Fast Company

Workplace chatrooms like Slack have become a place to talk about politics and feelings, but why do we all feel so comfortable using them?

Last week a friend on Facebook wrote about a personal quandary: She had posted a link to something about the recent killings of black men by police in an internal chat platform (like Slack) and was met with some resistance from others—not because of the subject matter, but because the content was violent. The fact that someone was sharing something personal and political was not the issue; people felt the safe space had been threatened by the post’s inherent grisliness.

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Sure, you’ll get jealous of your friends and coworkers now and then. But you don’t have to just sit there and stew.

I used to proudly broadcast that I wasn’t a jealous person. “I’m confident, successful, and happy,” I’d think to myself, while flipping my hair over my shoulder and batting my eyelashes (not really, but you get it). “I have no reason to be envious of anybody!” But, then I quickly realized I was only lying to myself.

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When it comes to building your reputation from scratch, think big when you set goals but start small when you execute them.

The startup scene is a crowded place no matter what market you’re trying to crack. And if you can’t build industry credibility fast, you’ll probably fail to crack it.

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This Texas transplant’s position was cut just as she was settling into her New York job, but it actually opened up her options.

When I moved to New York city to take a job as a creative director in 2014, I was ecstatic. After purging at least 70% of my belongings, I happily traded shoe-melting Dallas summers for eyelash-freezing New York winters.

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After one blockbuster, here are the gaming company’s biggest challenges in mobile.

In the minds of some industry analysts, Pokémon Go is the start of a major transformation at Nintendo.

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“Don’t get emotional” may not be the best conversational advice. Used right, emotions can be a powerful communication tool.

Casual conversation can be a powerful thing. It’s how we share information and connect with each other—often more deeply than we can by digital means. It’s the social glue that binds us together and determines how well, and at what level, we’re able to relate to each other.

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The two crashes highlight the need for more research in the area of autonomous vehicles.

The journey to a future dominated by autonomous vehicles hit a few speed bumps recently, with news of not one but two crashes, one them fatal, involving Teslas operating in autonomous driving mode. The collisions raise questions about how far self-driving cars really are from being safe enough for widespread adoption, and if the issues—human or computer—should be a roadblock toward that goal.

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Parallel18 wants to ensure a thriving tech economy for Puerto Rico, despite the ongoing financial crisis.

Last month, President Obama signed PROMESA, a law designed to help restructure Puerto Rico’s crippling debt. But long before that, an accelerator based in San Juan called Parallel18 was working to improve the island’s financial prospects, one tech job at a time. Now the group is midway through mentoring its first class of startups that could offer promising employment opportunities for Puerto Ricans.

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Sure, the coworking movement may be a fad, but these researchers say it has a surprisingly strong psychological basis.

Employees from the likes of General Electric, Walmart, and Toyota— 4,000 companies a year, in fact—wend their way to a 60-person company based underneath a parking garage in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

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It takes much less time than you think to stay “active” and “engaged” on LinkedIn.

July is here and I bet your dance card’s pretty full. Barbecues, weddings, camping trips—who has time for LinkedIn?

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