Mental health
fromPsychology Today
11 hours agoScience Confirms How to Connect to Something Greater at Work
Spirituality in the workplace fosters connection and fulfillment, addressing disconnection and burnout among workers.
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Productivity
fromMountaingoatsoftware
13 hours agoWhy Smart Teams Overcommit And How Leaders Make It Worse
Leaders should avoid pressuring teams into overcommitting, as teams often do this themselves due to their inherent optimism.
Mindfulness
fromLondon Business News | Londonlovesbusiness.com
18 hours agoHow to keep your career going in the midst of grief - London Business News | Londonlovesbusiness.com
Grief can disrupt work, but maintaining structure and realistic expectations helps navigate both loss and professional responsibilities.
Non-profit organizations
fromNonprofit Quarterly | Civic News. Empowering Nonprofits. Advancing Justice.
1 day agoThe Meaningful Reset: Designing Nonprofits to Survive Board-Staff Conflict | Nonprofit Quarterly | Civic News. Empowering Nonprofits. Advancing Justice.
Nonprofit organizations face unique challenges due to emotional investment, leading to conflicts that require careful analysis and intentional resolution.
Productivity
fromSilicon Canals
8 hours agoThe workers most likely to burn out aren't always the ones doing the most - they're the ones who can't tell the difference between urgent and important - Silicon Canals
Workers overwhelmed by urgency rather than importance are more likely to experience burnout.
Psychology
fromSilicon Canals
3 days agoThe person who always offers to drive, always picks the restaurant, always plans the trip is rarely the controlling one in the group. They're the one who learned early that if they didn't organize the connection, the connection simply wouldn't happen. - Silicon Canals
The organizer in a friend group often acts out of learned necessity to maintain connections, not from a desire for control or leadership.
Productivity
fromSilicon Canals
20 hours agoNot everyone who keeps working after the workday ends is ambitious. Some people simply discovered that the transition from productivity to stillness requires passing through a stretch of feeling they've been avoiding for years, and the extra hour of work is cheaper than the ten minutes of silence. - Silicon Canals
Many work late to avoid confronting uncomfortable emotions, not just to be productive.
Artificial intelligence
fromFortune
3 days agoAI promises to free workers from grunt work, but psychologists say those mindless tasks are exactly what our brains need to recover | Fortune
Eliminating menial tasks with AI may reduce productivity by removing necessary breaks for mental bandwidth and problem-solving.
Remote teams
fromwww.businessinsider.com
4 days agoA startup founder's viral post about messaging a colleague on their wedding day has sparked a workplace boundary debate
Flexible communication tools and job market uncertainty are blurring work-life boundaries, intensifying hustle culture expectations.
Artificial intelligence
fromFortune
5 days agoMeta just killed a dashboard that let employees compete to be the company's No. 1 AI token user | Fortune
Meta employees created a leaderboard tracking AI token usage, promoting productivity measurement, but it was taken down due to external data sharing concerns.
Remote teams
fromEntrepreneur
5 days agoThis Startup's Return-to-Office Mandate Failed - Now It's Paying Employees to Show Up: 'We Were Pulling Teeth'
Superhuman increased office attendance by offering wellness stipends for in-office work, replacing a failed return-to-office mandate with a voluntary program.
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Careers
fromSlate Magazine
5 days agoOne of My Employees Showed Up at Her Colleague's House Unannounced. What Followed Has Led to a Total Meltdown of My Office.
Workplace conflicts can severely impact office functionality, requiring careful management to retain valuable employees and address performance issues.
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Careers
fromPsychology Today
1 month ago3 Conversations We Are Not Having at Work and Why We Need Them
Avoided workplace conversations about unsustainable workloads, unmet needs, and broken trust create burnout and disengagement; addressing them directly restores agency and improves organizational culture.
Remote teams
fromhttps://scoop.upworthy.com
1 month agoManager lists out what she does and doesn't care about employees - it's a must-read for every boss
The pandemic transformed work culture by normalizing remote work and forcing companies to prioritize employee mental health and personal circumstances alongside professional responsibilities.
fromFast Company
2 months agoThe upsides to not fitting in with your company culture
Most organizations still hire for culture fit-even those that loudly champion diversity and inclusion. The phrase sounds benign, even wise: who wouldn't want colleagues who "fit in"? But behind this feel-good notion lies one of the biggest obstacles to innovation and progress in modern workplaces. Culture fit has become a euphemism for cultural cloning: selecting people who already look, think, and behave like the incumbents.
Psychology
fromSlate Magazine
1 month agoOne Team Keeps Boycotting My Meetings. This Feels Personal.
No wonder it feels personal that this team rejects your efforts. It is personal; it's happening to you. But it's not about you. This team might have so much internal tension that they can't stand to be in a meeting together. Maybe they had a bad experience with your predecessor. They might think they know it all already and attending meetings is just wasting their time. Or it could really be as straightforward as what they've told you: Their working hours and training times are already used up.
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