Rose Gardner did everything right. Straight As at school and college, a first-class degree from a top university, a master’s. She got a job in publishing and rose through the ranks of some of the indu
There was a time when getting a job at Google or Amazon would be a ticket to long-term stability and success. Many of the big tech companies seemed immune to large-scale layoffs, and as their profits
“Paramount Global lays off about 800 employees, a day after announcing record Super Bowl ratings.” — CNBC - - - Thank you for jumping on this last-minute Zoom meeting. As you’re all well aware, this h
Cisco, based in San Jose, California, announced it would lay off thousands of workers to focus on "key priority areas." Justin Sullivan/Getty Images CNN — Technology company Cisco announced Wednesday
So why are so many companies still using it? Many decades ago, back in the ‘80s and ‘90s when I was but a lad and still wet behind the ears, there once lived a Human Resources practice called the “Per
by: Iman Palm Posted: Oct 9, 2023 / 12:45 PM PDT Updated: Oct 10, 2023 / 04:30 PM PDT SHARE Employees in the U.S. who have returned to the office full-time are paying a lot to get there, a new study s
Nov 30, 2023 - Politics & Policy Hans Nichols , author of Axios Sneak Peek Illustration: Aïda Amer/Axios White House Chief of Staff Jeff Zients , facing huge numbers of federal workers who aren't comi
Payback is hell. In a turn of the tables, job seekers are increasingly ghosting employers. That’s according to a new report by Indeed, the online job search platform. Prospective employees who are in
In today’s workplaces, employers are faced with multiple issues. Some of these include high turnover rates, poor relationships and mistrust of supervisors. Even under positive circumstances, superviso
Efforts to convince remote workers to return to corporate offices appear to have stalled, based on data from the government, academia, and private-sector organizations. Stanford economist Nick Bloom t
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A growing number of workers are making the decision to walk out of companies whose environmental values don't align with their own. Article continues below Advertisement Steffen Krutzinna had a lucrat
Jun 28th 2023 A gradual reverse migration is under way, from Zoom to the conference room. Wall Street firms have been among the most forceful in summoning workers to their offices, but in recent month
In this article MSFT +5.96 (+1.82%) Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella arrives at federal court in Washington, D.C., on Oct. 2, 2023. Drew Angerer | Getty Images Microsoft -owned LinkedIn announced Monday th
Editor’s note: This story was corrected to reflect the daily expenses of employees who need petcare. ( KTLA ) — Employees in the U.S. who have returned to the office full-time are paying a lot to get
NEW YORK, US - SEPTEMBER 17: Elon Musk arrives at the Turkish House to meet with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan ahead of the 78th session of the United Nations (UN) General Assembly in New Yor
That’s been the party line for the past three and a half years among CEOs who are insistent that remote work has no staying power—or that it shouldn’t, at least, among anyone with ambitions of climbin
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Workers in Asia are spending the most time on “performative work” — in other words, focusing on appearing busy more than doing real, productive work. That’s according to a new global survey from Sales
Notice Concerning the Undue Hardship Standard in Title VII Religious Accommodation Cases. This document was issued prior to the Supreme Court’s decision in Groff v. DeJoy , 143 S. Ct. 2279 (2023). The
We're now finding out the damaging consequences of the mandated return to office . And it's not a pretty picture. A trio of compelling reports — the Greenhouse Candidate Experience Report, the Federal
At the heart of any organization, people are the driving force. And the past few years have not been easy on any of us. The pandemic, ongoing global unrest, and an unstable economy, among other signif
S ilicon Valley’s tech giants have long claimed that they’re rewriting the playbook for how businesses should be managed. “Google is not a conventional company. We do not intend to become one,” the se
3 hours ago - Economy & Business Emily Peck , author of Axios Markets Data: Layoffs.fyi; Chart: Axios Visuals Companies say they need to do layoffs , but mass firings can often have a long-lasting neg
A worker pours a pint of beer at London's Pressure Drop Brewery, one of 61 U.K. employers that participated in a six-month trial of a four-day workweek. Justin Tallis/AFP via Getty Images Is it finall
Many trials of the shortened workweek have shown positive results. It’s an increasingly viable solution for some firms – but for others, this new set-up won’t be on the table. The idea of a four-day w
Over recent months, tech companies have been laying workers off by the thousands. It is estimated that in 2022 alone, over 120,000 people have been dismissed from their job at some of the biggest play
Technology companies are on a firing spree: Meta , Twitter , Redfin , Zillow , Lyft , Stripe and GoFundMe have all announced massive layoffs in recent days. Amazon (whose founder, Jeff Bezos, owns The
A crypto-collapse, layoffs at Facebook and carnage at Twitter are rocking the tech industry. It’s stoking memories of the dot-com crash 20 years ago. By Updated November 14, 2022 at 11:30 a.m. EST | P
A reader writes: I want to start off this letter by saying I support workers 100% in organizing for better conditions and wages, whether by leaving their jobs or organizing for better treatment either
The Worst of Both Worlds: Zooming From the Office Work life for many is in a mushy middle ground, and what’s at stake isn’t just who is getting talked over in meetings. It’s whether flexibility is sus
Credit... Jeff Hinchee The Great Read The 37-Year-Olds Are Afraid of the 23-Year-Olds Who Work for Them Twenty-somethings rolling their eyes at the habits of their elders is a longstanding trend, but
Three minutes. That’s all the time Lanee Higgins, a Baltimore County Public Schools teacher, had to herself during a typical day of coronavirus-era remote learning. On her computer screen were middle-
T oward the end of last year, Anthony Klotz, a professor of business administration at Texas A&M University who studies workplace resignations, realized that a lot of people were about to quit their j
R emember huddling in a conference room? It’s almost cartoonish to imagine everybody squeezing into a poorly ventilated space to talk and trade germs for the purpose of … what, exactly? As many worker
Many managers are itching to get staff back to the office, despite employees championing alternative set-ups. Why – and how will this change workers' futures? As we head into 2022, Worklife is running
Abstract The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic caused a rapid shift to full-time remote work for many information workers. Viewing this shift as a natural experiment in which some workers w