Steve Jobs was a 21-year-old college dropout when he founded Apple. 20-year-old Bill Gates launched Microsoft, and Mark Zuckerberg was 19 when he first came up with the idea of Facebook.
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Inside YouTube Music’s meltdown: Former workers say they trained their replacements while staffing firm denies a mass layoff and Google backs away
Shortly after he learned he no longer had a job with YouTube Music, Jack Benedict went back to his office to be met by a cardboard box of some of his stuff that co-workers had thrown together while being ushered out.
The remote-work revolution means only managers can afford to live in pricey cities
The pandemic surge toward remote work, it was once hoped, would bring in a more egalitarian America, where workers no longer had to live in pricey coastal cities to advance in their career. But four years on, the remote-work revolution has had some unexpected effects—and one of them is a polarization in where bosses and frontline workers live.
Workers distracted by office chitchat are pretending to be in Zoom meetings to signal to colleagues ‘I don’t want to talk to you’
Kelebogile Mabokela was distracted by the incessant chitchat around her
Stressed-out workers are skipping lunch–and forgoing their only chance to tame the chaos
Research has shown that taking lunch breaks can greatly impact your overall happiness and productivity at work.
Middle-managers are the least confident they’ve ever been. One said they had to take several months ‘to recover from the intensity of the role’
Confidence among middle-managers dropped to its worst-ever reading in February, pushing a broader index of U.S. employee sentiment down to a record low.
Starbucks’ surprise pivot to work with its main union is a landmark labor moment
Starbucks Corp.’s new commitment to work with its main union to end hostilities and hash out a fair process for labor organizing is a landmark moment for labor relations — both at the coffee chain that’s long resisted organizing, and far beyond it.
Steve Jobs adopted a no ‘bozos’ policy and said the best managers are those who never wanted the job—here are his 3 best management tips
It’s been more than a decade since we lost Steve Jobs, the mastermind behind some of the biggest technological innovations in history. He lost his battle with pancreatic cancer in 2011, and would have been 69 years old today.
Four-day weekends from home are over: Fridays are increasingly just another office day, data shows
So long, four–day weekend from home—it was nice while it lasted. Now, Fridays are increasingly becoming just another office day as businesses move on from the COVID-era habit of remote working, new figures suggest.
Facing mounting debt, three-quarters of U.S. workers want to get paid every day
On-demand streaming, delivery, and, next up, on-demand compensation. The biweekly paycheck is on the cusp of disruption, although expansion plans have hit a snag among skeptical financial regulators.
A majority of workers are desperate to upskill, but Gen Z is more likely to head back to the classroom
Reskilling has become a major obsession over the past few months, as AI upends traditional work models, and employees look for ways to prepare for the future.
The bigger the age gap between managers and employees, the less productive they are, report shows
Generational warring isn’t just showing itself in the housing market. A new report says the bigger the age gap between managers and employees, the less productive they are.
Millennial middle managers are most likely to be feeling stressed, overwhelmed and burned out at work
Middle managers are feeling the heat as bigwigs like Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg wield the axe, leaving fewer heads to handle the mess. For millennial bosses, it’s a wake-up call that’s making them think twice about climbing the corporate ladder.
Feel the burn(out): Millennials are aging from bright-eyed ‘hustle culture’ workers into exhausted middle managers
Burnt out millennials are by no means the new kid on the block.
Workplace disability inclusion has a big race problem
People with disabilities are not a monolith.