It seems like there’s been a “Great” something happening every few months lately - and now here we are looking at the “Great Flattening”. As layoffs continue to roll on, more and more manager roles are being eliminated as companies seek to cut costs and “bureaucracy”. Millennials have worked their way into these roles just in time to be most impacted by the Great Flattening; caught between junior roles and the C-suite, older Millennials have had a higher increase in layoffs or firings than...

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...