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5 votes
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What companies get wrong about remote salaries
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Three American mothers, on the brink. Eleven months, multiple breakdowns, one harrowing realization: They’ve got to get back up and do it all again tomorrow.
10 votes -
The Pope vs. Lululemon
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Google union in turmoil following global alliance announcement
7 votes -
Stop making excuses for toxic bosses
13 votes -
Norway arrests highlight impact of pandemic on sex workers – governments should include sex workers in public health and financial support responses
6 votes -
What I learned in two years of moving government forms online
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Sex workers say 'defunding Pornhub' puts their livelihoods at risk
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How Iceland is closing the gender wage gap
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How to resign, via Letters of Note
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Gumroad's approach to work: no meetings, no deadlines, no full-time employees
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What are your favorite and least favorite aspects of your job?
We probably all have things we love about what we do, and we also all have those things that we loathe or that really get under our skin. What are the highs and lows of your job? Do the highs...
We probably all have things we love about what we do, and we also all have those things that we loathe or that really get under our skin. What are the highs and lows of your job? Do the highs outweigh the lows, or is it the other way around?
Also, this question is not limited to careers alone. It can refer to your role as, say, a student or a parent -- pretty much anything that saddles you with consistent responsibility.
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Google employees form union
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Thousands apply to be a Finn for ninety days – Americans, Canadians and Britons among those lured by campaign to attract foreign tech workers
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iPhone factory workers say they haven’t been paid, cause millions in damages
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How SoulCycle lost its soul: The boutique fitness phenomenon sold exclusivity with a smile, until a toxic atmosphere and a push for growth brought the whole thing down
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As Covid-19 ravaged Waterloo, Iowa, officials discovered meatpacking executives were the ones in charge
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Inside the whale: An interview with an anonymous Amazon employee
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Work (or, the five jobs I had before YouTube)
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Worker cooperatives: Bringing democracy to the workplace
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Voices from the pandemic: A Walt Disney World waitress struggles to hold on to her middle-class life amid a pandemic and catastrophic layoff
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Companies often want to keep loyal employees when their jobs change or go away. Here are some effective ways to move people onto a new career path.
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The presence prison
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Tomorrow’s World: Office of the Future (1969)
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Small tech
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The secret to the success of Bastion, Pyre, and Hades: No forced crunch, yes forced vacations
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How the CCP does job promotions
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Google illegally spied on workers before firing them, US labor board alleges
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This is the winter from hell for restaurants and workers: A potential indoor shutdown, a lack of stimulus aid, and other hospitality industry restrictions couldn’t come at a worse time
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Unilever to try out four-day working week in New Zealand
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Markets are not incompatible with discrimination (2014)
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Managers at a Tyson pork processing plant in Iowa allegedly bet money on how many workers would contract COVID-19
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The old way of handing out corporate hardware doesn’t work anymore
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"It is terrifying to face the reality that people with a full-time job have to have a home inside a tent": photos of a Seattle homeless tent camp
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"Other countries have social safety nets. The US has women."
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Deutsche Bank suggests 5% tax on home workers to support those impacted by the pandemic
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Child labour doesn’t have to be exploitation – it gave me life skills
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Florida votes to raise minimum wage to $15 an hour
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How do you (or your company) retrain staff for new roles?
Hive mind: Does your company re-train people to teach them new skills? What about mindset skills, such as problem-solving and critical thinking? What's worked -- and what doesn't? I'm writing an...
Hive mind: Does your company re-train people to teach them new skills? What about mindset skills, such as problem-solving and critical thinking? What's worked -- and what doesn't?
I'm writing an article on how to do effectively re-train workers, and I'd like to hear from you (particularly if you have a management or HR background). I might like to quote you, but I certainly would like your input even if that isn't possible.
Companies have always needed to ensure their employee learn new tools (such as replacing OldProgrammingLanguage with NewLanguage) or entirely new skill sets (e.g. for those whose jobs are replaced by automation). But the rate at which old skills perish and new ones have to be learned is increasing.
If we assume that technology changes jobs rather than destroys them, what does that mean for companies in practice?
I was inspired to write this article after reading about “the work skills of tomorrow" https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2020/10/top-10-work-skills-of-tomorrow-how-long-it-takes-to-learn-them in which critical thinking and problem-solving top the list of skills employers believe will grow in prominence. But that made me wonder: How the heck do you teach soft skills? This isn’t like telling someone, “Take a course in data analytics.” What, if anything, can you do to improve a worker's agility in learning new things, or to become a better problem-solver?
So: What has been your experience? What worked, what failed, what advice would you offer someone (particularly in larger organizations) who wants to take care of their people and move the company forward?
Note that I'm thinking less in terms of training an individual with a new skill (PhotoShop) than skills for a different career (a move to the Accounting department). And please leave out the "I trained myself!" stories; they're a tangent that doesn't help me. And yes, I know plenty of companies just lay people off rather than retrain them; we can leave those out of the discussion, too. This is meant to be a useful how-to to guide companies that want to do it right, so I am interested in practical advice.
We can take this to a private discussion if that's easier.
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Denmark forced to U-turn on meat ban for state canteens – initiative had been part of the government's aim to achieve a 70% reduction in greenhouse gas emissions by 2030
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Translation from Dropbox to English of ‘Focus will shape the future of distributed work’
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Evolving Reddit's workforce - Going forward, Reddit employees will mostly be able to work remotely from wherever they want, and all US employees will be paid the same, regardless of location
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"We're in hard times right now": Meet the nursing students turning to OnlyFans to get by
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'I could show you stuff you wouldn’t believe:' Gravediggers speak out about horrifying conditions
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For those new to working-at-home since the pandemic began: What purchases/subscriptions have most improved your life?
In work terms, that is. Though a "keep the baby occupied" consumer purchase might minimize meeting interruptions.
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The forklift truck drivers who never leave their desks
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Preparing the workforce for current unfilled jobs
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Migrant workers restricted to farms under one grower’s virus lockdown
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Norway's oil workers fear for future as rigs go remote – shift to operating oil rigs remotely from land, accelerated by lower crude prices, has rekindled concerns among unions
4 votes