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Salary negotiations are always tense and anxiety-inducing - how much are you really even allowed to ask for? To help ease you into that discussion, here are some tips and salary trends you should keep in mind. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

As more countries hop on the cashless bandwagon as the way of the future, certain major cities - particularly in the US - are showing some resistance to the idea of digital payments by moving to ban cashless tech. Will other cities follow suit? See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The famous saying goes that “hindsight is 20/20”, and we often end up in a very different position in life than what we expected five or even ten years ago. According to journalist Charles Duhigg, the timing of your success could contribute to your overall happiness, too. We ask listeners if they’re as successful as they’d hoped . See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy inf...

Don’t eat lunch at your desk. Stop fetishising being busy. Unplug not just from your screen–but from the clock. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The association of old age with inevitable decline runs deep. To carry on with work–or indeed with anything more demanding than afternoon lectures, a movie, and an early dinner–during the traditional retirement years seems cute at best and depressing at worst. Well, those in the sundown years, may well have a few surprises in store for us yet. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy in...

Everyone loves (and looks forward to) a good promotion at work. But is the default response to one a definite “Yes!”. Sometimes, not taking that promotion might be the best career choice. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Every business has at least one customer who makes team members want to throw in the towel. Whether that customer is constantly complaining about results or making impossible demands, you and your staff dread dealing with them, and a dynamic like that can really put a dent in morale. Instead of griping about this customer behind closed doors — or worse, refusing to work with them at all -- b...

While the rest of us are still struggling to fully understand 5G, President Donald Trump has demanded that the future be brought forward as soon as possible with 6G , because it’s just better, faster, and smarter than the current standard. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Impostor Syndrome describes the struggle to internalise your own accomplishments, leading to feelings of inadequacy, self-doubt, or fraud. For people newly entering a managerial position, this can hit especially hard. So how do you get past it ? See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

It sounds like a sci-fi concept, but these designers believe that their “ Bioscleave House ” can stop and even reverse the aging process thanks to its specific architecture. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Are four-day workweeks the new black? Here are some practical steps for those looking to turn their companies into one that enjoys a three-day weekend. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The popular UK children’s TV show, Peppa Pig , is apparently causing American children to develop a southern English accent. How much can television really affect us? See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

A new Chrome extension is helping Netflix users gain access to dual subtitles at once, in an effort to help them learn a new language when watching foreign language films and TV shows. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Inc. claims that the average worker is only productive for 2 hours 53 minutes of an eight-hour day, so what if we flipped the workplace and let employees do individualised work remotely? Could we boost productivity by having a collaboration-only office? See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The Government is set to guarantee at least 70% of borrowings made by SMEs in a new guarantee scheme worth 2 billion ringgit, to help these businesses equip themselves with more efficient tech practices for IR4.0 See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

While the gender pay gap is a very real problem that’s being addressed by more companies these days, there are hidden factors at the workplace that continue to perpetuate the trend; early negotiations being one of them See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Employers and employees in Malaysia finally have an official guide when trying to decide wages and increments at the workplace. The NWI also highlights the need to hire more seniors, women, and disabled persons as a way to encourage and increase diversity across the board. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Retail sales in the US took the biggest monthly drop in a decade. Even online sales, which have gained consistently for more than a decade now has seen a decline. Is this something to be worried about and is retail truly dead ? See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

There is a psychological phenomenon called enclothed cognition , which states when humans put something on and wear it, the item has enclothed meaning - like how we think people wearing lab coats are smart. So if Clark Kent can remove his glasses to become Superman, could you put on a piece of clothing to be a better entrepreneur? See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Emojis are showing up in court cases as a form of communication, yet courts still aren’t prepared to properly decipher what these weird-looking sometimes-exaggerated cartoon faces mean exactly. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Chances are, your online shopping experience have been dictated by an algorithm. But is online really cheaper than offline? Researches at the University of Bologna in Italy created two simple reinforcement-learning-based pricing algorithms and set them loose in a controlled environment to learn their behaviour. To their surprise, the prices of goods started to go higher when they learnt how to col...

We often hear about the dangers of smartphone use, and how social media addiction can create a sense of isolation, but a new study shows that smartphones can aid in creating mindfulness, which in turn can prevent feelings of loneliness. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

For most people, achieving work-life balance is akin to reaching a state of nirvana in a professional setting. But according to sociologist Tracy Brower, pursuing work-life balance may actually be doing more harm than good . See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

We all have that one simultaneously simple, yet somehow insurmountable task that gnaws away at our to-do list as we put it off week after week. So how do you get past this “ errand paralysis ”? See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Entrepreneurs have an obsession with literature. Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg, Susan Wojcicki… they’ve all testified to the power of the written word. But this obsession with literature isn’t limited to founders. Investors are just as avid bookworms. We discuss some of the best works of fiction that could help you at work or in your business. See omnystudio.com/listener for priva...