Here’s some career advice about how to talk about work-life balance with a prospective employer. What caught our eye (aside from how generally discouraging and depressing it was) were the number of statements that struck us as completely wrong. We’re not talking about wrong in the sense that the WSJ columnist who wrote the piece [...]
Archive for January, 2008
Focus on the Work
First, a big thanks to the growing number of readers who are coming to this site and spending more and more time here. We’re happy to have you. We see this topic as a dialog and your questions, comments and even outright objections are not only welcomed but desired. With that in mind, we’d like [...]
Workplace Rudeness
We were excited to see this University of Florida study, or at least as excited as you can be about a thoughtful, scientific exploration of how people use their power and position in the workplace to take a complete crap on other people’s dignity. The main takeaway from the study is that after being treated [...]
The Hat Factory
We’re not technology people. (We didn’t understand what Drupal was even after we read the Wikipedia entry.) Still, we couldn’t help but geek out a little when we ran across the Hat Factory, a self-described “community office space for geeks and media hackers.” The Hat Factory gives freelancers in San Francisco a place to share [...]
The Workplace Taking Care of You
Thanks very much to Harriet Traxler for the tip on this: Sound the alarm! Microsoft wants to hook you up to your computer to monitor your “heart rate, galvanic skin response, EMG, brain signals, respiration rate, body temperature, facial movements, facial expressions and blood pressure.” And we thought the stress mouse was bad. You can [...]
Left Behind
Change is painful, isn’t it? We’re not surprised at all at the findings in this study. We see it everyday when we speak at companies with traditional work environments. People who have less freedom resent the people who have more. But what interests us about this piece is the paragraph toward the end that proposes [...]
The Stress Mouse
We ran across this recent blog post about a new technology that would help people recognize when they were stressed at the office. We thought this was funny, and perhaps a little chilling, that people would turn to their mouse to tell them they were about to blow a gasket. We have another tool you [...]
Home? Office? Both?
Charming piece by Lisa Takeuchi Cullen, who writes a workplace trend blog for TIME. She talks about the gossip you miss by working at home. (She is also working on her snack-hoarding problem . . . wink.) One thing we’d like to add to the conversation is the following prediction: there will come a time [...]
Managing the Virtual Workforce Part 2:
Exercise Your Technology Savvy
Presented by Jody Thompson
February 23 at 1pm (EST)
