Sometimes the best way to show respect for an employer you’re leaving is to make a clean break and set a plan for your exit.
Is there really a way to leave a company without burning a bridge? Of course there is! But many people wind up souring relationships they’ve spent a long time building based on the way they head out the door. Here are five of the subtler (yet all too common) blunders to avoid when it’s time to give your notice.
To understand its users and the impact of online dating, Tinder employs sociologist Jessica Carbino. We talked to her about what she does.
Like so many things in life, romance and sexuality are being rewired by apps. Since 2013, the use of Internet dating services like Tinder and OKCupid has tripled among Americans ages 18-24, according to the Pew Research Center.
The collaboration tool is now available for anyone to use, and has new iOS and Android apps.
In October Dropbox unveiled Paper, a solution it had been working on that enables teams to collaborate on different projects. The product is essentially exactly what it sounds like, a piece of virtual paper where teams can write things down. The digital pages can also handle things like YouTube videos, Google docs, and images, all of which automatically appear embedded on the page when added.
Dicks’ Sporting Goods Olympic campaign continues to celebrate the brand’s American Olympians/employees.
Back in March, Dick’s Sporting Goods (DSG) began its 2016 Summer Olympics marketing sponsorship with a commercial that celebrated American amateur athletes and Olympic contenders. But these athletes aren’t just contenders, they’re also DSG employees, part of an initiative that employs more than 200 athletes from 36 Olympic and Paralympic sports in 106 of its stores in 34 states across the U.S.
Despite very few materials, the residents of France’s large and notorious refugee camp are creating truly impressive structures—and even a church.
In these photos of the Calais Jungle—a notoriously terrible refugee camp in France—one thing is conspicuously missing: refugees. Instead of showing people, photographer Marco Tiberio wanted to show where they’re living.
If corporate training is a drag on the workforce, try focusing on these four game-changing techniques.
From teaching employees the basics of your technology infrastructure to helping them develop new insight and skill sets, training is a necessity in many companies. And while stand-and-deliver instructors in classroom settings make up 46% of training hours, according to a 2015 report by Training magazine, managers are increasingly adopting new formats and methods of training to both improve employee satisfaction and increase effectiveness.
The FDA is trying to come up with a definition for “natural” foods, but it’s not so easy.
Walk around a local farmers’ market or a big chain like Whole Foods or even Walmart and you’ll be overwhelmed by the sheer variety of “natural” and “healthy” foods. Consumers want foods they believe offer more health benefits and are made without artificial ingredients, and farmers and food manufacturers are happy to sell to them. But how can you trust that all those products are truly “natural” and “healthy”? It’s complicated.
Young white men without college degrees could throw the election. But how are they still such a dominant group?
The country is divided any which way you look at it. Some of it is generational, some of it is cultural, and some of it is geographic.
Black Lives Matter activist DeRay Mckesson teams up with artist Darius Kazemi to create a Twitter bot with a mission—& a personality.
For DeRay Mckesson and his fellow Black Lives Matter activists, Twitter is a double-edged sword.
If you can’t explain your startup to a child, you may not have better luck pitching to investors.
If you can’t explain your business model to kids, then you’re not ready for prime time in front of investors. That’s the idea behind Pitch-a-Kid, a new Austin, Texas-based organization that puts kids in the judge’s seat as they analyze adult entrepreneurs’ pitches and choose the strongest pitch of the bunch.
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