Work

Temporary heresy

Talent is largely a myth

With the amount of conversations, conference talks and hype going on around talent, you would expect people will have an …

Reuters

Managing your boss: adjusting to narcissists, 'ghosts,' gaslighters

Most people think of managing as a top-down process, but you also “manage” your boss, whether you realize it or …

The Wall Street Journal

The New Silicon Valley Perks: Child Care, Financial Planning and Therapy

Instead of using food and foosball tables to keep workers at the office as long as possible, tech companies now seek to offer …

View from Initialized

Post-Pandemic Silicon Valley Isn't A Place

Two-thirds of our portfolio companies will still use an office, but we’ll see a huge step change pre- and …

Harvard Business Review

9 Trends That Will Shape Work in 2021 and Beyond

While enabling employees to work remotely became commonplace across 2020 (and will continue this year and beyond), the next …

The New Republic

The Dream Job That Wasn't

A lighthouse keeper, a deep-ocean researcher, a park ranger, and a “Snoozetern” on the pitfalls of “doing …

Axios

2021 will demand new kinds of video conferencing

Last year entrenched videoconferencing at the center of our work and private lives — but also showed us the limits and …

Marker

Is the Office Dead? Not Exactly

Dropbox, WeWork, and Google all think they have the playbook for the part-time office.

Reddit

What are subtle red flags at a job interview that say "working here would suck"?

• “Well, the overtime isn’t mandatory, but most folks stick around after hours most days.”
• “Yea, …

Sahil Lavingia

No Meetings, No Deadlines, No Full-Time Employees

Today, working at Gumroad resembles working on an open source project like Rails. Except it’s neither open source, nor …

BBC

Four-day week means 'I don't waste holidays on chores'

Many firms are resistant to the idea of a four-day week but the think tank Autonomy, which looks at work-related issues, …

Andrew Montalenti

Work is a Queue of Queues

Do you ever get that feeling like no matter how hard you work, you just can’t keep up?

Deloitte

Deloitte research reveals significant return on investment for workplace mental health programs

Median annual ROI more than double for every dollar spent by companies with programs in place for more than three years.

Axios

Job loss predictions over rising minimum wages haven't come true

Eighteen states rang in 2019 with minimum wage increases — some that will ultimately rise as high as $15 an hour — and so …

Harvard Business Review

How to Recruit More Women to Your Company

To explore this disconnect between the good intentions of leaders and true progress on closing the gender gap, LinkedIn …

The Guardian

Pointless emails: they're not just irritating – they have a massive carbon footprint

More than 64m unnecessary emails are sent in Britain every day. Along with clogging up our inboxes they are also damaging the …

BBC

Pointless work meetings 'really a form of therapy'

Meetings at work should be seen as a form of “therapy” rather than about decision-making, say researchers.

BBC

Why office noise bothers some people more than others

No one likes an office whistler or pen clicker – but for some people, these noises aren’t just a nuisance, …

CityLab

Talent May Be Shifting Away From Superstar Cities

In recent years, America has increasingly been defined by a winner-take-all geography, with coastal superstar cities like New …

Bloomberg

U.S. Workers Show Little Improvement in 21st Century Skills

U.S. workers are failing to improve the skills needed to succeed in an increasingly global economy, according to a government …

The Conversation

The ethics of the 4 day work week. It's not just about the hours

The ethically desirable goals of equality and the realisation of common goods require deeper social changes in the way work …

The New York Times

5-Hour Workdays? 4-Day Workweeks? Yes, Please

Sick of round-the-clock work emails and Slack messages? Here’s some hope.

Harvard Business Review

Why Open Offices Aren't Working — and How to Fix Them

Ethan Bernstein, associate professor at Harvard Business School, studied how coworkers interacted before and after their …

The New York Times

Do-It-Yourself Sabbaticals

Some companies will pay you to go away to keep you employed. People without that lucky perk are ginning up their own — by …

UX Collective

Why We Should Play at Work

Modern society has largely devalued play in the adult world in favor of work, mostly because work is easier to measure for …

World Economic Forum

10 ways to handle toxic people

To deal with toxic people effectively, you need an approach that enables you, across the board, to control what you can and …

Justin Jackson

Out of Office

Often, we don’t make progress because we’re stuck in the regular rut of commuting, working all day, and coming …

OneZero

What a Compulsive Email Habit Does to Your Mind and Relationships

Many psychologists believe that workaholism is literally an addiction, with damaging effects on the workaholic as well as on …

Literary Hub

Why Office Workers Can't Sleep (and Why That's Bad)

Ever since the discovery that light—and particularly blue light—can suppress melatonin and alter the timing of our circadian …