It was the third hour of doing nothing that broke James Scott.
The 25-year-old researcher was sitting at his desk at an insurance firm in northern England when the internet went down. And with it went access to all of his files, which were sitting on a company server.
“Being without the internet is manageable, just about,” he said. “I’d just work on projects that didn’t require online research. But being unable to…
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Six months after her baby was born, Amanda Sanchez still couldn’t imagine returning full-time to her job in marketing at Adobe’s Lehi, Utah, offices. Her family’s finances depended on it—but 40 hours a week away from her baby? “You become so attached, it’s so hard to think of being away for an hour at a time,” she said. She hoped to return to work with a more flexible schedule, working from home at least a few days a week, but she hadn’t discussed it with her manager before going on leave. She figured she’d push for it once she got back. “If it wasn’t going to be offered, I’d look elsewhere for it, because it….
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Whether you’re a style virgin, someone who doesn’t think they have style, or already style savvy and just looking to kick it up a notch, these tips can help renew your excitement about your wardrobe:
1. Browse the mall and notice which of the brands or designers tends to attract your eye.
2. Even if these brands are too expensive or don’t fit you, ask yourself what you like about them. Is it the texture, the color, the silhouette?
3. Keep a scrapbook of style inspiration, either in a journal or digitally. Remember to keep updating it every time you see something new that you like because your tastes will evolve.
Cull the scrapbook regularly to get rid of things you….
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Indonesian students in the United Kingdom are invited to a career event at King’s College London on April 29.
‘Wake Up Indonesia!’ is said to be the first Indonesian career event in the country. It aims to connect Indonesian graduates of UK universities with large Indonesian companies.
The one-day event will feature different programs for undergraduate and post-graduate students ….
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Intense competition and pressure at work can easily turn you into a workaholic. If you already happen to be one, listen up, as you could be at a heightened risk of psychiatric disorders.
According to a study conducted by researchers from the University of Bergen in Norway, which involved 16,426 working adults from various social backgrounds, there are significant differences between workaholics and people who are more relaxed …
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Richard Carlson’s first book Don’t Sweat Small Stuff brought so many benefits to my personal and professional life. How we interact with other human beings, become a good listener, how to deal with stressful situations and much more.
I recently read another great book from Richard Carlson called Don’t Sweat Small Stuff at Work. This book focuses on personal development in the workplace. Just like the previous book, he wrote 100 points in…..
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As someone born in the 1990s, now is the time for me to find the best place for my career.
Finding one is a challenge. Even though there lots of places to apply to, millennials have unique characteristics when it comes to workplace. These things are affected by information that we get from social media, television and other sources of information.
Another challenge we faced is stereotyping about millennials. People say we are lazy, place too high standards about work and are constant job hoppers.
Most of the time the stereotyping is wrong. Millennials have specific characteristics that people can’t generalized; because one system doesn’t fit different….
Read more: http://www.thejakartapost.com/life/2016/09/30/four-reasons-millennials-remain-at-workplaces.html
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As someone who was born in the early 1990s, I had the privilege of enjoying the world before technology developed rapidly, putting everyone behind screens.
I played hide and seek, weaved rubber bands with friends so we could play rope, knead clay at school and carried a Walkman wherever I went. A few years later I started to use a computer, replaced my Walkman with an MP3 player and had my first mobile phone. Now it’s been five months since I started working with…
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In the past few years, Indonesia has experienced an average of 5 percent annual gross domestic product (GDP) growth. This could be partly attributed to the increasing population of women in the workforce—almost five times as more in the past three years alone.
Yet, Indonesia was ranked only 88th in the World Economic Forum’s Global Gender Gap Report 2016. At the corporate level, creating the conditions to increase participation of women in the workforce remains challenging and complex.
Where should employers begin?
Diversity and inclusion requires deliberate effort. In Indonesia, many organizations have identified diversity management as a top priority and set minimum quotas for hiring women in their organizations, together with strategies to meet these quotas.
In the recent Aon Best Employers Indonesia study, it was discovered that engagement levels among women have increased 1.8 percent year on year from 2013 to 2016—despite the decrease across Indonesia. While there is no one-size-fits-all solution, and the drivers for engagement are dynamic to each organization, the study showed that there are common traits among organizations where the engagement levels for ….
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One day I had a conversation about life with two young friends of mine. They were in their mid 20s and full of energy.
I loved hearing about how they were dealing with the same things I dealt with when I was their age. We each talked about how we had planned our life, including our career, love life, financial plans, ambitions etc.
Making plans is good because it means there is focus in our life. However, no matter how eager we are in planning our life, there are, unfortunately, things that we just cannot control.
Young people tend to make plans to study, score an ideal job or even get married by a certain age. Little do they know, the last one is something that is hard to…
Read more: http://www.thejakartapost.com/life/2016/05/17/making-plans-is-good-but-life-is-what-you-make-it.html
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