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Samantha Lee / Business Insider The Insider Picks team writes about stuff we think you’ll like. Business Insider has affiliate partnerships, so we get a share of the revenue from your purchase. Shopping for coworkers can become a never-ending parade of mild pine-scented candles, Hallmark cards, and candy that is destined for retirement in a desk drawer […]
James Graham Here’s an icebreaker for the next office party: The third leading cause of workplace death—behind “falls to a lower level” and “roadway collisions with other vehicles”—is homicide. This sobering data point comes courtesy of the latest Bureau of Labor Statistics study on fatal occupational injuries. What’s behind all this shooting (the leading m.o. […]
It’s easy to blend into the crowd at work. The majority of workers choose to settle for mediocrity and anonymity; especially if they work in a large or virtual work environment. It’s much easier to go to work every day and contribute just enough to meet your job’s requirements than it is to leave a […]
The opening day of the public inquiry into the actions of Elizabeth Wettlaufer, who admitted to killing nursing home patients over a period of years, heard from lawyers representing Ontario long-term care homes who said her co-workers were betrayed by the disgraced nurse.
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Sebastiaan ter Burg/Flickr Everyone picks up some arrogant habits from time to time. There are 5 signs you might be acting in a condescending manner to your coworkers. Some of these signs include always putting yourself first, or equating your experiences to someone else’s. Let’s talk about those colleagues. Do you know the type I’m talking […]
racorn/shutterstock Robert Sutton is a Stanford psychologist and author of “The No Asshole Rule: Building a Civilized Workplace” and “The Asshole Survival Guide: How to Deal With People Who Treat You Like Dirt.” In an interview with Vox’s Sean Illing, Sutton defines an asshole as someone who “leaves us feeling demeaned, de-energized, disrespected, and/or oppressed. In […]
The movies and TV are full of stories of women sabotaging other females at work. Miranda Priestly in The Devil Wears Prada, Katharine Parker in Working Girl and Amanda Woodward in Melrose Place immediately come to mind. But a new study has found that the “queen bee” syndrome in the workplace might not just be […]
On a cold morning in February 2015, a group of men left the spacious Google X headquarters in Mountain View, California, before daybreak. They traveled more than two hours east to some trailers parked in the middle of nowhere, on private ranch lands in California’s Central Valley. The men were there to test experimental drones […]
d26b73/Flickr It’s important to determine who you can trust at work. It’s good to make friends in the office. It’s also smart to figure out which coworkers aren’t too crazy about you. Business Insider previously spoke to Lynn Taylor, a national workplace expert and the author of “Tame Your Terrible Office Tyrant: How to Manage […]
