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Why you should embrace being less productive in the summer
Disengagement and resentment may result if people feel pressured into working more during a season they feel should otherwise be reserved for time off and relaxation. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Introducing the most bikeable office building in the world
Bike commuters can ride straight to the top. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Taco Bell is testing out an entirely vegan Crunchwrap
For starters, it will be available in just three locations for a limited time, beginning June 8, and could roll out more broadly. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
A 23-year-old founder is 3D printing schools in Madagascar
Maggie Grout founded Thinking Huts to increase access to education. Her nonprofit is about to 3D print its second school campus in Madagascar. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Wage theft is rampant among construction workers. An app helps them get their money back
A straightforward questionnaire usable by non-lawyers can help undocumented workers effectively regain the estimated $50 billion stolen annually. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
5 negotiation tips to maximize your salary
Hiring managers often try to offer candidates as little as possible. Fortunately, there are techniques workers can use to get the most out of the negotiation process. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
3 counterintuitive changes can immediately improve any meeting
As counterintuitive as it may seem, your greatest contribution to a meeting isn’t what you share but what you ask others. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
How Selena Gomez’s Rare Beauty brings mental health advocacy to the office
Since launching in 2020, Selena Gomez has placed mental health at the core of Rare Beauty’s business. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
5 ways to build a personal brand focused on impact, not ego
Branding means creating an image in the minds of your audience. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
How engineers make sure giant wind turbines don’t drift away in the ocean
Floating wind turbines the size of skyscrapers are being built where there can’t be construction directly on the seafloor. It’s a massive technical challenge. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
FIFA’s 2026 World Cup logo is part of a confounding branding trend in sports
FIFA’s generic branding had soccer fans saying that AI could have done better. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
A tech nonprofit helps erase medical debt
Around 100 million Americans have medical debt, and many have no way to pay it off. A nonprofit uses a little-known program to help. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
How leaders can prepare for salary transparency
Right now, more than 44.8 million people in the U.S. can ask for the salary range for their position or the role they are applying for. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
What feeling younger (or older) than your actual age says about your outlook on life
So many of us don’t identify with our actual age. Why is that? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
3 ways emotional intelligence can help prevent a toxic workplace environment
Healthy workplaces don’t just come about by themselves. Leaders must take a proactive role in building them. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
How to network without giving yourself, or others, ‘the ick’
Even if networking is challenging, it’s important to get comfortable with it because networking has become increasingly important to our professional success. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Exploitative freelance jobs are on the rise. Here’s what you need to know
The line between freelancer and remote employee is blurring, and it’s hurting workers. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
A biotech startup wants to color your clothes with proteins—not toxic dyes
Werewool is developing naturally occurring proteins grown in a lab to color clothing, instead of toxic and polluting dyes. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
A brand turns raining fish phenomenon into a source of income
Ad agency Ogilvy and fish company Regal Springs created Heaven Fish, a new brand that helps residents of Yoru, Honduras turn their annual miracle into an economic opportunity. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Motherhood is comical, and some cartoonists know it
A new generation of mother-cartoonists is developing a visual shorthand for expressing the complexities of motherhood. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Can you really trademark the shape of lettuce? We’re about to find out
Trademarking snack foods is nothing new, but a new trademark filing from Little Leaf Farms is asking: Can you trademark lettuce leaves, too? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Airtable is bringing AI to your workflow that could help make your team more productive
The popular workplace collaboration platform is rolling out new AI-powered tools aimed at reducing the friction on your to-do list. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Spotify’s AI DJ knows your musical past, and wants to shape its future
Behind the design of Spotify’s move toward ultimate personalization. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
‘Are you overlooking tens of millions of people?’: Why employers are reconsidering applicants’ prior drug use
The tight labor market and widespread legalization of marijuana are leading some employers—including the federal government—to rethink restrictive background checks. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Research shows happiness is the new performance indicator. This is how managers can support it
