Happy At Work
The Cayman Islands, Spain, Portugal And Buenos Aires Are Welcoming Remote Digital Nomad Workers To Relocate
The narrative lately is all about the surge in Omicron cases, closures of businesses, schools and canceling of air flights and live events. While doom scrolling through social media, you’re missing out on something. Amidst the chaos and madness enveloping us, there are amazing opportunities available for the brave and intrepid. Under the radar, there is a stealth trend that could change your life.
Goldman Sachs Plans To Require Covid Boosters, Mandate Twice Weekly Testing
Goldman Sachs told employees Monday that all individuals coming into the bank’s US offices will be required to show proof of a Covid vaccination booster shot. The new booster policy takes effect February 1 and applies to both employees and visitors. The move comes as a spike in Covid-19 cases complicates the return of office workers in New York and across the United States.
A Crypto-Regulation Showdown Is Coming—Here Are 10 People To Watch
The crypto industry and Washington seemed finally ready to get along in 2021. When Gary Gensler took over as the SEC’s chair in April, President Biden’s pick was hailed as a smart choice by some in the industry who expected the former MIT professor who’d taught blockchain to be an ally of sorts. Tw months later, Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse praised senators—including outspoken crypto critic Elizabeth Warren—for “looking to understand the nuances within crypto” instead of viewing the technology as “just a fad or mostly for criminals.”
The Latest Worker Shortage May Affect Your Health: Pharmacies Don’t Have Enough Staff To Keep Up With Prescriptions
Heidi Strehl worked as a pharmacy technician at a Rite Aid in the Pittsburgh suburbs for more than 16 years. She loved her customers, enjoyed her job and thought of her co-workers as family. But this fall, Strehl abruptly quit, walking out in the middle of a shift — one of many in a wave of pharmacy technicians who are doing the same.
Patagonia’s 5-Word Explanation of Why It’s Closing Its Stores and Giving Employees a Week Off Is the Best I’ve Seen Yet
The holiday shopping season is easily the most important time of the year for most companies. It’s certainly the busiest–which also means it’s the most stressful. That’s especially for those whose job is to make it possible for the rest of us to find and buy the gifts and products we’re looking for. Working retail is hard work. It’s often long hours, especially this time of year. None of that has been made any easier by the fact that we’re almost two years into a pandemic that shows no signs of going anywhere anytime soon.
7 Ways HR Will Look Different In 2022
Two years ago, as I was wrapping up a year-long Fast Company series on 21st century HR, I closed the year by writing about how the world of HR would change in 2020. Then came the global pandemic, renewed conversations on racial equity and social justice, and a massive shift toward the digitization of work that accelerated many of those predictions.
The Physical Office Is Dead (Long Live The Office)
The office seems like an immutable fact of corporate life, to the point that it’s been parodied in popular culture ranging from the antics of Dilbert and his pointy-haired boss to the eponymous TV series in the US and UK. One could almost be forgiven for assuming that shiny buildings filled with drab cubicles are the only way to execute work in a modern society productively.
13 Ways You Can Be Happier At Work, According To Career Experts
If you work 40 hours out of a 168-hour week, that’s nearly a quarter of your week spent at work. Of course, you probably want to make sure those hours are more enjoyable than not. But not everyone is happy at work.
The Happy At Work Podcast S1E3 - A Conversation with Zak Brown, CEO of McLaren Racing
In this episode, we talk with Zak Brown, CEO of McLaren Racing about the importance of building strong teams.