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How AI Requires a New Management Approach

Jared Spataro, Microsoft's corporate vice president for Modern Work & Business Applications, on the changes coming for knowledge work and management.

By Kevin J. Delaney June 25, 2023

The AI Mandate for People Leaders

The introduction of artificial intelligence into the workplace is at its core a "people" issue. That's why people leaders should play a central role in AI's adoption.

By Kevin J. Delaney June 16, 2023

5 Questions for People Leaders to Ask Themselves About AI

How to think about augmentation versus automation.

By Kevin J. Delaney June 16, 2023

How to Pursue Work-Life-Civic Balance

Danielle Allen of Harvard on what 'work-life-civic balance' means and how employers can address a governance crisis in the US.

By Kevin J. Delaney May 14, 2023

"Make Something Wonderful': How Steve Jobs Communicated Purpose

This collection of Steve Jobs's words demonstrates his talent for communicating the missions of Apple and NeXT, providing valuable lessons for any current or aspiring leader.

By Kevin J. Delaney April 25, 2023

Employers Are Quiet Quitting, Too

The current rollback of perks and benefits is a sign of a deeper problem.

By Michelle Yu April 25, 2023

How to Manage Employees Through the Rise of Generative AI

And other advice for people leaders navigating large-scale transitions.

By Cari Nazeer April 3, 2023

What 'Deeply Responsible' Businesses Have in Common

The book 'Deeply Responsible Business' is a valuable catalog of notable efforts over the past two centuries by profit-seeking businesses to also pursue the common good.

By Kevin J. Delaney April 3, 2023

The Humane Response to the Robots Taking Over Our World

A more ethical way for workplaces to use ChatGPT.

By S. Mitra Kalita March 21, 2023

Four Steps for Successful Reinvention in Work and Life

The new book 'Next!' by Joanne Lipman is a thought-provoking guide to figuring out the next thing.

By Kevin J. Delaney March 20, 2023

The Case For Business Leaders to Work Collaboratively with Unions

Liz Shuler, president of the AFL-CIO, on rewriting the dynamic between labor and management.

By Michelle Peng March 19, 2023

What Small Businesses Should Do Now Following Silicon Valley Bank's Collapse

The direct line between this latest crisis and panic on Main Street.

By S. Mitra Kalita March 14, 2023

How the Corporation Came to Be

The new book 'For Profit,' by Texas A&M law professor William Magnuson, examines the history of the corporation, wrestling with whether it serves the interests of society.

By Kevin J. Delaney March 10, 2023

How Employee Feedback Leads to Greater Trust in Leaders

DDI's Stephanie Neal on how senior leaders can build stronger relationships with workers across their organization.

By Cari Nazeer February 21, 2023

What Workplaces Gain When Younger Workers Take Sabbaticals

How extended time off transforms both employees and employers.

By Cari Nazeer February 6, 2023

The Business Case for Better Air Quality

How "healthy buildings" improve decision-making and performance.

By Cari Nazeer January 30, 2023

Why Managing Talent Is Now (Finally) a Core Business Function

New research highlights the most urgent challenges in building a successful talent strategy,

By S. Mitra Kalita January 17, 2023

What Workplaces Are Getting Wrong About Caregiver Support

How employers can think more strategically about what caregivers need.

By Cari Nazeer January 8, 2023

The Best Workplace Lessons We Learned from Books This Year

Research, insights, and advice for managing yourself and your team.

By Kevin J. Delaney December 30, 2022

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How 'Professionalism' Harms Workers of Color

Unwritten workplace norms are weaponized against people of color.

By S. Mitra Kalita July 25, 2023

How to Make the Most of the Least Productive Season

Advice for supporting a mutual unplugging.

By S. Mitra Kalita July 18, 2023

How Workplaces Can Be More Proactive About Supporting Mental Health

New research illuminates where most workplaces fall short.

