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 ...
Tag: Work-Life Balance
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 ...
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...
Life Hack Or Red Flag?
Quiet quitting your job, also referred to as “acting your wage,” ensures that your professional life stays within the bounds of working hours and assigned duties. It gives the power back to the indivi...
Workers are disengaged from their jobs — but don’t blame remote work. The real cause lies elsewhere.
Worker disengagement is increasing no matter where a person does their job, whether that’s in the office, at home, or a hybrid of both. And just because people are showing up to the job in person, it ...
Over 50% of CEOs say they’re considering cutting jobs over the next 6 months — and remote workers may be the first go to
Alarm sirens from the C-Suite about a looming recession are gaining volume in America and elsewhere, but calls back to the office for full-time work are a lot softer. Most CEOs across the globe shared...
The Boss May Not Like It. But Millions of Workers Aren’t Coming Back to the Office.
Erin Li, a 29-year-old working for an advertising firm in Los Angeles, is looking for a new job that allows full-time remote work. Li is worried that her current employer will require her to work fro...
‘The backlash to quiet quitting smacks of another attempt by the ruling class to get workers back under their thumbs:’ Am I wrong?
I have something to get off my chest. Please bear with me. We learned a lot from the (more than) two years of pandemic life. Among those lessons: 1. We can be really effective and productive working ...
Apple workers tell CEO Tim Cook: ‘We demand location-flexible work’
The self-styled solidarity group AppleTogether launched a petition Monday demanding a more flexible work policy in response to the company’s return-to-office mandate. “We demand that Apple allows each...
Gasoline Demand Is the Lowest in a Year. Blame Remote Work, Not Pump Prices.
Text size U.S. crude oil inventory levels still remain 5% below the five-year average for this time of year. Brandon Bell/Getty Images It isn’t just high oil prices, but Americans working from home th...
Office workers in San Francisco, Manhattan and Chicago are not returning to the office in significant numbers, research shows
Companies are trying to bring back employees into the office. Early data suggests that workers still aren’t that keen. According to a new report by Placer.ai, visits to office buildings have yet to ca...
Citigroup Trader Went Through Several Alerts on ‘Fat Finger’ Trade
A Citigroup Inc. C -2.10% trader who sent European stock indexes into free fall last month was working from home and went through several alerts before his order went live, people familiar with the ma...
Elon Musk says workers should return to the office or quit. It’s a big gamble: ‘Tesla is kick-starting its own local Great Resignation’
Elon Musk is giving his employees an ultimatum. Tesla’s TSLA, -2.36% chief executive officer and founder responded Thursday to an apparent leaked email that called on employees to return to the offic...
‘Pretend to work somewhere else.’ Elon Musk reportedly tells Tesla staff working remotely is no longer an option.
“They should pretend to work somewhere else.” That was Tesla’s TSLA, -2.88% chief executive officer Elon Musk, responding to an apparent leaked email making the rounds that was addressed to the electr...
The Great Resistance is here. Companies and employees are in a battle of wills over returning to the office.
Amy Faust Liggayu, 32, a market-research project manager based in Tinley Park, Ill., and mother of a 7-month-old son, never imagined she would have a life where she could spend five days a week with h...
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...
The ‘best job in America’ pays $145,000, has 14,000 job openings — and offers a generous work-life balance
A six-figure salary and the option to work from home? It sounds too good to be true. Job openings are rising, while workers continue to quit. The number of vacant jobs hit 10.9 million in December, up...
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 ...