"You spend most of your life at work, so the office should be a great place to be," says Selgas, describing the ethos behind Second Home, a new "curated workplace" off Brick Lane, set up by Rohan Silva, the former government tech adviser behind the Silicon Roundabout idea.
"Teaching Children the Realities of Employment" [L.I.@Work, Aug. 4] said that during the summer, "companies often loosen the usual rules that make the workplace off limits to children".
"The more that employers know about their employees' lives, especially outside the workplace, off-duty hours, the more potential control or effects they have on their lives in the first place,'' said Lee Tien, a senior staff attorney at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a nonprofit organization that advocates for consumer privacy.
Not long ago, cash-balance pensions were stirring an entirely different uproar in the American workplace, setting off unionization drives, Congressional hearings and class-action lawsuits.
I have watched them win over old-school communists in the dockers' union, smarting from seeing their workplace sold off to the Chinese, and present a modern, youthful alternative to a political establishment serving a corrupt elite.
My recent studies with Alexandra Gerbasi and Sebastian Schorch at the Grenoble École de Management, published in the Journal of Applied Psychology, show that behavior involving politeness and regard for others in the workplace pays off.
Yet even if employers do have a reasonable understanding of MS they might shy away from a candidate who needs modifications to be made to the workplace, time off sick due to relapses or treatment, and whose fatigue may force them to eventually work part-time.
And Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg – who literally wrote the book on sexism in the workplace – kicked off her bestseller Lean In with an anecdote about a less explicit kind of sexsim: she was giving a presentation at a company when she asked where the women's restroom was.
We call this model "authentically curious leadership". Practicing curiosity in the workplace pays off in talent development and organizational results.
And immigrants will remain in the workplace, working off the books in an underground economy.
But coming up with that plan may require making some concessions to the reality of the post-new economy, which has reintroduced the workplace trade-off between making a lot of money and having a job that could be described as fun.