Studies show happier teams boost sales, increase productivity, and slash mistakes. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Learning nonprofit Khan Academy is piloting a version of GPT called Khanmigo
The new tool is trained to act as a tutor and teacher’s assistant. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
How companies can solve the mental health crisis happening in the workforce
The perks that may have once seemed optional are now essential. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
An abandoned Detroit building is now the epicenter of Ford’s new mobility plan
Tech incubator Newlab’s new Detroit location is part of Ford’s move beyond cars. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
JPMorgan Chase gets First Republic assets and deposits as banking crisis deepens
San Francisco-based First Republic is the third midsize bank to fail in two months. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
A company is helping Missourians prepare for looming restrictions on trans healthcare
Plume is offering appointments at no cost to help mitigate the possible effect of a measure from the Missouri attorney general. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
It’s not just you: Business travel is extra exhausting now
Travel since the start of the pandemic isn’t just different; it’s overloading your brain. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Hybrid work and the rise of AI: How leaders can navigate a future in flux
McKinsey’s State of Organizations report outlines major shifts affecting organizations around the world—and offers advice on how to manage them. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Yelp rolls out AI, video to enhance business searches
The review platform is getting its “most significant update in recent years” featuring some of today’s trendiest technologies. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
This startup is turning the RTO debate on its head by creating a digital twin of the office
Katmai is a virtual office space, allowing employees across countries and time zones to come together in a simulated office environment located in your web browser. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
3 ways to find a job that aligns with your values
Factors that help determine whether a job is the right fit go beyond things like perks and pay. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
‘Progressive’ companies: Get ready for your workers to make you prove it
Things get complicated when a company whose brand rests on ‘being good’ starts being bad to its workers—and unions have figured out how to take advantage. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
If we don’t develop these 4 human traits, ChatGPT can replace us, psychologists say
This latest advancement of mainstream AI is a wake-up call for humanity to harness four unique and precious human virtues. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
How the designers of ‘Paint’ created a Bob Ross universe for the anti-Bob Ross
The production design team crafted an intricate world evocative of Bob Ross’ singular aesthetic. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Tony Hawk is right on time as the new face of Citizen smartwatches
A watch nerd and late adopter to wearables, the Birdman will drop in to his 11th X Games next month with a “piece of NASA” on his wrist. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
How this one shift can make your hiring practices more inclusive
Over 70 million Americans have a criminal record. Yet many employers still have discriminatory hiring practices toward job seekers with criminal records. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
How new models of worker organizing look beyond the workplace
Care-and-community-based organizing models have led to an array of innovative solutions that enable worker well-being. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
3 things workers can do to prepare for AI and the future of work
Empathy, connection, creativity, and collaboration—these attributes make humans unique, and unlike any robotic software or device. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
What The Jetsons got right, and very wrong, about the future of work
For starters, George Jetson put his button-pushing finger to work only two days a week for one hour each day—in the office. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
U.S. playgrounds are boringly safe. New designs add a whiff of danger
Playgrounds are moving way beyond the usual, boring, simple swings and slides. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Why this startup wants to help build a seaweed industry in Alaska
Macro Oceans turns seaweed into a replacement for petrochemicals used in everything from cosmetics to packaging. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
What a monkey’s brain on magic tricks reveals about why we get fooled
A study from Cambridge University shows only monkeys with opposable thumbs fall for sleight of hand, offering insight into how anatomy shapes the way we think. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Schools are suing Big Tech over the teen mental health crisis. Do they have a legal case?
Platforms like TikTok and Instagram are at the center of growing concerns regarding adolescent mental health. Some schools want tech to pay. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Do you want to replace your garbage disposal with a ‘reverse juicer’?
Food waste goes down the drain, but not down your pipes. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Hampton is creating a safe space for tech CEOs
This new exclusive CEO network wants to cultivate vulnerability between leaders. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Would you eat lab-grown peacock or crocodile? This company is betting on it
Vow Food is confident it can convert people to kangaroo dumplings instead of lab-grown chicken nuggets. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices