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Answering “Why did you quit your last job” in an interview

HR Digest

A reference from your last job or company goes a long way in reassuring the interviewer of your performance and skills. Talk of the new technology or tools or processes that the company has adopted and which you are eager to work in or gain experience in handling. For example: NEED FLEXTIME.

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Should Employers Ban Email After Work Hours?

Harvard Business Review

Mobile technology has created a new normal work life for a lot of us: Gallups research reveals that nearly all full-time U.S. And a full two-thirds of Americans report that the amount of work they do outside normal working hours has increased a little to a lot because of mobile technology advances over the last decade.

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How to Be a Family-Friendly Boss

Harvard Business Review

With today’s information technology, more and more work can be done in places other than the office and at times outside of traditional business hours. Especially in the more subjective realms of knowledge work, they default to false indicators of performance such as “chair time” or interpersonal skills.

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How to Think Like a Futurist

Strategy Driven

Now, in 2019, I think anything beyond 10-15 years is reasonably futile because we bump up against the technological singularity (the time when machine intelligence becomes so sophisticated that it causes currently unfathomable changes to human existence). Remember that the future doesn’t just happen – we shape it every day.