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Mallory Brown

By Mallory Brown

The Last Office Before the Jungle: Adding Adventure to Work Culture

I once went to a beach restaurant on a small island in the Grenadines called The Last Bar Before The Jungle.  It was an oversized beach shack with wea[...]

Meg Hovious

By Meg Hovious

5 Ways to Create Sustainable Change in Workplace Mental Health

For many of us, nearly a third of our lives will be spent in the workplace. We spend more waking hours in our (physical or virtual) workplace than at [...]

Alli Kelly

By Alli Kelly

Top Startups and Tech Companies that Offer Mental Health Days

May is Mental Health Awareness Month, but for those who struggle with mental health issues, finding support is a year-round challenge.  There’s no dou[...]

Alli Kelly

By Alli Kelly

Top Mission-Driven Startups and Tech Companies in the Midwest

A fulfilling career goes far beyond a nice paycheck and a modern office space. It even goes beyond remote-life, flexible working hours, and work-life [...]

Ilyse Kaplan

By Ilyse Kaplan

Be unapologetically you, and 6 more pieces of advice for women in tech

We all know the stats: Women are under-represented in the c-suite, on boards, as investing partners, and as recipients of venture funding.  I’ve been [...]

Alli Kelly

By Alli Kelly

Living the B Corp Lifestyle with CODE Éxitos

Imagine walking into work on the first day of a new job and there’s a cake on your desk. A cake just for you. To share it with whomever you want.  Sou[...]

Alli Kelly

By Alli Kelly

10 Great Workplaces for Women in the Midwest

In honor of International Women's Day, we’re feeling a serious surge of girl power. Women have made a lot of strides in the workplace, especially in t[...]

Alli Kelly

By Alli Kelly

How to Show Appreciation for Remote Employees

If you’re in a remote or even hybrid environment, you know that the days of donuts and coffee in the office are long gone. It was easy when we all spe[...]

Alli Kelly

By Alli Kelly

A Lesson in Innovation with NetWorks Group

While they jokingly call themselves “the 25-year-old startup”, NetWorks Group is anything but a joke — neither is the work they do. NetWorks Group is [...]

Lauren Zyber

By Lauren Zyber

Celebrating Black History: 16 Black Leaders in Tech

There are many ways to celebrate Black History Month. Learning about amazing Black figures in American history. Discussing solutions to problems in di[...]

Lauren Zyber

By Lauren Zyber

11 Reasons You’ll Love Working and Living in Detroit

We love Detroit. We love living in Detroit. Detroit is our people. It’s where we’re headquartered, and it’s where we’re helping the local startup and [...]

Ryan Landau

By Ryan Landau

The 2023 Purpose Awards

This year has certainly had its share of ups and downs. It’s true that the Midwest isn’t totally immune to the widespread tech layoffs that are happen[...]

Alli Kelly

By Alli Kelly

Top Benefits Employees are Looking for in 2023

Employee benefits continue to be the top priority of job seekers' lists and are often a make or break for them. It’s pretty simple. Employees want ben[...]

Alli Kelly

By Alli Kelly

Employer Branding Examples to Help You Attract the Right Talent

Wouldn’t it be great if you could hire a star pupil simply by posting a job? No need to share information about your company, get visibility on multip[...]

Alli Kelly

By Alli Kelly

How You Offboard Matters. Here's a Template for Getting it Right.

Onboarding is one of the most important practices for your business. Bringing on a new employee is exciting and represents positive change. And the mo[...]

Lauren Zyber

By Lauren Zyber

13 Tech Companies Great For Flexible Working

How and where we work have changed so much over the last two years, it’s having a lasting impact on company structure. Job seekers demand flexibility [...]

Alli Kelly

By Alli Kelly

Company Culture Starts at the Ground Level with Livegistics

Livegistics founder, Justin Turk, is a third-generation entrepreneur in the construction industry. But instead of jumping right into construction like[...]

Jasmit Kaur

By Jasmit Kaur

How to preserve, shape culture in the world of remote and hybrid work

Recently a chief marketing officer told me that his company was considering moving to a fully remote model. But, in doing so, could they preserve what[...]

Alice Duers

By Alice Duers

Quiet Quitting or Quiet Cop-Out?

If you’ve been on Twitter, TikTok, LinkedIn, or even NPR in the past month, you’ve probably heard the term ‘quiet quitting.’  Quiet Quitting is when y[...]

Lauren Zyber

By Lauren Zyber

17 Tech Companies with Learning and Development Benefits

My dad always says, "If you're not learning at your job anymore, it's time to move on." Professional growth and development are huge factors for takin[...]

Jasmit Kaur

By Jasmit Kaur

Deciding to go completely remote? Keep these two major factors in mind.

Remote, hybrid, or all in-office? That’s the question organizations are asking as official pandemic protocols lift.  I’ve heard a range of different o[...]

