The comforts of your own home can turn into an uncomfortable working experience. Completing a report while sprawled out on your bed provides a level of comfort a cubicle with a stiff chair never could. As a more buttoned-down, flexible work environment, working from home can seem like an exciting proposition for an employee offered […]

By Tim Donnelly Don’t have 288 hours to devote to ‘The Simpsons’ marathon? Check out this breakdown of when to catch the best episodes and funniest guest stars. A 12-day marathon of nonstop “Simpsons”? Just hook it to my veins! Running Thursday, Aug. 21 through Monday, Sept. 1, FXX is airing all 552 episodes from […]

Microsoft’s Surface lineup just keeps getting better and better, with an improved screen for desktop use and an upgraded Type Cover for the road. Mark Hachman@markhachman Through every iteration, Microsoft’s Surface Pro tablet has edged closer to becoming a true laptop replacement. Microsoft’s latest Surface Pro 3 takes several small steps in that direction—along with […]

Stuck and foodless in Wyoming, Captain Gerhard Bradner bought pizza for 160 passengers Weather diversion: It’s a term passengers and flight crews never want to hear. It means the destination hammered by storms and everyone on board will spend hours elbow-to-elbow in cramped conditions. So, when Frontier Airlines pilot Gerhard Bradner heard that Denver’s airport was […]

432 Park Avenue will be the tallest residential building in the Western Hemisphere when it’s complete. When a building is gunning for a superlative like that, it’s worth checking in on every once in a while all the time. Field Condition, a site that publishes lovely-looking photographs of buildings in progress, posted a construction update. Basically, it’s passed the 1,000-foot mark, with topping out at 1,397 […]

Robin Williams, who was found dead in his Bay Area home earlier this week, will be memorialized as a character in the online game “World of Warcraft” following an impassioned plea by fans. The game’s lead designer, Ion Hazzikosta, announced Thursday at an event for “World of Warcraft: Warlords of Draenor” that Blizzard Entertainment would […]

Midtown Manhattan is already home to a huge number of skyscrapers, but the next generation of towers being built between 53rd Street and the south side of Central Park will be even taller. One57 — the long-awaited, 90-story residential skyscraper that cost $1.4 billion to build — is almost finished, and Extell’s Nordstrom Tower will eventually rise a vertigo-inducing 1,775 feet (including the […]

Recently, a Florida woman won her court case against the RJ ReynoldsTobacco Company over the company’s failure to properly warn smokers of the dangerous and addictive nature of smoking, after her husband died of lung cancer. She ended up walking out of the courthouse with a potential $23.6 billion in punitive damages. Clearly, companies in the past […]

By Jen Cohen Crompton, Published on June 25, 2014 With all the predictions about the future of work, we are constantly painting a picture of how the future workplace will look. But, what most of us should focus on is what the workforce will need to look like – meaning, what skills employees need to have to ensure continued […]