In his classic 19th century short story “Bartleby, the Scrivener: A Story of Wall Street,” Herman Melville captured the perfect storm that erupts when a productivity-minded capitalist brings on a
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In April 2020, many office workers trapped at home were summoned to “virtual happy hours,” complete with mindless games concocted by their employers. No matter if one rarely attended actual
Now that most companies have returned to a semblance of in-person work, including hybrid (on-site and remote) schedules, the problem of political speech—whether in the office, on Zoom calls, or
Very few workers look forward to Monday morning. One type of worker, however, feels exhilarated by the prospect of Monday: the one who’s having an affair with a co-worker. The
Visual Capitalist, an online global forecasting company, recently published its inaugural Generational Power Index (GPI), designed to measure the influence each generation has over society in the United States. To
As the American workforce plods toward 2022 and a hoped-for “return” to some kind of normalcy, employers in virtually every industry are revisiting their paid time-off policies. Especially after the
In the classic novel Crime and Punishment, Fyodor Dostoyevsky lets the nasty villain of his story offer special insight into what makes the urge to compliment their superiors so ubiquitous
David Maltese, a 30-year employee of the New York Giants football team, had an enormous job before he was fired on March 15. He was the video director for the
In a 2018 Business Insider article, “Breadwinning Woman Explains What It’s Like to Out-Earn Husband,” former Silicon Valley sales director Susie Moore noted the irony of women supposedly being embarrassed
What comes to mind when you hear the word “entrepreneur”? For many, that label conjures a vision of someone relatively young (mid-30s to mid-40s), male, white, and high-tech. Such as
Joseph R. Biden turned 78 years old on Nov. 20, exactly two months before being sworn in as president of the United States. Eighty-one million people of all ages voted
In the past 40 years I’ve worked at a very big California law firm (currently 500-plus lawyers), a large Twin Cities law firm (200-plus lawyers), two mid-sized to smaller law
When Eleanor Roosevelt persuaded her husband, President Franklin D. Roosevelt, to encourage factories to open their doors to women in the 1940s, she could not foresee that women would eventually
Among the many startling and depressing statistics about Covid-19’s economic impact on American workers, one seldom-mentioned but palpable effect of the pandemic is the shock felt by fathers as they
Introverts have historically suffered in corporate America, particularly during the last decade. Super-schmoozers, with their endless connections and carefully honed “personal brands,” seem to always get first dibs on the
The history of modern office design includes many tortured chapters.
In the movie Bombshell, based on the demise of former Fox News chief Roger Ailes, Gretchen Carlson (Nicole Kidman) manages to get Ailes fired at the same time she forces Ailes
Why written performance reviews at work are still a good idea.