workplace

Great Offices: an ad agency’s quirky John Street headquarters, complete with slide

Dear Urban Diplomat: I gave my boss a bottle of fancy scotch after we closed a deal. He’s an alcoholic

Dear Urban Diplomat: how do I politely tell my cyclist co-worker about his reeking shirt?

The great burnout: recession survivors didn’t count on the surge in workload, the smaller paycheque and the all-consuming resentment. A story about workplace hell with no escape

Not safe for work: Why cyberslacking makes you the company’s most valuable employee

Watch a trailer for the Toronto Life’s special “Work Sucks” edition, on newsstands now

The List: 10 things Alex Anthopoulos, the boy wonder Blue Jays GM, can’t live without

Inside the $12-million gender discrimination suit dividing Bay Street

At the prestigious law firm McCarthy Tétrault, a junior partner named Diane LaCalamita watched as less-experienced male attorneys were promoted above her. She complained, got fired, and is now suing the firm for $12 million. Her supporters say the old boys’ club is still preventing women from getting ahead. Her critics dismiss her as a mediocre lawyer who couldn’t hack it in the big leagues