Do you know how to get an American company to grant you excellent wages and amazing benefits, even for an entry-level job? Move to Norway and take the job there.

New York City’s Summer of Ludd festival is teaching people how to live offline amid the suffocating presence of Big Tech.

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Under orders from Dinwiddie and desperate to prove himself, Washington acted rashly. He and his force of about 40 men attacked a French detachment of similar size in what became known as the Battle of Jumonville Glen, an episode that helped ignite the French and Indian War.

Working from home can introduce unexpected challenges to romantic relationships, sometimes increasing the chances that a couple will think about breaking up. A psychological evaluation provides evidence that when remote workers and their partners have clashing ideas about keeping work and home separate, the resulting stress can foster deep feelings of loneliness. The related research

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Chad Hiley, CPHR and Canadian Leader at WTW, shares the opportunities, choices and tradeoffs facing employers today

The case for the office is fundamentally relational, but most companies continue to optimize their workplace strategies around indicators like attendance rates, space utilization and policy compliance. Meanwhile, the in-office relationships that determine an organization’s health are unmeasured and increasingly unmanaged.

Employees are forming complex, often unhealthy, relationships with AI coworkers, relying on them for personal support, career advice, and emotional validation, roles traditionally filled by human colleagues. This trend, partly driven by workplace loneliness, risks eroding company culture and coworker cohesion.

Back in 2017, reporters Kristen Clark and David Conrad came to us with a story that dug into the difficult and often dark places discrimination creates. We start in Venice, Italy, where they meet gondolier Alex Hai. On the winding canals in the hidden parts of Venice, we learn about the nearly 1000-year old tradition of the Venetian Gondolier, and how the global media created a 20-year battle between that tradition and a supposed feminist icon. We circled back to Alex in 202