Today is Equal Pay Day in the US, an opportunity for activists and research groups to raise awareness about the country’s well-documented gender pay gap, and a reminder that half a century since the women’s movement first brought attention to the problem, American women, on average, still don’t earn equal pay for equal work.
Kenji López-Alt did not intend to become a semi-celebrity when he began writing The Food Lab, his column on the science of cooking, several years ago. Nevertheless, he quickly gained a following, a book deal, and, a more recently, an invitation to co-open a restaurant in San Mateo, California.
Here’s a statistic that wouldn’t surprise many of your colleagues: 49% of US workers are living paycheck to paycheck, according to this year’s MetLife survey on trends in employee benefits.
The quest to keep employees happy has spurred some employers to take a fast-fashion approach to perks, making cupcakes, or kombucha, or onsite CrossFit classes a must-have for some time—until the next big extraordinary benefit arrives.
A coalition of activists, linguists, ad makers, and sound engineers has created what it claims is the first genderless AI voice for virtual assistants, and is asking for the public to help get the word out.
In a perfect world, the exit interview is an opportunity for employees to be brutally honest about why they’re leaving a company, whether the motivation is connected to the employer’s shortcomings, and if the departure could have been prevented.
You might expect some fresh energy in the air this Saint Patrick’s Day: A record 230,000 people have applied for Irish passports since the beginning of the year, Ireland’s foreign ministry announced today (March 16). Some 5,000 more are expected to submit claims online this weekend alone.
The Mafia has not been spared from the gigificaton that has reshaped the larger economy.
Officials have not yet released the names of the 49 people who were killed in a terror attack at two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand, on Friday (March 15). But heartbroken friends and family of those reported missing are sharing images and stories of the loved ones they lost.
Large tech companies like Apple or Google are widely perceived as being great places to work. They offer competitive salaries and perks like beer bashes and on-site haircuts. But for many employees, especially once they have children, the most valuable benefits are those that help them juggle the demands of a full-time career with the needs of their family—and that includes support on days when childcare plans inevitably fall through.
Since December, three fashion labels have been called out for producing offensive products evoking racist tropes. First Prada had to recall keychains that resembled a Sambo figure, then Gucci and Katy Perry had to pull contentious sweaters and shoes, respectively, that conjured images of blackface.
When Oprah Winfrey is asked about epiphanies and turning points in her life, she often tells the story of a The Oprah Winfrey Show episode in 1986, when she invited skinheads and Ku Klux Klan members onto her nationally syndicated, top-rated TV program.
At a conference in Salt Lake City, during a talk about personal breakthroughs, Oprah Winfrey took a detour to touch on one by her longtime friend, television journalist Gayle King.
When he left the White House two years ago, Barack Obama found that life in the civilian world moved slowly, “a little bit like The Matrix, where at the end, Neo slowed down the bullets,” he said in Salt Lake City on March 6 at the 2019 Qualtrics X4 Experience Management Summit.
Richard Branson, the British founder of Virgin Group, has a low opinion of time-off practices at American companies.
Seth Meyers, the host of NBC’s Late Night With Seth Meyers and a Saturday Night Live alum, manages his staff of writers with a rare kind of generosity when it comes to their side gigs.
Few people pursue a personal ambition quietly anymore.
Presidential daughter Ivanka Trump gave a lot of people a good laugh this week when she appeared on Fox News and criticized the Green New Deal proposed by Democratic congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez because it includes support for basic income programs.
When the history of the #MeToo movement is written, there will no doubt be a section devoted to The Emma Thompson Letter.
The days when the IT department floated, satellite-like, in the orbit of a company’s core functions, are over.
One of the many gifts bestowed by RBG , the Oscar-nominated documentary about the life of US Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, is its invitation to consider the typically bitter topic of housework in coupledom through the lens of a sweet love story. Sadly, the Ginsburgs, who broke the mold in the middle of the last century, would arguably still be outliers in 2019.
Four years ago, a cheeky survey of workplace attitudes asked more than 2,000 Americans whether they’d prefer to attend an office status meeting or run an dreaded errand like going to the Department of Motor Vehicles to renew a driver’s license, watching paint dry, or getting a root canal.
“Hipster jobs” is not yet an official occupational category at the Bureau of Labor Statistics, but that doesn’t mean the grouping does not exist. Hipsters, in their current Brooklyn-born, globally adopted iteration, have been around for a couple of decades, growing seemingly exponentially. And though it may be a generalization, their tastes have arguably created a market for specific jobs in the craft economy—say designing jewelry, tattoos, or clothes—and in niche food services, making pour-over coffees, craft beer, and vegan faux-treats, like fōnuts.
Activision Blizzard, the Santa Monica, California-based video-game maker, announced on an earnings call yesterday (Feb 12) that it would lay off 775 people, or 8% of its workforce. At the same time, CEO Bobby Kotick reported record sales figures for the fourth quarter and 2018.
