Life & Style From surprise days off to 30-hour workweeks, managers are devising ways to help employees; ‘How are you really, really doing?’ Nov. 8, 2020 7:00 am ET Photo: Mark Matcho A few months into
These Are the Perks Companies Use to Get Workers Back to Their Offices Free lunch. Discounted parking. Learning pods for children. Some New York City companies are offering incentives to workers who a
Microsoft recently announced new guidance for remote work, and it has potential to change how the company works for years to come. The biggest change: making work from home, at least part of the time,
Digital Hygiene in the Zoom Era The line between professional and personal feels blurred this year. Let’s make sure we don’t get fired — or worse. Is your camera on? By Oct. 22, 2020 “If someone asked
July Is the New January: More Companies Delay Return to the Office From Ford to Microsoft, white-collar companies are increasingly extending working from home through next summer. Many employers are d
Published 12 October 2020 Share page About sharing Image source, Getty Images By Jonty Bloom Business reporter With a great many of us still working from home, how can you hope to get promoted if you
The one thing that’s drilled into your head as a business major and leader is, “here is how you succeed.” Accordingly, you are taught best practices – things you do to optimize success. As you would e
Are you a parent attempting to work from home for the first time? Many Hubbers are working at home with kids too. This week’s focus is a change for our remote work series , which has been about functi
Successfully managing a global team requires rockstar leadership and strong communication skills, coupled with cultural awareness and empathy. It’s important to collaborate with your teams in ways tha
At GitHub, working remotely has been in our DNA from the start. With over 80% of our engineers working remotely before COVID-19, the team has established some amazing best practices that foster a stro
The development of open source software has been distributed from the beginning. There are over one hundred million open source projects in the world. On average, more than 74 thousand community contr
The tech industry was among the first to embrace the switch to remote working–even before COVID-19. More and more companies are extending remote work guidance until the beginning of 2021 and some comp
Remote Work Isn’t Working? Maybe Your Company Is Doing It Wrong Experts have tips on the office routines that need to change when everyone’s working from home. Meetings, for one. In surveys, most peop
By Robert I. Sutton August 2, 2020 It was mid-June, three months after the Covid-19 crisis had forced the top executives in a fast-growing tech startup to leave their offices and work from home. Execu
A few weeks ago I shared a post that I wrote a little bit after I had gone back to work with my first child. Well, fast forward a few years and here I am… pregnant with my second. I’ve kept my second
Being a mom in tech is challenging. Being a new mom and fairly new to the tech industry is even more difficult. For a long time, I didn’t write about it. You’ll notice that even though I bring my chil
Getting feedback is incredibly important but really difficult. In software development there are no hard and fast rules about what puts you in one level versus another AND it’s different at every comp
Recently I completed a fairly intense and thorough job hunt. Early on in the process, I spent some time thinking about my must-haves and my nice-to-haves. I thought through what was important to me an
I am a busy lady. I’ve got a husband and am the dedicated mom to a toddler son. I speak at conferences. I run a meetup. I help organize other meetups. I meet weekly with a mentor. I’m on the RailsConf
Workshop: Company Values and You Goal: To have folks think critically about the company values and how they relate to them individually and their team. To solidify in peoples’ mind’s what the core val
For those of us on remote teams, the all-hands is of utmost importance. Getting your entire team together, including remote folks, is incredibly important. Because they are so important, however, it’s
Tech Companies are leaning on cloud computing more than ever but also looking to manage those expenses more efficiently Updated July 27, 2020 7:35 am ET Amazon said in April that its cloud division gr
For some, this may come as a surprise. For me, this is just the first domino of Microsoft’s MSFT, -1.70% rise and Salesforce’s CRM, -1.87% fall. Two years ago, I suggested that Microsoft’s business ap
Work & Life Telecommuting is emerging as a coveted perk. Workers and their companies see the benefits, but how will they feel in 2021? July 24, 2020 5:00 am ET Dick Black still remembers the guy he wo
Business Projects take longer. Collaboration is harder. And training new workers is a struggle. ‘This is not going to be sustainable.’ By Chip Cutter | Photographs by Cayce Clifford for The Wall Stree
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The Fix That ‘Home Office’ of Yours? It Needs an Upgrade You may be working from home for a while. It’s time for something more professional than a corner of the dining table. Working from home doesn’
For Immediate Release Chris Parnin cjparnin@ncsu.edu Matt Shipman matt_shipman@ncsu.edu A new study from North Carolina State University and Microsoft finds that the technical interviews currently use
As a full-time college student who also works part-time, I can find it hard to schedule and organize my day. I have found it even harder to prioritize now that all my classes have gone online. After t
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Today’s People Are the New Perimeter Businesses that recognize people are the new cybersecurity perimeter pave the way for breakthrough approaches for organizations to finally move left of breach whil
Published 6 July 2020 Share page About sharing Image source, Getty Images Technology firm Fujitsu has said it will halve its office space in Japan as it adapts to the "new normal" of the coronavirus p
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More People Will Be Fired in the Pandemic. Let’s Talk About It. For starters, don’t do it on Zoom. And consider not doing it at all. June 14, 2020 A man hurrying past the steps to the U.S. Senate in W
CIO Journal An Israeli medical center is using Microsoft HoloLens wearable technology to help teach health-care workers how to operate ventilators May 29, 2020 2:34 pm ET Using the Help Lightning augm
CIO Journal Being able to monitor production remotely during the pandemic has made the case for even more data capabilities. June 2, 2020 5:30 am ET A Norsk Hydro aluminium plant in Karmoey, Norway. J
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