The New Yorker
Is the Pandemic Breaking Our Backs?
Test-driving a batch of posture-enhancing devices that are supposed to make you stand tall.
Health WorkWork
Across our curated articles on work, you'll find a range of guides, stories, research studies and actionable tips on how to navigate the workplace, office culture and politics, meetings, open-plan offices, and a whole lot more.
Stanford Graduate School of Business
Want to Learn How Things Really Work at Your New Job? Talk to the People at the Bottom
New research shows that people of all ranks look to low-level peers for information about organizational social norms.
Career WorkThe Guardian
Spain to launch trial of four-day working week
Spain could become one of the first countries in the world to trial the four-day working week after the government agreed to …
WorkMarker
A Quarter of American Workers Are Already Back at the Office
25%: That’s roughly how many employees in the U.S. are going into the office nowadays, according to data from Kastle …
WorkThe Wall Street Journal
Tech Companies Say They Can't Find Good Employees. The Companies May Be the Problem.
Many technology companies bemoan how difficult it is to find good employees. A new study suggests the companies themselves …
WorkReuters
Share of U.S. workers holding multiple jobs is rising, new Census report shows
The share of Americans working more than one job to make ends meet has been growing over the past two decades, and the pay …
WorkHarvard Business Review
How to Be Funny at Work
Research shows that teams that laugh together are more engaged and creative. So how do we bring more humor into the …
WorkThe New York Times
Reddit Is America's Unofficial Unemployment Hotline
As hiring stalls and the economy shows signs of slowing again, the continued popularity of r/Unemployment underscores how the …
WorkTemporary heresy
Talent is largely a myth
With the amount of conversations, conference talks and hype going on around talent, you would expect people will have an …
Career WorkReuters
Managing your boss: adjusting to narcissists, 'ghosts,' gaslighters
Most people think of managing as a top-down process, but you also “manage” your boss, whether you realize it or …
WorkThe Wall Street Journal
The New Silicon Valley Perks: Child Care, Financial Planning and Therapy
Instead of using food and foosball tables to keep workers at the office as long as possible, tech companies now seek to offer …
Work Work-Life BalanceView from Initialized
Post-Pandemic Silicon Valley Isn't A Place
Two-thirds of our portfolio companies will still use an office, but we’ll see a huge step change pre- and …
WorkHarvard Business Review
9 Trends That Will Shape Work in 2021 and Beyond
While enabling employees to work remotely became commonplace across 2020 (and will continue this year and beyond), the next …
Remote Work WorkThe New Republic
The Dream Job That Wasn't
A lighthouse keeper, a deep-ocean researcher, a park ranger, and a “Snoozetern” on the pitfalls of “doing …
WorkAxios
2021 will demand new kinds of video conferencing
Last year entrenched videoconferencing at the center of our work and private lives — but also showed us the limits and …
WorkMarker
Is the Office Dead? Not Exactly
Dropbox, WeWork, and Google all think they have the playbook for the part-time office.
WorkWhat are subtle red flags at a job interview that say "working here would suck"?
- “Well, the overtime isn’t mandatory, but most folks stick around after hours most days.”
- “Yea, …
Sahil Lavingia
No Meetings, No Deadlines, No Full-Time Employees
Today, working at Gumroad resembles working on an open source project like Rails. Except it’s neither open source, nor …
WorkBBC
Four-day week means 'I don't waste holidays on chores'
Many firms are resistant to the idea of a four-day week but the think tank Autonomy, which looks at work-related issues, …
WorkAndrew Montalenti
Work is a Queue of Queues
Do you ever get that feeling like no matter how hard you work, you just can’t keep up?
WorkDeloitte
Deloitte research reveals significant return on investment for workplace mental health programs
Median annual ROI more than double for every dollar spent by companies with programs in place for more than three years.
Health WorkAxios
Job loss predictions over rising minimum wages haven't come true
Eighteen states rang in 2019 with minimum wage increases — some that will ultimately rise as high as $15 an hour — and so …
WorkHarvard Business Review
How to Recruit More Women to Your Company
To explore this disconnect between the good intentions of leaders and true progress on closing the gender gap, LinkedIn …
WorkThe Guardian
Pointless emails: they're not just irritating – they have a massive carbon footprint
More than 64m unnecessary emails are sent in Britain every day. Along with clogging up our inboxes they are also damaging the …
WorkBBC
Pointless work meetings 'really a form of therapy'
Meetings at work should be seen as a form of “therapy” rather than about decision-making, say researchers.
WorkBBC
Why office noise bothers some people more than others
No one likes an office whistler or pen clicker – but for some people, these noises aren’t just a nuisance, …
WorkCityLab
Talent May Be Shifting Away From Superstar Cities
In recent years, America has increasingly been defined by a winner-take-all geography, with coastal superstar cities like New …
Career WorkBloomberg
U.S. Workers Show Little Improvement in 21st Century Skills
U.S. workers are failing to improve the skills needed to succeed in an increasingly global economy, according to a government …
WorkThe Conversation
The ethics of the 4 day work week. It's not just about the hours
The ethically desirable goals of equality and the realisation of common goods require deeper social changes in the way work …
WorkThe New York Times
5-Hour Workdays? 4-Day Workweeks? Yes, Please
Sick of round-the-clock work emails and Slack messages? Here’s some hope.
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