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Finding Joy and Friendship in a Pandemic-Induced Hobby

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I needed something to do—a hobby—that would force me to put my phone down and redirect my attention and my thumbs. When I arrived at my beginner’s class in summer 2018 as an eager 32-year-old, I was the youngest stitcher by at least 20 years. We exchanged phone numbers and Instagram handles. Generation Zen. Spreading the Love.

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Why we need to consider switching to a 4-day workweek — now 

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Flocc alternates heads-down “red time” with Swedish fika ( a coffee break), while Glasgow call center Pursuit Marketing offers workers free breakfast before they hit the phones. Synergy Vision, a London-based medical and health care communications company, introduced a four-day week in late 2018.

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Who Needs an Office? 10 Entrepreneurs Weigh In on the Future of Virtual Work

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Virtual tools and resources can help you hire, manage projects, collaborate with far-flung team members and even make it look like you really do have an office. It has every possible feature for project management, and other products from 37signals’ Suite [web-based apps for collaboration, sharing information and making decisions].

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Tori Dunlap, Founder of Her First 100K is on a Mission to Close the Gender Pay Gap

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In a 2018 study of financial capability, results showed that men, on average, responded to 3.3 I would love to get to a number that we can collaboratively agree on.”. Consider charging recurring payments such as a phone or utility bill onto your credit card. out of six questions correctly, whereas women only responded to 2.7