Happiness

Your brain on books is active — growing, changing and making new connections and different patterns, depending on the type of material you’re reading. Read More

When we fall back on the same words during a speech, the audience senses it right away. People start to think, “He’s really doing that a lot. Kind of annoying.” What’s “that”? A distracting tic or habit. Read More

One day in the future you could be bidding good morning to your coworkers, “Loki” and “Valkyrie.” According to the U.S. Social Security Administration’s list of popular baby names in 2017, more babies are being named after Marvel characters. Read More

A woman in Portland, Oregon, said she feels “invaded” after her voice-controlled Amazon Echo sent a private conversation with her husband to her husband’s employee without her knowledge. Read More

After you graduate from college, your job prospects may be slim. In the need to be employed, you may take a job you are vastly overqualified for, thinking “this will just be for a little bit.” But the first job you take in your career sets the tone for the rest of it. Read More

Nowadays, many employers rely on digital time-tracking software to monitor when employees are working. It may be more efficient than the punch clocks of yore, but a new study published in American Business Law Journal found that it contributes to wage theft. Read More

Tax season has finally come and gone, and by now most Americans have either gotten their refund or established a payment plan for taxes owed to the government. Here’s a nice thought experiment: go back and look at your tax return to figure out how much money the government claims through all forms of taxation. How does your own situation compare to the rest of the world? … Read More

You would think some of the fancier job titles would be the ones seeing the biggest increases in wages, but according to Glassdoor’s latest ranking of jobs showing the fastest wage gains over the past year it is positions in lower-skill, lower-paying fields that are seeing the most growth. Read More

There are workplace situations that, for some, come by so rarely that they are worth their weight in gold, and they have nothing to do with the salary! These are the things that make any person wake up excited to go into work and more likely to work harder to perform their best. Read More