Several new reports illustrate the complexity of the gender wage gap, why it persists, and why there’s hope for closing it.
Today is Equal Pay Day. That’s the approximate day in the year where the average woman working full time gets to catch up to the salary of her male counterpart (or about 79¢ for every one of his dollars).
Snapchat. Facebook. Netflix. Spotify. Kik. Which app best accommodates disabilities? Google’s new Accessibility Scanner tells us.
If you haven’t heard the term “inclusive design” yet, you will soon. It’s a simple idea: By designing to accommodate people with disabilities, we can make products that are better for everyone. Just look at the typewriter, originally invented to help a blind person write letters. The idea is old, but the movement is picking up speed as companies such as Microsoft are using it at the core of their design philosophy.
The world’s most valuable sports team reveals an exclusive look at key social metrics, and the strategy behind its digital transformation.
Even if you’ve never watched a minute of soccer, chances are you still know Real Madrid. The Spanish team is not only one of the winningest, most successful clubs in all of world football, it’s also the richest sports team on the planet. And like all of the world’s major brands, the club has identified digital and social innovation as the future of its growth.
What if, instead of having to wear a sweater in the office in the summer, your chair kept you warm?
If you’re at work right now, you’re probably too cold. Or too hot. If you have a working thermostat nearby, there’s a good chance that it’s the thing you disagree about most with the person sitting next to you.
Many of us enter the workplace unprepared for teamwork. Here’s how to head off and contain the hazards of poor group performance.
In general, people are poorly educated to deal with workplaces. That’s because education is a largely solo affair. Students are asked to work alone. Grades are given to individuals. Indeed, the idea of individual achievement is so ingrained that when kids are assigned a group project in school, they worry how their own grades will be calculated if their team members fall down on the job.
Other big topics will include Instant Articles, Live Video, 360 Video, and much more.
When more than 2,000 people descend on San Francisco this week for Facebook’s annual two-day F8 developers conference, their discussions and decisions will have a huge impact on how you and 1.59 billion other people around the world use the social network. Topping the bill, by all accounts, is the company’s foray into chatbots that allow users to order products directly through Messenger.
Leave it to Adler to make toys as beautiful as home decor.
Fisher-Price might be known for some of the world’s most iconic toys, but sales have stagnated. So Mattel, Fisher-Price’s parent company, has enlisted star designer Jonathan Adler as creative director to reimagine the line as “happy chic” home decor. Adler will debut his first Fisher-Price toys, baby gear, infant clothing, and bedding for the company in 2017.
The creator/star of Catastrophe talks about how her writing career began, collaborating with Rob Delaney, and why she is now spoiled.
To have any chance of finding characters she actually wanted to play, Sharon Horgan discovered early on that she’d have to write them herself.
The rental company is considering the next step: designing spaces made specifically for homeowners who want to easily rent out spare rooms.
Joe Gebbia, Airbnb’s cofounder and chief product officer, likes to observe the simple ways that Airbnb hosts “hack” their homes in order to take on guests. He stayed with one New York City mother who had a bunk bed in her son’s room, so she could rent the master bedroom. Others build extra storage space, for sheets and towels and the like, or install electronic locks. He has a list of more than 50 examples made by talking with Airbnb hosts around the world.
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