Instead of trying to learn how to get more work done in a short period of time, boost your productivity by getting someone else to do the work for you. This works especially well for entrepreneurs who just aren't ready to hire full-timers yet. You can't do it all on your own, and outsourcing some of your work will make way for bigger and more important projects. If you've never outsourced before, here are a few tips.

In a competitive job market, employers are likely to be carefully evaluating the performance of employees. This means, employees who want to stand out as high performers can take the high road and avoid becoming complacent. A Forbes article advises that, “Job security comes from making sure that your daily performance is so amazing that any company would be crazy to let you go.” As a professional who wants to stay employed, standing out at work counts.

Coca-Cola is pledging to stop marketing to children under the age of 12, and to fund exercise programs in countries in which they do business. Will it do any good?

If you woke up with a bad case of the Mondays this morning, you might be wondering whether or not you're in the right job.

While most professionals choose to shake hands during a meet and greet, for some reason there are still many professionals who think it’s best to grandma hug their co-workers. While half-hugging accompanied by air kisses, and fist bumping may seem casual enough, full on bear hugging can make for quite an awkward moment.

If being sick is the only thing that will make you take some time to yourself, it's time to reassess your habits. Working until you drop is not only bad for your health -- it's bad for your productivity, too.

While planning helps most of us stay organized and on top of the tasks we need to complete, it turns out that this planning might just be getting in the way of our productivity. A professor at Cal Newport has devised the Anti-Plan Theory, which advises people to throw caution to the wind and adapt to whatever is thrown their way.

What's worse than creating a resume? If you said, "writing a cover letter," you are both correct and also probably in the midst of a job search. Cover letters are famously hard to pull off. Get too creative, and you look overly eccentric; hew too closely to a template, and you look like a robot.

You're in a rut. You can't keep up with your various work tasks, and no to-do list app is able to help keep you on top of things. Forget about technology for a minute and get productive the old-fashioned way

A scarcity of full-time, benefited jobs has led many workers to hold down multiple part-time gigs at the same time. The challenge, of course, is juggling all of this without going crazy from burn-out.

Could you have imagined that there's a difference between men and women and the way they use social media? Well, there is. Men and women continue to have differences in most areas of life and social media isn't any different, according to this InternetServiceProviders.org infographic.

Many job descriptions include a line about how successful applicants will have a good sense of humor, but usually this means, "Won't flip over his or her desk, Real Housewife-style, when things get tough." A recent article on Forbes.com, however, points out that having a good sense of humor is valuable to you as an employee, not just to your company. Here's why.

Every Friday we round up the salary trends, career stories and job news that you may have missed during the past week.

The Equal Pay Act outlawed employers from gender-discriminatory pay practices in 1963, but pay still isn't entirely equal, even when you account for . Now, legislation seeks to expand existing law to enact more protections against male-female pay disparities. Fed up, women are "leaning in" hard on this one, which means the Paycheck Fairness Act, twice rejected by Congress, might now stand a better chance of becoming law.

Standing desks might be good for our hearts, but they're probably not making us slimmer. At least that's what Yoni Freedhoff, MD, Assistant Professor of Family Medicine at the University of Ottawa, concluded in a recent article in US News.

Family leave can mean many things to many people. Whether it's the joy of having a new family member in your life, such as the birth of a child, or the sadness of having a sick or ailing family member you need to care for, such as a parent or spouse with cancer, family leave is a very important benefit in any work environment. What happens, though, when it becomes resented by co-workers?

Social media is a great way for a company to engage with its customers easily and quickly, making it an effective method for enhancing a brand's image in the marketplace. But sometimes, things go terribly wrong and a momentary lapse of judgment leads to a regrettable post for all to see.

Penelope Trunk, cofounder of Brazen Careerist, would like to save you some time.

Thoughts of internet start-ups often bring to mind images of college students armed with Starbucks coffee cups and smart phones, lounging about in hoodies and Chuck Taylors. In fact, it is either this image or the image of Star Trek pajamas, that a lot of people would associate with anyone whose job has anything to do with the internet. At Yahoo, however, the office gear is a little different.

The sun is shining, the weather is warm, everyone is sporting their favorite pair of flip-flops, and the very last thing you want to do is sit in your office and work. Summertime is great, but it tends to get in the way of our overall productivity. If you want to have a great summer without losing hold of your responsibilities, check out the tips below.