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When it makes sense to abandon a vision, according to Jeff Bezos
Jeff Bezos has been running Amazon for 24 years, many lifetimes in entrepreneur years. At Wired’s 25th anniversary summit in San Francisco today (Oct. 15), he imparted some of his wisdom onto the...
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Is turning off your notifications the ultimate productivity hack?
Enabling notifications is essentially giving other people permission to schedule blocks of time in your day. Specifically, in 23-minute chunks. Researchers have found (pdf) that it takes, on average,...
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Why all work meetings should be video meetings, even the in-person ones
Clark Valberg is staring into his computer’s webcam. As the CEO of InVision, a 750-person software company where every employee works remotely, video conferences are the norm for him. But there’s one...
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The Myers-Briggs Company wants to bring personality tests to work
In 1942, a mother-daughter duo created a personality test that would captivate a generation. It was the middle of World War II, and Katharine Cook Briggs and her daughter Isabel Briggs Myers wanted to...
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Is freelancing a game you have to pay to play?
How much money does it cost to advance your career? It depends on where you spend it. Fiverr, the online marketplace for freelancers, released a new product this week called Learn. The new platform...
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Your next work assignment: Tune into this podcast
Waco is a town of 137,000 people in central Texas. It has six local television stations, about as many local newspapers and magazines, and more than a dozen local radio stations. An hour away in Round...
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The most productive meetings don’t have slide decks
Most meetings are not conversations. They are a series of lectures. Jim from accounting gets up in front of a seated room. He shuffles through a series of slides, reiterating the words on the screen....
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These are the jobs expected to grow the most in the next five years
If robots are automating away the jobs of the future, it makes sense to place your employment bets now. New data from the employment website CareerBuilder might help you make your decision....
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Three settings you can change on your phone right now to help you focus
Stop me if you’ve heard this one. You’re mindlessly scrolling through [Instagram/Facebook/Twitter] when you suddenly snap out of it. Wait, I shouldn’t be wasting my time this way, you think. You close...
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When should startups start to care about where they get their money?
There’s a suddenly inconvenient truth about Softbank’s Vision Fund. The $100 billion fund, which revolutionized the way Silicon Valley thinks about fundraising, has written checks of $1 billion or more...
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1Password is offering free accounts to anyone running for political office
Strong passwords won’t save democracy, but they certainly can help protect it. In anticipation of the 2018 US midterm elections, the cybersecurity company 1Password is offering free accounts to anyone...
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The lure of benefits that help employees pay their student loans
More than ping-pong tables or catered lunches, millennials want to pay down their student loans. Over two-thirds of Americans graduate with student loan debt, which averaged $39,400 for those in the...
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Google reportedly paid the ‘father of Android’ $90 million to resign over...
A bombshell report from The New York Times today (Oct. 25) revealed that Google gave Android founder Andy Rubin a $90 million exit package despite finding sexual-misconduct claims against him to be...
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In the future, companies won’t hire remote employees. They’ll hire remote teams
In Silicon Valley—the 50-mile peninsula between San Jose and San Francisco—there are both more software engineers than anywhere else in the world and not nearly enough of them to meet the Bay Area’s...
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Read Sundar Pichai’s response to sexual misconduct allegations against Google...
What a time to work at Google. On the same day the company revealed its third-quarter earnings, a bombshell report (paywall) from The New York Times revealed that the search giant has a history of...
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Google has a .new time-saving trick for starting docs, slides, sheets, and forms
Here’s a feature that’s sure to delight avid users of Google Drive. The search giant announced last week a new time-saving trick that lets you open a blank document, presentation, spreadsheet, or form...
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A new kind of tourism: co-working trips abroad
There are 30 strangers currently living together in Bali. There are another 30 in Mexico City, and 30 more in Buenos Aires. None of them are locals. None of them are on vacation. And this isn’t an...
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Two Facebook engineers built a tool to cut down on meetings. Now it’s a $900...
There’s work, and then there’s the work that goes into doing your work. And a lot of workers spend more time on the latter. Dustin Moskovitz, a co-founder of Facebook, came to this realization a few...
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Free beer for WeWork’s New York tenants will be capped at four glasses a day
The beer is flowing a little less freely at WeWork locations in New York City. The co-working giant (and New York City’s largest office tenant) has decided to limit the amount of beer it serves to its...
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How common is it to share salary information? It depends on your age
Millennials love to share. They invented the share button and the sharing economy. They share their mundane thoughts on social media and their passwords to streaming services like Hulu and Netflix. So...
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The US now has more than 56.7 million freelance workers—and they vote
Freelancers are on the rise. And they’re rising up. A new report from Freelancers Union and Upwork estimates that there are now 56.7 million Americans freelancers, an increase of 3.7 million in the...
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IBM’s Watson is now offering career coaching to hourly employees
Hourly work rarely comes with benefits. But the baristas, waiters, and retail workers of the world might soon have access to a benefit formerly reserved for the C-suite. A new partnership between IBM...
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Election day isn’t a US federal holiday, but more employers are acting like...
Tuesday (Nov. 6) should be the busiest day of the year for Phone2Action, a Washington DC-based outfit that makes it easier for voters to contact their elected officials and easier for candidates and...
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One winner of the work-from-home revolution: the cottage seat-filler industry
In the spring of 2010, Vice had a meeting with Intel that could have been make-or-break for the company. Though popular at the time, Vice was barely sustaining itself as a business. Intel, one of the...
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Is it time to drop the selfie from your LinkedIn profile?
Before experience, educational background, or skills, a small profile picture on LinkedIn is often the first thing a recruiter sees when making a judgment about a potential hire. And yet so many people...
