How to get great feedback (without making things feel robotic).

Welcome to your first day as a new employee at Sink & Ship, the best online destination for bathroom reno essentials!

Are treadmills okay? Are beauty filters weird? We explore.

So, you’ve been asked to review a colleague, yourself, or—gulp—your manager. Don’t stress, we’ll walk you through it.

Looking to make meaningful change? Here's how to remove barriers and reduce harm, step by step.

A (satirical) guide to bro navigation.

What we saw working with 50+ people-first teams in 2023. Plus: what we think is coming next.

How to build structure without losing your soul.

All your toughest open salary questions answered.

How to get someone who "gets it".

What does it really mean to dress for success?

Our how-to framework for launching employee rewards across different countries.

Four key ways employers can help newcomers succeed.

After suffering a brain injury, writer Emily Key discovered recovery was a lot like treating burnout. Here's how she healed.

Three ways to approach (fair) compensation for distributed teams.

A perk that encourages whole-human belonging.

Our tips for celebrating remotely– minus the rainbow washing.

Parenting is hard. Here's how workplaces can make it easier.

How much you can get away with on your own, and how to do it.

Our dictionary for the modern world of work.

Non-monogamous folks spill on how they navigate benefits, parties and judgmental coworkers.

Working from anywhere allows employees to live out their dreams. But without a clear and fair policy, companies can end up in hot water.

Navigating the guilt and gratitude of being a white-collar child of blue-collar parents.

New, realistic rules for office romance.

Because there are only so many ways to say, “Please, for the love of God, hire me.”

These days, employers are expected to have meaningful responses to hard issues. Here’s how to do it well.

We interview the New York Times puzzle editor about her career path and perspective on games.

Working caregivers in the US are faced with abysmal parental leave policies. Here's how they handle it.

We talk with the Bright + Early team about all things AI.

Even good managers need a little help sometimes.

From Lean In to Can’t Even, why corporate self-help books won’t save the workplace. 

We've tinkered with lots of ways to work. Out Of 10s has stood the test of time.

In the USA, abortion clinic staff are grappling with what to do next for work.

The seminal teen job seems to be going extinct.

We speak to designer Linn Vizard about using service design to build better HR.

A creative director uses AI illustration software Midjourney to make artwork for a magazine.

(And how to do them right.)

Disabled people often can’t—and don’t want to—abide by standards of professional life set by non-disabled people.

Corporations' awkward shift to remote work has spawned a new industry devoted to easing the friction.

Inside the alt dating app with a "post-breakup makeover" budget.

You're clicks away from quitting your fast-paced marketing job and raising alpacas in the Andes.

Just how unlimited is unlimited? What's an accrual? How to get off the spreadsheets and get it right.

Katie Walsh explores disability at work and the idea that your worth cannot be determined by the schedule on which you operate.

Inside a women-owned media startup where sports fans of all genders thrive.

How to tell someone they're doing (not so) great, step by step.

A conversation on paying people in a recession, with Compensation Consultant Trisha Neogi.

A CEO walks through some minor (just minor!) changes he's making during the financial downturn.

The journalist and organizer talks to us after the launch of her new book Fight Like Hell.

Inside the AI-powered astrology app where employee perks include free birth chart and tarot readings.

When deciding if a person is the right choice for the job, your decision should not rely on an external party.

Despite its cringe-worthy earnestness, LinkedIn has remained a ubiquitous companion to our changing work lives. Why?

Unpacking the growing ambition to ditch the desk job and get behind the bar.

If you’re in the unfortunate position of planning layoffs, here’s how you can plan a kinder, smoother process.

Jermaine Murray is changing the tech industry one new hire at a time.

Less hours? Yes! Less work? No.

The anonymous work social app is changing worker-company dynamics everywhere.

Menstruators are the canary in the corporate coalmine. What can we learn from them?

An Ontario-focused guide to choosing decent health benefits.

Are DAOs, collective living and "returnships" on our retirement horizon?

Get to know this member-driven co-op with a soft spot for baby swag.

An engineer went from eight interviews to four big offers in weeks. What company does he pick and why?

An explainer on how inmates are made to work and why they shouldn’t be.

Our version of a Proust Questionnaire, created to reveal the inner workings of interesting companies and their people programs.

The future of restaurants might depend on rethinking the work that’s done inside of them.

How to stand out in a tough hiring market.

Strategist and scent educator Tracy Wan shares an unexpected ritual that helps her focus.

Writer James Greig reflects on the futility of New Year’s resolutions and what it really means to commit to anything other than work.

What the F does HR even do?

Foresight strategist Sam Venis shares the unexpected ways work will evolve in response to the climate crisis.

A boss tries anything to avoid being charged under the Right to Disconnect act. How far will he go?

Are you ready to navigate the office party in these *unprecedented* times?

Our enduring appetite for dysfunctional workplace shows is somewhere between self-soothing and sadistic.

How to build a signature (and kickass) onboarding program.

An interview with Heather Payne of Juno College on her "ungrowth" vision for the future.

You're totally coming back, right?

After 25 years in the Ministry of Corrections, Penny MacLean realized she needed to "go upstream."

We interview the co-founders of Are.na on growing a social platform that feels less like a firehose and more like a garden.

I've always had a brain with the "zoomies". It took me nearly 30 years to find out what that meant.

Despite decades of research, gender inequality in urban transit has left women behind.

The pop star intellectual uses glamour to ship criticism to the masses.

Do your workplace cannabis policies hold up in 2023?

Decades into an overdose epidemic, the revolutionary harm reduction activist is still fighting.

A sales manager pops mushroom pills, finds God—or something like that.

A step by step guide to squashing the beef.

A brief history of Labour Day and the vacation days you never take.

Visibility is important, but we should be demanding so much more.

LinYee Yuan, creator of MOLD Magazine, reflects on how the critical work of caring shows up in her life.

We speak to Hypha, an anti-capitalist worker's co-operative, on how they work.

Is it better to learn from the proverbial Boys Club, or someone who has already shattered a glass ceiling or two?

A guide to developing your company's first parental leave program in Ontario, Canada.

We talk to Jared Blake, prolific chair-sitter and co-owner of furniture store Lichen NYC, to get the unvarnished truth about office furniture.

Get in, loser... we’re disrupting to the direct-to-consumer nail clipper space.

A Black designer tires of fighting for a seat and sets out to build her own table.

A work magazine for real life.

A writer reflects on how her time in construction shaped her identity.

Métis HR & DEI consultant Stephanie Bergman talks to us about her experiences (and best advice) as an Indigenous woman at work.

For the girlboss, feminism was a brand building exercise rather than a show of solidarity.

Our DEI expert guides a woman deciding whether to take on the extra work of educating.

A step by step on how to build equitable pay systems from scratch.

Think of it like a first date, but with much blurrier boundaries.