Alli Kelly

By Alli Kelly

LinkedIn Learning Classes to Enhance Your Company Culture

The state of a company’s culture is one of the top 10 reasons an individual leaves an organization. No longer are the days when a paycheck and medical[...]

Alli Kelly

By Alli Kelly

Where We Work: The Expansion of Remote & Hybrid Models

Since the start of the pandemic in March of 2020, employers all over the world have been working tirelessly to find the right environment for their em[...]

Lauren Zyber

By Lauren Zyber

9 Purpose-Driven Tech Companies That Give Back to the Community

At Purpose Jobs, we believe that businesses can be a force of good. Whether that’s through the products or services they offer, or the way they intera[...]

Alli Kelly

By Alli Kelly

Work-Life Balance is a Mind Game

In the past, we’ve featured a great number of companies that are top-of-the-line when it comes to offering solutions for work-life balance. These comp[...]

Alli Kelly

By Alli Kelly

14 LGBTQ+ Owned, Founded, and Supportive Companies

In celebration of Pride Month, we're highlighting companies that are founded by a member of the LGBTQ+ community or are LGBTQ+ friendly. Highlighting [...]

Alli Kelly

By Alli Kelly

Gender Pronouns in the Workplace: What, Why and How to Use Them

June is Pride Month. A month dedicated to celebrating and honoring the LGBTQ+ community and those within it who have fought so hard for equality and a[...]

Evan Weese

By Evan Weese

How Fund That Flip is Maintaining Culture while Doubling Headcount in 2022

Maintaining a strong company culture through rapid growth is not always easy, but Fund That Flip is doing exactly that while disrupting a massive indu[...]

Lauren Zyber

By Lauren Zyber

24 Best Companies for Work-Life Balance Jobs

For an updated list, check out 2023's Best Companies for Work-Life Balance.   Work-life balance. It’s been a buzz word for the last two years as the C[...]

Dan Ngoyi

By Dan Ngoyi

Meet Rocket Companies, a Fintech at the Intersection of Impact and Innovation

When I started at Rocket Companies – then Quicken Loans – back in 2013, we had 4,000 team members and were quickly growing and taking market share fro[...]

Hannah Slover

By Hannah Slover

Best Places to Work: A Look Inside Company Culture

Culture. Culture. Culture. We’re all talking about it, but what does it even mean? Company culture has been thrown into the spotlight over the last tw[...]

Hannah Slover

By Hannah Slover

Questions to Ask in an Interview to Discover Company Culture

It can be hard to get a sense of a company’s culture in a 30-minute interview. Especially a remote one. When you can’t tour an office, see people inte[...]

Lauren Zyber

By Lauren Zyber

The New Era of Benefits: Work/Life Balance, Flexibility, and Purpose

A lot is changing about how we live and work as we emerge from the coronavirus pandemic.  The office as we once knew it is going through a seismic shi[...]

Kristina Mercier

By Kristina Mercier

The Power of Strengths-Awareness: Bringing your best self to work in an age of uncertainty

2020 ushered in unprecedented changes to our work and whole life experience. While we feel some relief from the ravages of the pandemic and political [...]

Laura Cowan

By Laura Cowan

7 mindfulness exercises to reduce stress at a tech job

Tech jobs can be hectic, and stress from the pandemic and non-stop work from home demands have 70% of tech workers reporting exhaustion. Tech workers [...]

Lauren Zyber

By Lauren Zyber

Building resilience plus more mental well-being strategies for work

As we know, May is Mental Health Awareness Month. While this topic has always been important, the past year has only worsened the mental health crisis[...]

One America Works

By One America Works

The Best Growing Tech Hubs for Healthy Living

As the past year has changed how we work, it has also changed where we work. This new era of productivity makes the case for healthier work-life balan[...]

Anthony Vaughan

By Anthony Vaughan

Finally Look Forward To Mondays: How To Find a Job You Love

We’ve all been there. It’s Sunday evening. You’ve had such a great weekend with friends and family, a much needed break from your job. And then it set[...]

Ryan Vaughn

By Ryan Vaughn

Fear: The Startup Serial Killer Which Must Not Be Named

We don’t talk about fears in startups often, or well. But the unexamined and unreconciled fears of the entrepreneur (not to mention the leadership tea[...]

Patrick Young

By Patrick Young

Have A Disability? Look For Companies That Offer These Benefits

As a person with a disability, you may have found the job market difficult to navigate. For a long time, there’s been a stigma associated with having [...]

Ryan Vaughn

By Ryan Vaughn

The profound ROI on having fun

Entrepreneurs are artists that produce at scale. Beethoven used all twelve musical notes to compose his symphony number nine. Twelve tools, uniquely c[...]

Lauren Zyber

By Lauren Zyber

Candidates Should Ask These 6 Questions About Diversity and Inclusion

Diversity, inclusion, equity and belonging. It's something many startups and tech companies say they value and are actively working on. But the truth [...]