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US work & careers

February 2023

  • Laptop on a table in someone's home

    My company has been virtual for 18 years. Remote working is tough

    Gene Marks
    The office expenses I’ve saved on since 2005 have come at the expense of my company’s culture
  • brain waves (alfa, beta, gamma) showing REM-sleep (dreaming)<br>AGHKJD brain waves (alfa, beta, gamma) showing REM-sleep (dreaming)

    A world in which your boss spies on your brainwaves? That future is near

    Hamilton Nolan
    At Davos, a Duke University futurist spoke in glowing terms about the promise of ‘brain transparency’ – and downplayed the obvious dystopian risks
  • Rainbow flags fly at Rockefeller Center in New York.

    ‘Work is about belonging’: LGBTQ+ people’s history in the workplace

    In a new book, historian Margot Canaday studies the neglected history of queer people in American workplaces

January 2023

  • La June Montgomery Tabron

    The push for racial equality in US workplaces: ‘We want these to be ways of being’

    La June Montgomery Tabron speaks about the National Day of Racial Healing and her effort to build a cohort of companies striving for equity
  • 6 April 2020. Istanbul / Turkey. Smartphone showing Zoom Cloud Meetings app,<br>2BDFP9W 6 April 2020. Istanbul / Turkey. Smartphone showing Zoom Cloud Meetings app,

    The company purging meetings from calendars: ‘Uninterrupted time is precious’

    Shopify has set strict limits on gatherings, earning cautious praise from experts amid concerns over isolation
  • ‘The pandemic … sparked a reckoning among many workers who no longer feel that sacrificing their health, family and communities for work is an acceptable trade off.’

    While some say quiet quitting is over, the spirit of it may carry into 2023

    Quiet quitting might be declining – but its theme of rebalancing work and home life will continue into the new year

December 2022

  • FILE - People shop for shoes in a Nike store on Black Friday, Nov. 25, 2022, in New York. On Tuesday, Dec. 13, the Labor Department reports on U.S. consumer prices for November. (AP Photo/Julia Nikhinson, File)

    Nike lawsuit records allege culture of sexism, bullying and fear of retaliation

    5,000 pages of records detail how female employees were concerned management were unlikely to address concerns

November 2022

  • Holiday shoppers in Atlanta<br>epa03482987 Customers shop for sale items at a Target store open early for Black Friday in Atlanta, Georgia, USA, 22 October 2012. The Thanksgiving night shoppers were getting an early start on Black Friday, the traditional start of the holiday shopping season. EPA/ERIK S. LESSER

    ’Tis the season to be exploited: retail workers face busy, stressful holidays

  • Starbucks workers join a national strike Thursday, Nov. 17, 2022 at the in downtown Columbus, Ohio. Starbucks workers at more than 100 U.S. stores are going on strike Thursday. It's largest labor action since a campaign to unionize Starbucks' stores began late last year. (Barbara J. Perenic /The Columbus Dispatch via AP)

    Workers at over 100 US Starbucks stores strike on ‘Red Cup Day’

  • Prospective employers and job seekers interact during a job fair in 2021 in the West Hollywood neighborhood of Los Angeles, California.

    Employers are now ‘ghosting’ applicants in tight labor market – and that’s not all bad

    Gene Marks
  • People speak with recruiters at a job fair in Los Angeles.

    ‘I’m selling my blood’: millions in US can’t make ends meet with two jobs

October 2022

  • UPS Facility In Louisville, KY Boasts World's Largest Automated Sorting Operation<br>LOUISVILLE, KY - JANUARY 03: Ground crews use a belt loader to unload loose parcels from the aft belly section of a Boeing 747 at UPS Worldport on January 3, 2022 in Louisville, Kentucky. UPS will handle the movement of approximately 60 million holiday returns during returns season, which spans from November 14 to January 22. (Photo by Jon Cherry/Getty Images)

    After a UPS worker’s suicide, employees disclose ‘tragic’ conditions at largest facility

    Revealed: UPS workers tell the Guardian that intense quota pressures, injuries, an unclean and unsafe environment and understaffing take a heavy toll

September 2022

  • Tayo Bero

    ‘Quiet quitting?’ Everything about this so-called trend is nonsense

    Tayo Bero
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    American workers are burned out and tired. There’s a solution: unions

    Hamilton Nolan

August 2022

  • A videoconference meeting on a laptop screen

    Is the work-from-home debate already over?

    Gene Marks
  • FILE - A passenger enters an Uber at LaGuardia Airport in New York, March 15, 2017. App workers like Uber drivers and food delivery workers in New York City are pressing for protections including better wages, health care and the right to unionize. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig, File)

    Uber bookings hit all-time high in past three months as workers return to offices

June 2022

  • SpaceX and NASA Launch First Astronauts to Space in Cape Canaveral, US - 30 May 2020<br>Mandatory Credit: Photo by Paul Hennessy/SOPA Images/Shutterstock (10664640e) SpaceX founder Elon Musk gestures to the audience after being recognized by U.S. President Donald Trump at NASA's Vehicle Assembly Building following the successful launch of a Falcon 9 rocket with the Crew Dragon spacecraft from pad 39A at the Kennedy Space Center. NASA astronauts Doug Hurley and Bob Behnken will rendezvous and dock with the International Space Station, becoming the first people to launch into space from American soil since the end of the Space Shuttle program in 2011. SpaceX and NASA Launch First Astronauts to Space in Cape Canaveral, US - 30 May 2020

    SpaceX employees fired after writing letter criticizing Elon Musk

    Letter called for SpaceX to make work culture more inclusive and ‘define and uniformly respond to all forms of unacceptable behavior’

May 2022

  • West Chester, Pennsylvania, 1972

    American wage slaves: the sadness of life in the 70s – in pictures

    Chauncey Hare’s Photographic Work is the first critical biography of the American photographer Chauncey Hare (1934–2019).

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    ‘It’s all preventable’: tackling America’s workplace suicide epidemic

    US suicide rate is among the highest in wealthy countries and the pandemic highlighted work stress’s effect on mental health
  • FILE - Michelle Eisen, a barista at the Buffalo, N.Y., Elmwood Starbucks location, helps out the local Starbucks Workers United, employees of a local Starbucks, as they gather at a local union hall to cast votes to unionize or not, on Feb. 16, 2022, in Mesa, Ariz. Federal labor officials filed a sweeping complaint Friday, May 6, 2022 accusing Starbucks of unfair labor practices at its stores in Buffalo, New York, including retaliation against pro-union employees.(AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin, File)

    Revealed: Starbucks fired over 20 US union leaders in recent months

    Workers at the coffee chain have filed petitions for union elections at more than 250 stores, but chief Howard Schultz publicly opposes the movement
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