By Cari Nazeer July 16, 2023

Why Managers Resist Diversity, and How to Fix It

An interview with Christopher To, an assistant professor of human resource management at Rutgers University, and co-author of a rent paper on managers' attitudes towards diversity.

By Cari Nazeer July 9, 2023

Looking Back on Three Years of Performative Diversity Efforts

Now we know: The work employers and institutions have done since the murder of George Floyd has been largely cosmetic.

By S. Mitra Kalita June 27, 2023

The Phrases You Should Banish From Your Work Vocabulary

Overuse of workplace jargon isn't just annoying--it's also a barrier to inclusion.

By S. Mitra Kalita June 13, 2023

What to Do When a Colleague's Right to Exist Is Under Attack

Actions workplaces can take to help their LGBTQ+ employees feel safe at work.

By S. Mitra Kalita June 6, 2023

What the Succession Finale Reveals About Impostor Syndrome

Warning: This column contains spoilers for Succession... and also corporate America. The television series Succession, just concluded this week, focuses on who gets the top job at the fictional media conglomerate Waystar Royco. While this...

By S. Mitra Kalita May 30, 2023

What Moms Want for Mother's Day: Put Us in Charge of the Return-to-Office Plans

Why the idea of work-life balance sets working parents up to fail--and what to strive for instead.

By S. Mitra Kalita May 9, 2023

How to Succeed at Your First Job

How employers can get the first-job experience right.

By S. Mitra Kalita May 2, 2023

Inside Michigan's New Model for Addressing the Child-Care Crisis

A look inside Michigan's Tri-Share program, a new model for publicly-subsidized, employer-based childcare.

By Michelle Peng April 30, 2023

Lee Bollinger's Last-Ditch Case to Save Affirmative Action

The Columbia president, retiring this year as the Supreme Court is expected to roll back affirmative action, on the challenges ahead for the country.

By S. Mitra Kalita April 11, 2023

What We Know About How Board Diversity Affects Companies

Wharton professor Stephanie Creary on the controversial contention over Silicon Valley Bank's board.

By Cari Nazeer March 26, 2023

How to Create a Personal DEI Mission Statement

Dr. Randal Pinkett, author of 'Data-Driven DEI,' on how individual workers can use data to improve diversity.

By Cari Nazeer March 12, 2023

The Most Important Factor for Predicting Cohesion and Conflict at Work

Multigenerational-workforce researcher Michael North on how your length of time in a job connects and divides workers.

By Cari Nazeer March 6, 2023

'Dilbert' Was a Historical Artifact Long Before it Was Canceled

The comic-strip character's anti-hero, everyman victim schtick now feels more nefarious.

By S. Mitra Kalita February 28, 2023

How to Communicate With Authority in Your Own Voice

'Permission to Speak' by Samara Bay is a love letter to "all of us trying to navigate the intricacies of expanding in the moments that matter."

By Emily Goligoski February 24, 2023

7 Rules for Better Identity Conversations

The book 'Say the Right Thing' is a helpful guide for workplace discussions about race, gender, sexual orientation, and other aspects of individual identity.

By Kevin J. Delaney February 10, 2023

9 Black History Month Ideas to Implement ASAP

And continue year-round.

By S. Mitra Kalita February 7, 2023

The US Values Asian Work More Than Asian Lives

The many misconceptions about the Asian employee experience in this country.

By S. Mitra Kalita January 31, 2023

The Best Editor Browser Extensions

Two picks for stronger writing wherever you work online.

By Cari Nazeer July 26, 2023

How to Make the Most of the Least Productive Season

Advice for supporting a mutual unplugging.

By S. Mitra Kalita July 18, 2023

The Best AI Text Generators

Sign up here to receive our free Work Tech newsletter in your inbox. The rise of generative artificial intelligence means all of us can now have writing assistants at our fingertips. With simple prompts, these...

By Jacob Clemente July 5, 2023

The Best AI Video-Editing Tools

Two picks for creating social-media and marketing videos without deep expertise.

