I spoke with the leaders of the
@EtsyStrike
about their demands.
“What they require from me as a seller, they can’t come near themselves,” one crafter told me. “I’m supposed to answer 95% of emails within 24 hours; try getting Etsy to do that.”
Today is my first day as a reporter covering all things
#leadership
at
@FortuneMagazine
! I'm very grateful for the warm welcome and so excited to get started🤩
“The state's going to get a ton of tax revenue, and there’s going to be a monstrous amount of jobs,” Ben Kovler, CEO of
@GTIGrows
, which operates three dispensaries in NJ, told me. “That’s a given.”
Ahead of
#ElectionDay
next week, I spoke with fellow '97 baby/congressional hopeful
@MaxwellFrostFL
.
If he wins, his first step in DC will be "being a really good member of Congress." Second: he wants to, "little by little," finish up his college degree.
how's everyone's 4th annual post-labor day
#returntooffice
push going?
are you complying? are your peers? is the building bustling, or can you hear a pin drop? is
#WFH
on the table?
basically: how are you feeling? tell me everything!
dm's open, or: jane.thier
@fortune
.com
Not being school-aged, or living with anyone school-aged, means I don't have to think about
#schoolclosures
as much as most Americans do. But diving into the issue this week was both eye-opening and clarifying: they really do need to stay open. My latest:
A few weeks ago I admitted to my boss that I always wake up at the last possible second. Why did I tell her this? I don't know! I regretted it instantly! But I DO know I'm not alone. So I spoke to some proud compatriots about our shared dirty secret 💤💤
The majority of
#GenZ
would like their employer to provide the option for a daily wage payment, a new report finds. "Getting everything on-demand is just the way Gen Z grew up,”
@DailyPay
's
@jeanniey_
told me. "It’s what they expect.”
Last month I interviewed
@Simone_Biles
2 days after she won her 8th US Gymnastics title. Fresh off a red-eye, she was understandably exhausted, but still dropped several bombs about America's toxic obsession w/ productivity. cc
@AxoniusInc
@DeanSysman
Really insightful comment from
@MITSloan
prof.
@annastansbury
: the fact that many white collar jobs can clearly be done from home likely means many will be offshored in the coming years:
Have you taken ever taken a new job that paid exactly the same -- or less! -- than the one you were in? In your
#jobsearch
, how important is a new-job
#salary
bump? What about a better title? For a
@FortuneMagazine
story, I want to know what you think! DMs open
#journorequest
I talked to the eponymous Bob!!!! Thanks to
@BobsRedMill
for discussing ESOPs, worker's rights, and the glaring shortcomings of most business schools and corporations.
Everywhere you look, people are saying it's a job seeker's market. But I don't think that's the whole story. Have you been trying, unsuccessfully, to land a job over the past few months? For a
@FortuneMagazine
story, I want to hear from you! DMs open
#jobsearch
#journorequest
~some personal news~ After nearly 2.5 amazing years at
@industrydive
, today is my last day! I will sorely miss my amazing coworkers, especially my team on
@CFODive
, which now has an opening!
Tech-savvy
#GenZ
spends an average of eight hours per workweek helping older coworkers look for computer files, a new
@getoslash
survey finds. That comes out to over $11,000 a year of wasted employer pay. More for
@FortuneMagazine
:
Today marks one year at
@FortuneMagazine
! I'm so grateful to be here and proud to be part of this wonderful team ✨✨✨ want to thread some of my favorite reported stories of the past 12 months. First up: that time I zoomed with
@serenawilliams
It's not just
#crypto
, and it's not just
@coinbase
. In a
#recession
, any company could make the call to mass-rescind job offers, leaving would-be employees in the lurch. What would you do if you found yourself in that position? I asked the experts.
(Almost) everyone agrees: an asynchronous work schedule benefits everyone involved.
So why do three-quarters of bosses have flexible hours while fewer than a quarter of admin/analyst level workers do?
My latest on
@gitlab
and
@qatalog
's new findings:
"Interviews are for assessing skills and seeing a portfolio, not counting years of experience, which mean virtually nothing,”
@amyspurling
, CEO of
@ComptHQ
, says. “If you can prove you can do the job, who cares if you went to college?"
