A manager assigns a team member to an unglamorous task. A senior colleague hands off a notoriously difficult client to a junior colleague. Someone must assume extra ...

I was 16 years old when I got my first “real” job at a local Jack-in-the-Box. It was not a great gig, for sure, working over a hot grill and dealing with rude, demanding customers. But I was saved ...

2025 was a year of big change—in general, and in the workplace. Stefanie Fernández is an associate editor at HBR. Harvard Business Publishing: Copyright ©2026 ...

The Wall Street Journal published an opinion piece titled “Why Work-Life Balance Will Keep You Mediocre.” Certainly a headline designed to draw ire from many readers, myself included. The author ...

Poor Americans will face new challenges to enroll, and states will have to build new bureaucracies. By Margot Sanger-Katz and Sarah Kliff The authors are covering how new requirements will reshape ...

In psychology, the good life is often conceptualized across three dimensions: the happy life, the meaningful life, and the psychologically rich life. A happy life brims with hedonic well-being, ...

Half the battle of getting your work done is figuring out what you need to do. The best work management apps we've tested help you organize your day-to-day workload and stay on task. I’ve been writing ...

Across much of America, workers fear their options for remote work are slipping away. But remote work is alive and well, at least for now. Five years into the pandemic workplace revolution, roughly 38 ...

Push-button start may be common today, but it wasn't always the dominant way to crank an engine. Push-button start systems and ignition key systems activate the same process in different ways. Do you ...

One of the best predictors of your happiness at work is whether you have colleagues that you are close with. You don’t necessarily need to be friends with your colleagues—that is, you may not want to ...