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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.
Why Is LinkedIn Like This?
Despite its cringe-worthy earnestness, LinkedIn has remained a ubiquitous companion to our changing work lives. Why?
Why Office Workers Are Chasing Their Barista Dreams
Unpacking the growing ambition to ditch the desk job and get behind the bar.
Work Friends: The Jobfather Is Getting 500 Black People Into Tech
Jermaine Murray is changing the tech industry one new hire at a time.
Why Prison Labour Doesn't Work
An explainer on how inmates are made to work and why they shouldn’t be.
How Does It Work: Blockchain Cooperative Informal Systems
Get to know this member-driven co-op with a soft spot for baby swag.
Retirement Is Changing. What’s Next?
Are DAOs, collective living and "returnships" on our retirement horizon?
Don't Bleed At Work
Menstruators are the canary in the corporate coalmine. What can we learn from them?
Can You Keep A Secret? Here's What Goes Down On Blind
The anonymous work social app is changing worker-company dynamics everywhere.
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.
Can We Fix Restaurants?
The future of restaurants might depend on rethinking the work that’s done inside of them.
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.
Why I Start My Work Days With Scent
Strategist and scent educator Tracy Wan shares an unexpected ritual that helps her focus.
Weirding Work as the Climate Changes
Foresight strategist Sam Venis shares the unexpected ways work will evolve in response to the climate crisis.
Toxic TV Bosses: Why Does Bad Feel So Good?
Our enduring appetite for dysfunctional workplace shows is somewhere between self-soothing and sadistic.
Holiday Cheer, Pandemic Style
Are you ready to navigate the office party in these *unprecedented* times?
Why I Gave Y Combinator Their Money Back
An interview with Heather Payne of Juno College on her "ungrowth" vision for the future.
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."
The Death Of Rest
A brief history of Labour Day and the vacation days you never take.
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.
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.
Mandy Harris Williams Knows You’re Listening
The pop star intellectual uses glamour to ship criticism to the masses.
How The 9-5 City Failed Women
Despite decades of research, gender inequality in urban transit has left women behind.
Mark Townsend Believes We Can Get Better
Decades into an overdose epidemic, the revolutionary harm reduction activist is still fighting.
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.
The Invisible Work of Caring
LinYee Yuan, creator of MOLD Magazine, reflects on how the critical work of caring shows up in her life.
Against Representation Without Transformation
Visibility is important, but we should be demanding so much more.
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.
How "Girlboss" Became A Slur
For the girlboss, feminism was a brand building exercise rather than a show of solidarity.
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.
New Tools
A writer reflects on how her time in construction shaped her identity.
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