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why business isn't a family

Why your business isn’t a ‘family’

Businesses with good intentions refer to their companies as a “families” in product pages, careers pages, job descriptions and e...

Why even ‘casual’ companies should have dress codes

Companies should have dress codes to define what professionalism looks like in their workplace. Dress codes can clarify roles, c...

The limits of euphemism

As individuals it is likely that we have differing degrees of tolerance for being spoken to indirectly. And yet most of us are e...

The most popular company policies

Most employee handbooks include policies like anti-discrimination, confidentiality, code of conduct and attendance. Though those...

Holacracy after the hype: lessons for business

It has often been tough to separate Holacracy from its accompanying hype. The alternative management system, meant to distribute...

The dishonest myth of work-life balance

There are some truly bad ideas that are nonetheless born survivors. The notion of “work-life balance,” popularized in the 1980s,...

Why parental leave laws aren’t working

If we want to have a workforce in the future we need to have children. The necessity to create tomorrow’s employees means today’...

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Strategies for building an inclusive workplace

An inclusive workplace makes a difference for more than half of all employees who currently hide aspects of their identity at wo...

How to foster workplace diversity

Fostering workplace diversity involves creating an environment where all employees feel valued and can thrive. This can be achie...

How to get employees to actually take vacation

A vacation? What’s that? In 2015, more than half of American workers didn’t use all of their paid vacation days. In comparison, ...

The 15 unsung heroes of the modern workplace

The modern workplace is shaped by the contributions of unsung heroes like Bob Propst, Jack Nilles, the Schnelle brothers, Kathar...

How to scale your distributed team

Technology has advanced to the point that remote working no longer conjures the image of freelancers in pajamas. Thanks to high-...

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