RELATED STORIES The Ellen DeGeneres Show is attempting a behind-the-scenes course correction. Three of the daytime talk show’s senior producers — executive producers Ed Glavin and Kevin Leman, as well as co-executive producer Jonathan Norman — have been fired, our sister publication Variety reports. Meanwhile, Mary Connelly, Andy Lassner and Derek Westervelt will continue to […]
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Bold Type EP on Sutton’s ‘Destructive’ Spiral, Kat/Eva Attraction and Jane’s Potential Workplace Romance
RELATED STORIES Warning: The following contains spoilers for Thursday’s The Bold Type finale. Proceed at your own risk! Oh, Sutton Brady (Hunter?), you’re breaking our hearts. On Thursday’s The Bold Type Season 4 finale, the stylist ventured home for comfort, but instead found several bottles of booze in her alcoholic mother’s fridge. Then while drunkenly […]
Good Trouble’s Cierra Ramirez Previews Mariana’s Workplace Love Triangle
RELATED STORIES Mariana is about to get into some messy Good Trouble. When Season 2 premieres this Tuesday (Freeform, 8/7c), the software engineer will discover just how complicated it is to date a colleague when you’re fighting for pay parity and the big boss might have a crush on you. Below, star Cierra Ramirez previews […]
Workplace Theft Is on the Rise
James Graham Your office is a den of thieves. Don’t take my word for it: When a forensic-accounting firm surveyed workers in 2013, 52 percent admitted to stealing company property. And the thievery is getting worse. The Association of Certified Fraud Examiners reports that theft of “non-cash” property—ranging from a single pencil in the supply […]
Intel Capital leads $30 million investment in workplace automation platform Catalytic
Robotic process automation company Catalytic today closed a $ 30 million funding round to expand its partnerships, grow its team, and open new offices.Read More
‘More BLM posters than actual black people’: Former employee calls out Facebook’s ‘workplace racism’
A black Facebook employee’s post alleging racial discrimination at the social media giant has gone viral, depicting a racially tone-deaf company and challenging the “progressive” Silicon Valley company’s public image. Mark Luckie shared the message with Facebook management and employees earlier this month after leaving his post as Strategic Partner Manager for Global Influencers focused […]
The company behind one of the biggest video games in the world was just slammed with a lawsuit alleging its ‘bro-culture’ created a sexist workplace where women were rated on their ‘hotness,’ told that ‘no doesn’t necessarily mean no,’ and shown unsolicited photos of male genitalia
Riot Games The “League of Legends” developer Riot Games is facing a class-action lawsuit claiming the company harbored a sexist work environment with women suffering from unequal pay and regular harassment. Reports detailing the company’s “bro culture” surfaced in August, leading Riot to issue an apology to current and past employees. The two women who […]
How Teamwork in the Workplace Boosts Morale and Delivers Results
If you want a lesson on team morale and its criticality, just look to American soldiers in World War II and Vietnam. These were very different times, exceedingly different public networks of morale, and as history tells, very different outcomes. Morale is the confidence, enthusiasm and discipline of a person or a group. Many factors […]
Struggling With Productivity in the Workplace? 12 Tips to Get More Done
Struggling with productivity in the workplace can be frustrating at best and job-threatening at worst, and that’s a position no one wants to be in when trying to succeed.If you’ve found yourself in this situation, you’re definitely not alone. Everyone goes through a productivity slump at some point in their career, whether they’re just starting […]
18 Ways to Have Effective Communication in the Workplace
“I know you think you understand what you thought I said but I’m not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant.”An old joke, but painfully true.Though we humans more or less invented verbal communications, we are still not very good at it. Miscommunication is so common that novelist Doug Adams […]