Work

The Guardian

PwC to start tracking working locations of all UK employees

Accounting firm tells its 26,000 workers move is to ensure workers spend ‘minimum of three days a week’ in …

Reuters

Australian employees now have the right to ignore work emails, calls after hours

Is your boss texting you on the weekend? Work email pinging long after you’ve left for home?

Australian employees can …

Harvard Business Review

Make the Most of Your Vacation When You Can't Fully Unplug

While advice abounds on the importance of fully unplugging during your hard-earned time off — and for good reason! — what …

Harvard Business Review

17 Team-Building Activities for In-Person, Remote, and Hybrid Teams

Well-designed team-building activities are essential tools that can foster meaningful relationships among colleagues, …

Elysian Press

Every company should be owned by its employees

There are 47 millionaires working for Central States Manufacturing, and they’re not all in the C-Suite. Many of them …

Evan Smith

4d6 Psychic Damage: The effects of meaningless work

At the centre of the story of society is a moral: If you love your job, you won’t work a day in your life. So what …

Business Insider

Ditch your work friends

Your boss wants you to mix your personal and professional relationships — but that’s a big mistake.

MarketWatch

'It's better for humans in general': The four-day workweek is closer than you think

Software companies, big conglomerates and even police departments are experimenting with a concept that no longer feels like …

The Conversation

What if companies rewarded employees for their failures?

Another less obvious and yet potentially game-changing method consists in tolerating, if not celebrating, failure. It’s …

The Guardian

'In the US they think we're communists!' The 70,000 workers showing the world another way to earn a living

The Basque Country’s Mondragón Corporation is the globe’s largest industrial co-operative, with workers paying …

CNBC

Help! I work in an open office and my co-workers are so loud

It’s important to remember that you are at work to work, and if your environment hinders your productivity, …

McKinsey Quarterly

How leaders kill meaning at work

Senior executives routinely undermine creativity, productivity, and commitment by damaging the inner work lives of their …

Bloomberg

Cheap Mortgages Deter Workers From Relocating for $250,000 Jobs

Manager recruits in the industrial Midwest are shunning offers to move to the American south — in part because they’re …

Gallup

Employing Others Is Linked to Wealth and Wellbeing

U.S. owner-employers have better life outcomes than other entrepreneurs.

Phys.org

Suppressing boredom at work hurts future productivity, study shows

Boredom serves an important purpose—it signals the need to stop an action and find an alternative project. But boredom …

Harvard Business Review

When New Hires Get Paid More, Top Performers Resign First

To attract new talent, employers often offer new hires higher wages than existing employees. But today, a combination of …

The Guardian

Longest sustained rise in people too sick to work since 1990s, says thinktank

Britain is going through the longest sustained rise in the number of working-age adults who are too sick to work since the …

NPR

These companies tried a 4-day workweek. More than a year in, they still love it

The four-day workweek is proving to be the gift that keeps on giving.

Companies that have tried it are reporting happier …

The Guardian

Four-day week made permanent for most UK firms in world's biggest trial

Research shows 51% that took part permanently adopted the change, while 89% still operating policy one year on.

CNBC

Workers without degrees are not getting as many good job offers as it seems

Many of the market’s top companies from Walmart to Amazon, Apple, GM, Bank of America, Uber, Nike, Delta Air Lines and …

The Washington Post

No job? No shame. Younger workers are opening up about unemployment.

Whether they’re taping layoffs or documenting their job searches, Gen Z and younger millennials are bringing candor to …

The Washington Post

The U.S. economy is booming. So why are tech companies laying off workers?

Google, Amazon, Microsoft and a raft of others fired thousands of workers in January, continuing a layoff wave that began in …

Vice

Welcome to the New 'Good' Economy, Where Millions Get Left Behind

Prices aren’t coming down, wages for many aren’t catching up and rent is deeply unaffordable. But policymakers …

Working Assumptions

How to hire low experience, high potential people

It might seem insane to take a bet on inexperienced people, especially in the context of hiring them to work at a company in …

Adaobi's Newsletter

How to do things if you're not that smart and don't have any talent

This is a blog post aimed at people who want to do important work or make meaningful contributions to work, but feel they …

NPR

Nearly 25,000 tech workers were laid off in the first weeks of 2024. Why is that?

All of the major tech companies conducting another wave of layoffs this year are sitting atop mountains of cash and are …

The Wall Street Journal

IT Employment Grew by Just 700 Jobs in 2023, Down From 267,000 in 2022

Despite business and investor hype around generative AI last year, information-technology hiring slumped as companies laid …

Inc.

27 Years Ago, Steve Jobs Said the Best Employees Focus on Content, Not Process. Research Shows He Was Right

Fair" compensation shouldn’t be defined by a job’s pay scale. “Fair” is what the employee …

Harvard Business Review

Research: Is Moving Internationally for a Job a Smart Move?

Many MBA graduates consider moving internationally for their careers. But beyond the opportunities for personal and …