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5:01 and Done: No One Wants to Schmooze After Work

Office happy hours, client dinners and other after-hours work gatherings lose their luster as more people feel the pull of home.

Advice & Self-Help | Advice & Self-Help

Work Junky? Unable to Disconnect on Vacation? | Workplace Coach Blog

Work junky? Unable to disconnect while on vacation? But do you want to disconnect? Does anyone anymore? If you do, here's how.

Advice & Self-Help | Advice & Self-Help

What To Do After Work To Reset Your Mind and Body

A long day of working at a desk can leave you feeling sluggish. Here's what to do after work to reset and refresh ahead of your evening.

Miscellaneous | Interesting Links

Have Your Weekends Disappeared? | Workplace Coach Blog

Have you lost your weekends? Do you want them back? Try these 5 strategies and enjoy your weekends again.

Psychology | Personality

The Right Not to Be Fun at Work | The New Yorker

In a win for workplace dignity, a French high court recently decreed that businesses cannot force their employees to participate in supposedly enjoyable activities.

Psychology | Personality

5 Ways to Boost Your Self-Confidence at Work

Being kind to yourself and connecting with people who value you will do wonders for your self-esteem.

Advice & Self-Help | Advice & Self-Help

Your Work Honeymoon is Over; What Now? | Workplace Coach Blog

When your job honeymoon is over; here's why it happens and here's what you and your employer can do

Humor | Humor

Sharpened My Focus

The Official Dilbert Website featuring Scott Adams Dilbert strips, animation, mashups and more starring Dilbert, Dogbert, Wally, The Pointy Haired Boss, Alice, Asok, Dogberts New Ruling Class and more.

News | News

Why Our Self-Imposed High Gas Prices Are A Direct Threat To The People

Today the national average for gasoline hit $5 per gallon, translating to $65–$80 a fill-up for the average car. If you still need to be convinced that the pain you are feeling at the gas pump isn’t self-inflicted, courtesy of the Green Movement and t

Advice & Self-Help | Advice & Self-Help

Manager Traits That Have Negatively Impacted Our Workplace Culture

With managers playing a key role in the Great Resignation, it is an important reminder that the people we work with can affect our well-being.

Business & Finance | Business & Finance

5 Tips for Working from Anywhere

Want to know what it takes to run a fully-remote business? Consider these tips from two founders who work remotely from trailers.

Miscellaneous | Interesting & Helpful Information

The Future of Work: Shorter Hours, Longer Careers - The Atlantic

Humans may soon live to be 100, which likely means more years on the job. That could be a good thing, if we take the opportunity to redesign work.

Psychology | Health & Wellbeing

Why mental health breaks are so important when working from home

As we enter a new year of working from home, we explore why mental health breaks during the working day are more important now than ever.

News | News

Israel keeps helping Palestinian workers, the haters don’t know what to do

Israel keeps helping Palestinian workers, the haters don’t know what to do ElderofZiyon In late October, Israel announced that it would add another 3000 work permits for Gazans to work in Israel, making a total of 10,000 workers who will have such p

Advice & Self-Help | Advice & Self-Help

How to Cope With the “Start-of-Workday” Blues

When you shift your perspective, you can begin the day on a positive note.

Psychology | Psychology

Why 'revenge bedtime procrastination" is linked to control at work

Bedtime procrastination is something overloaded workers all over the world are familiar with, even though they know it’s bad for them. But why exactly do we do it — and how can we stop?

Advice & Self-Help | Advice & Self-Help

Focus Ι Discover 7 Reasons why you are distracted

The ability to focus has become a skill set. Here are 7 reasons why you can't focus. Find the key to realizing your true potential.

Business & Finance | Careers & The Workplace

Microsoft told employees to work from home. One consequence was brutal

Many people think they have a good idea of what working from home now means. At Microsoft, however, they've studied it. And it makes for sobering reading.

Business & Finance | Careers & The Workplace

8 ways to bring your employees back to work

Guidelines to keep your company healthy and strong while transitioning back to the office and navigating the inevitable changes in your team culture.

