While many professionals feel that having a daily routine aids productivity, too much emphasis on a routine can throw you into a tailspin when life gets unpredictable, writes Kat Boogaard. It's smart to "think of some different ways that you can become better at adjusting to your ever-changing circumstances, whatever they may be," Boogaard writes.

Kenneth Ziegler, CEO of Logicworks, learned from an early age to embrace dysfunction and avoid holding himself to impossible standards. "The No. 1 most important part of my job is to make people successful, and I can understand and work with a certain level of dysfunction," he said.

An OfficeTeam survey has found that 71% of professionals feel it's OK to become Facebook friends with coworkers, although 49% of senior managers said they were comfortable doing so. It's often best to accept requests to prevent hurting coworkers' feelings, especially if you can use privacy settings to adjust what they can see on your profiles, OfficeTeam said.

Three women who formerly worked for Google have filed a lawsuit against the company, claiming they were paid less than their male colleagues. The lawsuit, which seeks class-action status, comes after preliminary findings of a pay gap investigation indicated that women at Google's headquarters earned less than men in most job categories.

The average time it takes to get hired increased between 2014 and 2017, according to Glassdoor. Here are tips for speeding up the process.

Exercise control over your smartphone use by keeping your phone in a separate room when working on an important project or spending time with loved ones, writes Jane Burnett. Avoid using your phone as an alarm, since doing so makes you likely to check notifications when you wake up for the day.

Relay, a German shepherd mix that went missing from her Florida home in February 2016, has been found in New York. A New York City rescue group used Relay's microchip to track down her owners.