Early September batch of links
Since the last batch of links went out, paying subscribers received a column focused on how to rethink job titles and then a Q&A with a first-time manager. This coming weekend, paying subscribers will receive another Q&A, this one with a CEO who had to perform staff layoffs for the first time this year.
Below, you’ll find a batch of links on the subjects that this newsletter covers: professional development, community building, and self care.
Women and People of Color Can’t Afford to ‘Quiet Quit’. The backlash to the trend was obviously going to creep in, and as usual the people who get favored in the workplace generally have more liberties to change the rules and rituals. I don’t think this quiet quitting topic had legs to remain around regardless, but here’s as good a reason as any to quit it with the quiet quitting.
Working Moms Took a Hit in the Pandemic. The Pain May Make the Wage Gap Worse.
I’ve been going in about once a week. I love the energy of the newsroom, I love seeing people, and I miss my work friends. My beat feels like this intersection between the conversations I’m having with co-workers and the conversations I’m having with people in different states and industries. I get to follow the reporting threads that come from what my co-workers are experiencing. But I do get a lot done at home. And there are aspects of returning to the office that I’m apprehensive about, like having to commute instead of going on a morning run.
This key part of parental leave gets overlooked.
Now Is the Most Rewarding Time to Switch Jobs in Years. While I accept some of the stats put forth here, I disagree with the overarching principle here. Many of the roles on career pages now through the end of the year won’t wind up being filled.
How likely are you to be laid off? A study of 17,000 pink slips holds some answers.
How walking together helped 2 cancer patients heal: ‘You think you’re alone, and you’re just not’. I love this story about taking back control over what you can, then finding people who get what you’re experiencing despite wishing you weren’t in that club.
The 10 most in-demand work-from-anywhere jobs companies are hiring for in 2022.
The Professional Try-Hard Is Dead, But You Still Need to Return to the Office.
Here I will risk a degree of try-hardist edging to say that I’d previously enjoyed spending Tuesdays at my Manhattan desk as a lifestyle choice, employer-grade air conditioning being one of the few things you can’t absorb over videoconference. But why did my feelings about the office shift from neutral to total disorientation the minute it became a fulfillment of some external requirement, some other decision-maker’s ruling, rather than an expression of my agency as a working adult?
3 views: Meetings are bad, yo. Choose emails.
Why you should grieve the ‘smaller’ pandemic losses. I thought this short piece captured well what it feels like to be navigating the complexity of the moment, especially staring down the barrel of another winter on the horizon. I’m already thinking about when am I going to get my flu shot this season.
‘Quiet Quitters’ Make Up Half of the US Workforce, Gallup Finds.
Companies Weigh the Pros and Cons of Business Trip Vacations. I suspect this was fairly common behavior for people who traveled a bunch for work before, and it’ll be ever more popular as people hit the road again this year and next. Their partners and their support systems have proven capacity to flexibly work around it.
Welcome to the Great Reimagination.
From Boom to Gloom: Tech Recruiters Struggle to Find Work. The story late in this piece about the recruiter who had to expand her skills within HR more generally resonates deeply with me from how I managed to keep my job for nine months in 2020 despite our sales not being there. Everyone had to do at different points whatever they could to get by.