Young Women Leave Jobs for More Money
New York magazine’s Ann Friedman recently offered advice for employers who’d like to attract and retain top female talent: “Pay us enough that if you were to accidentally email the entire office a spreadsheet containing everyone’s salary, you wouldn’t be ashamed.” The column, “One Weird Trick To Keep Female Employees From Quitting,” highlighted a psychological effect of wage disparities: They’re a real morale killer. Friedman cited a...
New York City Eyes ‘Micro’ Apartments
New York — The apartments in a new Manhattan building boast little balconies, tall ceilings, dishwashers and storage space. All in 360 square feet or less. It’s micro-living in the nation’s biggest city, and New Yorkers could be seeing more of it. Planning officials are proposing to end a limit on how small apartments can be, opening the door for more “micro-apartments” that advocates see as affordable adaptations to a growing...
Consumer Confidential: A Big Political Battle Over Dodd-Frank Financial Reforms Is Coming in 2016
Forgive and forget. Or just pretend that banks’ greedy and reckless behavior never happened. That seems to be the sentiment behind what’s certain to be one of the biggest political battles in 2016: whether we should roll back financial reforms put in place after the financial meltdown that nearly brought the global economy to its knees. At issue is what’s known as Dodd-Frank, aka the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer...
Elegance, Performance and More
Cornwall, n.y. — It is a car beautiful in appearance and performance. It is small, gifted with a terrifically improved suspension and symmetrical all-wheel drive, meaning it is wonderfully maneuverable in weather fair and foul. Just one note on the latter point: It is a sports car usually shod with summer high-performance tires. Winter demands compromise. To wit: For improved winter traction and safety, sacrifice some handling and...
Why People Quit Their ‘Beautiful’ Social Media Lives
In making her very public break with social media, Instagram model Essena O’Neill wrote that the drive for followers, likes and views “suffocated” her. “I would just spend hours looking at everyone else’s perfect lives,” she wrote, “and I strived to make mine look just as good.” Sounds familiar, right? That’s because it is. O’Neill’s social media use was sort of a heightened version of how most people engage with these platforms; she...