By Michelle Peng June 21, 2023

The AI Mandate for People Leaders

The introduction of artificial intelligence into the workplace is at its core a "people" issue. That's why people leaders should play a central role in AI's adoption.

By Kevin J. Delaney June 16, 2023

The Best AI Time-Blocking Tools

Two picks to help you find more focused hours in the day.

By Cari Nazeer June 14, 2023

How L.L.Bean Adds Outdoors Time to the Workweek

The benefits of collective experiences of the outdoors for teams, from "deep immersion" in company culture to more effective onboarding to enhanced retention and engagement.

By Michelle Peng June 11, 2023

The Best Digital Brainstorming Tools

Two picks to make brainstorm meetings easy, efficient, and generative for distributed teams.

May 31, 2023

The Best Retrospective Tools

Two picks for better postmortems.

By Gillian Zamora May 24, 2023

6 Rules for a Successful Internship in an Uncertain Moment

What you can control when hiring is hell and you don't know if you'll be replaced by automation anyway.

By S. Mitra Kalita May 23, 2023

The Best AI Audio Transcription Tools

Three picks for eliminating FOMOOM: fear of missing out on meetings.

By Glenn Fleishman May 17, 2023

How certain types of jobs accelerate your career

The attributes of "career accelerator" roles, and other new tips for thinking about opportunity, inclusion, and advancement from MIT Sloan Management Review's Work/23: The Big Shift.

By Michelle Peng May 7, 2023

A Career Coach's Framework for Making Work More Meaningful

Start by asking yourself three questions.

By Adam Najberg April 18, 2023

The Most Important Factor for Predicting Cohesion and Conflict at Work

Multigenerational-workforce researcher Michael North on how your length of time in a job connects and divides workers.

By Cari Nazeer March 6, 2023

How Writing Lessons and 'Working Out Loud' Make Work Better

The book "Work Here Now" covers a lot of ground in showing the many ways that better management practices could improve the work experience.

By Kevin J. Delaney March 3, 2023

A Playbook for Shaping Company Culture in an Economic Downturn

Setting and protecting priorities for company leadership, managers, and current employees and future employees.

By Cari Nazeer March 3, 2023

'Dilbert' Was a Historical Artifact Long Before it Was Canceled

The comic-strip character's anti-hero, everyman victim schtick now feels more nefarious.

By S. Mitra Kalita February 28, 2023

What Volunteering Can Do For Workplace Culture

PayPal chief corporate affairs officer Franz Paasche on how the company's volunteer program built a sense of community during the pandemic.

By Cari Nazeer February 26, 2023

How Discipline Can Boost Creativity

Many of us have been trying to figure out how to best sustain creativity and innovation amid changes in where, when, and how we work. So it's a timely moment for the arrival of a...

By Emily Goligoski January 27, 2023

A Case Study in Making Remote Work Succeed at Scale

Allstate's CEO on why the vast majority of its US workers are permanently remote, and the adjustments to make that succeed.

By Kevin J. Delaney July 23, 2023

The Latest Employee Perk? An Affordable Home.

How workplaces are using employer-sponsored housing support to get workers back to the office.

By S. Mitra Kalita May 16, 2023

What the Return-to-Office Debate Means for Single People

A workplace-connection expert on the overlooked value of gradual relationship-building.

By Lakshmi Rengarajan February 14, 2023

How Offices Are Using Less, Better Space

JLL's Neil Murray on where organizations can save money on office space and where they should invest.

By Kevin J. Delaney February 13, 2023

What to Know When Five Generations Share an Office

Advice for intergenerational harmony in a changing workplace.

By S. Mitra Kalita January 24, 2023

How IDEO's Chief Creative Officer Makes In-Office Time Better

How the design firm structures bringing staff together to strengthen organizational culture and productivity.

By Kevin J. Delaney January 23, 2023

The Plight of the Wall Street Worker Forced Back to the Office

That kinder, gentler, more flexible Wall Street that emerged in the pandemic, where bankers had more flexible schedules and the ability to work from home? It was nice while it lasted. Goldman Sachs CEO David...

