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: What should …
The most uncertainty with self-employment often comes at the beginning, when you start down this career path. That’s because everything is new and yet to be defined from how you spend your time to how you’ll market yourself to how you’ll file you…
Are you ageist? Odds are yes.
Ageism is one of the less acknowledged but more pervasive “isms” and occurs when making assumptions about a person or group of people based on how old you think they are. Ageism refers to prejudices and biases th…
Slack has undeniably disrupted how we communicate at work. The Slack-ification of workplace communication has infused offices with rapid messaging, emoji-filled out-of-office signals, and quick video “huddles.” But with these new tools has come an unc…
The traditional job interview—a face-to-face meeting with a hiring manager and perhaps a few others from the organization who pepper you with mostly improvised questions about your past—is slowly becoming a relic of the past. These conventional interv…
If you ever had to start a new school in the middle of the school year as a kid, you’re familiar with how it feels to be in a foreign environment, surrounded by people all of whom seem to know the ropes. Starting a new job can feel similarly scary. Ne…
In September, Amazon announced that it was making a drastic change to its hybrid work policy, requiring almost all employees to return to the office five days a week as of next year. Months earlier, Dell told its employees that anyone who was fully re…
This article is part of a series for National Disability Employment Awareness Month produced in collaboration with Making Space CEO and disability rights advocate Keely-Cat Wells. These pieces examine the barriers that disabled people face to particip…
Dealing with a toxic employee can be tricky, especially if you have to manage them in your team. There are so many factors that might be at play, and it’s tough to narrow it all down into one simple explanation. However,…
What will the future of AI bring? Will it revolutionize our world with groundbreaking innovations, creating efficiencies and possibilities we have yet to imagine? Or will it pose serious threats, disrupting industries, economies, and societies in ways…
