Toronto will be uncharacteristically loud today as it celebrates the city and the country’s first NBA championship. But at the center of the noise there sits a quiet 27-year-old, Raptors star and NBA Finals MVP Kawhi Leonard, a Los Angeles native who throughout Toronto’s season maintained a serenity and focus that epitomizes California cool.
After missing nine games due to an injury, Golden State Warriors all-star Kevin Durant was cleared to join his team and survived a June 9 practice without incident, leaving Warriors basketball fans ecstatic. Down 3-1 in the NBA championship series at the time, the team appeared revived the next evening and took game five against the Toronto Raptors.
Last week, cosmetics giant Sephora became the second major US company to close all its stores, during business hours, for bias and inclusion training.
In times of uncertainty, psychologists have found that even analytical thinkers will give more credence to superstitions.
Madonna spoke to me this week. Figuratively, that is, through The New York Times Magazine.
There’s no question that we’ve entered a golden era of employee activism. Workers at Google, Microsoft, and Amazon have all led movements to change their employers’ positions on hot-button societal issues, with varying degrees of success.
The popular narrative about the future of work is bleak. The sense is that many of us will be replaced by automated systems, drones, or people who are willing to work for less elsewhere. Only those with specific high-tech skills will survive. And some accounts of overturned lives have already shown these fears are not entirely misplaced.
Between the rise of remote work, the growing popularity of unlimited-vacation policies, and the 24-hour nature of the always-on work culture, it’s increasingly expected that white-collar workers, even those just entering the workforce, will have mastered the ability to set their own schedule and prioritize their obligations, without getting into the weeds with any authority figures about exactly how they’re organizing their life.
Unconscious bias training has become a standard feature of employee development seminars in all kinds of professions—in banking, policing, teaching, tech, and barista-ing.
There is no single right way to respond when a young, bright-eyed graduate declares an intention to pursue a career in the arts. When people say that acting, or hip hop, or fiction writing is their reason for living, and they would rather play a high stakes lottery—putting their ego, plenty of savings, and possibly mental health on the line—and go for it, instead of taking a sensible job in a profession that absorbs hundreds of thousands of new entries per year, where does reasoning even fit in?
The View, when it makes headlines, is often dismissed as a gossipy chatfest or a catty “lion’s den.” And, yes, the ABC morning talk show, co-hosted by a panel of five women, deserves some of the condescension. See its archive of ungracious on-air arguments between the hosts, saved online by loyal watchers, as evidence.
The organized-labor group that supports New York’s drivers for Uber, Lyft, and other rideshare services has until now concerned itself with issues like fair pay and in-app tipping options. Recently, however, it detoured into the less-obvious arena of mental health, with a driver wellness center offering counseling, classes, and group therapy.
The source of coffee’s powerful stimulating effects may not be limited to the caffeine in it, or even to its rich, distinct aroma. A new study suggests that merely being exposed to cues about coffee is enough to perk up the mind, and make us more likely to concentrate on the task at hand, while the same could not be said for tea.
Delta Air Lines has announced a change that should please frequent flyers who are also new parents: Customers can now maintain their elite status even after taking a long break from regular travel.
If you’ve seen Hulu’s recently debuted television show Shrill, starring SNL actress Aidy Bryant, you’ve met “Gabe.” And even if you haven’t seen the show, you probably have known a Gabe or two in your career.
How accountable should a company and its leaders be when a work environment is so toxic and emotionally taxing that it leads to a widespread mental health crisis among employees?
Antonio Neri was already a popular CEO at HPE, the server and IT services firm where he took over from Meg Whitman last year. Apparently, he’s seen as an of-the-people leader, so to speak, having worked his way to the top of the company since starting at a call center in 1995.
How do many men who hold seriously demanding jobs—the kind that require working long hours, staying available to the team or to customers on weekends, and constant travel—not only survive, but have a life?
I probably have a number of bad time-management habits, but I’m painfully aware of only one: a glaring tendency to overcommit to events and meetings, even ones I suspect won’t be that fruitful.
Last week, employees at one Google’s Mountain View campus buildings received an unsettling memo from a company physician: a Googler who visited that office earlier this month had been diagnosed with the measles, it announced. Details were scant, but employees were urged to read an advisory from the local health authorities.
Ravens are beguiling birds, as striking in appearance as they are sharp and tricky. In the psyche, they retain “an aura of the uncanny,” says Taschen’s encyclopedia of archetypal images, The Book of Symbols (2010).
Every weekday, just before 3pm, my phone buzzes with a notification to “tap in” or “check in” or “breathe together.” Most days, I obey.
The corrosive effect of online filter bubbles are by now well understood. So if you want to challenge your biases for the sake of being a wiser person, you’d better stay abreast of what’s on the minds of people who don’t think like you.
Depending on your life experiences, you may think one of two ways about Maslow’s pyramid of needs.
