It’s brainstorming day at TIME.
The TIME 100 is an annual issue we do profiling the 100 most interesting, influential, newsmaking, world-changing people of the past and coming year. (No, you’re not on the list. You were the person of the year; don’t be greedy.) It’s followed up by a celeb-stocked extravaganza in the swanky Time Warner …
Time. I think a lot about time, and not just because it’s the name of the news organization I work for. Like most working people, I find time–or the lack of it–an eternal frustration, an unwinnable battle, the bane of my harried existence. My every day is a race against the clock that I never, ever seem to win.
This is hardly a …
Lately I’ve been reading a lot of blogs by SAHMs. This is in part for a story I’m working on, but also because I wanted to see how the issues of stay-at-home moms differed from those of us who can escape to an office.
You can’t cover the workplace beat without reporting on women at work, and that road leads inexorably to the subject of …
We don’t live in a parchment-and-ink world anymore. So why aren’t our résumés as colorful, interactive and technologically bedazzling as our work?
That’s the premise behind a new business called Protuo.com. I was intrigued by a release they sent me titled, “Résumés Dead as a Dodo; Digital Portfolios Rule.” I usually toss such …
What will I blog about if I’m canned?
I’ve been mulling this over ever since my company announced layoffs last week. I wasn’t terminated in the first sweep, but I could well be if enough people in my category don’t volunteer to vamoose.
Being booted won’t be the end of the world, I think. But I will have to reinvent myself. I’m …
“This project is driving me bonkers.”
“My boss is certifiable.”
“If the dude in the next cubicle doesn’t turn down his freaking iPod, I’m going to throw myself a nervous breakdown.”
We all like to goof about how work makes us whacko. But mental illness isn’t a joke for one in five workers. That’s right: 20% of Americans suffer some …
A couple of months ago, I saw a shrink.
I was just beginning to recover from a nasty bout of a chronic illness that doctors think might be triggered by stress. Although I’ve lived with the illness for 15 years, the prolonged hospital stay scared me into making a resolution: I would do whatever it takes to avoid ever facing two weeks of …
If you keep up with media news, you’ll know that my company has been gearing up for massive layoffs. The axe swung today. Seeing as this is all I can think about, and seeing as layoffs are, after all, the big gorilla of workplace issues, I figure today we can talk about the horrible reality that is job loss.
First, the facts. My …
This might be what you call a good news, bad news situation.
Nine in 10 women have used flexible work arrangements at some point in their careers. Good news: more women are taking advantage of new flexibility in balancing home and work. Bad news: those workers can get comfy in their fuzzy pink slippers, because they’re sure not gonna …
Back in November, I posted an entry titled, “I Feel Bad About My Paycheck.” Truth be told, the best thing about that posting was its eye-roller of a headline, a rip-off of the Nora Ephron best-seller. The posting itself was a brief rant on some news that day about over-paid execs.
To date, the posting has been my No. 1 …
I don’t like career self-help books. I have my reasons. For one, the so-called advice is often outrageously, even condescendingly, obvious: “Build yourself a network!” “Research your prospective employer online!” “Don’t forget to flush!”
For another, the books’ purpose for existence seems more often than not to be furthering the careers …
Study after study proclaims baby boomers make for smarter workers, nicer colleagues, kinder bosses, and, heck, just all-around better people than the rest of us. Maybe it’s all true; far be it for me to knock the collective talents of 78 million people. But it occurs to me: could it be that all this affirmation is lulling boomers into the …
