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Richard Branson believes the key to success is a three-day workweek
Billionaire Richard Branson is pushing business leaders to embrace the idea of flexible work arrangements, claiming that with today's cutting-edge technology, there is no reason people can't work less hours and be equally — if not more — effective. Hard work is key, but enjoying what you do and having fun is just as crucial, said the adventurous, fun-loving founder of Virgin. In his international best seller "The Virgin Way: If It's Not Fun, It's Not Worth Doing," he wrote that "fun is one of the most important — and underrated — ingredients in any successful venture."
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Jack Kirby Interview
From The Comics Journal #134, February 1990.
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High score, low pay: why the gig economy loves gamification
Using ratings, competitions and bonuses to incentivise workers isn’t new – but as I found when I became a Lyft driver, the gig economy is taking it to another level. By Sarah Mason.
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How Flight Attendants Organized Against Their Bosses to End 'Swinging Stewardesses' Stereotyping
“Think of her as your mother.” By Gillian A Frank, Lauren Gutterman.
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The Concept Creep of ‘Emotional Labor’
The term has become a central part of an important conversation about the division of household work. But the sociologist who coined it says it’s being used incorrectly. By Julie Beck, with Arlie Hochschild.
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The Fall of Night
What happens after the sun goes down. By Anne Boyer.
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Burnout, stress lead more companies to try a four-day work week
Work four days a week, but get paid for five? It sounds too good to be true, but companies around the world that have cut their work week have found that it leads to higher productivity, more motivated staff and less burnout. “It is much healthier and we do a better job if we’re not working crazy hours,” said Jan Schulz-Hofen, founder of Berlin-based project management software company Planio, who introduced a four-day week to the company’s 10-member staff earlier this year.
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My friend's boss goes around every Christmas dressed like Santa and gives each employee a ham
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The Next Big Blue-Collar Job Is Coding
What if we regarded code not as a high-stakes, sexy affair, but the equivalent of skilled work at a Chrysler plant?
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The Truth About the Gig Economy
The workforce is getting Uberized. The gig economy is taking over the world. Independent contractor jobs are the new normal. In the post-recession years, this became conventional wisdom, as more and more Americans took jobs—well, “jobs”—with companies like Postmates, Fiverr, TaskRabbit, and Lyft. But the gig economy was then and is now a more marginal phenomenon than it might have seemed.
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Game developers need to unionize
A union can work in this business, and other industries have proven it. By Tim Colwill.
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Office Space turns 20: How the film changed the way we work
In 1999, the film masterfully spoofed how office life could be simultaneously mundane and ridiculous. What's different today?
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Workplace Blues? Here's How to Get Out of Your Slump!
Gotta case of the Mondays? We all suffer from this on occasion, but once it starts to turn into terrible Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays, and Fridays, it’s time to take notice! It’s completely normal to get into a slump occasionally at work; whether the blues be weather-related, a distraction coming from your personal life, or just plain boredom! Lucky for you, we have come up with the antidote to get rid of this productivity killing “disease”. Follow these simple steps and you’ll turn your workplace blues into workday “woo-hoos”!
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Only six countries in the world give women and men equal legal work rights
Sweden and France among states found by the World Bank to enshrine gender equality in laws, but implementation haphazard
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Workism Is Making Americans Miserable
For the college-educated elite, work has morphed into a religious identity—promising transcendence and community, but failing to deliver.
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5 Ways Open-Plan Offices Reduce Collaboration
There's no doubt about it: Open-plan offices are the worst office productivity disaster of all time. They create distractions, spread illness, discourage diversity, and promote sexism. Those problems, however, were supposedly justified because open-plan offices promote "collaboration." While the term "collaboration" is corporate-speak rather than science, when it's applied to open-plan offices, it's usually described as "creating a relaxed, open environment where spontaneous conversations will spark innovation and creativity."
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She Was Given a Deadline, but Married on Her Own Terms
When Melissa Marti saw the email that caused her to sit in her driveway sobbing into her steering wheel, she knew she was going marry Seth Visser. She just didn’t know when. “We had been talking about it for years — we had even started making plans,” said Ms. Marti, who is from New Ulm, Minn.
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I Used to Argue for UBI. Then I gave a talk at Uber
Whether its proponents are cynical or simply naive, UBI is not the patch we need. A weekly handout doesn’t promote economic equality - or empowerment. By Douglas Rushkoff.
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What will the world of work look like in 2035?
Most of us have heard the stories: the Oxford University study that claims that 35% of jobs will be lost to automation, or the wild-eyed hyper-utopians who claim that a new era of bio-communism will inexorably emerge from the age of machine learning. Such visions, at times, alarm and may even excite. But they are shallow visions; invariably either focussed through the narrow lens of job losses to automation, or else speculating wildly based on precious little evidence, they offer little that is useful to the debate on the human and cultural phenomenon that is the future of work.
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Public speaking masterclass: Everything in moderation
You’ve been asked to moderate a panel… what now?
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