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Many Eastern Europeans have left the west and gone home (2021)
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)
FEW countries have done as well out of international trade as Germany. Last week the Ifo Institute, an economics think-tank, said Germany’s current... (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)
ON TUESDAY Emmanuel Macron, the French president, hosted talks at which the two most influential players in Libya—Fayez al-Sarraj, the UN-backed pr... (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)
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)
EUROPE’S biggest countries were once among the biggest anywhere. In 1950, four of the world’s ten most populous states were in western Europe alone... (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)
IN 1977 America's government gave the Federal Reserve what seems like a straightforward goal: maximum employment. Janet Yellen, the current chairma... (2018)
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)
Manny Machado and Bryce Harper remain unsigned. One of the sport’s best catchers had to settle for a one-year deal. Kyler Murray might play another... (2019)
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)
Reduced hours for same pay increased successful work-life balance management, cutting stress levels and boosting commitment (2018)
D. T. Max on companies that are using inexpensive immigrant labor to manufacture handbags that bear the coveted “Made in Italy” label... (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)