Success

You made it to the interview, but you know there’s a glaring employment gap on your resume. Here’s how to talk about it the right way. Read More

While it can be hard enough to figure out what to eat for lunch at work, it turns out that some employees feel like taking a lunch break tarnishes their manager’s perception of them. They may be right. Read More

There’s no way around it: You definitely spend more time with your colleagues than you do with any other community in your life. But what if in addition to sharing your space, mind, and lunch with your coworkers, you also went on vacation with them? … Read More

Negotiation, in any field or context, is something women just don’t learn enough about. If we are going to have equality in the workplace and beyond, negotiation skills are extremely important. Read More

Derek Price, who was a British physicist, historian of science, and information scientist, found out the following (now called Price’s law): 50% of the work is done by the square root of the total number of people who participate in the work. Read More

Every new generation brings a new set of challenges and issues for workers and hiring managers to tackle if they want their companies to stick around for years to come. Read More

“What do you do?” is a phrase that took a new life on Twitter as people reminisced about how the idea of their job description does not always align with strangers’ ideas of what they do. Read More

Coming back to work after a vacation to a place near or far can leave you scatterbrained. All of a sudden, you have to snap right back into work mode, and remember to do a bunch of things as you ease back into your regular routine. Read More

When the boss is overworked, their employees’ needs and wants drop to the bottom of the to-do list, a new study in the Academy of Management Journal found. Concerned employees find a boss who is too busy to meet with them, one who cannot be bothered to explain day-to-day decisions. Read More