By S. Mitra Kalita October 25, 2022

The 3 Pillars of a Good Job

A new definition of job quality for employers to heed.

By S. Mitra Kalita October 4, 2022

How Pinterest's New Work-From-Anywhere Program Balances Flexibility With Predictability

The company's chief people officer shares key takeaways from PinFlex, which allows employees to live anywhere in the country.

By Suein Hwang June 6, 2022

What One Executive Wishes They Could Tell Employees About Return-to-Office Plans

An anonymous C-level leader confesses the questions they're wrestling with.

By S. Mitra Kalita May 24, 2022

7 Steps to Design a Flexible Work Arrangement

A new book by the co-founders of Slack's Future Forum offers the latest thinking on how to reimagine the 9-to-5 schedule.

By Kevin J. Delaney May 20, 2022

What In-Home Daycare Educators Know About Making Remote Work Better

Three lessons from family childcare providers about working from home.

By Michelle Peng May 19, 2022

Lesson from JPMorgan Chase and Goldman Sachs: Take a Hard Line on Return-to-Office at Your Own Risk

Organizations can learn many lessons from the return-to-office approaches of Goldman Sachs CEO David Solomon and JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon.

By Suein Hwang May 16, 2022

The Three Myths About the Return to Offices

As much of the world begins to shift from the pandemic phase of Covid to the endemic, many executives see an opening to implement their "return-to-office" plans. But employees have spent over two years proving...

By Brian Elliott April 20, 2022

The Pioneer of the Modern Workday Overhauls Its Schedule Once Again

How Ford Motor plunged into the future of work by unveiling a hybrid work plan for 25,000 salaried employees and converting millions of square feet into collaboration centers.

By Suein Hwang April 18, 2022

Asking the Right Questions and Embracing Discomfort Make Workplaces More Inclusive

The current return to office period is rife with questions about inclusion. Principal among them is how do you use the shifts around work to make workplaces more inclusive for workers of color especially? We spoke with Daisy Auger-Dominguez, who wrote the 'Inclusion Revolution' and is the chief people officer at Vice Media Group.

By Kevin J. Delaney April 15, 2022

What Libraries Say About the Future of Offices

Discussion about how office spaces need to change often focuses on the need for better meeting and gathering space--so that hybrid workers can more easily collaborate and build social connections when in the office. But...

By Kevin J. Delaney March 30, 2022

How to Make Hybrid Work for Everyone

Lynda Gratton of London Business School has been one of the leading academic voices on what work should look like after the pandemic. This week she published Redesigning Work: How to Transform Your Organization &...

By Kevin J. Delaney March 21, 2022

An Inside Look at Harry's Return to Office Plans

Harry's is offering a look into its detailed plans for bringing employees back to the office. The New York shaving company has posted online the 81-page "How to Hybrid" guide it has distributed to employees...

By Kevin J. Delaney February 28, 2022

'A celebration of audio': Inside Spotify's Colorful New Offices

A look at Spotify's global redesign project, with photos from LA, NYC, Stockholm, Berlin, and Toronto.

By Michelle Peng October 26, 2022

How a Mobile-First Real-Estate Firm Brought Home Into the Office

A look inside Avenue 8's New York City office.

By Michelle Peng September 21, 2022

Reimagining Lever House, a NYC Landmark, for the Future of Work

Plans are underway to redevelop Lever House, an icon of modernist architecture, for a new generation of workers.

By Michelle Peng June 23, 2022

At This Office, Employee Wellness Starts With a Pickleball Court

Financial-services firm TIAA is opening the doors to its redesigned Charlotte, NC campus this summer, where they emphasized employees' physical and mental wellness throughout the 92 acres.

By Michelle Peng May 25, 2022

What It Looks Like When Architects Build a Future of Work Space for Themselves

Architecture firm Perkins Eastman designed its new Pittsburgh studio to be 'a real time experiment in the future of work.'

By Michelle Peng April 20, 2022

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