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WIRED

The perfect number of hours to work every day? Five

Research shows that five work hours a day can improve productivity and bolster wellbeing. There’s only one thing …

The Atlantic

Americans Are Pretty Skeptical That Hard Work Will Pay Off

Moving up the economic ladder relies on more than self-motivation; it also requires opportunity.

The Mainichi

Japan gov't backs 4-day workweek, but experts split

Japan’s government plans to encourage firms to let their employees choose to work four days a week instead of five, …

The Atlantic

Kill The 5-Day Workweek

Reducing hours without reducing pay would reignite an essential but long-forgotten moral project: making American life less …

The Washington Post

Retail workers are quitting at record rates for higher-paying work: 'My life isn't worth a dead-end job'

Some 649,000 employees gave notice in April, the sector’s largest one-month exodus in over 20 years, a reflection of …

The Wall Street Journal

Forget Going Back to the Office—People Are Just Quitting Instead

As the pandemic clouds lift, the percentage of Americans leaving employers for new opportunities is at its highest level in …

Insider Mag

Survey Shows People No Longer Believe Working Hard Will Lead To A Better Life

A growing sense of inequality is undermining trust in both society’s institutions and capitalism, according to a …

Axios

"Great resignation" wave coming for companies

Workers have had more than a year to reconsider work-life balance or career paths, and as the world opens back up, many of …

CNBC

U.S. workers are among the most stressed in the world, new Gallup report finds

U.S. workers are some of the most stressed employees in the world, according to Gallup’s latest State of the Global …

Bloomberg

Fewer Young Men Are in the Labor Force. More Are Living at Home

Are young men living at home because they’re not working? Or are they not working because they’re living at home? …

An Injustice!

We're All Paying for Someone Else's 4-Hour Work Week, Not Ours

Let’s get real about the actual prospects of making this plan work. We know some people pull it off. Everyone else? Not …

The Verge

Amazon's newest euphemism for overworked employees is 'industrial athlete'

Amazon tells its warehouse employees to think of themselves not as overworked cogs in an enormous, soul-crushing machine, but …

The Economist

Why are American workers becoming harder to find?

Labour shortages are rising even though unemployment remains high.

The Wall Street Journal

Why I Stopped Hiring Ivy League Graduates

I’m not inclined to hire a graduate from one of America’s elite universities. That marks a change. A decade ago I …

NPR

Overwork Killed More Than 745,000 People In A Year, WHO Study Finds

Working long hours poses an occupational health risk that kills hundreds of thousands of people each year, the World Health …

Harvard Business Review

Stop Sabotaging Your Workforce

Our great work-from-home (WFH) experiment can offer us an opportunity to revisit how we work and redesign it for the better.

The Economist

Why tech firms are trying to run away from politics—and failing

As other firms become more political, some Silicon Valley companies are heading in the opposite direction

BBC

Long working hours killing 745,000 people a year, study finds

The first global study of its kind showed 745,000 people died in 2016 from stroke and heart disease due to long hours.

The …

The Miscellaneous Stuff Blog

The Best Way to Deal with a Micromanaging Boss

When an employee is placed in a no-win scenario at work, he has few options. He can place the blame for failure on someone …

BBC

Why do we buy into the 'cult' of overwork?

Overwork culture is thriving; we think of long hours and constant exhaustion as a marker of success. Given what we know about …

Tribune

Workplace Wellbeing Is a Scam

As conditions at work deteriorate, the number of ’employee wellbeing schemes’ is on the rise – but no amount of …

Galaxy Brain

Executives don't decide if the company culture is good. Employees do.

In our reporting, we heard time and again that employees naturally shy away from being vulnerable around their employers. It …

Culture Study

The 'Capitalism is Broken' Economy

Stick with me here, but what if people weren’t lazy — and instead, for the first time in a long time, were able to say …

Sifted

Why you should put salaries on your job ads

Every single job description should show a salary or salary range — and there are no excuses.

When a company offers a …

The New York Times

Unemployment Is High. Why Are Businesses Struggling to Hire?

Health concerns, expanded jobless benefits and still being needed at home are among the reasons would-be workers might be …

Benji Weber

Don't hire top talent; hire for weaknesses.

Design your hiring process to find the right people to strengthen your teams’ weaknesses, rather than trying to find …

Harvard Business Review

To Build a Diverse Company for the Long Term, Develop Junior Talent

For employers to make meaningful progress, they need to focus less on hiring and more on creating the internal escalators …

PitchBook

From WFH to WF?: Data startups tackle office uncertainty

Companies face many unknowns as they contemplate a return to office work, but one clear theme is emerging: The post-pandemic …

Project Include

Covid-19 made tech's problems worse

Project Include surveyed almost 3,000 people and interviewed dozens more about the shift to remote online workplaces. We …