Careers and Professions

March 20, 2020

The Most Crucial Tools for WFH: Kindness, and a Piece of Tape

Send questions about the office, money, careers and work-life balance to workfriend@nytimes.com. Include your name and location, even if you want them withheld. Letters may be […]
November 26, 2019

The Work Diary of Jackie Aina, Beauty Influencer

“You’ve got makeup brands that will launch 20 shades of beige,” the beauty influencer Jackie Aina said, in a video she posted to YouTube in 2018. […]
October 16, 2019

Do-It-Yourself Sabbaticals

At Birchbox, the beauty and grooming subscription service, there is something called the “tri-bat.” Birchbox offers full-time employees who have been with the company for three […]
April 15, 2017

Maureen Chiquet’s Move From Chanel to Self-Empowerment

PURCHASE, N.Y. — On the first floor of Maureen Chiquet’s sprawling home here — past the Kiki Smith bronze nude of a man jutting from a […]
October 20, 2016

Social Q’s: Workplace Politics (the Trump-Clinton Kind)

Social Q’s By PHILIP GALANES I own a small bakery that’s taking off. (We make a crazy good coconut cake!) I put a sign in the […]