The preferred expression making its way into the HR vernacular seems to be “work-life integration,” implying that the two components of professionals’ lives are more complementary than mutually exclusive.

Some big names in technology and communications are looking to put an added emphasis, and dollar figure, behind increasing diversity in their companies.

The Great Recession was longer and deeper than any economic crisis since the Great Depression. The country is healing; the unemployment rate is half of what it was at the height of the recession; hiring has risen sharply in recent months; the real estate market has come back to life. But one lingering effect of the last recession may be with us for some time to come: long-term unemployment like we haven’t seen in decades.

Many football fans and observers of the National Football League (NFL) are tempted to say yes, based on the year that recently culminated with a nail-biter of a Super Bowl.