It turns out that bosses who are transparent about their salaries may end up fostering higher workplace morale than those who aren’t. A new study shows, among other things, that employees tend to underestimate their bosses’ compensation, but that the

When Fila and Jason Antwine sat down to play Monopoly a while back with their young son, they had a goal in mind: to show their child how to have fun and compete while being a good sport. Then they forgot he was there. Early on, Ms. Antwine built se

Offices demand collaboration like never before. But if you don’t set some limits, you could start falling behind, hurting your company and hating your job.

Our polarized politics keeps us from learning anything from our opponents. Here’s how to fix that.

Steve Jobs should have called it the iText. Maybe the iNstagram, or the iUberEverywhere. The iPhone—like every other phone in 2018—is many things, but it isn’t much of a phone. For decades, the best and often only way to reach someone out of earshot

As we’ve seen in recent weeks, some of the most dramatic moments of the World Cup are the penalty kicks, when the outcome of an entire match can rest on a showdown between the shooter and the goalie. In a penalty kick, the ball is placed 11 meters fr

For millions of people buying inexpensive smartphones in developing countries where privacy protections are usually low, the convenience of on-the-go internet access could come with a hidden cost: preloaded apps that harvest users’ data without their

Software developers scan hundreds of millions of emails of users who sign up for email-based services. Disclosures are often buried in user agreements.

When you head out on vacation this summer, you will want to properly get away. No checking in with the office, no sneaking a peek at your inbox and no occasional Twitter browsing just in case Beyoncé drops another surprise album. With the help of an

You might know Headspace as a meditation app. What if it were also a prescription medication? The California-based company recently launched Headspace Health, a subsidiary whose executives’ goal is to apply to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration as

Your flight attendant wishes you happy birthday. Is that cute or creepy? Airlines know a lot about you, from date of birth and home address to travel patterns, vacation preferences, beverage purchases and whether your last flight was good or bad. Now

Far & Away, from National Geographic and The Wall Street Journal. ONCE CONSIDERED an obscure sport for kids, commuters and hardcore fitness fanatics, cycling has evolved in the past few years into both a powerful networking tool for executives and

As hard-chargers descend on the ancient practice, they are tweaking the quest for inner peace, such as checking the leaderboard.

No one likes making a mistake when colleagues or clients are watching, or getting negative feedback in a meeting. Imagine making an error in front of 50,000 booing spectators while your latest performance stats flash in giant letters on a Jumbotron o

Feeling down? Pay attention to your language. People who are experiencing depression use different words than people who are not.

On my last work trip, I learned a valuable lesson about myself while melting chocolate in a saucepan. What I learned changed my dining habits—as well as the way I think about my finances. Let me explain. For many years, I visited fancy restaurants wh

Summer’s here, and the time is right for enjoying every moment—except we’re not good at that. Here’s some advice to help.

Silicon Valley has an accountability crisis, and at its root is the idolatry of founder-CEOs. Whether it’s Theranos Chief Executive Elizabeth Holmes or ousted Uber CEO Travis Kalanick, or the heads of currently troubled public companies like Evan Spi

Carl LaMell had just sat down for dinner at a fundraising event when he realized he was in trouble. He was seated next to the wife of an employee at the nonprofit agency he headed, and “as soon as she started talking, she asked for a raise for her hu

Do your colleagues at the office seem to be getting younger? It looks that way to the millions of older employees in industries being disrupted in the digital era and favoring younger more digitally savvy workers, such as tech, entertainment, retaili

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The stuff in beauty creams is appearing in foods, as companies launch pricey snacks and drinks containing collagen—and many consumers are eating it up despite little hard evidence that it works. Valerie Grogan, a 53-year-old teacher’s aide in Torran

About 10 minutes after I decided to try temporarily removing Google from my life—an experiment I hoped would illuminate how much Alphabet Inc.’s giant dominates online existence—I messed it all up. I spotted a video of Donald Glover, co-star of “Solo

New York City Sarah Blau settles into a wicker chair, stretching her feet onto an ottoman. In a soothing voice, Laurie Keefer, says, “I’m going to count from one to three, and as I count, your eyelids will get heavy and they’ll close whenever it fee

Five minutes into the first quarter of a routine Monday night game, Steve Kerr of the Golden State Warriors broke one of the NBA’s most inviolable laws of coaching. He relinquished his dry-erase board—to a player. As his team gathered for a timeout

Ingrid Newkirk, co-founder and president of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, flew to Silicon Valley earlier this year for a long-planned speech to Google employees. It wasn’t until she sat waiting in a parking lot that a call came through

There are dozens of questions that people can and should ask themselves as they approach and enter later life—about finances, relationships, new paths, etc. Such lists, though, typically overlook something more fundamental: Are you (pick a word) sati

The research is clear: People don’t mix at mixers, and don’t feel good about trying. But there are better ways to make meaningful connections.

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