If you’re an extrovert and love to travel, a week-long, expenses-paid business trip to a resort town is paradise. If you’re an introvert, “team bonding” and “hanging out all day with your coworkers” sounds like an intimidating situation. There’s a reason you love remote work. You’re in the safety of your own world and mostContinue reading “6 Tips for Travel Team Get-Togethers If You Work Remotely, Part 1”
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AI Replacing and Creating Jobs: It’s Happening with Ads
Recently people have been discussing how artificial intelligence (AI) is either enhancing our abilities to do our jobs or is threatening to replace jobs. Now there is a case of a business using AI instead of hiring humans to do the work. The advertising agency WPP and chipmaker Nvidia are using generative artificial intelligence toContinue reading “AI Replacing and Creating Jobs: It’s Happening with Ads”
Online Publishing: Watch Out for Google’s Upcoming Changes
An article by Forbes announced new changes to Google that affect how the search engine presents results using artificial intelligence. This news is for you if you publish your work online, such as blogs and articles. The new change will mean that when you provide Google with a query, it will generate an answer createdContinue reading “Online Publishing: Watch Out for Google’s Upcoming Changes”
Best Types of Companies for Remote Work
Remote work has been around for as long as we’ve had the technology, but 2020 made work from home (WFH) a household word. Before the worldwide pandemic that forced businesses to close their doors, many startups already offered remote work. Without a physical office, expenses were reduced. Remote work also offers many other advantages toContinue reading “Best Types of Companies for Remote Work”
Money and Power: the Ambition Penalty
If you’re interested in the “ambition penalty” that working women face and haven’t heard about Stefanie O’Connell, I recommend listening to and reading her work. She reveals research results about gender roles and gender stereotypes in the workplace. Some of the topics that she discusses: The “motherhood penalty” and the “fatherhood bonus” For every childContinue reading “Money and Power: the Ambition Penalty”