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The Real Reason Millennials Are So Burned Out
Reading Anne Helen Petersen’s viral essay “How Millennials Became the Burnout Generation” in early 2019 felt…
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The Google Employee Who’s Fleeing Silicon Valley
I moved to the Bay three years ago for the tech industry. I wanted to be…
Continue ReadingThe Pandemic Isn’t Forcing Moms Out of the Workforce
Let’s be crystal clear about why working mothers are suffering. On Wednesday, the Washington Post published a…
Continue Reading6 Jobless Workers. 6 Different Salary Levels
I was working on a new nine-and-a-half-year partnership with the Olympics. This was literally my dream…
Continue ReadingI Lost My Dream Job When College Sports Went Away
Even before the pandemic, it was hard to make ends meet as a massage therapist for…
Continue ReadingThis Texas Nurse Called Out Her Senator for Blowing off Frontline Workers
GEN: You were hospitalized with what you believe was Covid before launching Help the Heroes. How…
Continue ReadingA View From Inside the Toxic Work Culture at Cards Against Humanity
GEN: How did you feel after the N-word card incident? And what did you make of…
Continue ReadingInstead of Teaching Summer School, I’ll Be Working at an Amazon Warehouse
The pandemic is changing life plans and career paths in unexpected ways. I’d heard the horror stories…
Continue ReadingWhere Did My Ambition Go?
Nearly 20 years ago, when I started my career in book publishing, the trajectory for my…
Continue ReadingHow Permanent Work-From-Home Could Help Repair America’s Partisan Divide
Giving workers the chance to do their jobs from anywhere in the country helps push back…
Continue ReadingOur Homes Are Going to Look Very Different Post-Pandemic
For many years, I happily worked from home in a kitchen counter setup that was ergonomically…
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