Few people are as knee-deep in our work-related anxieties and sticky office politics as Alison Green, who has been fielding workplace questions for a decade now on her website Ask a Manager. In Direct Report, she spotlights themes from her inbox that help explain the modern workplace and how we could be navigating it better. Remote work has made lots of new things possible for those allowed to do it: We can do laundry while we work, excise commuting from our lives, and not worry about infecting colleagues when we have a cold. But it’s made something else possible too: a surge in people who...…Few people are as knee-deep in our work-related anxieties and sticky office politics as Alison Green, who has been fielding workplace questions for a decade now on her website Ask a Manager. In Direct Report, she spotlights themes from her inbox that help explain the modern workplace and how we could be navigating it better. Remote work has made lots of new things possible for those allowed to do it: We can do laundry while we work, excise commuting from our lives, and not worry about infecting colleagues when we have a cold. But it’s made something else possible too: a surge in people who...WW…

AdvertisementAdvertisementFew people are as knee-deep in our work-related anxieties and sticky office politics as Alison Green, who has been fielding workplace questions for a decade now on her website Ask a Manager. In , she spotlights themes from her inbox that help explain the modern workplace and how we could be navigating it better.In today’s topsy-turvy job market, a strange new thing is happening. Employers are increasingly grumbling about job seekers “ghosting” them. These job candidates just don’t show up for their scheduled interviews. And in some cases, new hires accept a...…AdvertisementAdvertisementFew people are as knee-deep in our work-related anxieties and sticky office politics as Alison Green, who has been fielding workplace questions for a decade now on her website Ask a Manager. In , she spotlights themes from her inbox that help explain the modern workplace and how we could be navigating it better.In today’s topsy-turvy job market, a strange new thing is happening. Employers are increasingly grumbling about job seekers “ghosting” them. These job candidates just don’t show up for their scheduled interviews. And in some cases, new hires accept a...WW…

AdvertisementAdvertisementFew people are as knee-deep in our work-related anxieties and sticky office politics as Alison Green, who has been fielding workplace questions for a decade now on her website Ask a Manager. In , she spotlights themes from her inbox that help explain the modern workplace and how we could be navigating it better.With so many people still working from home because of COVID-19, an awful lot of managers are freaking out.Some managers just don’t believe that “working from home” means doing real work. They apparently assume that the second people aren’t being...…AdvertisementAdvertisementFew people are as knee-deep in our work-related anxieties and sticky office politics as Alison Green, who has been fielding workplace questions for a decade now on her website Ask a Manager. In , she spotlights themes from her inbox that help explain the modern workplace and how we could be navigating it better.With so many people still working from home because of COVID-19, an awful lot of managers are freaking out.Some managers just don’t believe that “working from home” means doing real work. They apparently assume that the second people aren’t being...WW…