Cambridge can no longer call themselves the best university in the world, that accolade now stands with the Massachusetts Institute for Technology (MIT) who rank #1 according to the QS World Universities 2012 rankings… Read More
Eventbrite’s New HQ has Nooks, Hammocks & Zen-like Rooms
From the 6th and 7th floors of a rather unassuming, downtown, San Francisco office block is the new Eventbrite HQ, and oh, what a delight! Read More
How Do Top Companies Keep Their Talent? Awesome Workplace Incentives – #Infographic
From on-site laundry services to made-to-order sushi, these top companies offer their staff some serious perks. If you run your own company or manage the HR for one, this neat little infographic covering Workplace Incentives is sure to offer you up some inspiration for your next employee benefits review.Read More
Junior Designers vs Senior Designers
When she is not heading up the product design team at Facebook, Julie Zhuo is producing brilliant little sketches like these ones…Read More
Pasona Office Farm
Nine years ago, the Japanese IT recruitment firm, Pasona Group decided to grow a rice paddy field in the basement of an office tower in Tokyo’s financial district. Now, they are being hailed in Japan as pioneers for a new kind of urban farming. Read More
Jack Ma Sings ‘Lion King’ Theme to a Stadium full of Employees
Jack Ma, owner of Alibaba, the world’s largest e-commerce company, has a unique motivational style. Check out this unbelievable video of Jack singing Lion King songs in full rock paraphernalia to a stadium of 16,000 employees. An early Alibaba employee recounts this bizarre experience.Read More
MoodHacker – An App That Wants To Create Happier Workplaces
Depression is one of the leading causes of workplace absenteeism, estimating to cause 200 million lost workdays each year at a cost of £billions to employers. Moodhacker is a health app designed for companies to improve the wellbeing of their staff by giving employees stress-relieving tips at exactly the right moments…Read More
These Microsoft Recruitment Videos From 2008 Are Incredible…
Found in the archives, these two recruitment videos from Microsoft’s talent attraction vaults are absolute gold. Possibly the most bizarre and least effective HR tools we’ve ever seen, Microsoft had these videos commissioned to stop the exodus of brilliant talent flocking in droves to seemingly more cooler companies.Read More
Inside Adobe’s Slick New San Francisco Digs…
Known for their awesome offices (check out their Utah campus), Adobe have created 44,000 sq ft of sheer modern office delight in downtown San Francisco…Read More
Traits of the best UX + UI Designers
Over the years Daniel de la Cruz (Co Founder @ ChangeLab23) has worked with 100s of Designers. He tells us why there is a re-occurring pattern of good traits in those Designers who are true masters of their work… Read More
The Worst Jobs In History
Next time you are having a bad day in the office spare a thought for the poor folk that have endured the worst jobs in history. Covering an array of professions from Viking Egg-Collector to Spit Boy “The Worst Jobs in the World Matrix” is a neat little diagram produced by Lapham’s Quarterly displaying an eclectic mix of truly awful jobs over the last 2000 years… Read More
Professional Video Gamers At Work
In the early eighties the idea of making a living from playing games like Manic Minor or Paperboy would have been simply unthinkable, fast forward to the future with Read More
The Lifespan of an Active Jobseeker (infographic)
Using feedback from over 1000 UK professionals within the Marketing, Creative, Development & Account Management sectors we created the “Lifespan of an Active Jobseeker”. Read More
What Is Your View On Infographic CVs?
Love ‘em or hate ‘em infographic representations are popping up everywhere, covering everything from competitive eating to hacked Twitter accounts. So, is the humble two page CV next on the list for mainstream data visualisation re-representation?Read More
Timeful App Schedules Your Work Day For You
Designed to boost your daily productivity, Timeful App scans your calendars, learns your behaviour and then makes smart suggestions which help you complete your to-do lists in super efficient style. Read More
Breaking In: 100 Interviews With Top Creatives On Landing That Dream Job
Breaking In is a unique collection of interviews from over 100 movers and shakers from within the creative industry. Compiled by the acclaimed Product Designer Amina Horozić this book offers up a useful resource for Designers looking to build that killer portfolio to land their dream job. Read More
TMZ’s Office in LA is the Bomb
Inspired by the celebrity gossip they promote, TMZ’s brand new workspace is a 9,000 sqft newsroom that looks like an edgy, industrial warehouse. Read More
The Death of the Office? Hmmmm, no. (Infographic)
Yep, technology means I can reply to clients when I’m awake at 3am or write blogs like this from my lounge, but the death of the ACTUAL office. Hmmmm, no.Read More