Soft Surroundings, an upscale retailer of women’s apparel and home and beauty products, is opening its first Maryland store this month in Westfield Annapolis Mall in Annapolis.
The store will open Nov. 20, part of an 11-store expansion this year for the St. Louis-based retailer.
The retailer specializes…
BJ’s Wholesale Club will open its newest Maryland store, in Baltimore’s Canton neighborhood, on Saturday, the retailer said today.
The 90,000-square-foot-warehouse club at 4701 O’Donnell Street, on the former site of specialty paint company Complimentary Coatings Corp., is expected to employ about…
If you’re early in your career, you likely haven’t faced many setbacks yet, but there are a lot of lessons in failure and hardship.
Among the good times, your college years are also filled with moments of hair-pulling and the occasional screaming in frustration at the top of your lungs. Back then, you probably asked yourself, “Why is this happening to me?!” but with the passing of time, your mind-set shifts. The stress, sadness, or anger that you once felt was replaced with understanding—and even a lesson learned. Here, three millennials share their in-the-moment nightmares that eventually helped them overcome:
Successful leaders manage to be confident without being arrogant. Here’s how they blend in humility to make room for others’ ideas.
Try to think back to a time when you felt incredibly confident.
Seventeen years after their hugely influential Mr. Show, the comedic duo is back. Here they discuss how W/ Bob & David works.
In the 1990s, David Cross and Bob Odenkirk helped pioneer a more thoughtful, less structured, innovative style of comedy.
Women are criticized for vocal fry, and hiring managers are biased against accents. Building the case for linguistic diversity at work.
Lately, much attention has been paid to how women—especially young women—speak. Linguistic styles like vocal fry and “upspeak” or “uptalk” have been examined—first for the irritation they cause some people, then for how women are more frequently criticized for such vocal habits than men, even though there’s no evidence that men are any less likely to speak this way.
Born Scott Colton, he’s now a rather ripped professional wrestler, podcaster, and an indie comedy favorite. Here’s how Colt Cabana wins.
The statement was as succinct as it was brutal. Like a folding chair to the noodle.
A new pledge asks digital economy companies to commit to creating “good work.” But what does that mean?
Many workers who take jobs on “gig economy” platforms like Uber, Handy, Instacart, and Taskrabbit are independent contractors who aren’t entitled to the same benefits, insurance, and other social programs as their on-staff peers. Requiring (or even allowing) platforms to provide this type of safety net might be a matter of policy, but the National Domestic Workers Association (NDWA) thinks that platforms can and should do more to help their workers.
Tackle email, scheduling, news, commutes, and more.
Nowadays, you can get a lot done before you’re even vertical in the morning. Here are a handful of apps to thumb through while you’re shaking off sleep and getting ready to start your day.
And guess what? It doesn’t matter if you’re a CEO or a minimum wage worker.
Over the last few years, we’ve heard a lot about how artificial intelligence could put large numbers of people out of work. An often-cited study from Oxford University found that 47% of jobs in America are at “high risk of computerization” in the next 20 years. And more recent research from Forrester predicts a net loss of 9.1 million jobs in the next decade.
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