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How to Email a Busy Person & Get a Reply
If you want to email a busy person and get a response, you’d better write a good email. And after sending and receiving …
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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.
Dice
Burnout is Now an Official Medical Condition
Burnout is real, and it now has its own distinction with the World Health Organization (WHO) as a legitimate medical …
Health WorkJustin Jackson
The Freedom Ladder
Have you ever seen a painter use a scaffold? It’s a ladder you construct to get from ground level up to the elevation …
Life WorkDuke's Fuqua School of Business
Love Your Job? Someone May be Taking Advantage of You
If someone is passionate about what they do, we see it as more legitimate to exploit them, according to new research from …
WorkForge
How to Outlaw the Office Bully
New legislation seeks to clearly define workplace bullying — and offer employees a chance to fight back.
WorkFast Company
Almost half of American workers have cried at work
48% have cried at work. While women are more inclined to break down in tears over stress, 36% of men also acknowledged crying …
WorkThe New York Times
Is Conference Room Air Making You Dumber?
A small body of evidence suggests that when it comes to decision making, indoor air may matter more than we have realized.
Health WorkNew York Magazine
People Who Claim to Work 75-Hour Weeks Usually Only Work About 50 Hours
Virtually anyone you know who claims to be working more than 60 hours a week is not telling the truth.
WorkThe New York Times
Where the Good Jobs Are
For people without a college degree, finding work that offers decent pay can be a challenge. The solution may require a …
WorkQuartz
The five types of communication problems that destroy company morale
In organizations, it often seems like all problems are eventually communication problems, because communication is the way we …
WorkFast Company
Why companies are still reluctant to introduce the four-day workweek
There’s plenty of evidence on the benefits of a four-day workweek. But many companies are still hesitant to make the …
WorkDavid Perell
The Ultimate Guide to Writing Online
Writing online is the fastest way to accelerate your career. It’s the best way to learn faster, build your resume, and …
Life WorkQuartz
It took a century to create the weekend—and only a decade to undo it
But the week is man-made, arbitrary, a substance not found in nature. That seven-day cycle in which we mark our meetings, …
Life WorkInc.
Ikea Just Killed the Open-Plan Office
Can we have the best of both worlds? Ikea says yes–and backs it up with a working prototype.
WorkHacker News
How do I ask for a raise?
I’m a shy person regarding this question, I have a friend that his method is “I have another offer, can you …
Career WorkOneZero
How to Quit Your Job in 837 Easy Steps
I found myself Googling whether to leave my job — while leading PR at Google.
Career WorkThe Wall Street Journal
See How Your Salary Compares
Over 1,000 companies, including Amazon, JPMorgan and Walmart, have disclosed how they compensate workers. Find out where your …
Money WorkThe Atlantic
Workism Is Making Americans Miserable
For the college-educated elite, work has morphed into a religious identity—promising identity, transcendence, and community, …
WorkThe Guardian
Four-day week: trial finds lower stress and increased productivity
Study of pilot at New Zealand firm finds staff were happier and 20% more productive.
WorkHacker News
What company environment has enabled your best work?
Interested in specifics around team dynamics, communication, learning, decision making, physical layout, etc.
WorkThe New York Times
Why Are Young People Pretending to Love Work?
I saw the greatest minds of my generation log 18-hour days — and then boast about #hustle on Instagram. When did performative …
WorkThe Wall Street Journal
How Companies Secretly Boost Their Glassdoor Ratings
Employers flood the ranking site with 5-star postings requested from enthusiastic staffers, leading to unusual spikes, a WSJ …
Career WorkCityLab
The Great Divide in How Americans Commute to Work
We are cleaving into two nations—one where daily life revolves around the car, and the other where the car is receding in …
Commuting WorkHacker News
How did you escape your safe 9-5 job?
How did you escape your meaningless 9-5 job to work full time on what you wanted to work on? Did you have a strategy or was …
WorkInc.
The Cold, Hard Truth: You're Overwhelmed Because You Want to Be
Examining how we talk about our lives by looking at things like holiday letters, Burnett concludes that busyness has actually …
Life WorkMedium
Unpacking the Millennial Work Ethic
It’s fairly common to say that that much of the anger and resentment felt by this group of twenty-to-thirty-somethings …
WorkThe New York Times
New Office Hours Aim for Well Rested, More Productive Workers
A growing number of businesses are encouraging their employees to work when their bodies are most awake.
WorkReuters
Burnout, stress lead more companies to try a four-day work week
It sounds too good to be true, but companies around the world that have cut their work week have found that it leads to …
WorkFast Company
Stanford professor: "The workplace is killing people and nobody cares"
From the disappearance of good health insurance to the psychological effects of long hours, the modern workplace is taking …
WorkMedium
How to Make a Living on the Internet
And exactly how much you can expect to earn per follower, subscriber, or sponsored post.
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