Wired

Nurses, retail workers, and other employees can owe thousands of dollars just for quitting their job—or getting laid off.

A battle between unions and Just Eat France sets a troubling precedent for platform workers.

Google, Amazon, and others will help permanent staff seek out-of-state care. But their many contractors remain shut out.

Whether you’re hybrid or at the home office full-time, here’s what you can do to focus your energy, connect meaningfully, and use flexibility to your advantage.

EVER SIT THERE waiting for an Amazon package to be delivered, constantly refreshing your screen to see up-to-the-minute location updates?

As a tech worker turned tech organizer, I believed the current wave of activism was the first. Then I realized I was part of an important lineage.

Companies are offering interest-free advances to people with poor credit in exchange for detailed personal data.

Over 50 years ago, they trialed “part-time telecommuting.” The pandemic-driven model has problems, but early adopters think they can be fixed.

Since lockdown, employees have adopted new work habits, but many execs want a return to the old normal.

I could try to advocate for my colleagues to be allowed in the office too, but I like being here alone, and I am afraid that if I draw attention to the fact that I’m going in, the company will cut off my access too. Should I feel bad about this?

A workplace has its own informal cardinal directions: elevatorward, kitchenward, bathroomward. It’s a map we share.

Warehouses, factories, and hospitals are deploying more robots, often made by different companies. That can lead to communication problems.

Surveilling software is flourishing during the pandemic. And employees are finding creative ways of evading the company gaze

The unconscious bias training industry is booming. But online tests do little to even address overt, conscious bias