What reasonable requests do employees have of their employers? Beyond a simple paycheck, most of us in the current culture look at our jobs as something that will enrich us in other ways, especially in terms of professional development. We want to end up with more skills than we started with. In fact, of all … Read full-story
Companies conduct phone interviews for a number of reasons, generally: They’re a cheaper and more practical way to interview out-of-town candidates or remote workers, and they serve as an initial screening to weed out potential interviewees who aren’t a good enough potential fit to bring in for an in-person interview. That doesn’t mean you can … Read full-story
Netflix and Hulu are the two most popular streaming services in the U.S. Netflix leads with 58.5 million subscribers in the country, while Hulu comes in 2ndwith 25 million subscribers. But the cost of both services’ basic plans are going in opposite directions. Netflix subscriptions are getting more expensive, with its standard HD streaming plan now priced … Read full-story
Disrupt or be disrupted – that’s what it means to be in business today. From transportation to ecommerce, real estate to finance, startups are showing that the way forward means shaking up the status quo. For a handful of those startups, the path has been especially impressive. As of January 2019, there are more than … Read full-story
If you’re doing it right, work can feel on the best days like your home away from home. And in those cases, your desk is like your teenage bedroom in your parents house. It’s your home base at this home away from home, it’s where you are expected and encouraged to show off a little … Read full-story
Who will win in the battle for dominance between Walmart and Amazon? Whoever comes out on top, it will likely determine the future of retail… and it may all come down to online grocery sales. The match began in 2016 when Walmart, the nearly 70-year-old brick-and-mortar discount retailer, purchased Jet.com in a bid to infringe into the … Read full-story
The amount of men who believe women are represented well enough in leadership positions has dropped since the last time we reported on the survey topic almost one year ago. This suggests that a year of news stories and reports highlighting employment and wage disparities for women may have had a real effect on the opposite … Read full-story
When you’ve got a full plate of work in front of you, it can feel like the beginning of a marathon. So the last thing you might want to think about when faced with a lot of work is stopping to learn some better ways to schedule it all and get things done. But take … Read full-story
Don’t let Monday through Friday come at you every week like a street gang looking to rough you up. It’s a easy reshuffle to make sense of your week at work, to master it time-wise and make that familiar 40+ hour structure work for you. Diving blindly in only creates stress, and not knowing just … Read full-story
Hopefully you don’t know the feeling, but chances are you do: 76% of Americans suffer from what has been called “the Sunday scaries.” It starts for most of us as we leave our live-in-the-moment childhoods behind and begin to plan for the future, to study for our SATs, get into a good university, find a good … Read full-story
Despite the strong sense that networking with people in your industry is the best way to land a new job, most people seem to be have gotten their first interview for their current job via online applications. This should ease the worries of those lacking networking skills, and also alert veteran job seekers that a … Read full-story
Most careers, like most lives, do not proceed in a linear fashion. We imagine a progression of school to job to promotion to finally being the big boss of them all, but very few of our stories eventually read that way. Instead, it’s all fits and false starts, back to square one, life lessons, and … Read full-story
One of the biggest contributors to job satisfaction is the relationship we have with our coworkers. It makes sense: in today’s 24/7 hyperconnected world, we spend many of our waking hours interacting with our colleagues, even on nights and weekends. In an effort to learn more about these important coworker bonds, Comparably asked thousands of its … Read full-story
Every new employee is a stranger in a strange land for their first few weeks on a new job. They’re likely commuting to a new part of the city, they’re working in a new building, they’ve got a whole lot of new lunch places to try out – and they’re surrounded by a group of … Read full-story
We all know work-related stress is a near constant in modern life. Success at work drives our lives and shapes our fate, so a certain amount of white-knuckling is to be expected. But we also know the effect of a million little stressors all ganging up on us and turning an average workday into an … Read full-story
