Workplace Culture
Stories about life at work: what you love about it, what you’d change about it and how it affects your life.
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When it pays to smoke with the boss
Dec 9, 2019
Male smokers who work for other male smokers get promoted faster, according to new research.
E-commerce continues to change the nature of seasonal work
Dec 2, 2019
There are fewer seasonal retail jobs, but hiring in warehousing and transportation have picked up the slack.
The mechanical time clock is itself clocking out
by
Jim Burress
Nov 29, 2019
Employees all across America once punched into work with Lathem time clocks. The company is now moving with the times.
Midland, Texas, had fastest growth in pay last year
Nov 20, 2019
It outperformed San Francisco, New York City and Los Angeles.
New Belgium sale brings end to employee ownership for craft beer maker
Nov 20, 2019
Only about 6,000 companies in the United States are owned by their workers.
Holiday hiring is up despite economic uncertainties
Nov 15, 2019
But striking the right balance to meet demand is tricky this year.
More and more workers are taking advantage of informal activism
Nov 8, 2019
What's happening at WeWork is the latest example of informal organizing by workers.
For public good, not for profit.
Worker productivity declined for first time in four years
Nov 6, 2019
No, it's not because of social media or politics.
There's growing support for a new way of collectively bargaining
Nov 1, 2019
Several Democratic presidential candidates are pushing for sectoral bargaining, in which whole industries are unionized instead of a single company.
The demise of the power suit
by
Bennett Purser
and Kai Ryssdal
Oct 31, 2019
Business casual reigns supreme in most workplaces, but for how long?