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☆ The Office Ties That Bind
▼ + stars: | 2024-08-04 | by ( Anna Holmes | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

Send questions about the office, money, careers and work-life balance to workfriend@nytimes.com. A Question of LoyaltyI work for a smallish company (fewer than 100 corporate employees with and 1,500 field workers). I enjoy my job, the challenge, my co-workers and the good work-life balance. — AlbertMy first question for you: How much do you want a new job versus thinking you should want a new job? It sure sounds that you’re in an enviable, if not ideal, position: You enjoy your job, your colleagues, and the work-life balance that your job affords.

Persons: I’ve, I’m, — Albert

☆ Thanks, but No Thanks
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-21 | by ( Anna Holmes | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +3 min

I found our first lunch to be very uncomfortable and began to dread the next one. After a lot of back-and-forth, he finally agreed, but during the meeting told me how important it was to him to take his employees out to lunch. If he asks you why, simply tell him you want to keep things strictly professional and avoid more casual interactions. And ask him to give you professional feedback in writing, at which point you can suggest a one-on-one meeting. I’m resentful that it’s an issue yet again and don’t particularly want to have another conversation.

Persons: You’re, Don’t, don’t

☆ Dropping in Just to Say ‘Hi!’
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-07 | by ( Anna Holmes | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +3 min

When this colleague reaches out to team members via the Slack platform, he will frequently just say “Hi <Name>” with no follow-up. Or are we all just obstinate and are not being understanding of a different communication style? For one thing: Is he saying “Hi <Name>” as a way to start a conversation about work with the colleague to whom his “hi” is directed? Delivering feedback about a person’s personal — or, in this case, professional — communication style requires a light touch. Send the guy a direct message and say, “Hey [insert co-worker’s name], when you write ‘hi’ without any follow-up, it freaks me out!” and append the message with an “lol” or a laughing emoji.

Persons: Slack, It’s, I’m, can’t

☆ How to Alienate a Colleague, One Coffee at a Time
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-22 | by ( Anna Holmes | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

I hope that I’m able to honor and expand upon the insights she provided over the years. A little bit about me: I’m a writer and an editor and sometimes both at the same time. I’ve been managed by bosses as well as managed employees myself. I understand the challenges and rewards of workplace collaboration and camaraderie and enjoy the solo nature of just sitting in a chair and writing and writing. Right now, in addition to this new gig, I’m working on a book for Crown Publishers about women, power and communication.

Persons: Anna, Roxane Gay, Roxane, I’ve Organizations: New York Times, Crown Publishers

☆ Getting Acquainted With Our New Workplace Columnist
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-22 | by ( Stefano Montali | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Times Insider explains who we are and what we do and delivers behind-the-scenes insights into how our journalism comes together. Some writers aim to develop one area of expertise over the course of their careers. “Let’s put it this way: I don’t have a beat,” Ms. Holmes said. Ms. Holmes is the incoming writer of Work Friend, a column published by the Sunday Business section of The New York Times. It is a formula she’s used to, having explored workplace culture in Sad Desk Salad, a column for Bloomberg Businessweek.

Persons: Anna Holmes, “ Let’s, ” Ms, Holmes, Holmes’s, Roxane Gay Organizations: New York Times, Bloomberg Businessweek

The company owns and operates several digital media outlets, including Gizmodo, Quartz and Deadspin. News of the site’s closure bookended a revolution of feminist writing on the internet that Jezebel helped kick off when it launched in 2007. A wave of sites, including DoubleX, from Slate, and Reductress, followed, many of them adopting Jezebel’s incisive focus on gender politics and racism. Anna Holmes, who founded Jezebel and left the publication in 2010, woke up to the announcement of the site shuttering on Thursday and said she was still processing the news. Ms. Holmes, 50, said that she was hired by Nick Denton, the founder of Gawker Media, to launch the publication in 2007.

Persons: Spanfeller, “, Jezebel, Anna Holmes, ”, Holmes, Nick Denton Organizations: O Media, Slate, Gawker Media

NEW YORK (AP) — Jezebel, the sharp-edged feminist website founded at the height of blogosphere era, is shutting down after 16 years, its parent company announced Thursday. G/O Media said 23 staffers would be laid off, including Jezebel's team, as part of a restructuring to cope with economic headwinds and a difficult digital advertising environment. The New York-based company also announced the departure of G/O Media editorial director Merrill Brown. In a memo to the company, G/0 Media CEO Jim Spanfeller said he made the “very, very difficult decision to suspend publication of Jezebel” after an unsuccessful search for a buyer for the website. In 2019, Jezebel became part of the G/0 Media portfolio, which also includes Gizmodo, Quartz, the Onion and the Root.

Persons: Merrill Brown, Jim Spanfeller, Jezebel ”, Spanfeller, Anna Holmes, Jezebel, Jim Spanfeller’s, Laura Bassett, ”, Lauren Tousignant Organizations: O Media, Gawker Media, WGA, Media Locations: New York

☆ An Illustrated Guide to Toppling the Patriarchy
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-14 | by ( Anna Holmes | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

50 YEARS OF MS.: The Best of the Pathfinding Magazine That Ignited a Revolution, edited by Katherine Spillar and the editors of Ms. In our house, where my mother was careful about the messaging of the media and toys we consumed, the “Stories for Free Children” section was always welcome. It began as an insert in New York magazine, featuring a famous cover story titled “Click! First a monthly, later a quarterly, Ms. was famously co-founded by the writer and activist Gloria Steinem, who contributes a foreword. The question, of course, is how all this reads in 2023.

Persons: Katherine Spillar, Tan, Emily Arnold McCully, Lorde, Barbara Ehrenreich, Susan Brownmiller, Eleanor Holmes Norton, ”, Gloria Steinem Locations: ”, New York

☆ Period Fiction: 2 Middle Grade Books About Menstruation and the Politics Beyond It
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-02 | by ( Anna Holmes | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +3 min

The first, CALLING THE MOON: 16 Period Stories From BIPOC Authors (Candlewick, 368 pp., $22.99, ages 10 and up), is an anthology of short stories and prose poems. The title “Calling the Moon” is a reference to menstruation, which usually happens once a month and which some of the anthology’s characters call a moon or luna. Many of the young characters are quick-thinking, improvising ways to handle an unexpected emergence of blood, including the wadding up of pieces of toilet paper as a method of absorption. But I blanched at her use of the word “menstruators” to encompass people who have periods but don’t identify as female. I have to think that we can come up with something else, maybe simply “people who have periods.”

Persons: Aida Salazar, Yamile Saied Mendez, Salazar, Mendez, There’s Penny, it’s, Eden, ” McCullough Organizations: THE, “, Young, Casa Locations: Casa Esperanza

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