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The Economist

Why tech firms are trying to run away from politics—and failing

As other firms become more political, some Silicon Valley companies are heading in the opposite direction

BBC

Long working hours killing 745,000 people a year, study finds

The first global study of its kind showed 745,000 people died in 2016 from stroke and heart disease due to long hours.

The …

The Miscellaneous Stuff Blog

The Best Way to Deal with a Micromanaging Boss

When an employee is placed in a no-win scenario at work, he has few options. He can place the blame for failure on someone …

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 …

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 …

Galaxy 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 …

Culture 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 …

Sifted

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 …

The 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 …

Benji 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 …

Harvard 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 …

PitchBook

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 …

Project 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 …

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.

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.

The 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 …

Marker

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 …

The 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 …

Reuters

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 …

Harvard 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 …

The 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 …

Temporary 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 …

Reuters

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 …

The 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 …

View 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 …

Harvard 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 …

The 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 …

Axios

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 …

Marker

Is the Office Dead? Not Exactly

Dropbox, WeWork, and Google all think they have the playbook for the part-time office.