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But this upheaval was far from unexpected. The pandemic and ensuing economic turmoil of 2020 merely exacerbated a caregiving and childcare crisis that many experts say was already on the verge of boiling over, even if it has often been given short shrift by politicians and the media. “I actually think we’ve been in a child care crisis for a long time,” economist Betsey Stevenson told Politico in July. “The pandemic has just pulled the lid off it, so we’re all staring at that crisis right now.” … [Read more...] about We’re in the midst of a caregiving crisis. Here’s how Biden may address it

You may not recognize the Toronto-based design firm Teehan+Lax, but you probably know some of the hit products it’s behind, like the social publishing platform Medium and the reading app Readability. Now, the firm is closing, as Facebook–in a play for total publishing domination— has hired three of the firm’s three partners, Jon Lax, Geoff Teehan, and David Gillis, while the other ~40 people at the firm appear to have been laid off. … [Read more...] about Facebook Guts The Design Firm Behind Medium

Informal interactions The degree to which an organization is formal or informal plays a strong role in how employees interact with each other, their customers, and their clients. In face-to-face settings, expectations regarding formality are relatively clear. The office setting (e.g., quiet versus noisy, offices and cubicles versus shared space) combined with observing superiors (e.g., the way they dress, the way they interact with others) offers strong cues on formality expectations. … [Read more...] about 3 organizational rules key to building a healthy remote company

Easter eggs are another ritual that is part of MailChimp’s creative culture, and they have often bridged the gap between fun and fundamentals. In the tech world, an Easter egg is a practical joke or a hidden bit of content that gets included in the finished product, and they are so named because users have to search for them. Kurzius was the creator of the first Easter egg, a popup preview window that uses a monkey’s arm to show how a draft email will look before it’s sent. If you keep stretching the email–far beyond the dimensions of a normal computer monitor–the monkey’s arm will eventually pop out of the socket. Once you’re logged into your MailChimp account, you can launch the game Asteroid by typing “boredom,” into the search bar. A triangular spaceship will appear, and you can fly around the screen blowing things up with a photon blaster. … [Read more...] about Creative Cultures: MailChimp Grants Employees “Permission To Be Creative”

The pinnacle of their misadventures took place on a cruise to Bermuda. “Bill loved the Marx brothers, so we decided to reenact the stateroom scene from [the Marx Brothers’] A Night at the Opera,” says Ficarra. “We told all of the Mad people to line up outside Bill’s stateroom. Every 30 seconds, there’d be another knock on the door, and two more people would come in, and two more, and two more. We also had housekeeping come in, like the movie, and they were vacuuming the whole time. Room service showed with hardboiled eggs, because that’s something Groucho kept asking for. … [Read more...] about The Ascent Of “Mad”: See 60 Years Of Comic Subversion