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If AI leads the strategy, who leads the people?

Conflict escalation in the office is much like what happens in the military. More and more damage is threatened or inflicted until someone backs down or suffers Termination.
Opinion & Features

A short guide to white-collar warfare

Among executives, the symptoms of burnout are often dangerously mislabelled: The irritable chief executive is “passionate”. The indecisive chief financial officer is “deliberate”. The disengaged head of innovation is “delegating”.
Opinion & Features

The unseen leadership crisis: executive burnout

The wording of job ads can smuggle coded information about the age, race, or gender of the ideal candidate, shaping who is likely to apply for a job.
Lifestyle

The red flags lurking in job advertisements

People ride their bikes down the street in Dokkum, the Netherlands. It has become increasingly common for full-time workers in the country to compress their hours into four days rather than spread them over five.
Opinion & Features
THE BOTTOM LINE

The Dutch are quietly shifting towards a four-day work week

Networking is the "unspoken differentiator" in business success, says author Ryan Lim.
Arts & Design
BOOKS

Career stuck in neutral? Networking might change that 

While employers see benefits as tools to attract and retain talent, rising cost pressures affect their ability to enhance and deliver on benefits, WTW said.
Working Life

Apac employers rethink employee benefits spend to draw talent, manage costs: survey

A recent Microsoft report headlined Breaking down the infinite workday found that 40 per cent of Microsoft 365 users online at this hour are already scanning their e-mails – and that an average worker will receive 117 e-mails before the clock rolls around to midnight.
Lifestyle

Always on, always tired, sometimes rude

Tech entrepreneurs work in the offices of CoworkLisboa which provides office space for start-ups in Lisbon, Portugal, on Wednesday, Nov. 18, 2015. Portugal is starting to show off its tech strength, with a raft of startups in Lisbon catching the attention of international investors. Photographer: Patricia de Melo Moreira/Bloomberg
Working Life

Bonuses, hybrid working and more: work trends for 2025

Three fifths of the UK workforce reported tight deadlines and two-fifths had to work at high speed, among the largest proportions in Europe, while only a third could choose the pace at which they worked, the report said
International

UK workers face some of Europe’s greatest job stress: report

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