Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
Imagine you’re African-American and working at a 500-person technology company where everyone else is white, and one day the CEO declares in a national newspaper interview that his company’s lack of diversity isn’t an accident. In fact he prefers to hire white people because when it comes to technology white people simply make better…
Huffington Post Media Group Editor-in-Chief Arianna Huffington predicts that nap rooms in offices are going to be “as common as conference rooms” in the next two years. Huffington’s mission: to eliminate the stigma long associated with sleeping at work. Napping on the job used to “mean [that employees were] not as dedicated, not as hard-working,” she…
A sign alerts trail walkers in Fairfax County’s Roundtree Park to the remains of a bridge that washed out near Holmes Run. With a mounting backlog of deferred maintenance, there are no immediate plans to fix it. (Bill O’Leary/The Washington Post) For decades, Fairfax County has been a national model for suburban living, a place…
“I feel as though I have died and gone to heaven,” said Britain’s skills minister in a recent speech, as he prepares to preside over the fastest rise in the minimum wage in the country’s history. The new policy, which starts on Friday, will see the wages for low-paid workers rise four times faster than…
Uber drivers aren’t the only “gig” workers rattling the U.S. economy. Older workers, especially women, increasingly are filling in as contractors across a range of traditional industries, from highway inspectors to health aides. As companies look to shed noncore tasks and government budgets come under strain, an expanding share of the workforce has come untethered…
Most twenty-somethings will never belong to a union — and may never know anyone who does. But many are in need of a job (unemployment for those under 25 is 18%), and many more are sitting on student loans, which total more than $1 trillion nationally. And now, plenty are favoring a presidential candidate who…
VOTERS’ anger over inequality is one explanation for the rise of politicians as varied as Donald Trump, Bernie Sanders and Marine Le Pen. This anger also makes it very difficult for the free-market right to realise one of its key aims: the shrinking of the state. In Britain a plan to reduce spending on benefits…
Airbnb, once a saviour from overpriced hotels, has become the new overpriced hotels since becoming the short-term accommodation staple. But with the rise of community living and workcations, an alternative might be to just sleep where you cowork. That’s the idea behind PodShare, a coworking space with beds, which has three locations in Los Angeles….
I don’t know who @KStreetHipster is, but over the weekend she unleashed a Twitter rant that does an amazing job of highlighting the central economic paradox of the times we live in. There’s a lot along these lines on her feed, which I just started following and would recommend. But these are the key points….
Beach retreats. Yoga. Visiting reptiles. Or how about a Porsche? In an attempt to keep employees from burning out, some agencies are loosening the tethers of the workplace and piling on the perks. Later this year, new federal labor regulations granting overtime pay to all employees who make less than $50,400 a year are expected…