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10 votes
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From 2015 to 2019, Iceland ran the world's largest trial of a shorter working week – productivity either remained the same or increased, and wellbeing was considerably improved
23 votes -
American workers are reaching a collective ‘not this’ moment
11 votes -
Kill the five-day workweek
13 votes -
The Amazon that customers don’t see
13 votes -
Amazon calls warehouse workers "industrial athletes" in leaked wellness pamphlet
14 votes -
A letter to my mother — Just in case
5 votes -
The nonmachinables
3 votes -
Apple employees are going public about workplace issues
6 votes -
"What has been happening across the arts is not a recession. It is not even a depression. It is a catastrophe."
20 votes -
The abolition of work
13 votes -
A teenager's guide to avoiding actual work
14 votes -
Poor in tech
13 votes -
The filing cabinet was critical to the information infrastructure of the 20th-century. Like most infrastructure, it was usually overlooked.
10 votes -
Motorists line up at stations in DC region; shortage of gas truck drivers compounds situation
6 votes -
The next great disruption is hybrid work—thoughts from Microsoft on the future of work
9 votes -
Inside the all-hands meeting that led to a third of Basecamp employees quitting
30 votes -
A third of Basecamp’s workers resign after a ban on talking politics
18 votes -
What is the bullshit economy?
7 votes -
Stranded sailor allowed to leave abandoned ship after four years
21 votes -
Why Amazon workers sided with the company over a union
17 votes -
Björn Ulvaeus: ‘Today's pop industry cheats songwriters – and deters the risk-taking that made ABBA’
9 votes -
Research: Adding women to the C-suite changes how companies think
7 votes -
Amazon workers vote down Alabama union campaign
26 votes -
After working at Google, I’ll never let myself love a job again
23 votes -
Unwanted touch and empty consent
12 votes -
Swedish carmaker Volvo will offer a generous paid parental leave scheme to its 40,000 employees globally
8 votes -
Organisations that do important/meaningful work?
I've been thinking a bit lately of starting to look for another place of work. Nothing is really bad at my current employer, but I've been there since 2017 and my feet are starting to itch a bit....
I've been thinking a bit lately of starting to look for another place of work. Nothing is really bad at my current employer, but I've been there since 2017 and my feet are starting to itch a bit. In addition, I'm not really to engaged in my work at the moment since I feel the domain is fairly boring and the tech is rather mundane. This might be a reflection of my sentiment of IT industry in general, i.e. lots of toys but mainly they are just different flavours of the same thing (especially when it comes to building XYZ web app).
Formerly my approach to finding a new job has been to look for companies that are looking for people with skills in technologies I am interested in learning. However, since I'm a bit dissilousioned with tech I think I need to switch my approach and look more for a mission driven organisation I can get behind!
What are your thoughts on organsations that do some kind of important work? If you were to pick a top 3 organisations where you would work which ones would you pick?
Note they don't have to be tech focused. I'm generally curious about different organisations I should look into and also to hear your thoughts on the matter!
28 votes -
Female founder secrets: Men clamming up
17 votes -
Documents show Amazon is aware drivers pee in bottles and even defecate en route, despite company denial
24 votes -
So how should your favorite restaurant pay its servers? Well, it's complicated
10 votes -
French subsidiary of the Swedish retailer IKEA will go on trial over allegations that they snooped on employees and customers using private detectives and police officers
5 votes -
Spain to launch trial of four-day working week
12 votes -
Finnish telecoms giant Nokia is to axe between 5,000 and 10,000 jobs worldwide in the next two years as it cuts costs
7 votes -
The technical interview practice gap, and how it keeps underrepresented groups out of software engineering
9 votes -
The gig economy is coming for millions of American jobs
10 votes -
Star Citizen developers fed up after being expected to work during devastating Texas snowstorm
14 votes -
Indoctrination by Fisher Price
7 votes -
Panda Express workers forced to strip in ‘cult-like’ team-building seminar, lawsuit alleges
13 votes -
Where would you live if you had no ties to where you are now?
The US emigration thread brought back a lot of thoughts I've had about leaving the UK, and I imagine a decent number of us have at least idly wondered about a serious move - especially after a...
The US emigration thread brought back a lot of thoughts I've had about leaving the UK, and I imagine a decent number of us have at least idly wondered about a serious move - especially after a year like we've just had.
For me, the difficulty has always been figuring out where to go: politics/climate/healthcare/lifestyle/language are a delicate balancing act, and I don't think anywhere's a slam dunk. Everyone's going to have their own take on what perfect looks like, and what compromises to make mapping that to the real world!
So let's assume you're packed and ready to go, nothing holding you back. You've still got to navigate inbound immigration, handle the language, find a job, all that good stuff - but the world is your oyster. Where would you choose to go?
16 votes -
Locked out of a failing job market, young Zimbabweans are turning to forex currency trading to make a living
7 votes -
Do any other US citizens think of emigrating?
I'm a 23 year old male originally from Southern California, and like the title says I'm curious to see if anyone else near my demographic has seriously looked into emmigrating in light of the past...
I'm a 23 year old male originally from Southern California, and like the title says I'm curious to see if anyone else near my demographic has seriously looked into emmigrating in light of the past year and a half.
What factors motivate you to move?
What would be an ideal location for you?
What timeline would are you looking at?One of the main motivators I seek to emmigrate is climate change. As the world continues to progress and evolve I do not think the United States will be able to equitabbly address the changing landscape and ways of life. As for when I would want to move, I'm not sure; currently it seems like a far off probability, but I know it's a choice I will have to make in my own lifetime.
33 votes -
Twitch star quits GTA RP after in-game jobs become too much like real jobs
12 votes -
Work from home expert Nicholas Bloom, a Stanford economist, says office space will get more collaborative, and you’ll still be working from home (just not as much)
4 votes -
What is it like to work as a philosopher in South Korea?
1 vote -
Amazon offers $2,000 “resignation bonuses” to bust union drive in Alabama
12 votes -
At some point, many people will return to office life, at least part time. How do you think that'll affect work behavior and the tools for it (Slack, Zoom, etc.)?
What product features would you hope the vendors would add in preparation for that eventuality? For example... For the last year, we all have had “one connection, one face on screen.” That’s given...
What product features would you hope the vendors would add in preparation for that eventuality?
For example... For the last year, we all have had “one connection, one face on screen.” That’s given everyone a kind of equality, where we each have an equal seat at the table. (With or without cat filters.) Now we have to contemplate returning to an environment where SOME people are in the office, and thus huddled around a conference table, and the rest of the team is working from home. It was like that in the Before Times, but now everybody is more cognizant of the disadvantages… not the least of which is the poor video organization in conference rooms. Few companies are smart enough to install a camera that’s pointed at the people around the conference table, for instance, however simple/cheap an option that is.
14 votes -
UK Supreme Court rules that Uber drivers are workers, not self-employed
31 votes -
Stop telling women they have imposter syndrome
17 votes -
Bring back the nervous breakdown
14 votes