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This week’s top stories may help you land better-paying gig work or even inspire you to start training for an ultra-marathon.
This week’s top stories may help you land better-paying gig work or even inspire you to start training for an ultra-marathon.
This week we learned how to counter a boss’s morally questionable requests, why extreme sports keep the president of Hotwire grounded at work, and where the most lucrative part-time work can be found.
These Three Bad Habits Are Killing Your Meetings
It isn’t that meetings themselves are necessarily time wasters. It’s what we do during them that matters.
It isn’t that meetings themselves are necessarily time wasters. It’s what we do during them that matters.
Call it a product of busy schedules, increased tech connectivity, or fried attention spans, but for whatever reason, when you gather a group together for a meeting, almost everyone has a hard time ditching distractions and sticking to the task at hand. In fact, 47% of employees cite distracted coworkers as the biggest hurdle to having productive meetings.
With Hololens, Microsoft Is Learning From Google Glass’s Failure
Where Google Glass failed, Hololens seems poised to succeed as a tool for the working man rather than a consumer headset for gamers.
Where Google Glass failed, Hololens seems poised to succeed as a tool for the working man rather than a consumer headset for gamers.
“The space in our cities is limited,” says Andreas Shierenbeck, CEO of ThyssenKrupp Elevator, a company that builds and maintains elevators worldwide. He’s speaking to a small audience in a room with panoramic views of lower Manhattan, 63 stories off the street. Naturally, he’s talking about the need for more elevators in densely packed cities that want to squeeze more living and office quarters into unoccupied vertical spaces.
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All the hubbub over millennials in the workforce risks ignoring generational “in-betweeners,” but they may have some hidden advantages.
All the hubbub over millennials in the workforce risks ignoring generational “in-betweeners,” but they may have some hidden advantages.
Helen Phung, a communications consultant, had what she considered a brilliant Halloween costume. She couldn’t wait for her coworkers to give her knowing nods and make clever comments as they passed her in the kitchen. She was dressed as the Chicken Lady from Kids in the Hall, the Canadian sketch comedy show that originally aired from the late ’80s to mid-’90s, and later as reruns on Comedy Central during the ’00s.
Your Complete Guide To Moving Abroad To Work For Yourself
From visas and business taxes to traveling with pets, these are the logistical issues you’ll want to tackle before hitting the road.
From visas and business taxes to traveling with pets, these are the logistical issues you’ll want to tackle before hitting the road.
I was seated on my bedroom floor last week, sorting clothes into two piles in preparation for my upcoming move to Asia. One was stuff to keep. The other was full of ugly sweaters from 2001, destined for Goodwill.
Birchbox Cofounder Hayley Barna On New Ventures, Glamping, And Her Filthy Fridge
After leaving Birchbox last year, Barna is diving into the VC world. She explains why and offers a look at what she’s up to.
After leaving Birchbox last year, Barna is diving into the VC world. She explains why and offers a look at what she’s up to.
Last August, Birchbox co-CEO Hayley Barna decided to walk away from the influential beauty-subscription-box startup that she cofounded in 2010 (she remains on the company’s board). “What we created with Birchbox was truly unique at the time,” she explains. “I loved it, but it turned out the beauty industry is not my lifelong passion. It’s [exploring] innovative business models.” So, in February, Barna signed on as a partner at First Round Capital, the seed-stage VC firm that has invested in companies such as Uber, Warby Parker, and, not coincidentally, Birchbox. (Meanwhile, Barna’s former company has been struggling, enduring two big rounds of layoffs earlier this year and receiving a $15 million injection of funds from current investors in August, reportedly due to cash-flow issues.)
