In Comparably’s weekly series commemorating Women’s History Month, we recognize female executives from our most recent Best CEOs of 2019 list. Highlighted this week is CEO Joanna McFarland from Los Angeles-based Hop Skip Drive, a mobile app that allows parents to hire transportation service for their children. The company pairs drivers with both families and school … Read full-story
It turns out the general workplace edict to not discuss compensation and salary details is only a “hard-and-fast” rule some of the time. When asked how likely they were to share details about their compensation with their co-workers, just 21% of respondents said they would never do it, according to the latest reading of an … Read full-story
The population is reeling as the country becomes accustomed to what is, at least for the moment, our new way of life. Increasingly, people of the U.S. are being asked to confine themselves to home while the potentially deadly Covid-19 virus threatens to destabilize everything for everyone. This means that many work teams that were working … Read full-story
In Comparably’s new Women’s History Month series, female executives from our most recent Best CEOs of 2019 list sit down with us to impart some important leadership lessons. Following is an excerpt from our conversation with co-founder and CEO Lynn Jurich of San Francisco, California-based Sunrun (Nasdaq: RUN) – a company revolutionizing how consumers get electricity. Not … Read full-story
An Interview with TaxJar’s Darcy Boles For years, the idea of working from a space as comfortable as your own living room was only a hazy dream for most American workers. Leaving the creature comforts of one’s home or chosen space for the formal realm of an office seemed like it was part of the … Read full-story
Gen Z, born between the mid-to-late 90s and the early 2010s, are soon to be the largest generation on earth, constituting a quarter of the U.S. population. They’re incredibly diverse, and they demand the same from their employees. They eat, sleep, and breath technology. Every industry in the nation and the world will depend on … Read full-story
Gen Z. They have high-tech minds. They expect a healthy work-life balance. They require a lot of feedback. They want to start their own businesses. They’re excellent multitaskers. Soon, they’ll surpass Millennials as the Earth’s most populous generation. And constituting a quarter of the US population, they’re the most diverse generation in the nation’s history. … Read full-story
In a new series in commemoration of Women’s History Month, Comparably will recognize female executives from our most recent Best CEOs of 2019 list. The first person we are highlighting is Elizabeth Cholawsky of Santa Barbara, California-based tech software company HG Insights. Following is an excerpt from a recent Q&A we conducted where she shares her … Read full-story
Most workers who replied to a query don’t report having a mentor at work. While the data suggests that entry-level employees are still often getting the guidance one might expect, it seems that workers of other experience levels either don’t seek or aren’t provided with any help to continue their professional development. This information comes … Read full-story
You can’t just ignore office politics. As nice as it would be if we could always just all get along in the workplace, there are just too many unfortunate similarities between work and war for political maneuvering not to be an element of your work life. The goal of all conflict, especially at work, is … Read full-story
Increasingly, being a good culture fit is key to landing a job, especially a position at a desirable company. It’s not a World War 2 “guys on a mission” movie: you can’t just bring the technical acumen and a bad attitude with you and expect to fit in because you get the job done without … Read full-story
Ah, good ol’ Ohio, the birthplace of the Wright Brothers and American Football. Current home to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, Ceder Point, and some truly great companies. We’ve scoured through the data and crunched the numbers and have compiled a list of 9 top companies to work for in Ohio. These 9 Buckeye … Read full-story
While not every company is newsworthy, most big corporations find themselves speculated upon in the business news media – if not the mainstream news – at least once in a while. Some companies, like Amazon and Uber, seem to be in the news every day. But not everyone seems to follow the business news for … Read full-story
Napping at work has been adapted by many cultures as a simple and cheap way for companies to give employees a midday break and a recharge of their batteries. Although taking a nap is proven to up afternoon productivity as well as creativity, there’s still a real stigma against the practice in the United States. … Read full-story
Artificial Intelligence has crept from the pages of mid-century sci-fi stories into the very mainstream of American culture – especially in the workplace. For decades now, workers have speculated about how (and when) AI will affect their own job futures: Will automation replace the need for humans, or will the AI be used in ways … Read full-story