Any hiring managers/recruiters out there feeling intense burnout with the current
#jobmarket
? How has your job changed in the past 6 months? I want to talk to you for a
@FortuneMagazine
story! DMs open
#journorequest
Loved speaking with
@tiktok_us
finance guru
@Humphreytalks
about his approach to education and his ascent to the top of the algorithm in what has become one of the app's most crowded corners: influencing.
Have you successfully convinced a hesitant manager to let you
#WFH
a few days a week - or full-time? How did you approach the conversation? For a
@FortuneMagazine
story, I want to know! DMs open
People on the
#jobhunt
: have you ever looked up your hiring manager/future boss on social media? Did what you find influence whether you took the job? Do you keep your accounts private for this reason? Tell me all your thoughts!
#journorequest
I pretty much don't drink anywhere, least of all at work. The pandemic has meant a huge rise in
#sobercurious
people, and I was curious about how alcohol-centric work events like happy hours & company parties are (and aren't) meeting sober people's needs:
Let's talk about rage quitting! Have you done it? Would you do it again in a heartbeat? Do you.. regret it? Open to all angles - for a
@FortuneMagazine
story! DMs are open
#JournoRequest
First👏Gen👏Z👏in👏Congress👏👏👏👏👏!!! I spoke with
@MaxwellFrostFL
about his plans, his priorities, and how he responds to critics who say he's unfit for the role because he's never held office (or finished college)
Happy
#NationalInternDay
! In college, I interned for 5 different companies; 3 of them paid (below minimum wage), 2 of them didn't - not even a lunch stipend or metro card. That was 5 years ago. A refresher on the unpaid internship debate now:
Do you have a child in
#daycare
? Has it become prohibitively expensive for your family? I'd love to talk to you for a
@FortuneMagazine
story! DMs are open
I've spent over two years covering comments
#CFOs
give to the press, myself included. In my latest
@CFODive
deep dive, I tried to put myself in their shoes. Why would an org's numbers person serve as its spokesperson? Here's what I found:
My dog Teddy (pictured here, on a couch he's not allowed to be on) wouldn't notice if I disappeared entirely, much less went back to the office. Is he the anomaly? Or would most dogs actually be fine alone from 9 to 5? I dug into it for
@FortuneMagazine
:
“The idea that if you bring everyone into this mandatory [office] environment, working should to shoulder, magical outcomes will come—that’s a silly thing. It feels like magical thinking.” -
@Atlassian
’s
@anniedeanzait
@
#DropboxWIP
@dropbox
Latest from me: I spoke with
@glassruss
, CEO of
@headspace
Health about the mental health benefits workers will expect in the new year -- and the years after.
loved (loved!!!) talking to flexible work expert
@anniedeanzait
about the empty promises of "hybrid" plans, which many corporate giants (incl.
@Meta
,
@Google
) tout as being the perfect compromise. cc
@Atlassian
“The difficulty is that there is no magic
#productivity
wand,”
@EY_Parthenon
's
@GregDaco
tweeted yesterday. “And cost-cutting via
#layoffs
and wage growth compression is often ‘easier’ and faster to execute.”
YES, I interviewed
@bakedbymelissa
about
#TikTok
, YES, I celebrated by buying a 6-pack of cupcakes, NO I don't have a comment on whether I now exclusively eat my salad on tortilla chips like Melissa does
So excited to share I've been promoted to reporter at
@CFODive
! Very proud of this publication & all it's accomplished over the last two years.
I celebrated by having a great conversation with
@ChipotleTweets
#CFO
Jack Hartung on Friday. Take a look:
Here it is: my 494th and final article for
@CFODive
, covering the latest global
#CFO
survey from
@McKinsey
. It proves what we've been saying since I wrote article
#1
: the CFO's most vital role at any company is as the strategic partner to the CEO.
Spent the past few weeks discussing the
@SBWorkersUnited
movement with three of its youngest organizers: LaRue, Angel and Maya. So grateful to them for sharing their insights on the
@Starbucks
#union
effort; let me know what you think.
Excited to share my first article at
@FortuneMagazine
! It covers research from
@KelloggSchool
on how, counterintuitively, the more expertise you gain in a subject area, the less passionate you become. Let me know what you think:
We started the year with our biggest
#CFO
trends to watch in 2020. Chief among them was the combining of CFO of COO roles, which has actually been happening for years. My latest:
I've been guilty of it. But apparently, per
@iCIMS
, I'm not alone! Stalking managers/employees on social media could be a strong indicator of what it's like to work w/ them - for better or worse!
