One thing becomes apparent after the honeymoon of a newly-launched career is over: Your employer--whether it’s a scrappy startup or a massive multi-million dollar company--is not your friend. You are a resource. That means the only one you can trust, really, is you. Here's how to keep a cool head and stay in control of your career.

In our fast-paced digital economy, time goes by at the speed of your bandwidth. Balancing competing priorities at home and at work can make it easy to fall behind on crucial job responsibilities and leave you with almost no time to devote to your family and friends. Sometimes everyone needs to reorder priorities and take advantage of tried and true time saving strategies to help stay afloat while meeting multiple deadlines.

In 1975 Susan Sontag, the American intellectual famous for On Photography and Against Interpretation, was diagnosed with Stage 4 breast cancer and survived after a radical mastectomy, extensive radiation treatments, and thirty months of debilitating chemotherapy. In the aftermath she needed someone to help her catch up on her correspondence. Her editors at the New York Review of Books recommended a former Review assistant named Sigrid Nunez, who lived near Sontag on the Upper West Side...

A year ago, my boss announced that our large New York ad agency would be moving to an open office. After nine years as a senior writer, I was forced to trade in my private office for a seat at a long, shared table. It felt like my boss had ripped off my clothes and left me standing in my skivvies.

James Dyson shifts in his seat and laughs awkwardly as his flow of thought hits a tricky obstacle. “God, this is difficult,” he mutters. One of his grandsons called the digital electric motor in Dyson’s new 360 Eye robot vacuum cleaner “the brain” and his own motor whirrs away silently as he analyses the question.

DevOps is a hot field and there are plenty of opportunities out there—but not all DevOps jobs and departments are created equal. At Incapsula, we work closely with DevOps teams responsible for the security, speed, and availability of our clients’ websites and SaaS applications. In daily dealings with these professionals, we noticed that “DevOps” means different things to different people—and that major variations exist in job titles and functions across organizations.

At the end of last October, IT employees at Walt Disney Parks and Resorts were called, one-by-one, into conference rooms to receive notice of their layoffs.

Using the hashtag #talkpay, people are tweeting about how much money they make—a radical thing to do in a culture that treats disclosing your salary as the ultimate taboo.

The phrase “nine to five” is becoming an anachronism. About half of all managers work more than 40 hours a week, according to a new survey from tax and consulting firm EY, and 39% report that their hours have increased in the past five years. Little wonder, then, that one-third of workers say it’s getting more difficult to balance work and life.

Learn the ways how businesses and other staff members cope up when someone leave the company.

Learn the reasons why women are much better programmers than men as far as information technology is concern.

Hopes&Fears asked a friend to make all of his decisions based on a flip of a coin for a day. This is his story.

It's no secret that Congress is dominated by men, but as women work to make inroads in the congressional boys club, some female staffers face a huge impediment to moving up: They're not allowed to spend one-on-one time with their male bosses. In an anonymous survey of female staffers conducted by National Journal in order to gather information on the difficulties they face in a male-dominated industry, several female aides reported that...

The days of retiring peacefully and financially secure are close to being over. Get ready for a lot more seniors in the work force—which has the potential to be both a problem and an opportunity.

How self-checkouts, ATMs and airport check-ins are changing our economy.

At a time when 8.5 million Americans still don't have jobs, some 40 percent have given up even looking.

In his new book The Alliance, Reid Hoffman argues that the relationship between employers and employees is built on "a dishonest conversation." Hoffman would know. As co-founder and executive chairman of LinkedIn, he sits atop the largest, most data-rich hiring platform the world has ever seen. As a venture capitalist who made early investments in everything from Facebook to Airbnb, he's helped some of the era's most successful companies grow.

Japan wants its workers to take more holidays and work fewer hours to cut down the number of people pushing themselves into an early grave. Decades after "karoshi," death from overwork, entered the Japanese lexicon, the government is still battling to get control of the problem. Leave entitlements and national holidays have increased, but the Japanese still shun vacations and the number of work-related suicides is little changed over the past decade.

With some dog walkers now paid more than the average employee, it’s clear the days when pay was linked to effort, skill and the societal worth of a job are over

While Europe battles long-term unemployment, some people have grown so restless that they've started working fake jobs at fake companies all around the continent. The New York Times' Liz Alderman reports that thousands of fake companies across Europe hire fake employees to sell fake products to fake customers. Products like perfume, porcelain, and exotic pets.