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US work & careers

July 2024

  • Happy smiley face helium yellow balloons for happiness feature in Observer New Review

    Why are 91% of small business owners so darned happy?

  • a man takes a business call on his laptop at home

    ‘The new normal’: work from home is here to stay, US data shows

June 2024

  • A composite of two side-by-side images. On the left is a middle-aged white woman with blond hair and bangs, with sepia aviator glasses and bright red lips, resting her chin on two fingers as she looks at the camera; background is pink and overlay is a few green dots. On the right is a book cover, with a simple design of a green background and the title Ambition Monster and the name Jennifer Romolini in pink, with a abstract shape that looks like a blur in the middle.

    ‘Getting fired broke something in me’: how overachiever Jennifer Romolini gave up on ambition

    The author of Ambition Monster on ascending through the New York media world to blingy startups – and crashing to earth

May 2024

  • Keynote Speakers During Canva Create<br>The Canva Create event in Inglewood, California, US, on Thursday, May 23, 2024. Canvas platform has gained popularity among smaller companies and Gen Zs since its inception in 2013, and more recently sought to attract larger enterprise customers. Photographer: Alisha Jucevic/Bloomberg via Getty Images

    ‘A fine line between humor and flopping’: tech summit’s rap battle is the height of corporate cringe

  • Kristen Clarke<br>Assistant Attorney General Kristen Clarke for the Department of Justice's Civil Rights Division speaks during a news conference at the Department of Justice in Washington, Thursday, Aug. 4, 2022. The U.S. Justice Department announced civil rights charges Thursday against four Louisville police officers over the drug raid that led to the death of Breonna Taylor, a Black woman whose fatal shooting contributed to the racial justice protests that rocked the U.S. in the spring and summer of 2020. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

    US tech firm agrees to $38,000 in penalties after ‘whites only’ job ad

  • Money is exchanged at a food stand while workers wear face masks inside Grand Central Market on Wednesday, July 13, 2022, in Los Angeles. Falling gas prices gave Americans a slight break from the pain of high inflation last month, though the surge in overall prices slowed only modestly from the four-decade high it reached in June. And even as gas prices fall, inflation in services such as health care, rents and restaurant meals is accelerating. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez)

    ‘It breaks an employer’s control’: the tragic disappearance of the American lunch hour

  • Out of office …

    Pass notes
    Quiet vacationing: why workers are sneaking off on holiday without telling their boss

April 2024

  • Arwa Mahdawi

    Is Connor Hubbard the most boring man on the internet?

    Arwa Mahdawi
  • Federal Trade Commission<br>FILE - The Federal Trade Commission building is seen, Jan. 28, 2015, in Washington. U.S. companies would no longer be able to bar employees from taking jobs with competitors under a rule approved by the FTC on Tuesday, April 23, 2024, though the rule seems sure to be challenged in court. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)

    New US rule would ban employers from using ‘noncompete’ agreements

  • FILE - The Theodore Roosevelt Building, location of the U.S. Office of Personnel Management, on Feb. 13, 2024, in Washington. The government's chief human resources agency has issued a new rule making it harder to fire thousands of federal employees. Advocates hope the rule will head off former President Donald Trump's promises to radically remake the workforce along ideological lines if he wins back the White House in November. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein, File)

    New Biden rule aims to protect US federal employees if Trump is elected

  • man and woman in office meeting one on one

    ‘HR is not your friend’: why frustrated workers are hiring reps of their own

March 2024

  • White condolence card with text saying 'with deepest sympathy ... ' and white gladiolus flower on a dark background

    Death and typos: my six strange years screening online obituary comments

  • factory workers surrounded by boxes

    Help Wanted by Adelle Waldman review – acid comedy of precarity

February 2024

  • A calendar shows the month of February, including leap day, Feb. 29, on Friday, Feb. 23, 2024, in San Diego. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)

    Do you get paid extra for working on Leap Day?

    For most, 29 February is an ordinary working day – but depending on your pay structure, you could earn a bit more
  • The exterior of a one-story white building, seen from across a green lawn surrounded by a chain-link fence.

    Immigrant child laborers are being killed in US factories. Companies are walking away with fines

    Sawmills and slaughterhouses collect citations amid landscape of ‘underfunded and under-resourced’ regulators
  • A Snapchat logo

    Snap Inc cuts 530 employees, 10% of workforce, to boost in-person work

    California-based social media company will focus on ‘in-person collaboration’ after eliminating jobs multiple times in recent years

January 2024

  • FILE - The Bank of America logo is seen on a branch office, Oct. 14, 2022, in Boston. (AP Photo/Michael Dwyer, File)

    Bank of America sends warning letters to employees not going into offices

  • Gen Z Job interview awkwardness

    Gen Z struggles with job interviews. Can we really blame them?

December 2023

  • Adjunct professors and Columbia College Faculty Union members walk the picket line outside Columbia College Chicago.

    ‘If this was about money, we’d still be teaching’: inside the longest adjunct strike in US history

  • A Chipotle restaurant.

    After a viral Chipotle incident, she was sentenced to fast-food work. Now she just wants to move on

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