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Home Improvement | Household Tips & DIY
18 Products To Solve All Your Little Annoyances At Work
Okay, *most* annoyances. You're stuck with Kevin from accounting.
Business & Finance | Career Advice
Eight avoidable mistakes that make good employees leave — Quartz at Work
It’s tough to hold onto good employees, but it shouldn’t be.
Business & Finance | BUSINESS
How To Say No In A Room Full Of Yeses
So, as we begin 2019, make a pact with yourself. Trust your gut this year. Always. Make it a habit. If something feels wrong, it probably is.
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.
Business & Finance | Careers & The Workplace
Does My Employer Have to Give Me Paid Time Off to Vote?
It depends where you live.
Business & Finance | Careers & The Workplace
These 15 Behaviors Will Make You Almost Irreplaceable At Your Workplace
It doesn’t take a genius manager to recognize the almost irreplaceable people in his company. Employees who practice all or most of these behaviors are the ones that any company wants and can't afford to lose.
Business & Finance | Careers & The Workplace
Want Your Colleague to Answer Your Email? Don’t Use These Phrases
Not sure if you saw our last article, but ...
Science & Technology | Tech
Facebook launches Workplace for Good, a free version of its enterprise product for non-profits | TechCrunch
Workplace is making a push into the non-profit segment. Today the enterprise communications app from Facebook — which competes against the likes of Slack, Hipchat, and Microsoft’s Teams — is launching a new tier of the product called Workplace for
Science & Technology | Social Media
How Social Media Actually Boosts Efficiency in an Office Environment – Adweek
Employees who take quick breaks can decrease stress and increase morale.
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
Business & Finance | Careers & The Workplace
6 Ways to Manage Employees' Bad Habits
From showing up 10 minutes late, to wasting 10 minutes on Facebook, these responses will help keep your team in line.
Business & Finance | Careers & The Workplace
Why Do Women Bully Each Other at Work?
Research suggests that conditions in the workplace might be to blame.
Pets & Animals | Pets & Animals
Amazon's pro-dog strategy puts other companies to shame | Ladders
Amazon's huge new dog park at The Spheres shows companies can be pet-friendly even outside their walls.
Business & Finance | Careers & The Workplace
5 Reasons People Share Way Too Many Details of Their Personal Lives | Inc.com
Oversharers insist on telling you more than you want to hear.
Business & Finance | Careers & The Workplace
How I Got Interviews at Facebook, Google, Apple, and Uber in One Week | Inc.com
There are 5 steps to getting anywhere you want
Business & Finance | Careers & The Workplace
Working Remotely Makes You Happier and More Productive
Remote workers also feel more appreciated.
Health & Fitness | Wheels
This is a bike-lovers dream office to work in | CONTEMPORIST
When SRAM Corporation, a global bicycle component manufacturer, wanted to create a new headquarters, they turned to Perkins+Wills for the design.
Business & Finance | Careers & The Workplace
5 Things HR Wishes You Knew About Salary Negotiation | Money.com
Become a master in stating the obvious.
Business & Finance | Business & Finance
10 Workplace Trends That Will Change the Way You Manage | Inc.com
New year, new trends to familiarize yourself with.
Entertainment | Branding/Advertising
After Years Away, Some People Struggle in Their Return to Agency Jobs | Adweek
Sue Vering was an associate creative director at DDB Chicago when she left in 1998, ultimately taking seven years off from the ad business to raise her daughter, get involved in community activities and write freelance features for the Chicago Tribune.
Business & Finance | Careers & The Workplace
How to stop a colleague from taking credit for your work - Fortune
Is a coworker taking credit for your good work? The real question may turn out to be whether you're working for the wrong boss.
Psychology | Relationships
In Two-Career Marriages, Women Still Do More of the Work at Home
Even though today’s husbands pitch in more than ever, the division of labor is far from equal.
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.
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.
Business & Finance | Careers & The Workplace
Being Laid Off Hurts, But It's Not the End of the World | Emma Goddard
It took me longer to find a job than it did to hold one. That was the first thought I had when I learned my company decided to shut down U.S. operations just six months after I started my first full-time position.
Business & Finance | Business & Finance
Overcoming Burnout: Five Ways To Get Back On Track At Work
Burnout is a chronic, psychological condition characterized by exhaustion, cynicism and a lack of professional efficacy. If you feel like you’re on the path to burnout, here are five ways to get back on track, according to Chris Ebberwein, Ph.D., and Ch
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:
Miscellaneous | Guy Stuff
Dressing Up the Brain: Wearing a Suit Makes You Think Differently - The Atlantic
Some psychology research in recent years is making an old aphorism look like an incomplete thought: Clothes make the man… Yes? Go on? Clothes, it appears, make the man perceive the world differently.
Business & Finance | Business
11 Things We No Longer See in Offices
When digging through the dark recesses of the office supply cabinet, today’s average office worker might find a 5¼” floppy disk and consider it a relic of the Dark Ages. They’ve probably also never seen a canister-style ashtray in the corridor, or a pegboard bookkeeping system. Here are some other supplies and equipment that are quickly becoming museum pieces.
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
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.
Business & Finance | Careers & The Workplace
The Ideal Work Schedule, as Determined by Circadian Rhythms
Humans have a well-defined internal clock that shapes our energy levels throughout the day: our circadian process, which is often referred to as a circadian rhythm because it tends to be very regular. If you’ve ever had jetlag, then you know how persistent circadian rhythms can be. This natural — and hardwired — ebb and flow in our ability to feel alert or sleepy has important implications for you and your employees.
Miscellaneous | Other Stuff!
The Surprising Reason Men Are Snagging the Jobs You Want
The job-search-in-January phenomenon is a totally real thing. Everyone does it. Blame it on the holidays giving you extra time to think or on New Year's Eve prompting life-improvement resolutions, but come early 2015, the market will be flooded with candidates on the
Humor | Funny Stuff
12 Hilarious Passive-Aggressive Notes in the Workplace - T-Rex Taunting
The best way to handle a work problem is to discuss it directly. Unless you don't wanna. - T-Rex Taunting #office, #workplace, #notes, #passive aggressive, #work
Business & Finance | Business
Slack is Valued at $1 billion - How messaging services are ruling offices - Esquire
The internal messaging service Slack is now valued at $1 billion. What does that mean for the future of office communication?
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.
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 | Careers & The Workplace
My coworkers made me use Mac OS 9 for their (and your) amusement | Ars Technica
If you want to appreciate the present, try living in the past for a few days.
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
Business & Finance | Careers & The Workplace
Starting a Business: The Idea Phase
You know you want to start a business, but what do you do next? Here's how to find the perfect idea for your business.
Business & Finance | Business
Can't Stand Meetings? Try Taking Away The Chairs
Those who stood at meetings said they felt their colleagues were more open to their ideas, less territorial, and overall, did better collaborative work, researchers found.
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.
Politics | From the HuffPost
Sweden To Experiment With Six-Hour Workday
A few lucky workers in Gothenburg, Sweden, will scale back to a six-hour workday this summer as part of an unusual government experiment. The test group of government workers will work a six-hour day beginning July 1, while a second control group...
Advice & Self-Help | Advice & Self-Help!
10 Ways To Ban Busy (And Still Get Stuff Done)
Our words matter. How we describe our days and our lives impacts our perception of them. When we are
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...
