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Corporate Climate Blamed for Employee Revolt, Authors of New Book Say.

AScribe Business & Economics News Service, October, 2006

Byline: Bowling Green State University

BOWLING GREEN, Ohio., Oct. 11 (AScribe Newswire) -- Career patterns are changing. In case you haven't noticed, many talented employees are opting out of corporate jobs to gain greater fulfillment and balance in their lives.

With the federal government projecting a U.S. labor shortage by 2012, Dr. Sherry Sullivan, an associate professor of management at Bowling Green State University, believes companies have reason to worry.

Sullivan is the co-author, with Dr. Lisa A. Mainiero, of "The Opt-Out Revolt: Why People Are Leaving Companies to Create Kaleidoscope Careers" (September 2006, Davies-Black Publishing). For the book, she and Mainiero examined the careers of some 3,000 professionals, conducting three...

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