We all know how nerve-wracking a job interview can be. It can be so important for the interviewee, and yet can seem so off-hand to the interviewer (who has to do ten of them today.) You’ll go home after the interview and replay every little moment and secondary hesitation and twitcn in your head. You’ll … Read full-story
A healthy workplace culture is an exceedingly enviable thing for any company to brag about. Resources like Comparably have given a clear voice to employees for airing any grievances and singing any praises about the companies they work for, so it’s harder than ever for a business to get away with a toxic workplace environment. … Read full-story
They say the grass is always greener on the other side of the fence. The implication of the old saying is that we idealize what we don’t have, and tend to undervalue what we do. If your current dissatisfaction has to do with something inside you, you’ll take it with you right over the fence … Read full-story
Okay, you landed the interview, you did your research, and on the big day you handled yourself well. So now what? Everyone knows how maddening it can be to replay the minutes of your interview in your head, and to quiet that often self-critical stream of thought, we sometimes tell ourselves, “Well, there’s nothing I … Read full-story
Employers are currently faced with a job market reflecting low unemployment rates, which means the power has shifted back to the talent. If you’re looking to enlist the hottest new talent out there, you’re going to have to give them what they expect of a modern company: comfort, respect, flexibility, and an ethical approach to … Read full-story
Retaining employees saves a company money, and for bottom-line oriented businesses, that’s reason enough. But a company that hosts a lot of long-time employees can also be assumed to be one that treats its workers fairly, keeps them occupied, and respects their individuality. Job seekers who find that company is known for great retention knows … Read full-story
Ending up with the right kind of culture is the bedrock of everything – and it isn’t always easy. When Reid Lappin, Founder & CEO of Chicago digital innovation agency Vokal, talks about company culture, what is easy to see is that the topic is something he is passionate about and takes seriously. As … Read full-story
Of all the many tensions one has to manage during a work day, the tension between wanting to take a break and not breaking with your work pace is always tricky. Most experts would attest that taking an hour break from your work for lunch is humane, rational, and just the kind of siesta one … Read full-story
A straight definition of mindfulness goes like this: It is “the psychological process of bringing one’s attention to experiences occurring in the present moment.” Not being mindful is an issue that – if one had to guess – only affects human beings. Other animals have no choice but to live in the moment, and it … Read full-story
Most tech companies are organized around developing new products for the evolving needs of our 21st century world. It goes without saying, then, that product roles are among the important and most prized positions at tech companies large and small across the nation. Product talent keeps tabs on intended audiences, helps manage a cross-functional development team, … Read full-story
The scouring of systematic and individual racism from the institutions of America is unfortunately an ongoing process. And racism in the workplace, where personal boundaries are different, is an especially ugly issue. While it feels that progress on this issue is being made in recent years, its clear from the below information that some groups … Read full-story
Many of could us a nap once in a while to recharge our batteries while at work, but it’s hard to find a company in this country where napping is encouraged or where nap spaces are provided. Asian countries seem to have initiated this practice in the popular imagination, but few American companies have picked … Read full-story
For most of us, jobs aren’t just about a reliable paycheck anymore. Increasingly, compensation outside of base salary is what keeps us with our jobs whether or not we feel passionate about the work otherwise. Our jobs pay for our medical bills, feed us, offer daycare for our children – some even give workers time off … Read full-story
We all lead multiple lives, and every once in a while we get the feeling that its time to start another new one. Unhappiness and dissatisfaction can start as just at tickle, a feeling that you’ve been sold a bad bill of goods. But if the ambiguous feelings are rooted in a real problem, they’re … Read full-story
An interview is an awfully short time to get a sense of who a job candidate is. And as we all know, simply having the right skills or job experience for the role in question doesn’t paint the picture you need to make a good decision on potential talent. What you really want is to … Read full-story
