In June of this year, an estimated 42% of the U.S. labor force was working from home full time—an experience that has fundamentally changed the nation’s views on where and how we work best. Determining how to integrate these learnings int…
With Bitcoin at US$16,000, many fans are once again eyeing the US$20,000 level as the next barrier to breach
Geoffrey Sutton suggests ways we can use whatever degree of influence we have to help others survive the pandemic.
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In normal times, the prospect of having to announce even a small drop in earnings is enough to make an executive team sweat. But that kind of setback pales in comparison to the losses that supply-chain disruptions routinely inflict—and that’s without taking into account huge outlier events like the COVID pandemic. Much has been written […]
“Rob isn’t doing his job.”
I received this message, in similar forms, from two different team members this week.
Rob—a normally strong performer back in the office—wasn’t delivering his reports on time or fully…
Remote work has become the norm thanks to COVID-19, and the pivot is accelerating the adoption of a fairly new job title for several companies, including Facebook: director of remote work. The position at Facebook is designed to support CEO Mark Zucker…
If you’re looking for a job and watching the coming COVID-19 holiday season loom, don’t despair: It could be your lucky break.
“My advice around the holiday season is to keep the search active,” says Sharon Patterson, chief …
At Fast Company we’ve been writing about how to beat distractions and find more focus at work for years—we’ve even covered the topics on this podcast before. But right now, all of the normal advice feels less practical. Between the…
We know that algorithms can outperform humans across an expanding range of settings, from medical diagnosis and image recognition to crime prediction. However, an ongoing concern is the potential for automated approaches to codify existing human biases…
