Ah Google, while we and the rest of the press world may be celebrating all of the new announcements…
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Through our ubiquitous underground network of ethically vacant culture correspondents in Silicon Valley, we have obtained the leaked document below;…
Around this time last year, we were telling you about the Rocketbook Wave, a smart notebook that allowed you to…
“I find it funny when my corporate friends who are sitting in their beautiful high rise office buildings in midtown…
The story of New York-based startup Impraise begins at the end–at the end of performance reviews, that is. “The annual…
Click here to skip the intro and jump right to the list of bad habits Over the last six or…
Focusing can be surprisingly uncomfortable. If you’ve got an overactive imagination (read: crippling ADD), it can be damn near unbearable,…
Now that it’s getting colder out, smoking breaks are becoming a bit less pleasant for workers across the globe. Plus,…
If you aren’t doing it standing, you’re not doing it right. I’m talking about work, ya perverts. Researchers have found…
You focus on the call. A new personal assistant system with artificial intelligence, Clarke.ai, will focus on taking the call notes. It turns out there actually is an AI in “team.”
Fidget Cube is a freaking brilliant product. It’s for antsy people (from Antsy Labs) who incessantly click pens, bounce their…
From Dilbert comics and Mike Judge comedies to Vooza videos and the last thing Calista Flockhart did before she started…
While some of us may be confined to a cubicle, the working world is developing a more lax attitude about…
Ever wonder how much back-channeling goes on before an acqui-hire? Ever known someone in the C-Suite of a disruptive startup…
Slack has its own spinoff market of integrated products with one of the latest, Hey Taco, a simple spin on employee rewards and recognition. Of course, there’s not just one name in the game. This roundup of Slack integrations and employee recognition tools covers several startups.
From: Frank Barnhardt To: [email protected] Subject: Welcome Bruce Date: Tues, 15 Mar 2016 9:50 -0800 Hi Team, I wanted to take a moment…
I know – it’s my personality, right? I’m pretty insufferable. No, no, it’s ok. One of my very few redeeming qualities is self-awareness.…
From: Charisma Crawford To: [email protected] Subject: API Change Date: Wed, 16 Dec 2015 10:13 -0800 Hi Team, Just a…
From: Frank Pfeffenheffer Date: November 17, 2015 at 11:51:13 AM PST To: Angie Denbar <[email protected]>, Synergetica Team <[email protected]> Subject: Re:…
Every day, another BuzzFeed-style listicle about the best startup cities in the US flies across my Facebook feed. All manner of…
Remember that scene in Billy Madison when Billy’s cute porkstick of a classmate says that he can’t wait to graduate…
Happiness Supervisor. Customer Support Shepherd. These are just some of the quirky/asinine job descriptions candidates encounter when they start searching…
In our last installment, we took a brief look at worker cooperatives as an alternative to traditional business structures and…
When you’re an entrepreneur, you’re the boss. You have control over the start-up’s direction, the way the product develops, and…
As an entrepreneur, you likely have a set of core values you want your company to have. These values give…
Culture, from an organizational perspective, is the system of shared actions, stipulated values and beliefs within an organization which guide…
Being an entrepreneur. Dreaming up the next hot startup. Creating your own empire. These are the sorts of business aspiration…
Do you know that although implementing team building activities for younger employees effectively curbs turnover, it also impedes their work…
When it comes to dealing with office politics, one can often find themselves in awkward and even job-threatening situations. Some…
If an easy, happy life is top of most people’s agenda, why are so few around the world truly happy…
It is hard enough for people who work traditional 9 to 5 jobs to maintain the proper work-life balance. For…