The Latest Tips and Tricks To Get Ahead At Work And In Your Career
Don’t just go through the motions. Use our expert advice on getting out of a career rut and turning work into something you’re passionate about.
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Microsoft Has a New Trick for Keeping Your Password Safe
Your PC’s password is not something to be shared lightly. It’s the keys to your kingdom: From work, to social media, to banking, your whole world is likely accessible from your Windows machine. Consequently, Microsoft is begging us to not be idiots who will hand our passwords over to anyone who asks. But they know…
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How to Streamline Your iPhone 14 Pro’s Always-On Display
With the 14 Pro and 14 Pro Max, Apple has finally brought an always-on display (AOD) to the iPhone. Android devices had the feature for years ago and Apple has been producing compatible OLED displays for almost as long, yet only now are we able to keep our iPhone displays illuminated 27/7. Huzzah! Except the…
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You Can Curate Lists of Your Favourite (or Frequent) Locations in Google Maps
When you open Google Maps, it’s usually either for somewhere you’ve never been before, or a location you visit all the time. The app makes it easy to find a new restaurant or venue or try, but it’s just as good for monitoring traffic on your daily commute. We all have a host of frequent…
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How Does Job Insecurity Impact Staff Performance?
Former General Electric chief executive Jack Welch famously promoted the “20-70-10” system to increase labour productivity. Managers were asked to rank employees on a bell curve; the top 20% received rewards, while the bottom 10% were fired. Yahoo, Amazon and IBM, among many others, later adopted this performance review approach, termed stack ranking, forced ranking…