Have you stalked a boss's insta? What did you find?
Strangers in front of me in line @ coffee place in ft greene realized they are both going to Peggy Gou tn and made plans to pregame tg, at which point they realized they live on dif floors of the same brownstone
So insightful speaking with ex-
@Google
HR leader/current
@humuinc
CEO
@LaszloBock
yesterday about why being the boss is actually currently worse than any other company position
So grateful to the thoughtful and caring doctors who spoke with me for this piece. If you're a parent trying to make sense of
#omicron
and keep your kids safe, they've got the answers:
Last month, I spoke with college seniors
@lucygenda516
,
@dakotahjen
,
@alecgordon19
and
@llemart
the week before they graduated. We discussed their unpaid internships, their lack of mentorship, their anxieties, and what they want hiring managers to know:
Worried about anonymity, many
#GenZ
workers are refusing to fill out their companies' workplace surveys. But some go all in.
“I’m at the point where I know, but don’t care,” one commenter wrote on TikTok. “I can get a new job by the end of the week.”
COLLEGE STUDENTS!
#Classof2022
! Congrats on almost graduating! For
@FortuneMagazine
, I want to talk to you about the job hunt. How's it going? Has your school's career center been any help? Do you plan to take time off? What are you most frustrated by? DMs open!!
#journorequest
#GenZ
gets all the heat for upending workplace trends - namely, insisting on
#remotework
. But multiple studies from this year and 2021 show it's actually
#millennials
, the middle managers, who want
#wfh
and better work/life balance most.
~sentimental upper west side post~ while visiting home this week, i saw that the starbucks on 81st & broadway is finally joining nearly every storefront in its vicinity and shutting down. /1
New: White men who have been targets of harassment themselves (bullying, physical or verbal intimidation, etc) in the workplace are more likely report other instances of racial and gender bias, per a new study from
@CechErin
:
One year on Twitter, one year at
@industrydive
! Grateful for everything this past year has brought me, but mostly just missing the newsroom donuts.😊
#MyTwitterAnniversary
Almost everyone wants to
#WorkFromHome
at least some of the time. But a
@McKinsey
analysis finds that significantly fewer women and nonbinary people are offered a flexible work arrangement than men.
"All the emphasis on succession planning is on the CEO," Shawn Cole,
@cowenpartners
president, told me. "The other C-suite positions are often left by the wayside."
This kind of oversight matters. My deep dive on who steps in when the
#CFO
steps out:
For all the talk of remote workers decamping to greener pastures - literally! - city dwellers consistently
#WorkFromHome
in greater numbers than suburban or rural folks, per the latest
@WFHResearch
installment. cc
@I_Am_NickBloom
"Sometimes people think, 'okay, we're doing all these things, we're diverse,'" Holly Walters,
@Toyota
CIO, tells
@heoj
on a panel about organizational culture. "But if you're not taking action, change doesn't happen."
#MPWnextgen
my airpod fell out of my ear and onto a sidewalk grate this morning but it landed in such a way that it didn't fall through & i picked it right back up......... thinking of becoming religious
“What fans get out of suffering in sports is meaning,”
@nkalamb
says. “[It's] based on the idea that when they watch these games, something really profound, powerful and important is happening — and life or death stakes are part of it.”
ICYMI: Uncle Steve thinks rapid
#AI
integration will lead to fewer human hours worked...which will lead to 4-day workweeks...which will lead to more time on the putting green. All this to say: he's investing billions in golf. ⛳️
Great speaking with Kurt Shintaffer,
#CFO
of
@Apptio
, about how his experience leading the company for 13 years, including through the 2008 recession, has prepared him for remaining afloat amid the
#pandemic
:
Potentially good development in the insane labor market? Employers are now footing the bill to teach their people to code, use Excel, and several other skills they *could've* paid for all along
Re-upping this! 1 week later and not a single remote-working person has come forward as a frequent fast-casual-lunch-orderer! Is this you? Do you exist? DMs open
I've covered the
#RTO
debate from a zillion angles, but this was a first: to prove how much they wanted it,
@ATT
workers led by the
@cwa7250
union filed a
@Change
petition demanding their employer let them
#WFH
permanently. It has nearly 6,400 signatures.