Several startups are offering off-hours restaurant spaces as an affordable alternative to traditional coworking offices.
Turning empty offices into coworking spaces isn’t cheap: You need to pay rent and buy desks, chairs, perhaps a fancy coffeemaker for the kitchen. So while a coworking membership is often cheaper for entrepreneurs and freelancers than renting their own office, it can cost several hundred bucks a month depending on the city and how much access or privacy they want.
Ritcha Ranjan helped build Google Docs, Sheets, and Slides from the ground up. These are her top five tips on how to use them.
When Google Docs launched back in 2007, it was a scrappy, lightweight document editor. Today, it’s a full-blown workplace powerhouse, with all the features you need to create, collaborate, and share your ideas quickly.
Scoring cities by commute times, cost of living, available funding, and other factors reveals the top tech hubs in the world.
Silicon Valley is known across the globe as the cradle of tech innovation. Currently, it’s home to startups and the establishment, from Apple and Google to Uber and Slack. More hopefuls beat a path to this locus in the hopes that the cluster effect will bolster their chances of success.
Bad ideas in digital technology and e-commerce recur repeatedly, wasting billions. But sometimes they have silver linings.
As an almost official old man of the modern Internet—I founded a web development firm in 1994—I keep seeing ideas I thought were dead and buried break the surface of the digital ocean, fly free for a moment, and then sink back to the bottom.
Generational differences don’t matter; everyone wants meaningful work. Experts explain why the way we think about motivation is all wrong.
Millennials are a demanding bunch, or so it would seem. Deloitte’s 2016 Millennial Survey reports that, if it were up to them, the cohort “would place far greater emphasis than current leaders on ’employee wellbeing’ and ’employee growth and development.’ They would be less focused on ‘personal income/reward’ or ‘short-term financial goals.'” That missing sense of meaning and opportunity appears to be lacking so grievously that, as Deloitte researchers put it, “Millennials have one foot out the door” of their current employers.
Overweight people experience many forms of discrimination at work, and much of it is perfectly legal. These people are trying to change it.
Journalist and author Lindy West is done hating her body. As an important step to self-acceptance, she “came out as fat” to friends and coworkers. This is her body. Get used to it.
A number of recent startups could actually make a dent in the diversity stats at major tech firms.
In the last two years, diversity practices at major Silicon Valley tech companies like Google, Facebook, and Twitter have been held under a microscope. The big question everyone seems to be asking is “Why are these companies overwhelmingly made up of white men and what can be done to cultivate more diverse talent?”
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