We as human beings have always prized our intellect over all else, mostly because we’re the species that got the gold ribbon for accumulation of smarts. As a result of this, however, old-fashioned emotion began to be treated in human society as a sort of outdated user system that intelligence long ago replaced and rendered … Read full-story
With so many companies and so much competition, the American marketplace demands innovation and new ideas both in terms of public products as well as company culture practices. Nobody wants to work for a company that’s still acting like It’s 1956 or 1985 outside its doors, or that has a bad record for losing employees … Read full-story
You’re right to be proud of yourself for making it past the first round of interviews for that new job you’re trying to land. That means the company has determined you’re a valid candidate, and you’ve most likely got a real shot at getting the job. So get ready for round two. The first round … Read full-story
Predictors say to expect remote workers to make up 40% of the workplace by 2020, and it’s no mystery why. For employers, remote jobs mean less costs per employee. For workers, whole fantasies bloom of working in pajamas, blasting music, and sitting cross-legged with a bowl of cereal in your lap at 2 in the … Read full-story
Few of us are experts at keeping our New Year’s resolutions, but fewer still feel comfortable not making any at all, no matter how many years of promises to ourselves we’ve broken. Resolutions are free, positive thought is healthy and breeds action, and the new year is simply an irresistible time to think about this … Read full-story
Annual reviews have a way of sneaking up, but there’s no excuse for failing to prepare for them. In the days and weeks (and months, if you’re super organized!) ahead of your review, you should start figuring out what you want to come out of it. Do you want a raise? A promotion? Do you … Read full-story
The more time you’ve spent as an adult, the more you become aware of the fact that your work is your life. As much as we like to maintain some kind of balance between personal time and our days at the office, the truth is that the barrier dividing these modes of living is deeply … Read full-story
Why Employee Retention Is So Important Employee retention is increasingly important in a world more focused on company culture than ever. Gone are the days when a company could burn blithely through a crop of employees, confident that there was always someone hungrier out there waiting to replace anyone that was cut loose. The hunger … Read full-story
“Tell me about yourself.” It’s a simple request in theory, but it’s almost too open-ended for comfort. Do you start at the beginning? How much do you leave in? When can you stop talking? While no two job interviews are the same, this is a question job seekers can come to expect in pretty any interview, so it’s best to brush up. … Read full-story
Everyone knows the feeling when a work meeting has gone off the rails and turned into chaos or drifted off into nervous silence. Legs under the tables start shaking. Idle fingers start twirling pens or – worse – tapping them on tables. And when the smartphones start coming out of hiding, you know the … Read full-story
Creating a workplace that promotes gender equality is a priority for many employers these days. And luckily, the ways of going about that goal aren’t rocket science. Whether you’re a large company or small, there are several aspects of workplace culture that you should focus on in trying to create a more gender inclusive workplace. Here are … Read full-story
Execs and Entry-Level Employees Get More Valuable Feedback Then Anyone Else Those at the top and bottom of the office ecosystem report receiving more practical and helpful advice regarding improving their work performance than the majority of workers currently between those two extremes. When asked how often they felt they received constructive feedback, the most … Read full-story
It’s not that much of a stretch to compare a workplace to a biological organism. Feed a human being nothing but junk food and their health declines. Pour coffee on a plant every morning and see how it looks by 5 o’clock. And so it goes with groups of people: you want the best product, … Read full-story
The winners of Comparably’s annual Best Companies for Women awards received the highest ratings by female employees who provided anonymous feedback on a variety of workplace culture questions ranging from work environment to compensation to leadership on Comparably. The award winners are segmented into two lists in alphabetical order: Top 50 Large companies (more than … Read full-story
The winners of Comparably’s annual Best Companies for Diversity awards are solely based on companies that received the highest ratings by their racially diverse employees who provided anonymous feedback on a variety of workplace culture questions ranging from work environment to compensation to leadership on Comparably. The award winners are segmented into two lists in alphabetical … Read full-story
