6 ways companies are ‘quiet firing’ white-collar workers
There are different ways companies push out employees without conducting layoffs. One way, per Ben Wigert of Gallup, is taking…
Category: Work/Life Balance
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I’m a VP at the company behind Advil and Tums. My day starts with double-screening YouTube and Netflix and ends with surfing Amazon ratings.
Beth Gaeta is the head of US innovation at Haleon — the company behind Advil, Tums, and Sensodyne. She is…
An employee reportedly asked to go remote. Her CEO says he outsourced her job to India instead and saved 40% on labor costs.
CEO Johnny Taylor Jr. told WSJ he outsourced an employee’s job after she requested it be remote. Hiring someone in…
I run a multimillion-dollar slime business at 19. Here’s how I got started in middle school with only $200.
Jungmin Kang started making slime out of Elmer’s glue and borax as a hobby when she was 13. She set…
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I took a demotion and a $7,000-a-month pay cut to help manage my burnout. I have no regrets — here’s how I did it.
I was promoted in 2020 to chief operating officer at the startup The Living Lab. Burnout in my new role…
I’m a female construction manager. I’ve had men comment on my looks and tell me I belong in the kitchen — but I still love my career.
Lindsey Peruto is a construction project manager in Philadelphia. She’s often the only woman there. She’s had men comment on…
I worked as a paralegal by day and had a secret side hustle as a stripper by night. I felt like Clark Kent living a double life.
Raven Inferno spent three years working as both a paralegal and a stripper to afford her own home. She earned…
A Google engineer said taking her kids to school just after finding out she’d been laid off was like being ‘in a fog’ in a heartfelt Medium post
An engineering director at Google found out she was laid off as she prepared to take her kids to school. …