Deep and meaningful conversations are a hallmark of successful managers of remote employees. But while a lot of managers are talking to their remote employees, they’re not learning anything important ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Technology helps us communicate but is it cutting out too much of the chitchat that makes us human? Researchers at the University of ...

Phatic communication, a term first coined by anthropologist Bronislaw Malinowski, is the international linguistic phenomenon of small talk; that is, exchanges meant to provide a social connection ...

Each week The Sun’s John McIntyre presents a moderately obscure but evocative word with which you may not be familiar — another brick to add to the wall of your working vocabulary. This week’s word: ...

“Are you going to write about this week’s protests?”, the writer asks as the waitress takes away his empty plate from the table in the Newlands restaurant where they have been enjoying a sunny Cape ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Technology helps us communicate but is it cutting out too much of the chitchat that makes us human? Researchers at the University of ...