Visits: 31 Felipe Gallegos used to work in fashion, designing store displays for Abercrombie & Fitch and Uniqlo. Now he spends his days with plants, helping them thrive in office buildings across New York City. On a recent morning, Mr. …
I Asked ChatGPT to Be My Stylist
Visits: 30 It warned me I might “distract” my job interviewer. Is this thing from 2023 or 1953? Since I first watched the movie “Clueless,” I’ve dreamed about the closet of the main character, Cher Horowitz: specifically, the outfit-picking computer. …
When Did Our Personal Lives Get So Professional?
Visits: 35 The ubiquity of corporate organizational tools means how we manage our work and private time often doesn’t look that different. Is that bad? There’s a popular meme from roughly the late Cretaceous period (pre-2020) that goes: “Tired of …
Happy New Year. Now Please Stay Home.
Visits: 21 Sniffles, coughs and sneezes have become January’s familiar cacophony. Julie Vadnal was visiting family in Michigan over Christmas when everyone “started to drop like flies,” she said. “The day we left, my mom had gotten a fever, and …
Defining Nonbinary Work Wear
Visits: 17 What should you wear to work if you’re nonbinary? It may not be the most pressing question that gender-nonconforming people face on the job, but with approximately 1.2 million L.G.B.T.Q. Americans identifying as nonbinary, employers and employees alike …
What’s the Best Emoji to Tell Your Co-Worker You Hate Them?
Visits: 20 We’re living in the high era of Slack rage. If there were such a thing as rage nostalgia, it would be the longing for a time when people fought out loud — even in a setting as formal …
Who Wears Crop Tops to the Office?
Visits: 25 Young employees, many of them new to office jobs, are bringing a wardrobe staple usually reserved for the weekends into the workplace. Shortly after Santina Rizzi graduated from Florida State University in spring 2021 with a degree in …
Would You Go Back to the Office for an Eames Chair?
Visits: 22 Ben Watson is overseeing the merger of Herman Miller and Knoll, with the belief that good design means good business. Ben Watson was in his happy place. Sitting in the showroom that also doubles as an office above …
Managing Up: How to Deal With a Bad Boss During Quarantine
Visits: 43 Remember the good old days, when you could clear up an ambiguously curt email from your boss with a stroll by her desk? Or when the anxiety of getting a dreaded “We need to chat” Slack message could …
How to Keep Internet Trolls Out of Remote Workplaces
Visits: 54 Gustavo Razzetti, who gets hired by companies to improve their work cultures, has noticed a change since the pandemic began last year: more political brawls, more managers losing control of their employees, a curious mix of hyper-engagement and …