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The Case Against Reference Checks
When deciding if a person is the right choice for the job, your decision should not rely on an external party.
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Why Is LinkedIn Like This?
Despite its cringe-worthy earnestness, LinkedIn has remained a ubiquitous companion to our changing work lives. Why?
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The Case Against Reference Checks
When deciding if a person is the right choice for the job, your decision should not rely on an external party.
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Bright Reads
Why Is LinkedIn Like This?
Despite its cringe-worthy earnestness, LinkedIn has remained a ubiquitous companion to our changing work lives. Why?
Guides
The Bright + Early Guide To (Less Horrible) Layoffs
If you’re in the unfortunate position of planning layoffs, here’s how you can plan a kinder, smoother process.
Bright Reads
Why Office Workers Are Chasing Their Barista Dreams
Unpacking the growing ambition to ditch the desk job and get behind the bar.
Stranger than Fiction
Welcome To Your Four-Day Work Week!
Less hours? Yes! Less work? No.
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Work Friends: The Jobfather Is Getting 500 Black People Into Tech
Jermaine Murray is changing the tech industry one new hire at a time.
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Why Prison Labour Doesn't Work
An explainer on how inmates are made to work and why they shouldn’t be.
Work Diaries
I’m A Software Engineer. This Is What It Took To Hire Me.
An engineer went from eight interviews to four big offers in weeks. What company does he pick and why?
Bright Reads
How Does It Work: Blockchain Cooperative Informal Systems
Get to know this member-driven co-op with a soft spot for baby swag.
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Retirement Is Changing. What’s Next?
Are DAOs, collective living and "returnships" on our retirement horizon?
Guides
The Bright + Early Guide To Building Your Benefits
An Ontario-focused guide to choosing decent health benefits.
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Don't Bleed At Work
Menstruators are the canary in the corporate coalmine. What can we learn from them?
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Can You Keep A Secret? Here's What Goes Down On Blind
The anonymous work social app is changing worker-company dynamics everywhere.
Work Diaries
I Secretly Worked Two Jobs From Home
A project manager juggles two separate 9-to-5's during lockdown. Will they get caught?
Guides
The Bright + Early Guide to (Better) Job Postings
How to stand out in a tough hiring market.
Bright Reads
How Does It Work: People Consultancy Bright + Early
Our version of a Proust Questionnaire, created to reveal the inner workings of interesting companies and their people programs.
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Can We Fix Restaurants?
The future of restaurants might depend on rethinking the work that’s done inside of them.
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Losing Our Ambition: Is This The Year We Resolve To Work Less?
Writer James Greig reflects on the futility of New Year’s resolutions and what it really means to commit to anything other than work.
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Why I Start My Work Days With Scent
Strategist and scent educator Tracy Wan shares an unexpected ritual that helps her focus.
Guides
The Bright + Early Guide to Working in HR
What the F does HR even do?
Bright Reads
Weirding Work as the Climate Changes
Foresight strategist Sam Venis shares the unexpected ways work will evolve in response to the climate crisis.
Stranger than Fiction
Disconnected. Right?
A boss tries anything to avoid being charged under the Right to Disconnect act. How far will he go?
Bright Reads
Toxic TV Bosses: Why Does Bad Feel So Good?
Our enduring appetite for dysfunctional workplace shows is somewhere between self-soothing and sadistic.
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Holiday Cheer, Pandemic Style
Are you ready to navigate the office party in these *unprecedented* times?
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Why I Gave Y Combinator Their Money Back
An interview with Heather Payne of Juno College on her "ungrowth" vision for the future.
Guides
The Bright + Early Guide To Onboarding
How to build a signature (and kickass) onboarding program.
Bright Reads
How A Correctional Officer Left Prisons For Mental Health Work
After 25 years in the Ministry of Corrections, Penny MacLean realized she needed to "go upstream."
Stranger than Fiction
Memo: The Office (Totally Optional!!)
You're totally coming back, right?
Bright Reads
The Death Of Rest
A brief history of Labour Day and the vacation days you never take.
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What It's Like To Be Diagnosed With ADHD As An Adult
I've always had a brain with the "zoomies". It took me nearly 30 years to find out what that meant.
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Can Are.na Make The Internet Calm Down?
We interview the co-founders of Are.na on growing a social platform that feels less like a firehose and more like a garden.
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Mandy Harris Williams Knows You’re Listening
The pop star intellectual uses glamour to ship criticism to the masses.
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How The 9-5 City Failed Women
Despite decades of research, gender inequality in urban transit has left women behind.
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Mark Townsend Believes We Can Get Better
Decades into an overdose epidemic, the revolutionary harm reduction activist is still fighting.
Work Diaries
I Microdosed At Work And Found A New Career Path
A sales manager pops mushroom pills, finds God—or something like that.
Guides
The Bright + Early Guide to Working With Weed
Do your workplace cannabis policies hold up in 2021?
Guides
The Bright + Early Guide to Work Fights
A step by step guide to squashing the beef.
Guides
The 2021 Expecting Playbook
A guide to developing your company's first parental leave program in Ontario, Canada.
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Can a Worker's Co-Op Thrive in Big Tech?
We speak to Hypha, an anti-capitalist worker's co-operative, on how they work.
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The Invisible Work of Caring
LinYee Yuan, creator of MOLD Magazine, reflects on how the critical work of caring shows up in her life.
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Against Representation Without Transformation
Visibility is important, but we should be demanding so much more.
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Is Ergonomics Maybe Bullshit?
We talk to Jared Blake, prolific chair-sitter and co-owner of furniture store Lichen NYC, to get the unvarnished truth about office furniture.
Ask Shav
Do I Really Need a Mentor?
Is it better to learn from the proverbial Boys Club, or someone who has already shattered a glass ceiling or two?
Work Diaries
I Quit My Racist Workplace After Their Response To George Floyd
A Black designer tires of fighting for a seat and sets out to build her own table.
Stranger than Fiction
Our Totally Authentic Company Values
Get in, loser... we’re disrupting to the direct-to-consumer nail clipper space.
Newsletter
Issue 62: Thou Shalt Hustle
How to refresh your company values, the one word you shouldn't say on slack, and more.
Guides
The Bright + Early Guide To Paying People
A step by step on how to build equitable pay systems from scratch.
Editor's Letter
Welcome to Early!
A work magazine for real life.
Stranger than Fiction
Every Tech Interview (Like, Ever)
Think of it like a first date, but with much blurrier boundaries.
Ask Shav
Help! How Do I Get My Coworkers To Care About Diversity?
Our DEI expert guides a woman deciding whether to take on the extra work of educating.
Bright Reads
How "Girlboss" Became A Slur
For the girlboss, feminism was a brand building exercise rather than a show of solidarity.
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What Does Indigenous Reconciliation Look Like At Work?
Métis HR & DEI consultant Stephanie Bergman talks to us about her experiences (and best advice) as an Indigenous woman at work.
Bright Reads
New Tools
A writer reflects on how her time in construction shaped her identity.
Newsletter
Issue 61: Something Bright Is Coming....
Why it seems like everyone's hiring a Head of People, Amazon's pandemic staffing woes, and some cool WFH tools.
Newsletter
Issue 60: The 🌈 Wash
The days of not walking your talk are done. Does this mean your company should avoid celebrating Pride at all?
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