Business & Finance | Business

15 Things I’ve Learned After Weeks of Working From Home

There’s virtue to be found within four walls. Ho-hum activities are now the highlights of the week, and a fastidious routine helps me find solid ground.

Miscellaneous | Interesting Stuff

The Office As We Knew It Isn't Coming Back Anytime Soon : NPR

In webinars and conference calls, business leaders and management strategists are discussing what steps must be taken to bring workers back to America's offices. The bar is likely to be high.

Health & Fitness | Health & Fitness

Know People Who Brag About Being Too Busy to Get Enough Sleep? Science Says They Might as Well Say They Came to Work Drunk

While for some not getting enough sleep is like a status symbol, research shows it symbolizes something else entirely.

Miscellaneous | Interesting & Helpful Information

Honing What You Love to Do Will Give You a Chance to Succeed at Work

“People often succeed because they have a set of various skills that don’t normally go together.”

Advice & Self-Help | Advice & Self-Help!

Is Thinking About Work Keeping You Up Late at Night? Here Are 4 Proven Ways to Get the Sleep You Deserve

According to a 2018 Korn Ferry study, stress causes sleep deprivation for 66 percent of American workers.

Psychology | Health & Wellbeing

15 Creative Ways to Move Your Body When You Don’t Have Time to Go to the Gym

These strategies will help you live a more active lifestyle when you have a busy schedule.

Business & Finance | Career Advice

Being Busy Is Eliminating the Joys of Shared Free Time - The Atlantic

Our unpredictable and overburdened schedules are taking a dire toll on American society.

Miscellaneous | Interesting Links

New Study Reveals Why Working from Home Makes Workers More Productive

How do virtual and in-office workers differ? It might surprise you.

Advice & Self-Help | Meditation and Other Practices

Some ways to increase productivity!

Your desk doesn’t need to look the same as everyone else’s to mean you’re organized.

Advice & Self-Help | Meditation and Other Practices

It Takes More Than Vacation to Cure Day to Day Burnout

Research shows that the psychological benefits of vacation tend to fade away fast.

Psychology | Psychology & Psychological Research

Survey: Average Person Has Just 4 Hours, 26 Minutes Of Free Time Per Week! - Study Finds

How much free time do you get to enjoy each week? If you're like the most people, it's hardly enough to even be excited about. A new survey finds that the average American logs just four hours and 26 minutes of time to themselves in a given week.

Psychology | Personality

These Thinking Patterns May Be Holding You Back from Success at Work

A psychologist suggests how to find the cognitive distortions dragging us down, and adjust our narratives accordingly.

Health & Fitness | Psychology

Stanford study: Long hours don't make you more productive

When it comes to your workday, less is more...but that can be a challenge for many. The constant chase can make even the most seasoned executives feel overwhelmed, and as a result, they work longer hours. But one Stanford researcher argues that longer hou

Advice & Self-Help | Meditation and Other Practices

Listening To Music While Doing Work 'Significantly Impairs' Creativity, Study Finds

Listening to your favorite band while chipping away at a presentation for work or your memoir may not lead to your best stuff. While it's often thought that having background music on actually boosts creativity, a new study finds that it actually can do j

Health & Fitness | Sleep

How Your Sleep Can Impact Distraction Levels | Psychology Today

There are countless distractions challenging us in modern life. Your sleep habits can make it better—or worse.

Advice & Self-Help | Meditation and Other Practices

Why active listening will fix all your work problems

I want to convince you that creating a culture with active listening on its list of core values will benefit your team – and organization – in huge ways.

Psychology | Health & Wellbeing

Study: Taking The Scenic Route To Work Every Day Improves Mental Health - Study Finds

Taking the scenic route to work every day may do wonders for your mood at the office. That's because a new study finds that people whose commutes to work take them through wooded areas, parks, or other natural settings are more likely to demonstrate stron

Psychology | Personality

The 3 Qualities of a Successful Leader - Mindful

Based on extensive research, Rasmus Hougaard and Jacqueline Carter reveal the three qualities present in the minds of great leaders.

