Career Advice & Insights

After Amazon released its Alexa product line, the popularity of the name dramatically dropped off — by 21.3% in 2016, and another 19.5% last year. Read More

A new analysis by global organizational consulting firm Korn Ferry shows that members of the Class of 2018 will rack up $50,390 a year on average — up from $49,000 last year. Read More

Employees use an average of 17.2 days nationally — 0.4 days more than the year before and the third consecutive year the number has risen. Read More

When you decide to play referee with your team’s disagreement, one of the worst things you can end the argument with is “agreeing to disagree.” … Read More

OnePoll surveyed 2,000 Americans and found that cursing is the main way people show “frustration,” at 63%, followed by “yelling” at 49% and “crying” at 39%. People turn to music for stress relief most often at 50%. Read More

Looking at three years of Kickstarter data, the university found that women were more likely than men to have their startup ideas funded. Why? Because they were trusted more. Read More

When you interject your awesome point in a meeting, will your colleagues consider you assertive or rude? The answer may, unfortunately, depend on your gender, according to new research from Stanford’s Katherine Hilton, a doctoral candidate in linguistics. Read More

Stress does not get evenly distributed at work, a new survey of 4,500 people from the Mental Health Foundation has found. Turns out, age makes a significant difference in whether you find the workplace an oasis or a stressful nightmare. Read More

Here is the transcript (and video) of Tim Cook’s commencement speech to Duke’s Class of 2018. Read More