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How Freelancing Is Changing Work
“When you talk to workers, they don’t want to sign up for a 9-to-5 job,” said Hayden Brown, who runs UpWork, a site that matches freelancers with employers.
Will the Pandemic Productivity Boom Last?
10/08/2021 Comments Off on Will the Pandemic Productivity Boom Last?
Fewer workers are making more stuff. If it lasts, that’s big news for the economy of the 2020s.
Continue reading …As hybrid offices become the norm, remote workers risk being forgotten by management.
Continue reading …Return to Work? Not With Child Care Still in Limbo, Some Parents Say.
05/08/2021 Comments Off on Return to Work? Not With Child Care Still in Limbo, Some Parents Say.The rise of the Delta variant and the uncertainty over schools and child care are keeping these parents from applying for jobs.
Continue reading …Remote Workers May Face Challenges in the Hybrid Office
04/08/2021 Comments Off on Remote Workers May Face Challenges in the Hybrid OfficeThe benefits of working from anywhere can also come with bias against those who aren’t seen around the hallways.
Continue reading …Return to Office Hits a Snag: Young Resisters
26/07/2021 Comments Off on Return to Office Hits a Snag: Young ResistersA generation gap has emerged between them and colleagues who value the workplace over the advantages of remote work. Bridging it may require flexibility.
Continue reading …As the world reeled, tech titans supplied the tools that made life and work possible. Now the companies are awash in money — and questions about what it means to win amid so much loss.
Continue reading …- Celebrating the Resilience of Low-Income Women
- CEOs Get to Retire Comfortably. Workers Like Me Deserve the Same.
- Jobs Increased 339,000 In May, Unemployment Up 0.3% To 3.7%
- The decline of job creation at new establishments
- Contractor faces 2 serious citations after US Department of Labor finds safety failures led to welder’s death at Bonner Bridge demolition project
- Investigation into worker’s severe arm injury finds Cusseta auto parts manufacturer, supplier willfully ignored safety precautions
- ‘It’s a sweat factory’: Instacart workers ready to strike for pay and conditions
- Ships backed up outside US ports pumping out pollutants as they idle
- Privacy fears as Moscow metro rolls out facial recognition pay system
- ‘We are not machines’: Hollywood workers poised to strike for better conditions
- Boeing pilot indicted for allegedly deceiving US regulators over 737 Max
- Ipswich apprentice butcher encourages others to consider industry
- Ipswich apprentice butcher encourages others to consider industry
- Over 10,000 John Deere workers strike over ‘years’ of poor treatment
- Corporations are pledging to be ‘water positive’. What does that mean?
- US Department of Labor investigation of crane collapse, double fatality on Interstate 10 finds Lufkin company failed to assemble crane properly
- For the 6th time in 7 years, federal inspectors find Illinois contractor putting construction workers at risk of industry’s deadliest hazard
- US Department of Labor proposes $83K in fines to healthcare facility for failing to protect workers from coronavirus hazards
- Facebook says it will do more to prevent online hate, harassment
- As U.S. prepares to reopen border, some urge Canada to relax testing requirement
- Biden orders companies to ease supply chain bottlenecks or he’ll ‘call them out’
- What is the ‘new model’ the EU is proposing for Northern Ireland?
- Apple to make 10 million fewer iPhones due to microchip shortage
- US Department of Labor, Mexican Consulate in Boston enter alliance to promote workplace safety, health among New England’s workers
- US Department of Labor sues Austin luxury car dealer that retaliated against employee who raised concerns of coronavirus hazards
- Vaccine hesitant New Yorkers consider leaving the city as mandates take effect
- Carbon emissions ‘will drop just 40% by 2050 with countries’ current pledges’
- House passes bill to raise US debt ceiling through early December
- ‘The stakes couldn’t be higher’: GE urged to invest in green US jobs
- Zellers returns — kind of — but the lowest price isn't quite the law
- Cement makers across world pledge large cut in emissions by 2030
- India faces electricity crisis as coal supplies run critically low
- California justice department to investigate enormous oil spill