased. I explained that her boss’s request was simply inappropriate and her acceptance even more so. Has the women’s movement come to this? Have the years of litigation and regulation on sexual harassment in the workplace been reduced to a “Mad Men” version of reality? Needless to say, we are at odds. I believe her act has empowered a sexual predator to continue his behavior and subjected every other female employee to a hostile work environment whether they are or are not as compliant in accepting his advances. She thinks I don’t trust her. I trust her to make the correct decision, particularly when so much guidance is available in this arena. Read full article > >

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@Work Advice: Karla Miller: Is a dinner invitation an indecent proposal or business as usual?

For decades, government jobs gave black workers a refuge from racial discrimination in the workplace and a springboard to the middle class. No longer.

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As Public Sector Sheds Jobs, Black Americans Are Hit Hard

This is the first of four columns by Karla Miller, winner of last month’s @Work Advice Contest .Tell us what you think and send your workplace questions to wpmagazine@washpost.com. A colleague and I have fallen in love after working closely together for about a year. We have a tremendous amount in common , and furthermore, he is one of the best human beings I have ever met. Unfortunately, our boss has forbidden us from dating because he feels it would be bad for office morale. (Dating colleagues isn’t against company policy, as long as there is no supervisory relationship between the parties.) One or both of us leaving the company would be possible but not easy — we work in a highly technical specialty, so there aren’t a lot of jobs. Read full article > >

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@Work Advice: When office romance is forbidden. Plus: My co-worker is giving me the stink-eye!

Wayne Schissler walked the four blocks from his workplace to the small Occupy Allentown protest to show the young demonstrators that a tea party member is not a monster. What he learned after a few hours of talk surprised him. “They didn’t stink, and they weren’t on drugs,” he said. “I could see me being them, 30 years ago.” Read full article > >

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For tea party and Occupy Wall Street movements, some common ground

The canvassing of nearly 100 homes and workplaces of donors that were listed on John C. Liu’s campaign finance reports has raised questions about the source and legitimacy of some donations.

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Irregularities Found in John Liu’s Campaign Finance Reports

Want to know how federal departments and large agencies fared in a broad survey of federal employees? Check out this table from the Federal Employee Viewpoint Survey . The Office of Personnel Management conducts an annual survey of the workforce to learn how federal employees feel about their workplaces. As we reported Friday, more than 266,000 workers participated this year. Read full article > >

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Employees have their say in workplace survey

The Obama White House is no place for a woman, at least according to a new book by Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist Ron Suskind that's grabbing headlines this week. In addition to some supposedly vicious disputes between the president’s economic advisers, Suskind paints a picture of a male-dominated environment, hostile to the opinions of its female members. The book, Confidence Men: Wall Street, Washington, and the Education of a President, includes a quote from former White House communications director Anita Dunn: “This place would be in court for a hostile workplace. Because it actually fit all of the classic legal requirements for a genuinely hostile workplace to women.”

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Is the White House Sexist?

Describe White House as a “hostile” workplace.

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Obama’s Female Advisers Felt Excluded

“The Hour,” a BBC America series starting on Wednesday, is a thriller that blends the Suez crisis in Britain with a more intimate look at sex, ambition and espionage in the workplace, around 1956.

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Television Review | ‘The Hour’: Espionage in the Government and Shenanigans at Work

Germany’s Knigge – or etiquette – Society calls for a ban on French-style kissing in the workplace, following complaints.

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German call to ban workplace kiss