Promotions are meant to reward growth but can instead feel like punishment. A Reddit manager describes being promoted after ...

Outperforming your colleagues isn't always a good thing.

After being repeatedly overlooked for a promotion, an employee decided to stop overextending himself at work, and surprisingly, his boss rewarded him with a raise. In a now-viral post on Reddit, a ...

Sheryl Sandberg, former Meta executive and Lean In founder, warns women are leaning out, with fewer ambitions of getting promoted at work. The prophet of leaning in has found that, at least in 2025, ...

For every 100 men promoted, only 81 women are promoted, a number that gets worse for many women of color. This gap persists over time. More women than men continue to pursue higher education, yet ...

At the time, it felt like the worst thing that could have happened to me. But now, years later, I realise that being passed over for that promotion was a blessing in disguise. There was no future for ...

Before I became ill, I had started working as a secretary to an executive vice president at a mid-sized advertising agency in Manhattan. After 18 months he promoted me to an assistant to a woman they ...