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Bright Reads

Can You Keep A Secret? Here's What Goes Down On Blind

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

Don't Bleed At Work

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

Retirement Is Changing. What’s Next?

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

How Does It Work: Blockchain Cooperative Informal Systems

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

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: 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.