Music to My Ears
May 2, 2023
In her terrific new book, This is What it Sounds Like, sound engineer, neuroscientist, and music expert Susan Rodgers breaks down precisely why we like the music we like. In
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Quiet Quitting
February 1, 2023
All the talk of quiet quitting suggests this level of employee disengagement is new, prompted perhaps by the soul searching employees did relative to the pandemic. Not the case, argues
Work Emails
February 1, 2023
For as long as we have had email, we have talked about the manner in which email has upended “work-life balance.” Jessica Bennett takes this question in a new direction,
Preparing for the New Year
February 1, 2023
Mae Anderson and the Wisconsin Law Journal offer a nice synopsis of some of the primary concerns for business owners this year—from economic threats to regulatory changes. As to labor
More EEOC Data Available
October 19, 2022
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission recently released new data and tools with respect to the collection of EEO data. In addition, EEOC has created a more dynamic platform for public
How (Bitter)sweet it Is
October 19, 2022
Susan Cain’s Bittersweet: How Sorrow and Longing Make Us Whole is about the value of a “bittersweet” outlook on life. Notably, Cain speaks to the workplace, and how “[i]t’s the
Managing Remote Workers
October 19, 2022
Authors Anne Helen Peterson and Charlie Warzel talk about their new book Out of Office: The Big Problem and Bigger Promise of Working from Home. One key take-away—remote and hybrid
Less Pondering, More Gossip?
July 19, 2022
In The Extended Mind, author Annie Murphy Paul considers how to “think outside the brain.” Her thesis is that we have reached the limit of what our brains are capable
What You See Isn’t Always What You Get
July 19, 2022
In a recent episode of This American Life, coworkers recount a strange tale about the new guy at work—the candidate they interviewed appeared to be quite different than the employee
The Evolving Workday
April 21, 2022
There is increasing employee interest, and increasing employer experimentation, in the four-day workweek. Steve Fields (founder and partner at Fields Law in Minnesota) and Thomas Carpe (CEO and principal architect
