Jennifer Brown

The latest way companies are trying to entice people to the office is to make it a home away from home. 

In the biggest payday ever for a soccer player, French football club Paris Saint-Germaine bought Barcelona FC’s former striker, Brazilian-born Neymar da Silva Santos Jr., on Aug. 3 for €222 million. The sum more than doubled the previous record of 97.5 million euros for Paul Pogba’s return to Manchester United from Juventus last year, and almost quadrupled the €63 million PSG paid in 2015 for the transfer of Italian Angel Di Maria from Manchester United. 

Swiss supermarket chain Coop will soon sell insect burgers and “meatballs” made from mealworm (beetle larvae), in a bid to save the environment.

Lego replaced its first ever non-Danish CEO, who was only in the job for eight months, with a younger, Danish executive.

If you’re a woman looking for some good news about gender parity in business, a quick scan of the Fortune 500 list can make for depressing reading. This year, there was some short-lived cause for celebration.

Women are greatly underrepresented on company boards, so the share of female directors is closely tracked and publicized regularly to put pressure on firms. (That is, in places where there aren’t already quotas, like France and Norway.) The problem is that headline numbers don’t always reflect the true story.

It was recently thought that four subjects alone could spur innovation by bringing order and logic to creative thinking: Science, technology, engineering, and math—fields known to much of the modern world by their acronym STEM. But STEM is already passé.

Music-streaming service SoundCloud, loath as it may be to admit it, is having a bit of trouble as of late. As bigger rivals like Spotify and Apple Music begin to rule the listening market, smaller services are struggling to turn a profit; and getting rid of a large chunk of one’s company hardly screams success—unless you’re Justin Timberlake going solo out of NYSNC, Beyoncé fleeing Destiny’s Child to become the world’s biggest pop star, et cetera.

It’s not easy to confront your boss over a contentious issue. And what’s more contentious than how much less you’re paid than your male colleagues? Now imagine having that debate live on national radio.

Call it the “Macron effect.” France has knocked the US of the top spot in the global ‘soft power’ rankings.

Once upon a time, workers could expect to retire by the time they were 65, if not before. It was a so-called three-stage life: Education would lead to full-time employment and then, after a dutiful stint in the office, retirement. Supporting older people during retirement freed up positions for new hires, who were junior to the senior retirees.

High-stress situations can often cause people’s emotions to get the better of them. And if they’re not careful, the consequences can be dire.

Social mobility is increasing in countries such as Denmark and the Netherlands, but in much of the world it isn’t changing fast enough. In the UK, a country notorious for its preoccupation with class, an initiative by a government organization, a charity and some of the biggest companies hopes to do something about that.

Vacations in theory seem great—they offer time to relax and rejuvenate, to do the things you love to do but can’t usually because of the responsibilities of work. So why are so many people reluctant to take them?

A perfectly orchestrated British business meeting is no easy feat, but companies are usually willing to spend just that bit extra time and money to get it right.

Someone forgot to tell former Republican presidential candidate Chris Christie that leadership is no day at the beach.

It’s the end of an era for Britain.

Nestle’s shareholders have staged an intervention. Well, at least one very big one has.

A thing wasn’t always “a thing,” until the Oxford English Dictionary made it one.

The road to Britain’s exit from the EU has been rocky. UK prime minister Theresa May has adopted a hard stance, repeatedly claiming that “no deal is better than a bad deal,” and threatening to walk away if she doesn’t get what she wants (now that negotiations have officially started, she’s started making offers.)  The EU, for its part, has fixed the timetable of the negotiations around a three-step plan (paywall) and dismissed any attempt by the UK to cherry-pick the conditions of the deal.

Boards have a penchant for bringing back ousted company founders: “boomerang bosses” is a well-worn phrase. So can we expect the same to happen to Travis Kalanick at Uber?

Generous parental leave policies are the announcement du jour for companies hoping to retain talent by being more family-friendly: Microsoft, Netflix, and Hilton have all bettered their policies in the past few years, and they’re far from alone.

Queen Elizabeth II was born on April 21, 1926, so logic suggests that celebrations for her birthday would take place on this day. Right?

The number of Brits taking German citizenship soared last year, according to new statistics. “The link to Brexit seems clear,” according to German officials.