Career Advice & Insights

In the near-future, employees will wear tracking wristbands in the office that will know where they have gone — including bathroom breaks and if you stray too far from your workstation — and when. When employees go somewhere their bosses do not want them to be, the wristbands can alert them with a vibrating buzz. When … Read More

If you’re succeeding under a bullying boss who berates and belittles you, it may reveal something unflattering about your own personality. According to a new study in the Journal of Business Ethics, psychopaths have a natural advantage in workplaces overrun by abusive supervision, and are more likely to thrive under these terrible kind of bosses. Read More

Although “office romance” has dropped to its lowest level in 10 years, with 36% of employees ‘fessing up to dating someone they work with, employee-boss relationships of the same nature are up. Read More

When managers and employees decide to keep themselves busy for the sake of appearance, it’s not just wasting a company’s time, it’s wasting their money too. A new study from Harvard Business School has calculated that idle time can cost employers an estimated $100 billion in wages per year. Read More

A group of 22 senators sent a letter to the Department of Labor on Monday requesting that the department establish better, and more detailed, methods of collecting data on sexual harassment in the workplace. Read More

Career Builder’s yearly Valentine’s Day survey found that ‘office romance’ has sunk to the lowest point in 10 years. Read More

As the year gets underway, many of us start to daydream at our desks about vacations we want to take. Although American workers had an average of 22.6 vacation days in 2016 —nearly a full day’s increase from the year prior — around 54% of workers left days unused. Read More

Sony-affiliated virtual reality researcher Jun Rekimoto demonstrated his invention — “Chameleon Mask,” or human Uber — that allows you to have someone wear a screen displaying your face on their face, so you can attend events remotely. Read More

A staggering 72% of HR managers reported that they think the day following the Super Bowl “should be a paid national holiday from work.” … Read More