Many have become accustomed to rapidly bouncing from one item to the next that it is easy to lose sight of the cost of context switching. How does context switching impact our ability to be productive? What is the hidden cost? On this week’s episode...
Hard, honest work in which you create value for your company & clients alike and grinding until burnout are not the same thing. Why do people think that grinding as hard as you can for an indefinite amount of time is the only way to go? Why is...
Do large companies intentionally try to hurt their partners? Do they value all customers equally? On this week’s episode of 33 Tangents, Jim and Jason tackle this subject and discuss steps companies take, intentionally or unitentionally, that put...
Two years ago in the episode “Is Unlimited Time Off Actually Unlimited?”, Jim, Hila, and Jason took a hard look at the concept of unlimited PTO to see if it’s something employees find valuable or just a gimmick. They left that conversation genuinely...
With everyone, both employees and employers, getting a taste of over the last year the move to remote work seems to be accelerating. More employees are asking for it and some employers have started talking about remote work being a permanent part of...
We’ve all experienced the situation with a client where we know the data they are talking about is nothing more than a distraction. It can be data that they have identified as needing to be collected or data they already collect. When asked about...