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☆ There are 5 distinct personalities in the workplace from the 'detective' to the 'road warrior,' and you'll probably work with them all, a new survey says
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-08 | by ( Sawdah Bhaimiya | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

A new Slack report found the five distinct personalities you're likely to encounter at work. Over half of colleagues say they are best at knowing everything that's going on at the company and 38% say they're good at digging up information. Their colleagues say they're best at networking virtually and from anywhere, and most likely to be working from a new location. 92% describe themselves as early tech adopters and 77% say they're excited about using AI. Their colleagues say they're good at streamlining tasks and are most likely to use new technologies.

Persons: Slack, —, that's, they're Organizations: Service Locations: Australia, France, Germany, India, Japan, Singapore, South Korea

☆ Ending the 40-hour workweek is possible, but it'll require sacrifices from all of us
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-07 | by ( Dan Defrancesco | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +8 min

download the app Email address Sign up By clicking “Sign Up”, you accept our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy . In today's big story, we're looking at the internet calling for changes to the "soul-crushing" and "depressing" 9-to-5 workday. The 40-hour workweek is facing a reckoning after a recent grad's viral TikTok emotionally questioning how people have time for a personal life while working a full-time job. AdvertisementAdvertisementSo yes, upending the 9-to-5 is possible — and worth considering — but only with a bit of sacrifice from all of us. Earnings today: Uber, eBay, H&R Block, Nintendo, and other companies.

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☆ It shouldn't matter if people work multiple jobs. The former VP of HR at Microsoft shares how to react to double dippers — 'get over it.'
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-06 | by ( Chris Williams | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +9 min

Working multiple jobs is commonYou know who also works two jobs? It even sprouted an online community at Overemployed.com of how-to articles and people sharing tips on how to work multiple jobs remotely. An employee working for a competitor — or even worse, leveraging confidential information — is a problem. AdvertisementAdvertisementRather it should be, "Can you teach everyone how you're doing that?" You have an employee doing good work and getting fairly compensated for that work.

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☆ I encouraged my son to apply to only 3 colleges even though his friends were applying to 12 to 15. He still got into his dream school.
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-22 | by ( Liz Alterman | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

My son thought he had to apply to more than 10 colleges because everyone he knew was doing it. But he liked only three schools, so I encouraged him to apply to just those three. People were horrified he wasn't applying to more, but he got into his dream school anyway. AdvertisementAdvertisementOne afternoon in the spring of 2022, my son Ben, a junior in high school, and I got back in the car after touring yet another college. When I asked him why he would apply if he didn't want to attend, Ben told me everyone he knew was applying to 12 to 15 schools.

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☆ Working Out Twice a Day Isn’t Just for Overachievers
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-16 | by ( Jen Murphy | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

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☆ Luis Rubiales: As under-fire soccer chief stands firm, women's soccer in Spain may be preparing for new beginnings
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-03 | by ( Aimee Lewis | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +8 min

Spain won the Women’s World Cup for the first time last month yet, just two weeks on, no one is talking about the success. In that intoxicating, finite pocket of time, Spain’s players had the freedom to lose themselves in the victory of their lives. The decades-long battle for equality in women’s soccer, and society, has a way to go but nothing changes in silence. But beyond the headlines, this is a story which symbolizes the problems within women’s soccer and society, of women not being respected or listened to. England women’s head coach Sarina Wiegman dedicated her UEFA Women’s Coach of the Year award to the Spanish national team.

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☆ Why a ‘good enough job’ may be better than a dream job
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-09 | by ( Kristen Rogers | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +6 min

“I really didn’t feel like I was choosing between two jobs,” Stolzoff said. But at the time, he also realized he was hoping to find his “vocational soulmate,” a job that would decide his identity. Stolzoff, now 32, left his designer job in 2022 to finish writing his book and explore other sides of himself that had been crowded out by his day job. One of the necessities is to take some time away from that.”If you can’t work for yourself, another strategy is working a “good enough job,” which rejects the conventional wisdom that we should be seeking our dream job, Stolzoff said. “Work is certainly one container with one set of metrics for success and one definition of what ‘good’ looks like,” Stolzoff said.