Miscellaneous | Chicagoey Stuff

Meet the table busser who’s worked at the same Wilmette pancake house for 54 years - Chicago Tribune

Profile of Othea Loggan, who is 72 and started working at Walker Bros. Pancake House in 1964. He began as a busboy. Fifty-four years later he is still there.

Advice & Self-Help | Meditation and Other Practices

The Thrill Is Gone. Now What? | Thrive Global

Here's what you can do to beat burnout and regain the thrill of starting a new project.

Business & Finance | Careers & The Workplace

The Moment I Realized I Was Working For An Idiot

All of a sudden, one day in the department's staff meeting, Jack realized he was working for a boss who didn't even slightly deserve his talents. Has it ever happened to you?

Science & Technology | Technology

How to become a developer: A cheat sheet - TechRepublic

If you are interested in pursuing a career in development and don't know where to start, here's your go-to guide for salaries, skills, and the best programming languages to learn.

Psychology | Personality

What Are Sunday Scaries? And How Can You Handle Them?

We sat down with Megan Murk, a National Board Certified Health and Wellness Coach, to learn simple ways to manage the Sunday Scaries at home.

Advice & Self-Help | advice and self help

Not Everyone Should Go to College - WSJ

Vocational education won’t succeed so long as society consigns it to second-class status.

Business & Finance | Careers & The Workplace

Is It Safe To Give Two Weeks Notice When I Quit?

Years ago we wouldn't think twice about giving two weeks notice when we were ready to leave a job. It was expected. Nowadays it's not always a good idea to give two weeks notice -- here's why!

Miscellaneous | Interesting Stuff

I'm British, and I experienced the biggest culture shock when I started working in the US

The UK and the US are not all that different. But as a British person living and working in America, I experienced a huge culture shock at work.

Politics | Politics

Survey Finds Conservatives Out of Place in Silicon Valley

Online poll adds to concerns that political divisions are affecting tech workplaces.

Business & Finance | Careers & The Workplace

I Asked 5,000 People How They Stay Passionate at Work. Here's What I Found

How do you stay passionate at work? Morten T. Hansen details findings in his new book 'Great at Work.'

Business & Finance | Careers & The Workplace

Open plan offices make employees miserable and distracted | Metro News

Open plan offices make employees miserable and distracted

Home Improvement | Products & Services

Bed Bug Traps Do They Work

Book bed bug control in Bolton at the first sign of an invasion. Call 24/7 on 01204 319 027 for quotes on two step bed bug treatment for homes or hotels.

Advice & Self-Help | Advice & Self-Help

5 Strategies to Make Yourself Work When You're Just Not in the Mood

Fighting procrastination teaches us to fully engage in our work, get more creative with it, and, ultimately, get more done.

Science & Technology | Technology

Cybersecurity Supply And Demand Heat Map

A granular snapshot of demand and supply data for cybersecurity jobs at the state and metro area levels

Advice & Self-Help | Advice & Self-Help

Smart weekend rituals to make your workweek less anxious | Ladders

Here are a few things you can do this weekend to get ahead before Monday comes around.

Business & Finance | Business

How to Make Your Business Fully Remote in 7 Steps

Converting a traditional business to one that's fully remote can be intimidating. But take things one step at a time and you'll pull it off.

Business & Finance | Business

7 Things You Must Do Before Quitting Your Job or You're Screwed

Leaving your job to become your own boss without going broke requires setting the groundwork just right. Few people do.

Business & Finance | Careers & The Workplace

What Makes People Feel Upbeat at Work - The New Yorker

Maria Konnikova writes about how to create a positive work environment. Research shows that it involves not telling people to be positive.

Psychology | Health & Wellbeing

The Incalculable Value of Finding a Job You Love

To be happy, research suggests, earning a high salary isn’t enough. Once you have met your basic needs, satisfaction comes from developing an expertise.

