• It Shouldn’t Take a Virus to Let Employees Work from Home
    It Shouldn’t Take a Virus to Let Employees Work from Home

    The hidden benefits of remote work are surprisingly plentiful.

  • “A New Logo… by the End of Next Week?”
    “A New Logo… by the End of Next Week?”

    Meet Carl, 48, designer (and part-time artist)

  • How (Not) to Solve Problems
    How (Not) to Solve Problems

    A transatlantic comparison

  • “You Can Watch the March of Ideas from the Minds of Economists and into Our Lives.”
    “You Can Watch the March of Ideas from the Minds of Economists and into Our Lives.”

    After decades of free-market policies in the United States and Britain, working-class voters are in full revolt. In The Economists’ Hour Binyamin Appelbaum surveys the last half-century and sees an obvious path from the economics…

  • Why Read Classics?
    Why Read Classics?

    We are asked this question again and again, especially by business customers. So, we’ll give the answer in a monthly column – and with one of the greats of literature.

  • A Word about Bad Books
    A Word about Bad Books

    On the road to curating good books for our readers, we’ve learned a bit about bad ones. Click here for the abstract.

  • The Bold, the Beautiful and the Murderous
    The Bold, the Beautiful and the Murderous

    Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray Or: Why You Should Embrace Aging Gracefully

  • Photo by Martin Sanchez on Unsplash
    Photo by Martin Sanchez on Unsplash
    Books of the Year 2019

    Invisible women, 25 pairs of shoes, and the long-awaited end of unnecessary meetings – here are this year’s reading recommendations from different departments at getAbstract.

  • VUCA
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    VUCA

    Or: How To Deal with Volatility

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    Photo by Thought Catalog on Unsplash
    Cutting down the WeWorkforce

    The much-hyped office space company is said to be planning to cut its workforce by a third.