Today, Comparably looks at responses from both sexes to the question, “Do you feel you’ve been held back in your career because of your gender?” Even with much more discussion of our society’s paternalistic nature and the injustices often dealt to women, it’s plain to see there’s still a lot more progress waiting to be … 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
One thing we expect from every job we have is an opportunity for some form of advancement. A potential promotion is just the kind of dangled carrot that can eradicate feelings of meaningless and dreary repetition about the daily, weekly, and monthly duties of our current jobs. But not every employer was created equal in … Read full-story
Job interviews can become airless affairs, where both the person conducting the interview and the person being interviewed can lose track of what the goal is and, at worst, stop treating each other like human beings. Since the actual job – should the potential hire land it – will not resemble a police interrogation in … Read full-story
There’s a difference between being challenged at work and being overwhelmed. We asked employees to anonymously answer the question, “Are you challenged at work?” While one might expect feelings of being challenged to decrease as one becomes accustomed to their role, our data shows that most workers remain challenged by their jobs throughout their careers. … Read full-story
We don’t just work to make money or have something to do or to fill up our days. We also work to get ahead. Workers tend to feel stagnant when they don’t see the possibility of real advancement up the road. Companies would do well to stoke their employees with that kind of hopeful encouragement, … Read full-story
Feeling challenged at work can mean different things to different people. It implies that the job you have is hard, and that sometimes you need to be performing right up against the limits of your current capabilities. But it also implies that company or department leadership feels that the challenge is one you can meet, … Read full-story
London has inarguably been one of the centers of Western Civilization for 2000 years, which means – for one thing – that it’s stocked full of 2000 years worth of things to do and see. For our purposes, it’s also where these 16 hot tech companies do business. These are some of the more notable up-and-coming tech contenders in London, … Read full-story
All of September is Self-Improvement Month, and we thought it was a good time to visit some ways in which we could all improve ourselves at work. This goes for underachievers and superstars alike. We all have unlimited capacity for simply being better, knowing more, and being even more productive and understanding. Here are ten … Read full-story
Here are all the winners of Comparably’s 2019 Leadership awards. These lists showcase the leaders who are helping to drive positive culture change across companies large and small. … Read full-story
Comparably’s annual Best Companies for Professional Development 2019 represents the highest ranked companies for professional development from employees who anonymously rated their professional advancement and career growth opportunites. The award winners are segmented into two ranked lists: Top 25 large companies (more than 500 employees) and Top 25 small/mid-size companies (less than 500 employees). See below … Read full-story
Life is largely hills and valleys, and most of us at some point in our lives will find ourselves working in a toxic situation. Be it a rogue boss or a gossiping and unhappy staff, somewhere along the course of the fifteen different jobs most of us hold on average over the course of our … Read full-story
