Microsoft Worklab: Great Expectations — Making Hybrid Work, Work

Since the beginning of the COVID pandemic, Microsoft has been tracking the shift to remote work through their Worklab research division. But unlike other companies and pundits with various agenda, it has been doing something approaching unbiased research and legitimate analysis. Microsoft is doing a great public service in pursuing these studies. As we’ve pointed

Microsoft Says ‘Productivity Paranoia’ Can Hurt Hybrid Workplaces

Employees think they’re being just as productive as ever. Bosses aren’t buying it. New data from Microsoft’s Work Trend Index, which surveyed 20,000 employees across 11 countries, finds that despite early signs of a productivity boom during the pandemic—when many workers traded commuting time for more hours of working from home—there’s a steep divide between how

Volunteer/Support

What you can do to help us all win! We get very few traditional ‘volunteers’. It’s not as though we don’t have needs. We certainly do! It’s just that, gotta be real here, they’re not ‘volunteery’. You know what we mean. The ones where you can show up. Or not show up. Re-schedule. Pick up

*Where’s my Clair Patterson?

There is this form of air pollution, which you probably have not heard of, called ultrafine particulates (UFPs). Though they are invisible, they seem to have some particularly nasty effects on human health. UFPs have not been well-studied, they are unregulated, and yet they are prevalent in commercial jet engine emissions. But this is not

Under The Flight Path: A Community History of Sea-Tac Airport 2023 Grant Application

The following is a grant application recently submitted by SeaTacNoise.Info to 4Culture as part of their Heritage Projects program. Fingers crossed. Short Description We will create a documentary about the Airport Communities of Sea-Tac from 1949 to 2019: Tukwila, Normandy Park, Des Moines, Federal Way, SeaTac and Burien. This will be the first modern history