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10/20/2023
12 : 14

🤬 Ground rules for coworker conflict

Making your business the best place to work, every Friday. Salary demands are higher than ever (as we covered last week), but that's not the only rising cost of labor. Annual health insurance
10/10/2023
12 : 4

NGO legend teaches how to make “big bets”

Grow your business. Then grow it more, every Tuesday. Every new business owner receives a rude awakening in the form of credit card processing fees. These break down into interchange rates and
10/6/2023
12 : 4

👻 Ghost jobs are haunting LinkedIn

Making your business the best place to work, every Friday. Where are the happiest workers in the US located? The answer might chill you to the bone … because the winning state is Alaska, according to a
10/3/2023
12 : 4

🎤👸🏼 Tallying the GDP of T-Swift

Grow your business. Then grow it more, every Tuesday. So you just started a business. Now you need to get paid. The problem is that point-of-sale systems don't come cheap, often costing thousands
9/29/2023
12 : 4

☕🤩 How to celebrate National Coffee Day

Making your business the best place to work, every Friday. The holiday season is near, but it's already the happiest time of the year for the hopelessly caffeine-addicted among us. That's
9/26/2023
12 : 4

🤝 Founders and investors: friends or enemies?

Grow your business. Then grow it more, every Tuesday. Americans are tired of tipping. When an iPad screen requests an extra 35% for someone to hand you a room-temperature muffin, it can feel downright
9/22/2023
12 : 4

🏛️ The Senate dropped its dress code — should you?

Making your business the best place to work, every Friday. The company dress code has been out of fashion for years, especially in younger industries such as tech and marketing. But in the halls of
9/19/2023
12 : 4

🚔 Protect your business from shoplifters

Grow your business. Then grow it more, every Tuesday. Las Vegas hotels and Clorox bleach have some history in common — specifically, they were both hit by recent cyberattacks. Last week, a ransomware
9/12/2023
12 : 4

🧁 The Hostess with the mostest billions

Grow your business. Then grow it more, every Tuesday. Bankruptcy is just about the worst-case scenario for any business, and 2023 is seeing a particularly high number of chapter 11 filings. But life
9/8/2023
12 : 4

🤳 Should you AI-generate your profile pic?

Making your business the best place to work, every Friday. What matters more: how much employees get done or when they get it done? A new survey of 1500 US workers found that 45% feel more productive
9/5/2023
12 : 24

🎮 How will Microsoft-Activision merger play out?

Grow your business. Then grow it more, every Tuesday. We hope you had a terrific Labor Day weekend of burgers and buns. And speaking of quarter pounders, it's time to focus on hitting your Q3
9/1/2023
12 : 4

✋⛱️ Should vacation be mandatory?

Making your business the best place to work, every Friday. To get workers back to the office, you could follow the Amazon CEO route of threatening to fire holdouts. Or, you could get creative like
8/29/2023
12 : 4

💸 Cashless is cool — and possibly illegal

Grow your business. Then grow it more, every Tuesday. When you have customers lined up out the door, counting cash (and making change) is a pain compared to a zippy point-of-sale system. Refusing to
8/25/2023
12 : 4

👰💔🤵 Is it time to call off “work spouse”?

Making your business the best place to work, every Friday. There's good news and bad news on the employee burnout front. First the good news: Far fewer US workers say they're burnt out today
8/22/2023
12 : 4

What’s the deal with Temu’s deals?

Grow your business. Then grow it more, every Tuesday. “Just do it.” “A diamond is forever.” “What's in your wallet?” “Have it your way.” While picking a business name is important, coming up with
8/18/2023
12 : 4

🥪 The feedback sandwich: not so delicious?

Making your business the best place to work, every Friday. Worried you'll never be able to stop working? Here's the good news: 25% more Americans had million-dollar retirement accounts in 2023,
8/15/2023
12 : 34

🍷🚫 Gen Z is just saying “pino” to wine

Grow your business. Then grow it more, every Tuesday. America runs on Dunkin' and, arguably, booze, so is it any wonder the coffee chain is further expanding into the world of alcoholic beverages?
8/14/2023
11 : 15

🥵🥶 Too hot outside, too cold in your office

Making your business the best place to work, every Friday. When multiple streaming services produce documentaries and miniseries about your business practices (see Fyre Festival, Beanie Babies, and
8/8/2023
12 : 4

📵 Why “dumb” phones are cool again

Grow your business. Then grow it more, every Tuesday. We've dedicated more words to remote jobs vs. return to office than Charles Dickens dedicated to class divisions in 19th-century England. But
8/4/2023
12 : 4

🎓 Are college grads unprepared for work?

Making your business the best place to work, every Friday. Your first job out of school was probably a bit rough — everybody makes rookie mistakes — but recent grads who spent half their college years