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A struggling salesman takes custody of his son as he’s poised to begin a life-changing professional career.
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Is there a right way—and a wrong way—to quit your job? Here’s what to do and say in the moment.
Even if you’re unhappy with your job, you may be tempted to stay and put up with the slow simmer of discontent out of fear of finding something new. Let’s see if you’re in the red zone where you’ve crossed the border into unhealthy, potentially damaging territory.
Oftentimes, strong culture is confused with surface-level perks, but those do little for long-term engagement, writes Sarah Wilson of Rokt.
Everybody talks about company culture these days, but very few people in the industry understand what it really means. Even fewer people know how to build one.
Being laid off can be a financial nightmare, but what isn’t talked about enough is the psychic toll it takes, and the decisions we make around work in the aftermath.
The pandemic has pushed many to the brink. But although we're exhausted and overwhelmed, some experts say we're not actually as burned out as we may think.
In the first part of The National’s series Battling Burnout, Canadian author and workplace expert Rahaf Harfoush tells Andrew Chang that pressures in the modern workplace are distorting our identities by often placing success at work at the expense of mental and physical well-being.
It’s hard to articulate what a remote worker does when they’re sick. You’re not really “staying home” when you already usually work from home, and if work is right there, you have to stop scratching the itch that says It’s just one email. It won’t take long.
Frustration is the feeling of being blocked from a goal. Although it sounds like a destructive emotion, it can actually be a source of creative fuel.
For generations, we have focused on the individual drivers of success: passion, hard work, talent, and luck. But in today’s dramatically reconfigured world, success is increasingly dependent on how we interact with others.