Part-time work is exploding. The number of Americans working part time rose by 1.2 million in December and January compared with the preceding months, according to the Labor Department. Most of that i...
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The Truth About the Four-Day Workweek, From People Who Have Tried It
More companies are experimenting with the four-day workweek, and workers who have tried it are divided on how fruitful an abbreviated schedule can be. Hundreds of WSJ readers responded to our story ab...
One laid-off tech worker’s odyssey: 5 months, 25 interviews, 100 job applications
At times, Todd Erickson’s search for a tech job felt more like an odyssey. But after five months, about 100 job applications and more than two dozen interviews with recruiters and companies — includin...
These 61 companies tried out a 4-day workweek — and most are sticking with it
Four-day workweek for the win. Companies in the U.K. that experimented with a four-day workweek last year reported more revenue and less staff attrition, while most workers participating in the trial ...
Ghosting your job candidates? You better watch out — it might come back to bite you later.
If you’re in the process of hiring new workers, be wary of ghosting your candidates. The Conference Board surveyed more than 1,100 workers to weigh in on their job hunting preferences, hiring practice...
Tech Layoffs Hit H1B Visa Workers Hard
When she lost her job at Google last month, Jingjing Tan started worrying about her dog, an energetic, 75-pound German shepherd. As a foreign worker living in the U.S. on a temporary work visa, if she...
This 72-year-old is hoping to fund her retirement on GoFundMe
GoFundMe campaigns have been raising piles of cash for older Walmart workers who want to retire — but the heartwarming stories about sudden windfalls mask a dark reality about economic security and gr...
Cisco layoffs begin with hundreds of job cuts in California and more expected
Cisco Systems Inc. has begun previously announced layoffs, cutting nearly 700 jobs in Silicon Valley last month, according to filings with the state of California this week. Cisco executives announced...
Dow ends down nearly 350 points after jobs data, hawkish Fed comments hammer stocks
U.S. stock indexes ended another choppy session in the red on Thursday as investors digested a fresh batch of labor-market data and hawkish commentary from Federal Reserve officials, while looking ahe...
Workers in California and Washington State will get more pay transparency
Do you know how much your job is worth? Millions of Americans are finally getting the answer. Starting Jan. 1, California and Washington state will require employers to include pay ranges with their ...
Business Disruptions Wane as Some Industries See a Return to Normal
After more than two years of pandemic-related upheaval, businesses in many corners of the economy are seeing their Covid disruptions recede. Supply-chain disruptions have eased. A lack of semiconducto...
Fund a Roth 401(k) if You’re in a Low Tax Bracket. Here’s Why.
If you’re not earning big bucks this year, consider saving money in a Roth 401(k) instead of a traditional 401(k). Roth contributions make sense when your current tax rate is less than your rate in re...
Workers and retirees are getting some year-end goodies from Washington
America’s workers and retirees are getting some nice year-end gifts from Washington. As part of a bigger bill to keep the government running, Congress has passed, and President Biden has signed, somet...
Here’s What a $1 Million Retirement Looks Like in America
Once a symbol of extravagant wealth, $1 million is now the retirement-savings goal for millions of Americans. For retirees able to accumulate $1 million in savings, the funds translate into inflation-...
The Secure Act Will Change Retirement Policy. 6 Big Changes That Will Soon Become Law.
Now that the Senate has passed a sweeping spending bill to fund the federal government into next year and avert a shutdown, advisors are cheering a major overhaul of the rules around retirement saving...
6 Big Changes to Your Retirement That Are Coming
Now that the Senate has passed a sweeping spending bill to fund the federal government into next year and avert a shutdown, advisors are cheering a major overhaul of the rules around retirement saving...
This 28-year-old negotiated her pay to $500,000 — and found work-life balance
After growing her salary from $100,000 to $500,000 over a five-year period through switching jobs and negotiating, Amy, now 28, wanted the kind of work-life balance that would allow her to spend more ...
Inflation Is Forcing Many Retirees to Put Long-Awaited Plans on Hold—Again
Brenda Dickason dreamed of traveling to Europe in retirement. Instead, the former teacher and police detective spent 2022 watching TV with her husband at their Tucson, Ariz., home and selling homemade...
‘I wish someone had warned me not to take my current job.’ 1 in 5 employees now reports being ‘miserable’ at work. Sound familiar? If so, this may be the No. 1 money move to make now
Workers are miserable these days Getty Images/iStockphoto Nearly 1 in 5 workers reports being miserable at work, according to Gallup’s recent “State of the Global Workplace: 2022.” And a global study ...
Suze Orman says, ‘We’re heading downhill very fast,’ unless employers start providing this lucrative benefit to their workers
Americans trying to save some cash for unforeseen expenses are up against a lot — months of red-hot inflation, wages that don’t keep up, the sheer difficulty of delayed gratification in a time when pe...
Employers Rethink Need for College Degrees in Tight Labor Market
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New CIO Wants Cisco to Be a Model for Hybrid Work
Fletcher Previn, Cisco Systems Inc.’s new chief information officer, said he is working to help position the networking-equipment maker as a leader in hybrid work. “Everybody being remote in the pande...
Opinion: How a ‘529 solution’ can give gig workers health care and retirement benefits and boost the U.S. economy
U.S. workers are increasingly combining multiple income streams, moving from job to job, starting businesses, and craving more independence and control over their time. Changes to worker benefits must...
The ‘best job in America’ pays over $120,000 a year — and offers a low-stress, healthy work-life balance
We’ve had the great resignation, quiet quitting, resistance to going back to the office — and now? It turns out people are looking for happiness, stability, flexibility and a good salary. In 2023, in ...