Everyone needs a work spouse — even if some millennials don't think so

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A "work spouse" is really just another name for a "work best friend."

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Nobody showed up to a best-selling author's book launch. She called it a 'career low point' but found out she's far from alone.

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Suzanne Young is a New York Times best-selling author.

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The drama and politics in my office are so distracting that I have to work harder to make up for lost time

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A man sits at a desk in a dimly lit office.

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Amazon’s head of HR rejects employees’ return-to-office petition

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It's finally Friday, friend-o. I'm Diamond Naga Siu, and I've made it through another week of procrastination (AKA talking too much).

I spend a lot of my day thinking about writing. Then I talk for hours with colleagues about anything and everything. But once my stress hits a breaking point, I might finally hunker down with noise-canceling headphones to write.

A software CEO ditched Chicago for a Midwestern college town and said the move was 'huge upgrade' for his whole family

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Ravi Bhatt and his family.

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A popular post on Blind says all tech workers who got jobs during the pandemic were 'charity cases,' but getting hired now at a big tech company will actually mean something

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Tech CEOs like Meta's Mark Zuckerberg and Google's Sundar Pichai have admitted that their overhiring during the pandemic is partly to blame for mass layoffs now.

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Bill Gates says 'we need a fire department for pandemics' as he worries we're unprepared for the next one

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Bill Gates.

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Most people's mental health has been resilient despite the pandemic, according to an analysis of 137 studies

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1 in 5 Americans will experience a mental illness in a given year and 20.4 million people in the United States were diagnosed with substance use disorder in 2021, according to federal government data.

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Buying a car is never going to get better — so you might as well buy now

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The auto market is actually the best it has been in three years, if you want more vehicle availability or if you don't want to pay sky-high prices for a new ride.

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'The Last of Us' is based on real science: A fungus pandemic is unlikely, but not impossible

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A banner for "The Last of Us" in the city center in Warsaw, Poland.

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