Taryn Herlich is a writer, student, and mental health advocate based in Toronto, Canada. Herlich says she’s come to prefer her at-home study and work routine over the pre-pandemic norm. She experiences less anxiety learning from home, and has more time to work on her hobbies and passions. Visit the […]

Creativity has taken a hit during the pandemic due to a decrease in remote employee collaboration. Ben Crudo, an ecommerce expert and CEO of Diff Agency, says bosses can step in to fix this issue. He says bosses can enable employee’s creativity by supporting their needs and avoiding micromanaging. Visit […]

Aimee Greczmiel is a corporate mum life coach based in Charlotte, North Carolina. While working in finance, Greczmiel hired a life coach to learn to balance her career with being a new mum. During the pandemic, she quit her job to start a coaching business to support corporate mums. Visit […]

Belinda Clarke is a freelance writer and a director of alumni engagement at Northwestern University. She recently Clarke took on a second part-time job as an employee at a mall Lush store in Skokie, Illinois. Although re-entering retail was intimidating, Clarke says she enjoyed interacting with people again and feeling […]

Andy Jassy, CEO of Amazon Web Services, a branch of Amazon, will replace Jeff Bezos as CEO. Jassy has previously spoken out about the importance of diversity in tech. The majority of Amazon managers are white men, and employees are calling for more inclusion. Visit the Business section of Insider […]

Amy Morin is a psychotherapist, licensed clinical social worker, mental strength coach, and international bestselling author. She says taking advantage of remote work can be as simple as staying with friends or as complex as buying a houseboat. Short-term relocations can offer a refreshing change of scenery and take some […]

Many corporate and government leaders, including President Biden, are talking about racial equity right now. Equity is different from equality. Equality treats everyone the same regardless of need, while equity achieves fairness by treating people differently dependent on need. Visit Insider’s homepage for more stories. Over the past few months, […]

VernÄ Myers, Netflix’s vice president of inclusion strategy, spoke with Insider about how to advance diversity. Myers said that diversity efforts without inclusion will fall flat. The conversation was part of Insider and Dell Technologies’ Workplace Evolution event. Visit Insider’s homepage for more stories. Earlier this year, I wrote about […]

Amy Morin is a psychotherapist, licensed clinical social worker, mental strength coach, and international bestselling author. If you’re struggling to keep up with your New Year’s goals, Morin suggests reassessing your choices and being more realistic with what you want to achieve. Evaluate your commitment and readiness to change, and […]

Rosalind “Roz” Brewer is the only Black woman leading a Fortune 500 company right now. Throughout her career, she’s been an outspoken advocate for racial and gender equity. Brewer shows what it means to lead as an anti-racist executive, leadership experts told Insider. Visit Insider’s homepage for more stories. In […]

On Tuesday, news broke that Walgreens named Starbucks exec Rosalind Brewer its next CEO. The move makes Brewer the only Black woman to lead a Fortune 500 company right now. In a 2020 TED Talk, Brewer discussed what leaders need to do to advance diversity, equity, and inclusion. Visit Insider’s […]

Tony Moll is a former Green Bay Packers player who opened a winery in Sonoma, California with his former teammates, Daryn Colledge and Jason Spitzs. They named it Three Fat Guys. Lessons from football – like coordination, quick thinking, and rolling with the punches – have helped the cofounders tackle […]

Manou Oeschger is a social media influencer based in Brentwood, California. When she had her son Liam in 2019, Oeschger pivoted from posting fashion content to sharing mum-related content on Instagram. Now, Oeschger does brand collaborations with baby-food, skin, and hair-care companies that can net her up to $US12,000 a […]

Denise LeGree is a 58-year-old poll worker in Gwinnett County, Georgia, a suburban county of Atlanta. LeGree worked the historic Georgia runoff elections, setting up voting booths and scanning IDs on Election Day. She says she saw a “steady stream of voters coming in all day,” with what she reports […]

Chris (not his real name), 41, is a veteran postal worker in Massachusetts who talked to Insider about the extreme delays he’s seeing with the mail since the holidays, which were unusually slow. The delay in packages is just one of the many obstacles the US Postal Service faced in […]

Nicole Tinson is a social entrepreneur and founder of HBCU 20×20, an organisation that matches Historically Black Colleges and Universities students and graduates with major companies. Tinson says she recently dropped Google as a HBCU 20×20 partner after a Twitter thread alleging racism and discrimination by a former Google recruiter […]

To kick off 2021, 20 states raised their minimum wages. According to a report from the National Employment Law Project, a record-breaking number of jurisdictions are set to increase their minimum wages this year. President-elect Joe Biden’s newly announced stimulus package calls for raising the federal minimum wage to $US15 […]