Perhaps it’s time to take off your rose-colored glasses.
What Researchers Discovered When They Sent 80,000 Fake Résumés to U.S. Jobs
Some companies discriminated against Black applicants much more than others, and H.R. practices made a big difference.
Silence Speaks Volumes in the Workplace
In the landscape of our modern workplaces, silence speaks volumes, shaping the dynamics of collaboration, innovation, and personal growth.
Office gossip isn’t just idle chatter. It’s a valuable – but risky – way to build relationships
Gossip flows through the offices and lunchrooms of our workplaces, seemingly filling idle time. But perhaps, through these ubiquitous and intriguing conversations, we are influencing our workplace relationships more than we realise.
Why are workers so sad? These researchers offer clues—and recommendations
A growing cohort of experts are ringing alarm bells about the loneliness epidemic and why workplace stress is at an all-time high.
Five secrets of workplace success
I spent a year writing a book about work. Here’s what I discovered
The real reason why so many managers don’t know how to manage
New bosses are often promoted for the wrong reason and are unprepared for the role. On the latest episode of ‘The New Way We Work,’ we explore what it would look like to treat management like the important job it is.
‘It’s irresponsible’: Secretary of Labor on economic misinformation
Acting United States Deputy Secretary of Labor Julie Su joins The Weekend to discuss Friday’s big jobs report. And Su responds to a letter from Latino Civil Rights and activist organizations about the loss of 6 works in the Francis Scott Key Bridge tragedy in Baltimore.
This is the No. 1 thing CEOs get wrong about HR
SHRM’s Johnny C. Taylor Jr. says CHROs serve two sets of internal stakeholders.
Sexual Harassment: A Polling Chronology
Let’s start with early polls on sexual harassment. Pollsters began asking about sexual harassment in the workplace in the 1980s.
Punching In: DOL Lays Out New Plan for Workers With Disabilities
The US Department of Labor wants to make it easier and more equitable for people with disabilities to participate in the labor force, rolling out new initiatives in the past few weeks to boost employment prospects for workers with disabilities.
AI is causing massive hiring discrimination based on disability
AI hiring algorithms are riddled with harmful biases. This is a reflection of the real-life hiring data they were trained on, which is heavily biased.
Challenging Contingency in Academic Work
Across the United States, almost three-quarters of those teaching in colleges and universities today are employed as contingent faculty. This is a reversal from the period before the economic turmoil of the 1970s, when three-quarters of the faculty held tenured or tenure-track positions. These precarious academic workers—ranging from part-time course-by-course
Exercise Your Voice in the Power At Work Blog’s Brand New Comments Section
Have you found yourself reading, watching, or listening to the Power At Work Blog and getting frustrated because you had something important to say in response to one of our posts or blogcasts, but couldn’t find a way to express yourself? Did you ask, why don’t they have a comments
Power At Work Blogcast #38: Live Interview + Q&A with journalist Hamilton Nolan on his new book “The Hammer”
Join the Power at Work Blog, the Burnes Center for Social Change, and the Massachusetts State House Employee Union for a conversation with acclaimed labor reporter Hamilton Nolan about his new book The Hammer: Power, Inequality, and the Struggle for the Soul of Labor. This conversation was recorded live on