American-style retirement homes are ever-so-slowly catching on in India, where norms have long held that elderly parents will be cared for by their adult children.
On the day we moved my mother into an assisted-living facility, the only reason I was able to tell her that she would see her home again was because I honestly believed it.
“Listen. Ninety-three, eighty-six, seventy-nine….”
In a landmark decision, a court in France has sentenced the former CEO of the French telecom Orange to four months in jail, over corporate downsizing methods used at the company in the 2000s that have been linked to 19 employee suicides and a widespread mental health crisis among workers.
When Todd Bridgman makes small talk at parties, the question he dreads most is “What do you do?”
Baby Yoda, the breakout star of the new Star Wars live action series The Mandalorian, is suddenly everywhere—by which we mean in every social media feed.
One Canadian province’s ban on hijabs is another’s opportunity.
Were you to write a dystopian novel about a nation or state that takes abortion law to absurd extremes, you might just conjure up politicians who refer to the crime of “abortion murder,” the punishment for which is imprisonment.
Is there something joyless about creating a gift guide themed around life at work, as opposed to leisure?
English speakers have been deprived of a truly functional, second person plural pronoun since we let “ye” fade away a few hundred years ago.
What keeps someone happy at work for the long haul?
Quitting a job you love can be heartbreaking.
McDonald’s CEO Steve Easterbrook has been kicked to the curb, following revelations that he had a consensual affair with an employee. The company chief had demonstrated poor judgment, McDonald’s said in a statement explaining the news, which the Wall Street Journal first reported yesterday (Nov. 3).
Esther Perel, the couples therapist, author, and Ted Talk favorite, has an unmatched ability to distill her observations about relationships into principles and axioms.
Lately, a number of US politicians, but especially Democratic presidential hopefuls, have been offering promises of loan forgiveness, interest-rate caps, and tax-code changes, all designed to reform a broken system of educational finance—and to no doubt appeal to more than 43 million people who hold America’s $1.6 trillion in student loan debt.
We all have a story about the time a doctor was cold and aloof during a sensitive, perhaps even life-altering exchange. My example: A few years ago, when I accompanied my elderly mother to an appointment, I witnessed the doctor interrupting her, with mild annoyance, as she described her distressing symptoms. “We’ve been through this before,” the doctor said. “It’s Alzheimer’s.” She uttered these words as though she were reading a weather forecast.
There’s no denying it. What the author Carl Honoré calls the “grim downbeat narrative” about aging that permeates most cultures is also alive in the workplace. We’re prone to believe, erroneously, that only the young are creative and agile in the their thinking, while the old (or merely older) risk being labeled “dead wood.”
We stand at a hazy junction in cannabis business history.
Yesterday, Apple CEO Tim Cook won accolades for making a public and political issue personal.
For fans of Succession, the Emmy-nominated HBO drama about a powerful media family, Sunday nights can’t come soon enough.
Early yesterday morning in Seattle, Roshni Naidu’s phone began blowing up with incoming text messages.
Nearly 50,000 unionized workers at General Motors in the US went on strike this weekend in a bid to win better pay, caps on healthcare costs, and job security, among other basic demands.
Employee activism is coming for Jeff Bezos.
