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6 votes
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Male dominated fields
Are you in a male dominated field or have you been in a male dominated field in the past? What was your experience like? Any funny/heartbreaking/etc. stories or interactions you would like to...
Are you in a male dominated field or have you been in a male dominated field in the past? What was your experience like? Any funny/heartbreaking/etc. stories or interactions you would like to share? What do/did you like/dislike about it? What would you change? How would the field change if males were no longer the majority? What advice would you give to anyone coming into a male dominated field?
19 votes -
End of the office: The quiet, grinding loneliness of working from home
11 votes -
Five sex workers talk about doing their jobs during COVID-19
7 votes -
At hundreds of rehabs, recovery means work without pay
4 votes -
How "The Wing", a women-focused, co-working space collective and club is now reeling from allegations of racism, exclusivity and abuses of power
13 votes -
Resilience is the goal of governments and employers who expect people to endure crisis
4 votes -
Three stories of people fired after being accused of racism
25 votes -
Family buys all of a Chicago paletero’s ice pops on Father’s Day, collects nearly $40K for him: ‘He refuses to stop working’
4 votes -
Will places that depend on tourism be more open to high tech, given that remote work is more accepted?
5 votes -
What the Dutch can teach the world about remote work
5 votes -
Reflections on being a female founder
7 votes -
Telecommuting requires new interpersonal skills, especially if you’re trying to stay on the boss’s radar. So what’s the best approach?
7 votes -
The elevator arises as the latest logjam in getting back to work
9 votes -
It's time to kick police unions out of the labor movement. They aren't allies
19 votes -
How many hours per day are you working?
If you are tracking your time, how many hours of focused work are you doing per day on average? What I mean with focused work is only the time that you are working. Not counting the time you take...
If you are tracking your time, how many hours of focused work are you doing per day on average?
What I mean with focused work is only the time that you are working. Not counting the time you take a break, not counting the time you go to the bathroom, not counting the time you get up to drink water, etc. If you don't stop your time-tracker during non-work activities, please mention it.
14 votes -
What kind of man only works part time?
9 votes -
How do you get a promotion when you work in a remote office?
Some years ago, I wrote a book about telecommuting, including a section about the reasons people don't want to be remote workers. High on the list was, "It's too hard to move up in the company"...
Some years ago, I wrote a book about telecommuting, including a section about the reasons people don't want to be remote workers. High on the list was, "It's too hard to move up in the company" because if you're out of sight, you're out of mind.
Well, now suddenly nearly everybody is a telecommuter, whether or not they like the idea. So that particular skill is particularly relevant. And I've been assigned an article on "How to 'manage up' when you work from home." I'd like your input.
My article is meant to compile practical how-to tips for people working from home on “how to stay on your boss's radar.” What advice do you have to share?
Ideally: Give me a bullet point (“Do XYZ”), why (“It accomplishes this”), and perhaps an anecdote sharing how it made a difference.
Please don’t expend energy telling me why it’s important, or what the barriers are. Take that as a given. I’m looking for solid “Do this” suggestions.
17 votes -
Roadliners - A short documentary
6 votes -
Donald Trump’s National Labor Relations Board (NLRB): Assault on US labor in the pandemic era
5 votes -
The unintended consequences of working from home
5 votes -
The coronavirus is making us all camgirls: For millions of newly remote workers, doing your job now involves looking the part, figuring out your angles, and performing for the camera
7 votes -
The right to work from home should be a demand far beyond the pandemic
8 votes -
Ohio has stopped kicking workers off unemployment after a hacker targeted its website
12 votes -
The death of the office
8 votes -
Finnish basic income pilot improved wellbeing – first major study of scheme comes as economic toll of coronavirus prompts fresh interest in idea
13 votes -
For these Federal employees, telework means productivity is up, their backlog is down
9 votes -
The logic of stupid poor people
12 votes -
Calling me a hero only makes you feel better
17 votes -
Productivity is not working
9 votes -
The second phase of unemployment will be harsher: For American workers displaced by recession, widespread public sympathy soon gives way to moralizing anger
11 votes -
Walmart to require all employees wear face masks starting Monday
6 votes -
Has anyone used platforms like Fiverr to make a bit of extra money?
In these lean COVID-19 times I feel like a lot of people are trying to make a bit of extra cash. I've been thinking about trying out some freelancing platform to market a few of my skills...
In these lean COVID-19 times I feel like a lot of people are trying to make a bit of extra cash. I've been thinking about trying out some freelancing platform to market a few of my skills (apparently people pay for at least few things I do for fun?), and I was wondering what people who've used any of the main platforms think of them. I keep seeing conflicting stuff around the web.
13 votes -
PetSmart pressures dog groomers to come into work as "essential labor"
8 votes -
Prepare for the ultimate gaslighting - "...take a deep breath, ignore the deafening noise, and think deeply about what you want to put back into your life"
18 votes -
Furloughed because of the coronavirus pandemic, airline and hotel employees in Sweden are retraining to work as hospital and nursing home assistants
6 votes -
What’s really holding women back?
12 votes -
Farmworkers, mostly undocumented, become "essential" during pandemic
9 votes -
Walmart amps up its virus response for workers
3 votes -
Plenty of American workers aren't being told to work remotely—even though they could
8 votes -
Work From Home (WFH) Thread - March 16th, 2020
I suspect many of you are, like me, working from home today and in the near future. I thought that it might be nice to have a single thread where we can chat about WFH and our day to day lives...
I suspect many of you are, like me, working from home today and in the near future. I thought that it might be nice to have a single thread where we can chat about WFH and our day to day lives while self-isolating in order to feel a bit less isolated. If people think this kind of thing is a good idea, perhaps this can be a daily (or weekly o_o) thread.
Feel free to talk about:
- Day to day life at home
- What's on your agenda for work
- Your thoughts on self-isolating and quarantine.
- Casual talk that you might normally have with coworkers .
- Anything else! (Though of course, the rest of the site still exists)
I personally tend to get more work done while working from home as there are less interruptions in the form of meetings and informal breaks. So in a weird way I'm looking forward to this time in order to get quite a bit done. Still, it's hard not to get cabin fever.
How are you all doing?
19 votes -
Twenty-four video conferencing tips to go from telecommuting zero to hero
5 votes -
Workers at Pacific Grove Hotel on leave without pay due to virus quarantine
5 votes -
Living without a living wage: At the ever-growing bottom of the American economy, a low-wage worker becomes a minimum-wage activist
10 votes -
How the working-class life is killing Americans, in charts
26 votes -
What happened when Tulsa paid people to work remotely
9 votes -
Companies are contracting out more jobs—that’s not great for workers
10 votes -
Silicon Valley ruined work culture
15 votes -
Garbage language: Why do corporations speak the way they do?
10 votes -
Four-day workweek's appeal goes global as bosses seek to boost profits and morale
22 votes