About one in five health-care workers has left medicine since the pandemic started. This is their story—and the story of those left behind.
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The American Workplace Isn’t Prepared for This Much Grief
The pandemic has highlighted the fact that without a federal bereavement policy, many people are subject to the whims of state legislatures and individual companies.
SLACKERS OF THE WORLD, UNITE!
Why employees love the software, and bosses don’t
Why Offices Are Starting to Look More Like Homes
Look at the style of an office in any given era and you’ll get a glimpse of the defining themes in white-collar workers’ lives at the time.
What Are Offices Good For, Anyway?
The pandemic disrupted “soft work”—the gossip, eavesdropping, and casual relationship-building that aren’t a formal part of your job.
KILL THE 5-DAY WORKWEEK
Reducing hours without reducing pay would reignite an essential but long-forgotten moral project: making American life less about work.
What Quitters Understand About the Job Market
More Americans are telling their boss to shove it. Is the workplace undergoing a revolution—or just a post-pandemic spasm?
What Bosses Really Think of Remote Workers
People who work from home get fewer raises and promotions. But there might be a way to avoid the remote-work penalty.
Only Your Boss Can Cure Your Burnout
People refer to various forms of malaise as “burnout,” but it’s technically a work problem. And only your employer can solve it.
America Chose Sickness, and Lost the Economy
There is no saving the economy without guaranteeing worker health.
How the Court Inverted Constitutional Protections Against Discrimination
What was once constitutionally prohibited is now constitutionally required.
Mothers’ Careers Are at Extraordinary Risk Right Now
The conditions of teleworking combined with increased child-care demands are a perfect storm for bias against working mothers.
The Workforce Is About to Change Dramatically
Three predictions for what the future might look like
Colleges Are Deeply Unequal Workplaces
As universities plan to reopen, they continue to overlook the concerns of campus staff.
America’s Inescapable Offices
Workers who have already returned to their cubicle report days full of anxiety, masks, and sanitation shaming.
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