My earliest memory of travel insurance was the life insurance vending machines that used to populate airports up until the early 1980s. For those too young to remember this bizarre part of 20th century air travel, these kiosks offered very short-term …
Below, Richard Davidson and Cortland Dahl share five key insights from their new book, Born to Flourish: How New Science and Ancient Wisdom Reveal a Simple Path to Thriving.
Davidson is a professor of psychology and psychiatry at the University of …
The job search is exhausting: an application, several rounds of interviews, skills assessments, and, increasingly, even a work trial.
Work trials are when an interviewee is asked to complete job-related tasks over a short period of time—often a few…
Airlines worldwide have begun canceling flights as the war in the Middle East strains jet fuel supplies and pushes up prices — but the disruption doesn’t end there.For travelers, it can mean having to navigate a confusing web of passenger protec…
A few years ago, employees at the Chinese tech giant ByteDance, the company behind TikTok, received an unusual internal reminder: colleagues should avoid using “您” (nín), the formal and respectful version of the Chinese word “you.”
Instead, employe…
Over the past year, a quiet shift has been unfolding across the internet. A growing wave of AI-generated news and content sites has flooded search results. Many of them are technically accurate, cleanly written, and structurally sound, yet they feel s…
Meta announced to employees on Thursday that the company is laying off around 10% of the company on May 20—about 8,000 employees out of its workforce of more than 78,000 will be impacted, Bloomberg first reported.
The company will also close …
From software engineers to non-technical staff, Google has urged its employees to fully embrace AI. And it seems like the push to use the tech has resulted in a major productivity leap.
In a Wednesday blog post, Google CEO Sundar Pichai said that t…
After-work drinks are a nice way to bond with colleagues in your 20s and 30s. But, as people get older, different circumstances can necessitate more planning, and new avenues for making friends at work. Take Olga Valadon, 54, whose last corporate role…
You want to be happier. You want to feel more fulfilled. You want to live a longer, healthier life.
Hold that thought.
Lewis Terman, a Stanford University psychologist, was a pioneer in I.Q. testing. His revisions of the Stan…
