Tag: Labor and Jobs
Google Invests in Skills Training Program for Low-Income Workers
The job programs, Year Up and Merit America, will receive grants to train students in technical skills with…
Do You Know Who That Worker You Just Hired Really Is?
Employers are also facing a moment in which collective angst is driving all kinds of unusual misbehavior. That’s…
Tech Companies Face a Fresh Crisis: Hiring
Jana Rich, founder and chief executive of Rich Talent Group, a firm that primarily recruits executives to companies…
Japan’s Unions ‘Are Built Around Men.’ Can a Female Leader Change That?
TOKYO — Women have never found a welcoming home in Japan’s labor unions. Sexism is entrenched. Problems like…
Work Burnout: How to Spot Symptoms and What to Do
Changes in eating habits — either eating more or less than usual — can also be a sign…
Making ‘Dinobabies’ Extinct: IBM’s Push for a Younger Work Force
In 2020, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission released a summary of an investigation into these practices at IBM,…
Far From the Big City, New Economic Life
Research by Rebecca Diamond, an economist at Stanford University, and Enrico Moretti, an economist at the University of…
Business Booms at Kroger-Owned Grocery Stores, but Workers Are Left Behind
When Enrique Romero Jr. finishes his shift fulfilling online orders at a Fred Meyer grocery store in Bellingham,…
The Real Reason America Doesn’t Have Enough Truck Drivers
Every truck stop is like a shrine seeking to ward off the demons of fatigue. Refrigerated display cabinets…
Biden Adopts Recommendations for Promoting Union Membership
The White House on Monday released a report outlining several dozen steps it intends to take to promote…
Turkey’s Doctors Are Leaving, the Latest Casualty of Spiraling Inflation
ISTANBUL — Anxiety rose after an assistant doctor died last fall when she plowed her car into the…
January 2022 Jobs Report: Strong Gains Show Resilient Economy
A record-setting spike in coronavirus cases kept millions of workers at home in January and disrupted businesses from…