Women left the workforce in large numbers early in the pandemic. Many of those women are now back on the job, easing concerns of lasting damage to their participation in the labor market.
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Workers are changing jobs and getting raises, and still struggling financially
Debby Perta insists she is not a “job jumper.”
How an attendance policy brought the U.S. to the brink of a nationwide rail strike
Like so many essential workers in the pandemic, the engineers and conductors who drive the nation’s freight trains have had it.
Meet the strippers working to unionize a Los Angeles dive bar
Outside a dive bar advertising topless dancers on a recent Friday night in North Hollywood, a dancer who goes by her stage name, Reagan, sees her cue.
Quiet quitting, real quitting, unionizing — what else are American workers up to?
How we work, when we work, how much we work – it’s all shifting on a scale not seen in decades.
Google workers sign petition asking company to protect people’s abortion search data
About 650 Google workers have signed a petition asking the company to protect users’ abortion-related location data and search history.
Starbucks asks for a nationwide pause in mail-in union votes, alleging misconduct
Starbucks is accusing National Labor Relations Board employees of secretly coordinated with union organizers in the Kansas City area — and it wants the agency to halt all mail-in votes nationwide until a full investigation has been conducted.
The struggles COVID long-haulers face at the workplace
Millions of working Americans are seeing their work productivity compromised by long COVID. Now, both workers and doctors are speaking out about what COVID long-haulers need to stay in the workforce.
Want to lay off workers more smoothly? There’s a startup for that
You might have heard about the fintech company Klarna, whose CEO recently played a prerecorded video at an all-staff meeting to tell his employees that many of them were about to be laid off.
Encore: Some workers who retired during the pandemic question their decision
More people retired during the COVID-19 pandemic than expected.
Lean Out: Employees Are Accepting Lower Pay In Order To Work Remotely
In 2020, office workers were liberated from their cubicle farms and nasty commutes, as companies embraced what was supposed to be a temporary experiment with remote work while the pandemic raged.
The pandemic has changed workplace fashion. What does that mean for you?
Back in 1999, luxury clothing designer Tom Ford made a prediction about how technology might influence the way people dress in the not-so-near future.
The jobs market still favors workers, despite fears of an economic slowdown
Workers looking for new jobs have plenty of options, despite recent layoffs and hiring slowdowns in key parts of the economy.
As economy cools, scattered layoffs put an end to dream jobs for some workers
After a period of incredible job growth, many economists are calling it a cooling off.
The barista uprising: Coffee shop workers ignite a union renewal
As the wave of worker organizing at Starbucks took off this year, Steph Achter looked on with joy.
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