Engineers use the stress-strain curve to assess how a type of material reacts under stress before deploying it. Most material strength graphs show that materials are elastic up to a point after which deformation occurs — potentially making it impossible to return to the prior state even if stress is…

“Being an entrepreneur or freelancer is a painful and exhilarating experience. It’s a lot like having an invisible best friend that only you can see. The grit and perseverance that entrepreneurs speak of, is the willingness to continue pointing to that empty seat, until something is there.” Denise Brouder, Founder…

More and more companies claim to be committed to mental health at work — yet most of their initiatives are not targeted, and the field of mental health is immense and still poorly understood — even among experts and therapists. This leaves managers with little guidance and more burden. They…

Somedays we feel like marriage counselors. As active and early members of the Center for the Transformation of Work, we meet regularly to discuss the open talent economy (gig/freelance/liquid economy). In that context, we have also talked a lot about the impact of Covid and remote work on mental health. …

Our collective challenge is the Great Cognitive Slowdown. Here’s how companies can train middle managers to address “Presenteeism”. — Also published at https://www.hi5.team/blog/great-resignation-presenteeism Covid is endemic, as are its wounds to our psyche. The “Great Resignation” will pale compared to the collective cognitive slowdown that the pandemic has caused and will continue to cause at home and at work.

The Great Resignation & why we need more caring companies that measure kindness and giving at work. — First published at https://www.get5.io/blog/purpose-proposal-making-caring-company We’re in business to save our home planet. (Patagonia’s mission statement) We carry inside us the wonders we seek outside us. (Sufi poet Rumi) As the great resignation reshuffles the workforce, experts mention remote work or childcare issues as main causes.

Open talent platforms are in a unique position to pioneer and design the future of work. Interest in the “freelance revolution” is strong — there were already 60 million freelancers in the U.S in 2020 (up two million from the prior year). …

If we learn to love ourselves as we truly are, we‘re one step closer to mental health & making safe workplaces. — First published at https://www.get5.io/blog We have privileged appearance and success and ignored mental health as a society for so long that our mental health barometer is off. We believe that it is time for a reset of what we value and what we expect from others and ourselves — especially…

Ten years ago, Psychology Today warned that a “silent tsunami” of mental disorders in the workplace “could engulf organizations in [a] myriad of productivity and profitability problems as well as legal liabilities unless mental health is addressed as seriously as are marketing, compensation, and strategic plans.”[1] …