In the Workplace

Good morning,?and welcome to a special edition of the Careers newsletter, featuring stories from?The New Workplace Report . Today we're exploring how to break up with your career, how to monitor employees without causing so much resentment, and why it's a bad idea for companies to pit internal teams against each other.

How to Break Up With Your Career

The path out of love is rarely straightforward,?whether we’re ending a marriage or saying goodbye to a career. A look at the science of relationship breakups can help us avoid mistakes during a career change.

Relationship science can teach us how to read the lingering signs of attachment so we don’t stay in a career too long. It can help us understand what we will most miss about a job. And it can help keep us from rebounding into a new job that won't be right.?

Read the whole story here .

• Your Company Is Watching You. And Probably Doing It All Wrong. (Read )
• Companies Like to Pit Internal Teams Against Each Other. Bad Idea. (Read )

The Case for Giving Employees More Power

Would companies get better CEOs if employees had a vote??It might seem radical. But giving employees a say could create wide workforce support for tackling problems and moving the business in new directions.

Read the whole story here .

• The Little-Known Company That Gives Its Employees a Real Voice (Read )
• Want to Be a Better Boss or Team Player? Watch ‘12 Angry Men’ (Read )

High Tech Ways to Cool Down Workers

Companies are turning to tech to cool down workers. New tools that aim to save workers from becoming overheated and dehydrated are starting to enter the workplace. Among them: mobile apps that detect heat stress, wearable devices that nudge workers when they’re dehydrated, and clothing made with cooling fabrics.?

Read the whole story here .

Best of the Rest

Check out some of the Journal's best-read stories on work life over the past week:

• Teens Need Real Jobs, Not Elite Internships (Read )
• 20-Somethings Learn to Love Their Corporate Jobs (Read )
• With ‘Founder Mode,’ Silicon Valley Makes Micromanaging Cool (Read )

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This newsletter was curated by Lynn Cook, WSJ's Careers and Workplace Bureau Chief. Reach her on LinkedIn .