Elaine Ezekiel on Atomic Spin

The Manager’s Guide to Parental Leave Planning: A Timeline

In the wealth of articles on what to pack in my hospital bag, I found nothing useful on parental leave planning. Here's what worked for us.

Personal Optimization

Job Crafting: The Cure for Career FOMO?

If you’re feeling a little fear of missing out — a sense that work could be about 15 percent better, try an exercise in Job Crafting before you quit.

The Software Life

Snaps and Buttons are for Chumps: Working Parents’ Practical Advice to Manage Baby-Raising

I pride myself on being coachable and listening to smart people around me. This MO has served me well... until I sought parenting advice.

Personal Optimization

Are You an “Asker” or a “Guesser” at Work?

The concept of ask vs. guess culture has fascinated me for years. When it comes to work, are you an asker or a guesser?

Business Practices

Talent Profiles Streamline Hiring and Onboarding. Steal Our Template.

Talent profiles become invaluable guides before and after hiring, ensuring new employees transition smoothly into their first year.

Business Practices

Who’s Doing the Glue Work at Your Company?

When a few employees pick up all the little, invisible jobs, it harms their careers. We should identify and share that work, and make sure it gets rewarded.

Personal Optimization

The Low-Tech Tool I Use to Wrangle Runaway Worries at Work

Often, worries show up in the shadowy, less-conscious parts of my mind. This tool helps me gain perspective on worrying at work.

Personal Optimization

The Big Stay: Job-Hopping May Be Lucrative, but Tenure Pays, Too

Here are a few counterpoints to reasons people advocate for job-hopping. That trend is slowing down in favor of one called The Big Stay.

Evolving the Industry

How to Start Investing in an Employer Retirement Plan if You Aren’t a Personal Finance Nerd

If you make a modest investment in a retirement plan early in your career, the growth of those investments will increase exponentially.

Culture

Breaking Down Employee Blogging, Part 2: Our Publication Process

In my previous post, I explained why we pay our software makers to blog daily. In this post, I’ll share each step of the publication process.

Culture

Breaking Down Employee Blogging, Part 1: Why Bother?

As Atomic’s marketing director, one of the questions I’m most often asked is how we get our employees blogging daily about software.

Extracurricular Activities

6 Lessons from a Tech Job That Sharpened My Political Advocacy

The skills I spend honing at work are not just applicable to my tech career. I've learned you can power your cause work with your day job.

Elaine Ezekiel

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