Commute time on the Singapore subway The Guardian has recently has been publishing some terrific essays on the future of work. Peter Fleming's piece earlier this week (and
This is an interesting development: BlackRock, the world's largest investor, is preparing to tell companies in its portfolio, "Contribute to Society, or Risk Losing Our Support:" Laurence D.
Slate reports on a new theory for why Americans can’t get a raise: The paper... argues that, across different cities and different fields, hiring is concentrated among a
In my study of how companies shorten their workdays, one of the things I've consistently seen is companies shortening meetings, and doing a number of things to make
James Pothen, a software engineer with the New York Times, has a great piece about " How to Concentrate in a Collaborative Workplace:" When I first started working
In September when I was in Europe, I gave a talk at Jabra corporate headquarters, just outside Copenhagen (where I had some excellent food, and saw some cool
Ginia Bellafante has a piece in the New York Times about the sale of Lord & Taylor to WeWork, and its cultural significance. She she notes, there's a
Vouchercloud.com, a UK-based company, just published the results of a survey of 1,989 full-time office workers in the UK "as part of research into the online habits and productivity of
I've been looking at companies that are fighting back against the culture of overwork (mainly in software, Web development and video games), and this morning came across this
Recently I noticed several entrepreneurs and career coaches who'd reviewed Rest, and wanted to capture some links to their work. Business coach Curtis McHale (his motto is "Running a