Bosses

100% Weird One of the things I have always loved about beat ’em ups was that, as a genre, they’re a blank canvas. The formula is set, you just have to build the where, why, and how behind it. This lets the developers really go wild when making some of these games. As a child of the arcade heyday, I have fond memories of classic games like Final Fight and X-Men. But one element that always stood out to me was just how batshit crazy some of the boss designs were. You could just tell that the developers wanted the…

In a time of hybrid work, employers are extra-focused on making sure their staffers are being productive. Now come employees with work hacks to keep the bosses off their tails. Lisa Crawford works in marketing from her home in Phoenix. She says she is wary of her computer falling asleep when she gets up to throw in a load of laundry or prep ingredients for dinner. She might miss the ping of an email from a supervisor and be slow to reply. Her solution? Sloth TV, a live-cam of a Costa Rican…

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Employers are losing their patience with empty desks in the office. Companies including investment giant Vanguard Group, workplace technology company Paycom Software Inc. and others have sent directives to employees in recent weeks, urging workers to follow existing hybrid schedules or to come into the office on additional days in 2023, according to internal memos viewed by The Wall Street Journal and interviews with employees. In some cases, bosses have told those who fail to comply that they could…

At law firm Nixon Peabody LLP, associates have started saying no to working weekends, prompting partners to ask more people to help complete time-sensitive work. TGS Insurance in Texas has struggled to fill promotions, and bosses often have to coax staffers to apply. And Maine-based marketing company Pulp+Wire plans to shut down for two weeks next year now that staffers are taking more vacation than they used to. “The passion that we used to see in work is lower now, and you find it in fewer people—at least…

There’s something that the strategy and development team at AppFolio should know about their boss: His New Year’s resolution is to get into a fistfight.“I’m excited to take one in the face and see what that feels like,” says Jay Choi, the Santa Barbara, Calif., real-estate software firm’s chief strategy and corporate-development officer. A clarification is in order. This isn’t an invitation to start a brawl in the conference room. Mr. Choi, 43 years old, took up boxing five…

The Great Resignation—the decision by millions of workers to leave their jobs during the Covid pandemic—has shown signs of waning, but that is not a green light for companies to take their staff for granted, one U.K. academic says.  Anthony Klotz, who works as an associate professor at University College London School of Management, would know—he famously coined the term “Great Resignation.” Though that period of labor-force turmoil seems to be coming to a close, employers shouldn’t alienate…

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeOn 15 December, new DC Studios heads James Gunn and Peter Safran announced that they had a new release plan ready to go.The following days were filled with announcements of cancellations, firings, and the reported axing of three projects: Black Adam 2, a new Superman film starring Henry Cavill, andWonder Woman 3.Online backlash from fans prompted Gunn to release a statement calling the…

A new business-school course at the University of California, Berkeley promises to teach the delicate art of having tough conversations. The prerequisite? Deciding to get comfortable with conflict.As M.B.A. programs train the next generation of bosses, lessons in improving interpersonal skills, emotional awareness and even happiness have become core parts of the curriculum. Some of these offerings teach how to wield greater influence or hone better negotiating skills, part of the schools’ aims to turn out better people…

Image: Morsa Images/Getty ImagesEmployers and employees have been engaged in an ongoing power struggle over return-to-office policies in 2022, with research suggesting that US hybrid workers went to the office a little over one day a week during the first half of the year.But now that the year is coming to an end and economic uncertainty threatens the job market, workers are changing their hybrid-working habits. According to workplace technology specialist Robin's Q3 2022 Hybrid Workplace Report, office attendance is…