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Here’s How Much March Madness Is Costing Your Employer
Pixabay/Pexels March Madness is an exciting time for college basketball fans — and a potential productivity nightmare for their employers. “Between streaming games during work hours to filling out...
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Why Being Wrong Can Be the Best Thing for Your Career
Jamie Street/Unsplash Today is Everything You Think Is Wrong Day, but before you get offended and chuck your novelty calendar out the window, consider the holiday’s purpose. According to...
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PayScale Hero Awards: The 10 Most Satisfying Tech Companies to Work For
If you want high pay and a sense of purpose, working in tech might be right for you. But it’s not all free cereal and stock options in the industry. Satisfaction varies widely from employer to...
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PayScale’s VIP Blog Roundup: 5 Big Networking Mistakes to Avoid
Pexels Most new hires come from networking, not online job applications. That means that job seekers really need to bring their networking A-game, if they want to land a new gig. Of course, schmoozing...
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5 Ways to Be Lucky at Work (and Everywhere Else)
Amy Reed/Unsplash Are you a lucky person? Trick question. As a wise man once said, “In my experience, there’s no such thing as luck.” If you’re about to counter by naming friends and acquaintances who...
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Spring-Clean Your Career in 15 Minutes a Day
Pexels If you regularly spring-clean your living space, you know how a thorough scrubbing can renew not only your physical home, but your approach to life. You can do the same thing for your career,...
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French Baker Fined for Skipping His Day Off
Pexels France is serious about work-life balance. How serious? Well, depending on your profession, skipping a day off could cost you. Cédric Vaivre, baker and owner of Boulangerie du Lac, learned this...
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5 Low-Stress Work-From-Home Jobs for Working Parents
AleksandarNakic/Getty Images Working parents are stressed and the pressure may be getting worse. Can working from home help ease the burden? A recent survey from FlexJobs found that 37 percent of...
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Facebookville: A 21st Century Company Town?
Courtesy of Facebook Facebook lost $50 billion in value in the wake of the Cambridge Analytica scandal, but don’t shed a tear for the world’s most popular social network. The site still boasts over a...
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PayScale’s VIP Blog Roundup: Do This One Thing and Get the Interview
WOCintechchat.com/Flickr The most frustrating part of job searching is waiting by the proverbial phone for hiring managers and recruiters to get back to you. If you rely solely on online job...
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If Facebook Dies, How Many Jobs Will Go With It?
Pexels Yesterday, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg took out full-page ads in several U.S. and U.K. newspapers, apologizing for the company’s role in the Cambridge Analytica scandal. If you’re not...
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10 Steps to Getting That Promotion
JD Hancock/Flickr If your goals for this year included getting a promotion, but you’re not quite there yet, it might be time to check your strategy. To move up the ladder at work, you need a lot of...
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4 of the 5 Fastest Growing Flexible Jobs Are in This Industry
AndrijTer/Getty Images Want work flexibility and job security? Healthcare is the place to be. Recently, FlexJobs combed their database to find the most in-demand, fast-growing flexible jobs, according...
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The Riveter Adds $4.75M in Funding, Will Expand Female-Forward Coworking
Ian Schneider/Unsplash Not feeling the bro-friendly, craft-beer vibe at your local coworking spot? You may soon have other options. The Riveter, a Seattle-based coworking company focused on female...
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PayScale’s VIP Blog Roundup: The Strangest Things Seen on a Resume
Antonio Guillem/Getty Images It’s hard to write a resume that really makes you stand out from the crowd. Faced with that pressure, job seekers include all sorts of bizarre information, from totally...
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5 Easy April Fools’ Pranks to Play in the Office
April Fools’ Day falls on a Sunday this year – great news for people who are hoping to torment their family members with blue milk or cellophaned toilet seats, but not so great news for those hoping to...
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4-Day Workweek, 5-Day Paycheck: New Zealand Company Cuts Hours (But Not Pay)
RawPixel/Pexels If you work for a company with summer hours, you might think you’re getting a pretty good deal. But even if your employer lets you work a shorter week, they probably expect you to make...
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The Negotiation Tactic That Turns Good Jobs Bad
Gratisography/Pexels Seventy-five percent of respondents to our survey who asked for a raise received a pay increase. The other 25 percent? Well, it’s a good bet that some didn’t know how to ask the...
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7 Fast Food Chains End No-Poach Clauses
freestocks.org/Pexels Good news for low-wage workers in Washington State: seven fast food chains recently reached a deal with the state attorney general to drop no-poach clauses from their contracts....
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5 Companies Hiring for Remote, Part-Time Jobs Right Now
Rawpixel.com/Unsplash Forty-six percent of professionals say they’re interested in part-time jobs, according to FlexJobs, a jobs site that specializes in remote, part-time and contract work....
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