News | News Items

French Legislation Suggests Employees Deserve The Right To Disconnect

The provision aims to tackle work-related burnout.

Business & Finance | Careers & The Workplace

The 50 Best Places to Work in 2016 | Inc.com

The 50 companies on our inaugural roster show you how to create a culture to find and keep the very best employees.

Advice & Self-Help | Advice & Self-Help!

What Happens When People Reveal Their Mental Illness to Their Boss?

This is the second part in a series about revealing mental illness at the workplace. The first part, "

Health & Fitness | Psychology!

Why ' Work-Life Balance' Talk Might Make Us More Stressed Out

Do you snicker when you hear the term “work-life balance?” As if. That elusive Zen zone can provoke anxiety, especially to those of us whose perfectionism tells us if we try harder, we’ll find it.

Advice & Self-Help | Empowering Tools for Growth

Resume Writing Tips | Resume Advice

Lying on your resume is not an uncommon practice, but that doesn't mean it's the right thing to do. Here are 6 tips for grabbing attention without stretching the truth.

Miscellaneous | Interesting & Helpful Information

How to Stop Procrastinating by Using the “Seinfeld Strategy”

Want to learn how to stop procrastinating? Read this article to discover the best productivity tips of comedian Jerry Seinfeld.

Miscellaneous | Interesting & Helpful Information

A Strong Personal Brand Will Enhance Your Life, No Matter What You Do for a Living

The sooner you take control of how you define yourself, the sooner you can get on with achieving the most important goals in your life.

Miscellaneous | Interesting & Helpful Information

How to Answer the Salary Question During a Job Interview

Your starting salary sets the bar for your future earnings, from overtime to raises and promotions, so it's important to get it right.

Business & Finance | Careers & The Workplace

18 Unprofessional habits that could cost you your job - Business Insider

Your bad workplace habits will undoubtedly annoy your boss. Worse yet, they could get you fired.

Business & Finance | Abundance

Hired - Job Search Marketplace. Job Hunting Simplified!

With Hired your job search has never been easier! Simply create a profile & vetted companies compete for you, reaching out with salary & equity upfront.

Business & Finance | Business

This Steve Jobs quote perfectly sums up the difference between billionaires and the rest of us - Yahoo Finance

From Yahoo Finance: Rich people think differently than the average person, and Apple cofounder Steve Jobs, who died...

Miscellaneous | Interesting & Helpful Information

12 Work Hacks To Keep You Sharp And Focused Throughout The Day

Miscellaneous | Interesting Links

Fighting the Holiday Slump: 5 Ways to Stay Focused

From shopping stress to holiday fatigue, there are many reasons why work productivity goes down during the holiday season. These five ideas can help you stay focused-and happy-at the office.

Business & Finance | Careers & The Workplace

Before You Quit Your Job, Try These 10 Strategies

Got a case of the Mondays every day? You can always quit your job -- but first, try these strategies to make work more enjoyable or earn more money.

Business & Finance | Careers & The Workplace

21 signs you're about to be fired

Most people are at least somewhat surprised when they hear the words "you're fired." Some are even shocked.

Miscellaneous | Interesting

Do what you love says Donald Trump

Donald J. Trump is the very definition of the American success story, continually setting the standards of excellence in business, real estate and entertainment. Show support for his presidential campaign here.

Business & Finance | Careers & The Workplace

The Art of the Out-of-Office Reply - The New York Times

It’s August, and vacationers’ email auto-responses are coming in left and right. From the poetic missive to a simple “nope,” saying you’re not working has become its own art form.

Health & Fitness | Health & Fitness

Don't Conduct A Job Search, Conduct A Company Search - Forbes

This is probably going to sound like pretty weird career advice, but if you’re looking for a new job, don't conduct a job search. Instead, conduct a company search. Let me explain. The best companies out there, the kinds of organizations you really want

Business & Finance | Business & Finance

Optimism: The Hidden Asset • Six SecondsSix Seconds

Bruna Martinuzzi, a specialist in bringing EQ into leadership, provides a practical view of optimism as a leadership asset. She offers 17 concrete action steps to develop and apply this key competence. The article includes links and references to numerous

Business & Finance | Business & Finance

What's Preventing You From Getting the Job?

