Q: My colleague makes loud personal phone calls all the time. I work in an open office and sit right next to him. How can I get him to be more quiet without creating an awkward situation? A: Dealing with noisy neighbors is one of the many curses of working in an open office space.…
DetailsMillennials are taking over your office. More than one in three (35 percent) working Americans are millennials, eclipsing other generations in the labor force, according to a Pew Research Center analysis of US Census Bureau data. The organization defines millennials as the generation aged 21 to 36 in 2017. In 2017, 56 million…
DetailsWells Fargo had mountains of well-documented evidence to back up its decision to fire a poorly performing employee, but a simple phrase by a clueless manager could wind up making all that evidence moot. And if the lawsuit — Stewart v. Wells Fargo — does cost the organization big, perhaps it can serve as…
DetailsBias against parents — and especially mothers — has been well documented. We call it the “Maternal Wall,” and we’ve been studying it for years, researching how women who have always been successful at work sometimes find their competence questioned when they take maternity leave or ask for a flexible work schedule. We know now…
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