This Life

Together, at Home and at Work

By BRUCE FEILER

For couples working together, the rules for getting along at home may not transfer to the office. Experts give advice.

Talk

Mayor Ed Lee: ‘Tech Workers Are Not Robots’

Interview by WILLY STALEY

The mayor of San Francisco on the Twitter economy.

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It’s the Economy

Switzerland’s Proposal to Pay People for Being Alive

By ANNIE LOWREY

The simplest welfare program imaginable: an income for everyone, no strings attached.

The Workologist

How to Explain That Lost Job

By ROB WALKER

Honesty is the best policy when telling a prospective employer about an ambiguous ending to a previous job. But that doesn’t mean “I was fired!” is the best icebreaker.

Missouri’s Governor Calls for End to Contest of Incentives

By JOHN ELIGON

The governor, Jay Nixon, urged an end to incentives that lure jobs from one state to the other, rather than luring new jobs to the region.

It’s the Economy

Outsource Your Way to Success

By CATHERINE RAMPELL

Want to get ahead in life? Pay others to do the boring stuff.

Vocations

Goodbyes With Respect

Interview by PATRICIA R. OLSEN

A retired police lieutenant from New Jersey founded a company that conducts burials at sea.

Preoccupations

Embracing the Millennials’ Mind-Set at Work

By TOM AGAN

With its emphasis on free-flowing information, the millennial generation is highly innovative — and thus has much to offer to corporate culture.

Vocations

Earning Less, but at Home

By PERRY GARFINKEL

A technical consultant traded in his old job — and long air-travel commutes — for a new one that has meant 20 percent less pay but lets him work from home.

The Workologist

On the Clock, on Personal Business

By ROB WALKER

How to deal with a colleague who brings much of his home life to the office? A hospital doctor asks the Workologist for help.

Corner Office

Honeywell’s David Cote, on Decisiveness as a 2-Edged Sword

By ADAM BRYANT

“Your job as a leader is to be right at the end of the meeting,” says the Honeywell chairman and C.E.O., “not at the beginning.”

Vocations

For a Traveling Nurse, Freedom to Roam

By PATRICIA R. OLSEN

Becoming a traveling nurse — with good pay, a varied work environment and no office politics — has been a good career choice for Monica Parks, 43, of South Carolina.