The Squires Group staffing firm provide job search advice and discuss what you're doing wrong in your job search, as well as how to correct your mistakes.

Business & Finance | Careers & The Workplace

Making A Case For Joy In Your Job

Must you be unhappy in your job? This isn’t being productive—and it certainly isn’t being happy. It’s just being busy. And being busy hides us from being present.

Advice & Self-Help | Empowering Tools for Growth

How To Figure Out When And What You Need To Delegate

It may seem like it's easier to do things yourself rather than teach someone else, but it's a surefire way to ruin your work environment.

Advice & Self-Help | Advice & Self-Help!

6 Simple Unwind Strategies for Your Journey Home From Work | Amanda Gore

Here's a list of things, that work really well, for you to do once you leave work to unwind before you get home:

Business & Finance | Business & Finance

18 Best Places To Find A Job

Discover the best places to find a job. Recommended by top career bloggers and experts to help people currently searching for a job.

Business & Finance | Business & Finance

Tim Cook tells graduates to find work with meaning - The Washington Post

There are few CEOs leading giant companies today who could say that and still come off as authentic.

Business & Finance | Business

How Successful People Work Less and Get More Done | Inc.com

A new study found that productivity per hour declines sharply when the workweek exceeds 50 hours, and productivity drops off so much after 55 hours that there's no point in working any more. That's right, people who work as much as 70 hours (or more) per week actually get the same amount done as people who work 55 hours.

Advice & Self-Help | Advice & Self-Help!

Ahhh! 6 Ways to Get Better Work-Life Balance

1. Manage yourself.Sufficiently managing oneself can be challenging, particularly in getting proper sleep, exercise and nutrition. Self-management is the recognition that effectively using the spaces in our lives is vital. Energy and time are finite resou

Advice & Self-Help | Advice & Self-Help!

Co-Worker's Bad Mood Getting You Down? Here's What To Do About It

When you're around happy people, you grow happier yourself -- a phenomenon known as emotional contagion, in which you can

Business & Finance | Business

14 Marketing Skills to Add to Your Resume in 2015

Digital marketing moves very quickly, and as a modern marketer, you’re probably gaining new skills by the handful. But what marketing skills capture an employer’s eyes in 2015? What sets their he…

Business & Finance | Careers & The Workplace

10 Mindsets That Will Radically Improve Your Performance | TIME

Success is something all career-driven individuals desire yet it eludes many people — at least at the levels desired. Why are some businesspeople successful and others not?

Business & Finance | Business

Why Did Everyone Stop Taking Real Lunch Breaks?

Coming to terms with the harsh reality of lunch-al-desko. Depending on the day's temporary lunch invasion, I either slide my keyboard a few inches forward or a few to the right—far enough to make room for food, but close enough to still answer emails. On sushi days, I slip a brown napkin under the plastic tub of soy sauce in case of splashback, but most afternoons I just stick to the hot buffet.

Advice & Self-Help | Advice & Self-Help!

Overworked And Overwhelmed? Use These Mindfulness Secrets To Restore Balance In 2015

Stress and burnout are an all-too-frequent condition for executives, and especially for entrepreneurs. According to leadership expert Scott Eblin, a return to mindfulness is the answer.

Business & Finance | Careers & The Workplace

How to (Professionally) Miss a Deadline

It happens to the best of us. Maybe accounting didn’t get you the numbers on time. Maybe the design work you thought would take you four hours is taking more like 14. Maybe Taco...

Business & Finance | Careers & The Workplace

Feel Like an Imposter at Work? You’re Not Alone!

The good news about imposter syndrome is it's entirely in your head. The bad news? It could be interfering with your career. Here's how to overcome it.

