This nonprofit director wants to keep staff happy and healthy, but feels the hybrid setup is creating management challenges
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Millions of gig workers could qualify as employees under new Biden-era rule
A new Labor Department rule out this week aims to make it easier for millions of low-wage workers to get employee benefits and other protections
Work Advice: Can’t keep younger workers? Try offering what they value.
Instead of relying on generalizations about millennials and Gen Z, try to figure out where your goals and theirs intersect
Blue-collar workers won big in 2023, defying bleak predictions
The year began with a recession forecast but ended with substantial wage growth and record union contracts for hundreds of thousands of workers
Tesla strike in Sweden is biggest test yet of Elon Musk’s anti-union stance
Workers from Oslo to Helsinki are blockading Tesla shipments in support of a technicians’ strike in Sweden
Work Advice: More standoffs over return-to-office mandates loom in 2024
Employers demanding in-office presence face worker resistance, passive and otherwise
2024 might be do-or-die for corporate diversity efforts. Here’s why.
As lawsuits rise and opponents like Elon Musk declare that ‘DEI must die,’ companies are pulling back from some initiatives
The single best gift you can give anyone, according to teachers
Letting people know their work made a difference can have real staying power
Work Advice looks back on 2023
Readers who sought advice on their work situations tell us what came after
Older workers are a growing share of the workforce
The percentage of Americans over 65 who are still working — because they either want to or have to — has nearly doubled since the late 1980s
What not to say when people are being laid off
Job cuts are hitting a lot of industries, from media to tech to automotive; think carefully before offering words of comfort
Conservatives are suing law firms over diversity efforts. It’s working.
As they fend off lawsuits targeting their own programs, law firms are creating task forces to guide clients through the challenges of DEI
Work Advice: Lunch and learn, with an inedible lunch
At professional lunch events, hosts have an obligation to consider attendees’ dietary restrictions
Washington Post staffers walk out in biggest labor protest in 48 years
The workers say they will cease work for 24 hours to protest deadlocked contract negotiations and the terms of a buyout offer. Management says it will keep the daily news report going.
Supreme Court appears likely to ease process for workplace discrimination claims
The Supreme Court seemed prepared on Wednesday to make it easier for workers to pursue employment discrimination claims over job transfers, after reviewing the case of a female police sergeantin St. Louis, who said she was reassigned to a less prestigious role because she is a woman.