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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[...]

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 [...]

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[...]

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 [...]
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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 [...]

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[...]

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[...]

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[...]

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 [...]

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[...]

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 [...]

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[...]

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[...]

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[...]

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[...]

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 [...]

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[...]

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[...]

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[...]

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[...]

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[...]

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[...]

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[...]

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[...]

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[...]

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 [...]

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[...]

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[...]

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[...]

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[...]

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[...]

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[...]

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[...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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[...]

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[...]

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[...]

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[...]

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 [...]

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[...]

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 [...]