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THE predictions sounded like promises: in the future, working hours would be short and vacations long. “Our grandchildren”, reckoned John Maynard K... (2018)
The $2.5 trillion fashion industry is the second-largest user (pdf) of water globally, according to the United Nations Economic Commission for Euro... (2018)
A growing number of people think their job is useless. The value of your work should not be determined by your paycheck, but by the amount of h... (2018)
This week “The Economist explains” is given over to economics. For each of six days until Saturday this blog will publish a short explainer on a se... (2018)
President Trump on Monday imposed tariffs of 30 percent on imported solar panel technology in a bid to protect domestic manufacturers while signali... (2018)
IN 1977 America's government gave the Federal Reserve what seems like a straightforward goal: maximum employment. Janet Yellen, the current chairma... (2018)
In a significant court decision on the status of so-called gig-economy workers, a federal judge ruled drivers for GrubHub Inc. are independent cont... (2018)
FOR years migrants have left Guatemala, El Salvador and Honduras—Central America’s so-called “Northern Triangle”—to pursue their dreams in the Unit... (2018)
MANY Europeans wishing to build a house, see a dentist or buy a baguette this month will have been disappointed. A surprising number of businesses ... (2018)
In software engineering, remote working makes a lot of sense since, most of the time, you only need a computer and an internet connection to perfor... (2018)
As the Super Bowl kicks off on Sunday, with its half billion in ad revenue and tickets priced at a minimum of $3,600, let’s take a moment to rememb... (2018)
Uber's putting its employees through school to learn to be a better company. (2018)
Mr. Musk agreed to stay as chief executive for 10 years, with compensation tied to $50 billion leaps in Tesla’s valuation. Otherwise, he makes zero. (2018)
Women entrepreneurs have quietly been accomplishing amazing things this year. (2017)
EMA ZELIKOVITCH, a 24-year-old philosophy graduate in Madrid, takes a deep breath before listing the jobs she has held over the past few years. Whi... (2017)
The Hollywood strike is setting talent against studios, but the problem is that both are jointly threatened by the reality of the Internet and zero... (2023)
The World Health Organization says the trend may worsen due to the coronavirus pandemic. (2021)
Project-based workers are an exploding population: 59 million Americans performed freelance work in 2020, representing 22% year-over-year growth an... (2021)
Uber has lost a long-running employment tribunal challenge in the U.K.’s Supreme Court — with the court dismissing the ride-hailing giant’s appeal ... (2021)
The US food supply depends on several million agricultural laborers, who are mostly undocumented, tend to work in close quarters and lack medical i... (2020)
In a tense meeting with employees, Cenk Uygur argued that a union doesn’t belong at a small news network struggling to make profits. (2020)
In Santa Cruz, an unauthorized graduate student strike threatens to spill into its second week, with no clear resolution in sight. (2020)
The company didn't act purely out of the goodness of its heart. (2018)
Amazon just announced that it will be raising its minimum wage for all U.S. workers to $15 an hour, effective November 1. The policy will cover emp... (2018)
Start by understanding what they want. (2015)
The CEO/leadership team needs to make up its mind about what it is they want most because they can’t have it all. This is really key and can’t be i... (2015)
"Imagine that you are a great sales person who knows you can sell $10M worth of product in a year. Company A pays commissions and, if you do what y... (2017)
The initiative in South Korea's local government aims to stop a "culture of working overtime". (2018)
Automation vs. artisanship: Why bricklayers aren't worried about robot overlords, for now. (2018)
Atlas’ guide to the legalities of employing people in your online business. (2018)
Americans are leaving their jobs in droves. In August 4.3 million Americans quit their jobs. While some people have left the workforce entirely, jo... (2021)
In one survey, 61 percent of employees said that workplace stress had made them sick and 7 percent said they had actually been hospitalized. Job st... (2018)