Work Culture

What Gen Z women want: ‘Lazy Girl Jobs’

The 'Lazy Girl Job' trend has evolved as a countertrend to female hustle culture, in part because of Gen Z. The new TikTok trend is essentially an undemanding, low-stress, usually administrative job, the real usefulness of which is more than questionable

'Work without limits': How Japan's overworked teachers are fighting for change

Teachers in Japan say that they've reached a breaking point, and some have sued to change the culture. Japan's ruling party established a task force to investigate the issue this year

Tearing presentations, making staff run laps: How CEO Bhavish Aggarwal made Ola a 'toxic' workplace

Employees — past and present — have complained about Ola CEO and co-founder Bhavish Aggarwal’s angry outbursts and punishments. They allege that he has made the Bengaluru-based startup a hostile work environment, often calling for meetings at 1 am

PM Modi introduced work culture where public welfare schemes reach everyone, says Union minister Jitendra Singh

According to the Union minister, due to game changer schemes like Gareeb Kalyan Anna Yojana, Jan Dhan, the people of India have reposed faith in Modi government time and again

2020, year of the pandemic: Forced into COVID duty with a newborn, TN nurse reveals unfair treatment of contractual health workers

When things went out of control, Sharon, a govt nurse in Tamil Nadu paid Rs 2 lakh to get transferred near her hometown, but her troubles are far from over as she now travels six hours a day to work and back all for a meager salary of Rs 14,000 a month

Jobs in 2021: With tech taking centrestage, ‘gap year’ 2020 is likely to force professionals to reinvent themselves

Jobs in 2021 will be different from jobs in 2019. Some features will be very new. Some may vanish altogether. But some will remain for the next 10 or 20 years, particularly the use of digital technology and the internet for remote working and projectisation

Re-thinking productivity during the pandemic, countering a culture obsessed with being 'useful'

In a more well-adjusted world, we would not expect ourselves to be constantly productive during a pandemic. But our world is dysfunctional at best, and we need reminders about how we’re not working from home but rather "at home during a crisis, trying to work", to stop feeling disappointed in ourselves

Why and how to build positive and genuine relationships with your coworkers

Here are a few simple tips on how you can build healthy relationships with your coworkers.

Second fiddle is the only place left. Take it

The toughest part to play in the orchestra of life is second fiddle. For most of us, the 40-odd years we work never go beyond the back row or the support role or the subordinate staff level, our lives spent seguing to other people's tunes, responding to their moods, their calls, their signals, their priorities and their orders.

Beware! Demanding bosses may harm your health in long run

If you think that your ever-demanding boss always directs you to push the envelope, be alarmed as this workplace behaviour may be detrimental to your health