For people considering a move to a startup, equity is often the biggest part of their compensation packages. Your hard work now, says the company, will pay off when the company goes public down the road. But volatile economic conditions have led to a sharp downtick in both the number of IPOs and how much money they’ve raised over the past four years. As companies (sometimes unexpectedly) stay private for longer, employees can get restless. More and more companies are looking for ways to...

Sitting down to write this week, I tried to imagine what folks might want to read. And I came up fairly empty. What could anyone want to read about the modern workplace when it feels like the world is on fire? But we have to work to live. And yet many of us no longer live to work. And so now, when work might feel incidental at best, or a distraction at worst - the answer lies in remembering that distinction. Remembering to invest in and focus on our lives when we’re in them, and to do our job...

Employees have some biiiiigggg feelings about RTO mandates. And as anyone with a kid, or who’s been to therapy, knows - feelings have a way of making themselves known. The latest way those RTO feelings are making themselves known? RTO Revenge, broadly defined as when employees follow the letter of RTO law, but take whatever smallish liberties they can. People are coming in late, leaving early, and stopping by the office fridge to grab some LaCroix or some snacks on the way out. Others are...