How an ‘Effort-Reward Imbalance’ Can Make Work Miserable | Amazon managers can now sack employees who won’t work from the office 3 days a week | Marie NDiaye Raises Questions She Has No Intention of Answering | Helped, Heard or Hugged? What to Ask When Someone You Love Is Upset

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� � � � � � How an 'Effort-Reward Imbalance' Can Make Work Miserable - The New York Times    Experts offer tips on what to do if you’re not getting the respect or compensation you deserve. It’s a phrase so often repeated that it has become a cliché. But studies have shown that humans are hard-wired to want their fair share, as are other animals that have cooperative relationships, like monkeys, birds and wolves. In one famous experiment, researchers trained two capuchin monkeys to hand them tokens in exchange for a cucumber snack. At first, the animals were happy with this arrangement — that is, until one of the monkeys received grapes instead, which are considered far more delicious. The other monkey, who continued to receive cucumbers, looked enraged, shook the walls of her enclosure and hurled the cucumbers out of reach. Continued here � � � � � � Don't like ads? Go ad-free with TradeBriefs Premium Amazon managers can now sack employees who won't work from the office 3 days a week - Fortune    America’s corporate giants have been grappling with the task of getting employees back into the office, but Amazon is taking a bold step. The retail behemoth is now allowing supervisors to terminate workers who resist its return-to-office directive. In new guidelines for managers, seen by Insider, the tech giant granted leaders more freedom to take disciplinary action against staffers who fail to turn up in person at least three days a week. The updated guidance was reportedly shared with Amazon managers via an internal system earlier this week. Continued here � � � � � � Marie NDiaye Raises Questions She Has No Intention of Answering - The New York Times    She published her first book at 17 and has since become one of France’s best-known novelists. NDiaye is not interested in easy — and she expects her readers to work, too. The French writer Marie NDiaye likes a mystery. An admirer of detective novels, she has often felt “a pang of disappointment at the resolution, no matter how brilliant,” she said recently at her home in Paris. “I hate to be taken by the hand.” In her own novels, NDiaye can’t be accused of spoon-feeding readers. Her latest book, “Vengeance Is Mine,” centers on a lawyer grappling with her own, unreliable memory: A new client brings to mind a young boy she met three decades prior, when she was still a child. But is it really him? And was the afternoon they spent together a magical turning point in her life, or something more disturbing? Continued here � � � � � � Helped, Heard or Hugged? What to Ask When Someone You Love Is Upset - The New York Times    Last September, I got a phone call from my sister Heather, a special-education teacher at an elementary school in upstate New York. Heather — known as Mrs. Stella to her students — had experienced a challenging week. Her pupils were settling into a new school year, but some of them had become agitated in class. “What do you do when a kid is emotionally overwhelmed?” I asked. Many teachers at her school, she told me, ask students a simple question: Do you want to be helped, heard or hugged? Continued here

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