Being the "personality hire" looks easy. To an outsider, they're the ones flitting about the office, doing more chatting than working. In reality, it's hard work. Not only are you going out of your way to be social and make your team feel comfortable, but you also have to keep up with your day-to-day responsibilities. At least, that's according to the actual personality hires who spoke to PS. A recent poll from the career site Monster found that nearly half of respondents (48 percent)...

You thought we were done with the "girl boss" when she imploded in the sun's shiny rays a few years ago. But a new, freshed-faced iteration is coming onto the scene: all over social media, #corpcore girlies are romanticizing the 9-to-5 life. In the post-pandemic era where remote work has become normalized, many young people are actually hyped to be going back to traditional offices — sometimes for the very first time. The harsh fluorescent lighting, cubicles, and free pretzel packs are...

Welcome to Show the Receipts, a new series where we ask interesting people to share exactly how much it costs to get shit done. No matter the task, we're tracking every last dollar from start to finish. Up next: getting an autism diagnosis as an adult. Peter Mann never considered that he could have autism until he saw an interview on the news in which a NASA worker described their experiences with the condition about two years ago. "She was describing her traits, like hyperfocus and having a...

There are a few ways to handle a large salary gap in a relationship, and they can almost all be modeled after celebrity couples — that is, according to Haley Sacks, aka Mrs. Dow Jones, a Zillennial finance expert and influencer. She breaks it down like this: you're either like Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce or you're Gabrielle Union and Dwyane Wade. Union and Wade have been quoted in Essence saying that they "split everything 50/50," despite any differences in pay. This is a common way some...