🚨🎉 Introducing Index: A new publication about work from Medium. We’ll be digging into the most pressing issues surrounding modern work, including identity in the workplace, remote work, the ever-shifting economic landscape, and many more. 💼

From e-commerce to e(xperiential)-commerce: "To remain relevant, retail stores need to focus on interaction over transaction," writes @SteevoToday in @MRKR. Read how brands like Glossier, Casper, and Ralph Lauren are reimagining physical retail:

Black workers are either unicorns, who exceed expectations and unwillingly serve as standard bearers for everyone who looks like them, or they're the problem children christened as the face of the working Black community as a whole, writes  @JoshuaDairen

"Cryptocurrencies are not tied to people but to digital keys, making their owners pseudonymous rather than fully anonymous," explains Tabarak Khan in today's Number Crunch.

Thrilled to have the brilliant @SteevoToday join us as the guest editor of Index!

"There’s nothing inherently wrong with so-called ‘Corporate Pride’, but it has to be built on a substantive foundation of real allyship. In reality, the opposite is often true." -- Tom Williams

RT @fabgiovanetti: Excellent piece from @ZulieRane in @MRKR about the deep ramifications of ‘Corporate Allyship’

Happy birthday, @zoramag!!!

"If companies want to make unreasonable demands that will impact the well-being of their employees, they better be willing to pay handsomely for the privilege." -- @StelaGineva

"If the working class is using Covid-19 emergency measures as a jumping-off point to start negotiations for a livable wage, more generous benefits, and flexible working hours, can anyone really blame them?" -- @MunrKazmir

There's really no secret business trick employers need to pull out of their corporate sleeve to keep talent around, writes startup CEO consultant Brett Fox in Index:

Many workers dread returning back to the corporate workplace with all of its trappings: suiting up, commuting, the constant jostling for visibility. But @SteevoToday—who’s never worked in a traditional 9-to-5—actually regrets not having the experience:

"I do not believe in the idea of bringing your whole self to work...But I also don’t believe it’s possible for a company operating in the USA in 2021 to be apolitical," writes @espiers

"Reinventing yourself is a daunting task, but at its very core, there are some simple steps to follow to make it as frictionless as possible." (Spoiler alert: self-reinvention begins with deep self-reflection). Read @SteevoToday in Index:

Have you ever been the target of blatant tokenization in the workplace? @twiffanyjana points out red flags and clues that you may be part of a quick fix, an optics strategy, or a diversity PR stunt.

"You can live a fulfilling and ethical life that doesn’t revolve around the people and place that you’re beholden to for money." -- @sarah_k_mock

RT @gibsonbiddle: I just published in @MRKR "A Brief History of Netflix Personalization." It's a 22-minute essay, so the brief part is deba…

RT @Gloria_Oh: "As a post-vaccine world brightens at the end of this long, strange tunnel, and as our national conversation heats up about…

"When you’re told at a job, 'We’re all family here,' what you’re really being told is, 'We expect you to blur the boundaries between your work life and your personal life,'" writes therapist Christina Tesoro in Index. Here's how that manifests:

"It’s not just a matter of Zoom fatigue — though yes, online meetings are more exhausting than in-person meetings," writes @awsamuel, author of Remote, Inc. who argues that meeting culture was broken long before Covid.

RT @tryingtobejames: Really good read on homelessness: We Can End Homelessness Today. We Just Don’t Want To. by @Cobylefko in @MRKR https…