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☆ Opinion | The Real College Admissions Scandal
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-26 | by ( Nicholas Kristof | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

YAMHILL, Ore. — Before I make an argument about affirmative action, let me tell you how I was a beneficiary of it. I wasn’t a student of color, but I grew up on a farm and attended a small, rural high school where there wasn’t much math and nobody had ever applied to an Ivy League college. Elite colleges were looking for farm kids from low-income areas to provide diversity. I wish the Supreme Court had ruled differently on affirmative action for race, but unfortunately it blocked that path for diversity. My fear is that we will all throw up our hands and sit around blaming the court, rather than actually working to overhaul a disgracefully unequal education system.

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☆ HGTV's Galey Alix wants to be a star. Will the spotlight crush her — or set her free?
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-25 | by ( Anna Peele | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +19 min

Alix is the creator and star of the HGTV show "Home in a Heartbeat With Galey Alix," which premiered in April and streams on Max. Galey Alix Gravenstein comes from a family of overachievers. Alix got to work with Jay Delgado, remaking Calloway's blank white box into a Galey Alix take on a rich person's beach house. In April 2021, Parker, who had no renovation experience, offered to help Alix with an install. He and Lauren Parker insist Alix is OK because she's able to ask people like them for help without fear.

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☆ An Overachiever’s Guide to Bringing Vacation Treats Back to the Office
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-11 | by ( Katie Mogg | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

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☆ I quit Goldman Sachs after only a year. Here's how I knew leaving for a tech startup was the right career move.
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-15 | by ( Chris Hladczuk | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +8 min

Chris Hladczuk leads growth at Meow, a fintech startup, after quitting Goldman Sachs. I picked a weird day to quit — it was my 24th birthday and I called my boss to tell her I was leaving Goldman Sachs. The power of Goldman SachsI love Goldman because it taught me how to win. With my future career in mind, is my pace of learning higher at Goldman in investment banking or at an early-stage startup? Chris Hladczuk currently leads growth at fintech startup Meow.

☆ One of Wall Street's most exclusive clubs is about to add a few more members
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-01 | by ( Dan Defrancesco | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

It's the most wonderful time of the year... for a select few at Goldman SachsIt's one of the most exclusive clubs on Wall Street, and it's ready to open its doors to an esteemed few. Goldman Sachs is preparing to announce its newest crop of partners in what is the closest thing Wall Street has to a coronation. But, as crazy as this might sound about a bunch of people on Wall Street, it's more than just another zero at the end of your paycheck. Under Solomon, the partnership class has been 69 (in 2018) and 60 (in 2020), down a reasonable amount from the class prior to when Solomon took over (84 in 2016). Here's some advice on how to manage work-life balance on Wall Street from a former rising star at Bank of America.

☆ The era of quiet quitting is already over
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-26 | by ( Aki Ito | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +9 min

One of the first documented cases of quiet quitting was a recruiter I'll call Justin. It was Justin, in fact, who helped spark the national debate that's been raging over quiet quitting. When a popular career coach on TikTok riffed on my story, the phrase "quiet quitting" became something of a new cultural dividing line. But by the time the US was furiously debating his new approach to work, Justin was already shifting gears. "Reading the tea leaves, we could be in for a difficult 2023," Bryan Creely, the career coach who coined the term quiet quitting, told me.

☆ Afraid of heights, he climbed Mount Everest — now he's helping others conquer their fears too
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-07 | by ( Monica Buchanan Pitrelli | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +4 min

He's also climbed the highest mountains on all seven continents, the so-called Seven Summits. The cost to climbRigney estimates he's paid between $170,000 and $180,000 to climb the Seven Summits, he said. But Mount Everest is a "massive logistical operation" that takes about two months, he said. Rigney climbed Mount Everest for about four to five hours a day. After climbing the "Seven Summits," Rigney said he is deliberately choosing travel experiences that are less risky.

☆ America's Overachievers Are Finally Leaning Back
▼ + stars: | 2022-03-02 | by ( Aki Ito | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +13 min

Today, Justin is working the least he ever has: 40 hours a week. But what these executives are missing is that some employees don't want to pal around with their coworkers. In peak hustle culture, work was where we expected to find everything we needed to live the good life: joy, purpose, community. Then he started billing for 40 hours a week of labor that often took him only a few hours to complete. But after nine months of leaning back, a solid 40 hours is starting to look pretty attractive.

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