Miscellaneous | Miscellaneous Chicago

Crain's Chicago's Coolest Offices of 2014

FCB Chicago and LinkedIn have the coolest office spaces in Chicago, as picked by the editors of Crain's Chicago Business.

Business & Finance | Careers & The Workplace

Highly educated, unemployed and falling behind

In the upside-down, topsy-turvy world of jobs these days, even an advanced degree can't protect some Americans from tumbling down the economic ladder.

Business & Finance | Careers & The Workplace

Americans prefer male bosses, even though women are better for business - Quartz

A new Gallup poll found that American men and women prefer a male boss to a female one. Though the popularity of women bosses has improved since the 1950s, it hasn't changed much in this century. Instead, the number of people who say they prefer men has

Business & Finance | Business

The Much-Maligned Business Plan (and Why You Need One) | Inc.com

Creating a business plan and digging into your numbers can avert a business-threatening shortfall. But the even more exciting thing is that it can also propel you to look for opportunities to grow your company.

Business & Finance | Careers & The Workplace

5 Rules For Surviving Cubicle Life

How to make cubicle life better for everyone: no one envisions a cubicle as the holy grail of places they’d like to spend their waking hours. While you can love your job to the moon and back (well, maybe just to the moon), sometimes the cubicle life can get down right intrusive.

Business & Finance | Careers & The Workplace

80% of Americans took a week's vacation in 1976. Just 56% will in 2014.

In Australia every full time worker is guaranteed four weeks of paid vacation each year. In Japan, it's 10 days. Canada? A minimum of 10 days of paid vacation. Here in the U.S.? Zero.

Business & Finance | Careers & The Workplace

Infographic: Half Of Creative Workers Don't Start Their Jobs Until After 9 A.M.

Lazy! For all our talk about flex time and the freedom (and insanity) the Internet gives us to work at any time of the day, the traditional 9 to 5 workday, with a break at noon, is still going pretty strong

Miscellaneous | Other Stuff

People who doodled were able to remember 29% more information than nondoodlers, a study found

Recent research in neuroscience, psychology and design shows that doodling can help people stay focused, grasp new concepts and retain information.

Miscellaneous | Interesting Links!

Watching TV after work makes you feel 'guilty and like a failure'

You had such good intentions for when you got home from work: go to the gym, call a friend and sort out that paperwork.

Business & Finance | Careers & The Workplace

8 Reasons Why Work Is Sometimes Just Like High School

It's funny, isn’t it? We grow up, leave high school, go onto college, and then join the ranks of other working professionals, but do some ever really graduate emotionally? After a few years in the real world, it becomes clear that the office where you spend your days is just like the educational institution where you spent your teenage years.

Business & Finance | Careers & The Workplace

The Strong Link Between Your Self Image and Business Success.

The vast majority of business people focus on tactics to be successful - strategy, marketing, sales and systems. Yet after doing this religiously for ten years still often complain that they have not achieved what they had hoped. Is there something more t

Business & Finance | Careers & The Workplace

Movies At Work: An Untapped Motivational Method?

It may seem like an excuse to slack off, but showing movies in the office has been proven to boost morale, retention, and productivity.

Miscellaneous | Interesting Links

Looking for Inspiration? Take a Hike.

New research suggests taking a walk can help your brain be more creative and generate new ideas.

Business & Finance | Careers & The Workplace

Failing To Negotiate Your First Salary Could Cost You Half A Million Dollars

Members of Gen Y are missing a huge opportunity to increase their pay: They are not negotiating their first salaries.

Business & Finance | Careers & The Workplace

6 Signs Your Coworker Has A Beef With You And What You Can Do About It

The writing is on the wall: your relationship with your coworker is heading south, fast. Here's how to fix it before things turn completely sour, or...

Business & Finance | Careers & The Workplace

Work Driving You Crazy? Here Are 5 Ways to Keep Your Sanity.

Here are five things you can consider deleting from your daily routine that will make you saner, more productive and more efficient.