As people quit their jobs in record numbers—4 million people in the US during April alone—and many presumably attempt to find new ones, it’s safe to assume that cover letters are being carefully crafted across the country.
Beyond Meat might have another plant-based winner on its hands, one that could plausibly top its popular Beyond Burger.
Billionaire Richard Branson has always dreamed of going to space. “I was a kid once, standing with my dad and my sister, looking up at the moon, being told that Buzz and Neil were standing on it,” Branson told NPR’s Morning Edition this week, referring to the Apollo 11 astronauts. “And I just thought, I’ve got to go to space one day.”
Iceland's four-year experiment with a shorter workweek was declared a huge success in a new report
Doubt can be unpleasant, but also constructive. In your career or personal life, the feeling that something is not right, that you’re choosing the wrong path forward, can force you to fine-tune your strategy or think more creatively.
Serena Williams joined the list of tennis stars who say they will not be playing at the Olympic Games in Tokyo this summer.
A sudden rise in bird watching around the world was one of the rare heartening consequences of pandemic lockdowns last year.
The four-day work week was gaining steam before the pandemic. Now it's slowly going mainstream
Work isn’t the only place we find connection, of course. But it’s certainly a place, as many employees have felt during the pandemic.
There are competing theories about how hybrid and remote work will impact workforce diversity.
All-virtual meetings are like in-person meetings in one important sense: Everyone attends the same way, so people are in the same place. In the hybrid workplace, though, holding a productive, even enjoyable meeting is going to require more forethought and mindfulness to avoid massive frustration.
Move fast to keep peopleLet employees and teams co-plan their new hybrid work schedules—to a degreeDon’t be too attached to “random collisions”Use employee clusters for cross-team collaborationEmbrace the complexitySee through the eyes of the employeeTest it outTrain managers to recognize proximity biasEvery job should be evaluated according to objective output metricsGet used to writing things downLower your expectations for productivityBan productivity tracking softwareBe super specific about how quickly you think people should be able to get into the officeBe careful if you segregate employees based on vaccination statusYou don’t have to jump on the hybrid work bandwagon at allKeep the office space for now, if you canDon’t ask employees about changes that your leadership team is not willing to make
On Cameo, if not in life, everyone has a price. For women celebrities on the site, however, that price is far lower compared to men.
Chastened by the realities laid bare by the pandemic, a lot of companies are embracing fresh-start affirmations and promising newly enlightened, gentler, more equitable workplaces.
When Apple unveiled its new, 175-acre campus in 2017, the project was lauded for its elegant, minimalist architecture and eco-friendly features. Apple Park’s bespoke chairs and elevator buttons, its nearly three-story-high sliding glass doors in the cafeteria, the distressed stone in the yoga studio, the massive spaceship-like Ring building—it all made sense for a company that had built its reputation on forward-thinking design.
Millions of people who once figuratively clocked in at the same workplace every weekday could now blindfold themselves, throw a dart at a map, and go work from wherever it landed for a week, if they chose to.
Earlier this week, bitcoiners found themselves on a wild single-day ride.
Were TikTok and LinkedIn to attend the same party, you’d assume they’d spend the evening avoiding each other. The former is perceived as jokey and inconsequential, though filled with a joie de vivre, while the latter is seen as serene and unfailingly earnest.
Although Airbnb suffered an 80% drop-off in bookings when the pandemic was declared last year, it eventually found a new class of customers in, among other groups, formerly deskbound workers—some with children studying online—all developing cabin fever as they toiled from home. Data soon showed people were booking longer stays.
I’ll never forget the day I accidentally caused a bomb scare at work.
The enormity of the Covid-19 crisis in India may be impossible to fully comprehend from afar, but images of mass cremations and grief-stricken families, and stories of people fruitlessly searching for oxygen, hospital beds, and medications to save infected loved ones are heart-wrenching.
Joe Biden wants to change the script on paid parental leave in the US.
