As Covid restrictions eased, rebounds in the leisure and hospitality and business sectors helped to drive a strong March jobs report. The U.S. economy added more than 400,000 jobs in the final month o...
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Companies bet employee benefits will help them in ‘Great Reshuffle’
Paul Bradbury | OJO Images | Getty Images Millions of Americans are quitting their jobs and rethinking what they want when it comes to work and work-life balance. Companies are responding, meeting the...
How to take a sabbatical even if your company doesn’t offer one
Katherine Ullman spent part of her sabbatical in Colombia. Courtesy: Katherine Ullman Katherine Ullman was burned out from working intensely during the Covid-19 pandemic and was questioning her next c...
Flexible hours let this company’s workers fit work around their lives
Allison Greenwald, senior product manager at The Alley Group, spent five weeks in Alaska while working a flexible schedule. Courtesy: Allison Greenwald Millions of Americans are quitting their jobs an...
Meet the company that lets you work remotely from anywhere in the world
Sevdha Thompson, digital producer of marketing for Coalition Technologies, spent a few weeks working in Costa Rica last year. Courtesy: Sevdha Thompson Millions of Americans are quitting their jobs an...
‘Tina’ Broadway star Nkeki Obi-Melekwe also excels at helping women
Nkeki Obi-Melekwe performs during the first birthday gala performance of “Tina: The Tina Turner Musical” in London in 2019. David M. Benett | Getty Images Entertainment | Getty Images Nkek...
This company offers its contract workers benefits and job security
Harriet Talbot quit her full-time job at Unilever to take part in its U-Work program in London. Courtesy: Harriet Talbot Millions of Americans are quitting their jobs and rethinking what they want whe...
Olympic speed skater Apolo Ohno’s career pivots amid Great Resignation
U.S. speed skater Apolo Ohno competes in the 2010 Winter Olympics at Pacific Coliseum in Vancouver, Canada. Jamie Squire | Getty Images Sport | Getty Images When Olympic speed skater Apolo Ohno hung u...
This tech company let its HR manager take 3 months’ paid leave to hike
Millions of Americans are quitting their jobs and rethinking what they want when it comes to work and work-life balance. Companies are responding, meeting their employees’ needs in areas like re...
Coinbase Taking on 2,000 New Hires, Crypto Careers Continue to Flourish
Coinbase Chief People Officer (CPO), L.J. Brock, released a blog post stating that the exchange was looking to hire 2,000 new employees. The CPO noted to add these new hires to their Product, Engineer...
How To Age Happily – Surfing From Fluid To Crystallised Intelligence
Arthur C. Brooks Arthur Brooks has boundless energy and a contagious enthusiasm. A musician-turned-professor-turned-think tank CEO-turned-Atlantic magazine journalist-turned-Harvard faculty superstar,...
4-day workweek was cure for employee burnout at online store Primary
Primary co-founders and co-CEOs Cristina Carbonell and Galyn Bernard shifted the online children’s clothing retailer to a four-day workweek during the pandemic and have no plans to go back to th...
Inflation eroded pay by 1.7% over the past year
People shop at a Los Angeles retail outlet on Jan. 28, 2022. FREDERIC J. BROWN | AFP | Getty Images High inflation overshadowed a big increase in wages over the past year, amounting to a nearly 2% sma...
These sisters launched QuickHire app to help service workers find good jobs
The launch of QuickHire was spurred by the pandemic, but it’s really been years in the making. Angela Muhwezi-Hall, 32, first thought of the idea in 2017 when she was working as a college and ca...
Here’s where the jobs are for January 2022 — in one chart
Despite a spike in omicron Covid-19 cases, U.S. employers managed to add over 450,000 jobs last month thanks to robust hiring at restaurants and bars, retailers and mail and parcel delivery workers. T...
Wage growth may be slowing from ‘breakneck’ pace
A Now Hiring sign hangs in front of a Winn-Dixie grocery store on Dec. 3, 2021 in Miami. Joe Raedle | Getty Images The rapid pace of pay increases that characterized the labor market for much of last ...
Citigroup’s new London HQ offers a view into flexible working future
Citigroup is offering its vision for the future of flexible work with the release of new plans to transform its London headquarters. The Wall Street bank is to overhaul its iconic Canary Wharf Citi To...
Here’s what to consider before taking a pay cut
Drakula & Co. | Moment | Getty Images The pandemic has upended millions of American lives, and for many has made them reconsider priorities around work. That’s prompted many to quit jobs ami...
Here are 3 things to know about unemployment claims
A job seeker receives information from a recruiter during a job fair in Miami, Florida, on Dec. 16, 2021. Eva Marie Uzcategui/Bloomberg via Getty Images The number of people filing for unemployment be...
Meet the ‘Covid expats’ who moved overseas during the pandemic
Jasmina007 | E+ | Getty Images LONDON — Moving overseas might not seem like the most obvious thing to do during a pandemic, but for many people, Covid-19 provided the nudge they needed to take the plu...
U.S. companies are expecting to pay an average 3.4% raise to workers in 2022
U.S. employers expect to pay an average 3.4% raise to their workers in 2022, according to a Willis Towers Watson survey. That projected wage growth is faster than actual raises paid in the prior two y...
A new labor battle opens on Broadway as omicron closes shows
A sign indicating canceled performances of “Mrs. Doubtfire” due to Covid is displayed in the window of the Stephen Sondheim Theatre on December 16, 2021 in New York City. Dia Dipasupil | G...
Here Are The Careers Launched By The Show
Topline Grey’s Anatomy, the eternally popular ABC medical drama, was renewed for its 19th season Monday, making it the sixth-longest-running primetime show in television history—here are some of the c...