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Why hasn’t the four-day work week caught on?

I’ve written about the idea of a four-day work week twice before — here and here — and I just wrote a piece for Vocoli (might be online tomorrow) on the same topic, so I’ve been thinking about it a lot… Continue Reading

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Brief thought exercise: how closely do you connect your self-worth to your job?

Work shouldn’t be EVERYTHING, right? Continue Reading

Maybe the re-rise of the Rust Belt could come on the backs of designers

Check out the map above; it’s all the designers in America, both self-employed and firm-employed, and across a wide spectrum of types of design (architecture, graphic design, etc.) It’s from an article by the great Richard Florida at CityLab that looks… Continue Reading

Moving to Dallas / Fort Worth later this month

I’ll keep this one relatively brief. If you’ve read this blog, you know a little bit about my graduate school run and some of the issues with getting a job afterwards — notably, I wrote about it here, here and… Continue Reading

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Brief thought exercise: should recruiting really go through Human Resources?

Can the “compliance” brain reconcile with the “need for innovative talent” brain? Continue Reading

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Could Google Glass change the fundamental way we work?

Google Glass isn’t really even that widely available yet, and it’s already a divisive issue. Heck, Alamo Drafthouse is already banning it! But perhaps the issue here is context: we’re all thinking about this in terms of regular ol’ people on the street… Continue Reading

The hiring process also falls apart because everything’s ultimately a sale

What’s the line from Glengarry Glen Ross? ABC? Always Be Closing? Everything’s a sale at some moment in organizational culture, and the job interview is no different — the hiring manager and the HR rep are trying to upsell the company… Continue Reading

Government employment actually FELL during this economic recovery. Is that why the recovery still doesn’t feel that strong?

The chart above is courtesy of here. It’s in turn via here, which notes that it’s fairly unprecedented, at least in modern times — government employment tends to rise during recoveries, but not so this time. The public sector has about 21.9 million… Continue Reading