If you’re feeling stressed or exhausted, you’re not alone. But chances are, you still have to show up—with strength, enthusiasm, and solid performance. How can you accomplish what feels like a Herculean feat? There are strategies that work—both in ter…
On the night Stephanie Cosme died, her sister and brother said they received a curt explanation from a U.S. Air Force official who met them at the hospital: The civilian contractor was failing to follow protocol when she was hit by an aircraft’s…
Job search platform LinkedIn recently released its annual Jobs on the Rise report, including a list of the top 25 fastest-growing jobs in the United States.
To create the list, LinkedIn’s researchers analyzed millions of jobs started by members of…
Welcome to Pressing Questions, Fast Company’s work-life advice column. Every week, deputy editor Kathleen Davis, host of The New Way We Work podcast, will answer the biggest and most pressing workplace questions.
Q: How do I get…
The world is experiencing a rise in destructive leaders, from politicians in democratic countries extolling the virtues of dictatorship to business executives whose destructive appetites overshadow their economic success. These leaders seem to reflect…
Each time I walk into a bookstore I choose a book of poetry off the shelf and open it to random pages. The day I walked into Godmothers, the new bookstore and cultural gathering space in Summerland, California, I picked up a book from the Persian poet…
After years of working with companies like Pfizer, Dell, and USAA, I saw how employees were overwhelmed by complexity and desperate to cut through it. But where to begin? Simplification needed a methodical—yet simple—approach.
We dug deep into how …
It’s not surprising that I suffered from burnout and eventually left the practice of medicine. Only in retrospect can I see clearly that I had built a life around the wrong-sized purpose. The signs were there along the way, but I chose to ignore them….
U.S. job openings rose unexpectedly in November, showing companies are still looking for workers even as the labor market has cooled overall.
Openings rose to 8.1 million in November, the most since February and up from 7.8 million in October, the …
Four years after launching a push for more diversity in its ranks, McDonald’s is ending some of its diversity practices, citing a U.S. Supreme Court decision that outlawed affirmative action in college admissions.McDonald’s is the latest b…
