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61% of women believe that being excluded at work is a form of bullying
What to do if you’re being excluded in the office
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Long days, heavy loads: what the best boy does on a film set
If you have ever watched a film's closing credits and wondered what a "best boy" does, asking a gaffer is a good place to start.
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Opinion: Automation is likely to eliminate nearly half our jobs in the next 25 years. Here's what to do
A recent study from Oxford University estimated that as many as 47% of the jobs in developed nations will vanish in the next 25 years as a result of automation. These losses will be in both white- and blue-collar jobs. As a nation, we are completely unprepared for the upheaval this will create.
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History of the two-day weekend offers lessons for today's calls for a four-day week
The idea of reducing the working week from an average of five days to four is gaining traction around the world. Businesses and politicians have been considering a switch to fewer, but more productive hours spent working. But the idea has also been derided. As a historian of leisure, it strikes me that there are a number of parallels between debates today and those that took place in the 19th century when the weekend as we now know it was first introduced. Having Saturdays as well as Sundays off work is actually a relatively modern phenomenon.
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Many millennials are worse off than their parents -- a first in American history
On paper, it looks like Scott Larsen is doing better than his father was at the same age. At 29, Larsen has a college degree and earns more money, but he doesn't feel he's moving up in the world. When his father, Craig, was 29, he was already married, owned a home in Payson, Utah, and had two of his five children. Now 64, Craig Larsen worked as a mechanical engineer, earning about $20,000 a year at the time, or about $50,500 in today's dollars, even though he hadn't finished college. His wife, Kathy, was a stay-at-home mom.
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Online Proofreading Jobs for Flexible Home-Based Work
If you’ve been looking for a work from home opportunity, yet can’t seem to find something that fits your capabilities and schedule, then you may not have considered online proofreading. If you have a keen eye for the details and can spot the errors when you’re reading a blog post or book, then you’re likely to have the necessary skills to make a decent income as a proofreader. What is Proofreading? In simple terms, proofreading is the review or checking of documents for spelling, punctuation, and grammar errors. A proofreader is required to sift articles, documents, and other written materials
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Rise of Monochromatic Themes in Office Spaces
One of 2020's hottest office design trends, monochromatic design creates a look that's elegant, clean, and cohesive without removing comfort or approachability.
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Coronavirus really is that bad and you should work from home
Is coronavirus really that much worse than the flu? Yes, it is, and if the past is any guide, staying at home will help keep it from spreading.
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How to survive and thrive while working from home
Quarantine means more people are working from home. If that’s new to you, just follow these tips, and you should do OK. Heck, you may even find that you like it.
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How to avoid the time-suck of social networks while working at home
Stuck at home thanks to the coronavirus and can't keep away from Facebook, Twitter, Slack, and the like? Here's how to run them so they don't ruin your life.
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Pet the cat, own the bathrobe: Linus Torvalds on working from home
Linus Torvalds created Linux and Git from home. Here's how.
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Zoom safely: How to password-protect your meetings
It's very easy to set up a Zoom video conference, but, by default, it's also easy for hostile strangers to break into your meeting. Here's how to stop them.
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The dark shadow in the injunction to ‘do what you love’ – Kira Lussier
Why do we work? Many of us might give a simple transactional answer to the question: we work in order to make money. For the American psychologist Abraham Maslow (1908-70), and the management thinkers inspired by his theory of motivation, people’s motives for working could not be reduced to a paycheck. Instead, Maslow and his followers argued in management texts and training seminars that people work to fulfil higher psychological needs. People work to become self-actualised and to find meaning – provided that meaning can be found in the mundane realities of working life.
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Making Remote Work a Success in the times of COVID-19
The news these days is overwhelmingly loaded with something or the other about COVID-19 or the coronavirus. Aside from the continual updates on the spread of the disease and the mortalities, there is news about cities being shut down, panic buying of essentials and not-so-essentials, and overloaded treatment and quarantine centers, among others. Employers are preparing themselves for possible disruptions – such as labor shortages, transportation issues, reduced working hours and low consumer traffic – that could have long-term effects on business.
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LinkedIn CEO Gives The Best Work From Home Advice
The Chief Executive Officer of LinkedIn, Jeff Weiner has shared his advice about utilizing the free time for work from home effectively. He always advocates for maximum productivity and has suggested a new approach related to buffer time.
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Google expects its staff to work from home until 2021 and it's not alone
So, you expect life and work to be back to normal soon? Google and many other companies don't. Many of you now working from home may never go back to the office.
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Death of the office
As the pandemic leaves offices around the world empty, Catherine Nixey asks what was the point of them anyway?
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Leaders Are Crying on the Job. Maybe That’s a Good Thing.
Politicians. Chief executives. Newscasters. In the pandemic, the old rules of who is allowed to cry in public are changing.
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A Pandemic Won’t Kill the Open Office, but Slack Could
Taking down walls made modern offices cheaper, infuriating, and perfect vectors for viral spread. But as a recession looms, they still may not be going anywhere.
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The time is right to reclaim the utopian ideas of Keynes – John Quiggin
Ifirst became an economist in the early 1970s, at a time when revolutionary change still seemed like an imminent possibility and when utopian ideas were everywhere, exemplified by the Situationist slogan of 1968: ‘Be realistic. Demand the impossible.’ Preferring to think in terms of the possible I was much influenced by an essay called ‘Economic Possibilities for our Grandchildren,’ written in 1930 by John Maynard Keynes, the great economist whose ideas still dominated economic policymaking at the time.
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