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Weekly News Update

  • Mashable looked at why some of us are doing a lot of online shopping during 2020. 
  • Above the Law has created a COVID Crisis Law Firm Layoff Tracker. 
  • Harvard Business Review did a podcast episode on starting a new job remotely. 
  • NPR pondered the post-pandemic workplace. 
  • The Washington Post reported on the incidence of strokes among young and middle-aged people with COVID-19.
  • The New York Times advised how to create a “screen-life balance” right now.
  • The Cut answered a reader question about wanting to help local businesses but not knowing if you can afford it.
  • The Cut also gave advice to a boss who asked if they should ask their casually-dressed employee to look more professional on Zoom calls. 
  • Speaking of Zoom, Fast Company shared that you can invite a goat — yes, a real goat — to your meeting. 

In Other News… 

  • Elle rounded up the best zinc sunscreens for this summer.
  • WWD looked into the growing preference for “clean beauty with a side of clinical.” 
  • Harper's Bazaar wondered whether sustainable fashion and inclusive sizing can coexist.
  • The New York Times asked, “What Do Famous People’s Bookshelves Reveal?” 
  • For your Laugh of the Week, go check out the Twitter account @ratemyskyperoom.

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10 Comments

    1. This is so heartwarming and beautiful, I had tears in my eyes watching the clip. Proof that you shouldn’t give up if you want to be a parent, it can happen in many ways.

      1. I am really happy for him, but being a single parent by choice is a lot easier if you are rich and famous. Not everyone has the resources to hire a surrogate. He will also be able to hire help, which most single parents can’t do.

        1. A lot of things are easier for Anderson Cooper because he is rich and famous. Good for him and his new baby.

        2. Yeah, so what are you saying? He shouldn’t be a parent because he’s rich and famous?

        3. Why does this have to give rise to a politically/socially charged statement? Can’t we just be happy for him?

          1. Because “Proof that you shouldn’t give up if you want to be a parent, it can happen in many ways” could be hurtful to some.

  2. Hi Everyone! My partner (male) owns a small business and asked my advice on something today; I couldn’t decide what the best advice would be but I told him I’d ask you smart ladies. One of his female employees has the habit of constantly over-apologizing for really minor things whenever he offers her any feedback that’s less than positive. It has the effect of drawing him into providing a bunch of reassurance and becomes awkward. She also has the habit of prefacing her ideas with phrasing like, I don’t know if this would work, it’s just an idea, I don’t even know if it’s a good idea…etc. to the point that it becomes uncomfortable. I know as women a lot of us have received a lot of messaging to stop doing stuff like that and I think it is a good idea. But, is there an appropriate way for him, as a man, to tell this woman that? Or take some other course of action? FWIW, there are several female employees but it’s only really an issue with this person. TIA!

    1. The first time I received this type of feedback was from a 60-something white man, so I think it can be done right! I remember him telling me that I’m an excellent lawyer and should speak my mind more, to not apologize unless I actually messed something up, not qualify what I say with things like “I was thinking maybe this would work,” and if the other people on my team (all men) interrupt me to not become silent, but to just to keep talking and talk loudly over them until them stop talking. I think prefacing it with “you are great employee” if true or at least something like that really helps. He also explained to me that I am undermining my own credibility by doing this sort of stuff.

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