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These are the skills to learn for the future of work, according to the World...
When we talk about the future of work, we often talk about job titles as a proxy for where the economy is heading. Machinists and truck drivers are out, robotics programmers and project managers are...
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Facebook is launching a career-development site, taking on LinkedIn
Little by little, Facebook is starting to sound a lot more like LinkedIn. In February, the social network announced a new feature that lets users browse and apply for jobs on the site. In August, it...
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Box CEO Aaron Levie thinks big companies are responding to disruption the...
If you ever have to go to an enterprise software conference, pray that Box CEO Aaron Levie will grace the stage. We’re not sure whether it’s his comic-book hair, comedian’s charisma, or the fact that...
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The problem with social media has never been about bots. It’s always been...
Hearts emanate from Jennifer Kahl’s profile picture on Twitter. She appears to be a woman in her late teens. But look at the tweets below, and you might become suspicious. She’s tweeted 83,000 times...
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The key to workplace productivity is not an app
You could waste a lot of time looking for the right productivity app. There are over 19,000 productivity apps in the iTunes store, and endless recommendations of apps that promise to magically give...
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Some of the biggest recruiters of tech talent are from outside the tech sector
What do Lockheed Martin, JPMorgan Chase, and Best Buy all have in common? So far in 2018, they’ve each posted more tech job listings on the jobs site Indeed than Apple and Facebook combined. Last week,...
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How Tim Cook spends the first two hours of his workday
Morning routines are hot. The trend of sharing how the world’s most successful people spend their mornings has swept across the internet, as eager readers hope to glean insight into how they, too, can...
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NPR’s Terry Gross says this is the only icebreaker question you need
With nearly 14,000 interviews under her belt, Terry Gross knows a thing or two about asking questions. As the host of the NPR show Fresh Air, she’s held conversations with world leaders, famous actors,...
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LinkedIn is testing a professional version of Instagram stories
Stories, the (somewhat) ephemeral short-form video format, has taken over the social web. It was first popularized by Snapchat, then copied by Instagram in 2016, brought onto Facebook in 2017, and now...
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The countries where robot adoption is happening faster than expected
There’s perhaps no more telling metric for our time than the number of robots in a country per every 10,000 manufacturing workers. With the threat of automation looming, it’s commonly understood that...
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How HR software company Workday gathers its own employee feedback
Once a week, the employees of the HR software company Workday get a two-question survey. On #FeedbackFriday, as Workday’s senior vice president and “people and performance evangelist” Greg Pryor calls...
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We translated GM’s “staffing transformation” press release into plain English
In a jargon-filled pressed release, General Motors today (Nov. 26) announced it is laying off 15% of its salaried workers and unallocating—err, closing—five plants in the US and Canada. As CNN puts it,...
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If your CEO has a coach, maybe you deserve one too
Imagine the first day of a new job. The IT department sets you up with a new computer, the HR department gives you an employee handbook, and your manager hands you the contact information for a career...
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What would you pay to be able to nap at the office?
For humans, naps are a built-in feature, not a bug. Scientific research has proven that feeling sleepy between 1 pm and 3 pm is as much the result of biology as it’s the result of a big lunch or a...
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An introvert’s brief guide to networking
Karen Wickre has been working in Silicon Valley longer than most Silicon Valley CEOs have been alive. She came to the Bay Area in the mid-1980s to join a nonprofit, but ended up spending the 30 years...
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One of Silicon Valley’s hottest startups has 800 employees and no job titles
Josh Reeves, the CEO and co-founder of the payroll-software startup Gusto, has a strange job title on LinkedIn. Unlike other founders who might play coy with quippy euphemisms like “chief empathy...
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Two things to look for in candidates instead of “culture fit”
Scott Belsky, Adobe’s chief product officer, was designing a new feature for his last company, Behance, when his co-founder Matias Corea came to him with a question. Behance was a site where creative...
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It’s time to take remote co-living seriously
Emmanuel Guisset had an idea. A serial entrepreneur and travel enthusiast, Guisset wanted to build a haven for digital nomads like himself to escape from the city. He had a dream of opening up a...
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WeWork is now an American Express business platinum cardholder perk
The credit card has evolved from its days of merely processing payments to serve as an entry pass to museums, airport lounges, and now WeWork offices. American Express announced that starting in...
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This company takes its entire staff on a month-long international retreat...
In 2016, Johnny Warström and seven colleagues from his Swedish startup decamped from Stockholm to San Francisco to take part in a startup accelerator. The accelerator program was by no means a...
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The 100 best places to work in 2019, according to Glassdoor
Last year, Facebook was No. 1 on the job site Glassdoor’s list of the best places to work. This year, it dropped to number seven. The lesson: Employees don’t like it when you share the personal data of...
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Human translators are the perfect microcosm of the future of work
Human translators are caught in the crosshairs of two conflicting trends. On one hand, the world is increasingly globalized. With technology that can spread across borders with the touch of a button,...
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This is Peter Thiel’s favorite interview question
How many golf balls fit in a 747? How much would you charge to wash all the windows in Chicago? How many gas stations are there in Manhattan? Tech companies like Google were once famous for vetting job...
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The inventor of the cubicle created them to give office workers a sense of...
Before Robert Propst came around, offices looked like assembly lines. Flat desks were set up side by side so that management could look over employees like supervisors observing machines on the factory...
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Meet Andrew Yang, a 2020 US presidential hopeful running against the robots
Andrew Yang doesn’t mince his words: He doesn’t think the robots are coming; he knows they are already here. And he wants to take his concerns about this all the way to the White House. “I’m Andrew...
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