BBC
Why do we buy into the 'cult' of overwork?
Overwork culture is thriving; we think of long hours and constant exhaustion as a marker of success. Given what we know about …
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.
Tribune
Workplace Wellbeing Is a Scam
As conditions at work deteriorate, the number of ’employee wellbeing schemes’ is on the rise – but no amount of …
WorkGalaxy Brain
Executives don't decide if the company culture is good. Employees do.
In our reporting, we heard time and again that employees naturally shy away from being vulnerable around their employers. It …
WorkCulture Study
The 'Capitalism is Broken' Economy
Stick with me here, but what if people weren’t lazy — and instead, for the first time in a long time, were able to say …
WorkSifted
Why you should put salaries on your job ads
Every single job description should show a salary or salary range — and there are no excuses.
When a company offers a …
WorkThe New York Times
Unemployment Is High. Why Are Businesses Struggling to Hire?
Health concerns, expanded jobless benefits and still being needed at home are among the reasons would-be workers might be …
WorkBenji Weber
Don't hire top talent; hire for weaknesses.
Design your hiring process to find the right people to strengthen your teams’ weaknesses, rather than trying to find …
WorkHarvard Business Review
To Build a Diverse Company for the Long Term, Develop Junior Talent
For employers to make meaningful progress, they need to focus less on hiring and more on creating the internal escalators …
WorkPitchBook
From WFH to WF?: Data startups tackle office uncertainty
Companies face many unknowns as they contemplate a return to office work, but one clear theme is emerging: The post-pandemic …
WorkProject Include
Covid-19 made tech's problems worse
Project Include surveyed almost 3,000 people and interviewed dozens more about the shift to remote online workplaces. We …
Remote Work WorkThe 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 WorkStanford 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?
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