Career

Managers are falling down the corporate ladder, which increases competition and lowers salaries. Meanwhile, the “Mag 7” are cutting jobs.

From screen-time creep to drive-by meetings and plain old disorganization, a professional time coach breaks down how to trim out the things eating up your day. We need breaks and working with others means we need time and space for that collaboration to happen.

Americans haven’t been this worried about their jobs since the Great Recession.

Honing your skills as a strategic thinker does more than solve problems as they appear; it can be a fast track to the top.

Supercharge your search and beat the screening, sharpen your speaking skills and boost your negotiating position.

This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Pete Petersen, 58, who has been looking for work since February 2024 after he was laid off from his corporate job. Petersen spent much of his career in the consumer products healthcare division of a pharmaceutical company.

People are afraid to make decisions they'll regret. But again and again, I've seen people make bad choices. I'm a decision coach who offers one service: a single session in which I help someone make a big (or small) decision.

A recent Apple update saw people waking up to their emails summarised for efficiency, thus creating light uproar, amusement and a series of small domestic mysteries to be untangled on the bus. A man in America shared a message from his mum, who’d told him, “That hike almost killed me.

For the millions of Americans who retire each year, stopping work might seem like a well-deserved break. But it can also precipitate big changes in brain health, including an increased risk of cognitive decline and depression.

In difficult and uncertain times, it is often impossible to make the larger world less crazy. But you can learn to squeeze more joy out of your everyday life.  This is a lesson author Sasha Chapin learned young.