Tech
6 Trends Shaping a Future for People in the Workplace
The most important aspect of emerging technologies is how people and organizations put them to work.
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Thought Leaders
Don’t Think Outside Your Box!
To be happy at work, a greater understanding of one's own nature cannot help but get you into the right workplace.
By Richard Koch
Entrepreneurs
7 Weird Things You Didn’t Know About Millennials in the Workplace
From robots to social media to entrepreneurship, here are some insights into the habits, desires and fears of millennial workers.
By Rose Leadem
Human Resources
Music Is Everywhere at Sonos, Including a Hidden Listening Room
The sound of silence is not one you'll hear at this speaker and consumer-electronic startup.
By Kristin Hunt
Human Resources
Going Inside the Kickstarter Office
At Kickstarter's Brooklyn headquarters -- a former pencil factory with tons of natural sunlight --125 employees take turns hosting seminars, screenings and book club.
By Kristin Hunt
Entrepreneurs
Is a Shorter Workday Actually Better for Businesses?
In a Swedish study, a six-hour workday resulted in a 4.7 percent reduction in total sick days taken and a noticeable reduction in absenteeism.
Building a Business
How You Can Identify and Optimize Nonprofit Partnerships
When companies and philanthropic organizations join forces, business and community benefit together.
By Nithya Das
Building a Business
Workplace Revolution: Key Trends Changing How Work Is Getting Done in 2017
We are just at the start of an enterprise renaissance where companies (and people) are hungry for a simple way to do work.
By Nick Candito
Thought Leaders
So You’re a Startup CEO? In Fact, Your Job Is More That of ‘Chief Myth-Buster.’
Have you employed the "myth-busting approach" yet? Here are four ways to do that.
Building a Business
Why Telling Jokes at Work Makes You Appear More Confident
But remember your audience.
By Nina Zipkin
Tech
3 Reasons Why You Should Listen to Music at Work
What you should listen to, and how it can improve your productivity.
Building a Business
Here Are the Top 10 Places to Work in 2017
Glassdoor recently released its annual Employees's Choice Awards list.
By Rose Leadem
Building a Business
8 Ways Cutthroat Work Cultures Suck the Life Out of You
Few things are as costly and disruptive as a toxic workplace culture.
Thought Leaders
The 5 Worst Influences on Organizational Culture
Stop bad habits before they turn your entire team sour.
Building a Business
Does Your Onboarding Give New Employee the Urge to Flee?
Too often a new hire's first day is a flamboyant display of your company at its worst. Try harder to make a good first impression.
By Phil La Duke
Tech
Fit, Happy and Productive: How Wearables Are Radically Transforming the Workplace
It can count your steps, measure your happiness, warn you when you are about the fall asleep, and quite possibly let you charge a latte. The possibilities are really endless.
Entrepreneurs
10 Reasons You’re Not Getting Your Work Done (Infographic)
Distractions can be … hold on, I got a text.
By Grace Reader
Thought Leaders
What Happened to the Workplace? How to Make It More Human.
It's easy for organizations to strip out the human element of every process. Make sure that at your company you keep it in.
By Andre Lavoie
Entrepreneurs
I ‘Hot Desked’ for a Week, Switching Desks Each Day. Here Were the Two Big Benefits.
My work productivity varied depending on my location. I found out I carry a lot of baggage (literally) and I got to know coworkers I rarely talk to.
By Carolyn Sun
Thought Leaders
4 Life Lessons From Odd Jobs You Thought Had Nothing to Teach
Every job is a paycheck and a chance to learn something that will help you later.
By Jeff Boss
Building a Business
5 Qualities of the Best Places to Work
Moving beyond the ping-pong table and looking at what makes a great corporate culture.
By Donna Morris
Thought Leaders
Successful Entrepreneurs Don’t Play Primary Politics
Are your employees squabbling? Left unaddressed, in-fighting can sink a company. As founder, you must learn to manage conflict.
By Bob Wright
Building a Business
Workplaces of the Future Will Feel More Like ‘The Matrix’ Than ‘Office Space’
Using smart hubs and virtual reality, office designers are focusing on productivity, innovation and community.
By Federico Re
Human Resources
This Is Why Lots of Talented People Choose to Never Work for a Big Company
You could be a very comfortable cog in that very large machine. There are reasons why you went another way.
By Gene Marks
Human Resources
What Women Want From the Workplace: An End to Sexism
As Women's History Month comes to a close, we should focus less on political correctness, more on empathy.
Tech
The Robots Will Take Our Jobs. Here’s Why Futurist Ray Kurzweil Isn’t Worried.
'We are going to have new types of jobs creating new types of dollars that don't exist yet,' says the inventor and futurist.
Entrepreneurs
Menial Tasks Eat Up the Majority of the Workday for Most Employees
Employees in the U.S. spend the majority of their time at work scheduling and organizing, instead of engaging in meaningful, creative tasks, a new study finds.