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Bosses won’t like it but WFH is a happier way to work
Receive free FT Magazine updates We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest FT Magazine news every morning. Elon Musk calls working from home morally wrong. Google has begun including office attendance in its employees’ performance reviews. Amazon’s chief executive, Andy Jassy, who previously seemed relaxed about remote work, told staff …
How To Work Better, Tate style
How To Work Better, Tate style | Alex Graveley ← Alex Graveley ← Archive Today I was sneaking around behind the scenes at the Tate Modern London. I saw the following etched on a wall for the employees beginning their day. How To Work Better Do one thing at a time Know the problem Learn …
BuzzFeed News Defined the 2010s
If you’re curious to know what it was like to work at BuzzFeed News in the salad days of the mid-2010s, here is a representative anecdote: I was sitting at my desk one morning, dreadfully hungover and editing a story titled “The Definitive Oral History of the Wikipedia Photo for ‘Grinding,’” when the sounds of …
Ask HN: Why are police allowed to work with psychics in their investigations?
Here’s one theory: Psychic ability was researched heavily in the 1960s. It’s possible that some people who were heavily involved in psychic research then and after hold great power in key places, and would prefer government policy not further normalize the discrediting of their former work..? If psychic power really was real and useful, I’d …
Twitter Managers Told Staff to Work 12-Hour Shifts, 7 Days a Week: CNBC
Twitter managers have told some staff work 12-hour shifts, seven days a week, CNBC reported. Some managers told The New York Times they slept at Twitter’s office on Friday and Saturday nights. Staff are trying to prove themselves amid the looming threat of layoffs under new owner Elon Musk. Loading Something is loading. Thanks for …
Chicago school’s mental health work recognized among the “World’s Best”
Before the sun came up Wednesday in Chicago, cheers filled a multipurpose room at Curie Metropolitan High School as news broke: Curie had been named one of the “World’s Best Schools.” The Southwest Side high school is among five schools — and the only school in North America — awarded a $50,000 World’s Best School …
Film students in Canberra learning to work with technology used in high budget productions like The Mandalorian
Film students at the Academy of Interactive Education (AIE) in Canberra are now able to use technology seen on productions such as The Mandalorian and Thor: Love and Thunder. Key points: The AIE’s StageCraft course is the first to exist in the world The technology displays backgrounds that move as the camera does Teacher Dan …
HR Technology conference explores the new world of work
By Kanoe Namahoe Published: August 8, 2022 (Image credit: Photo by Alex Kotliarskyi/Unsplash)HR Technology Conference Chair Steve Boese The workplace is in a state of flux. The traditional structure of work has been upended and new forms are quickly emerging. More employers are adopting flexible schedules and work-from-home and hybrid strategies. More workers are changing …
Why Part Time Work Culture Is Gaining Importance in Today’s Corporate World?
As Unemployment is gaining pace the trend is moving towards flexi time jobs. Every person wants stable income and job security whether they belong to senior level management or executives. Last decade proved that there has been an increase in number of qualified individual in developing countries, job availability is less as compared to rising …
New Book Advocates Conscious Work Culture and Generational Leadership
DeLinda Forsythe’s new book, Inspiring Generational Leadership: Your Guide to Design a Conscious Culture, begins with a powerful opening statement: “Doing well and doing good need not and should not be mutually exclusive.” Forsythe is the founder of Innovative Commercial Environments (ICE), a furniture contract company she began from a spare bedroom in 2006. It …
