The 1960s cartoon The Jetsons got three things about the future very wrong: the place of women in the workforce, how much we will work, and where we work.
Workers at Amazon fulfilment centres are under enormous pressure.
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While ChatGPT has the potential to enhance marketing effectiveness, it can’t replace human creativity or form meaningful connections with customers like humans can.
Could AI be your next colleague – or replacement?
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Now that AI systems can generate realistic images and convincing prose, are creative and knowledge workers endangered or poised for productivity gains? A panel of experts says it’s not so clear-cut.
With a greater reliance on remote workers, how can people forge good relationships at work?
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Hybrid and remote-heavy work setups have fundamentally changed how people interact at ‘the office.’ What do workers and managers want out of the workplace now?
A rally for Uber and Lyft drivers in 2019 reflects desire for workers to have same benefits as employees.
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What a ‘gig worker’ is remains ill-defined, which can suit employers. But the spread of the gig economy means more workers don’t have the same rights and protections as employees.
U.S. universities now have over 3,000 sustainability programs.
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Green jobs go beyond solar panel installation and wind turbine maintenance. They’re found in fields from design to economics and in many types of management.
The aging of the U.S. workforce is further along for librarians than most other professions.
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Employers need good strategies to hire and retain more workers of color and older workers. The mandatory diversity training and requisite skills tests many of them now rely on don’t measure up.
Coffee shops can be a “third space” – not home or the office – where remote or gig workers can go to feel less isolated.
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Gig workers navigate the challenges of solo work by seeking out relationships and cultivating skills to cope with emotional turbulence
Workers take on side hustles not just for the money, but also to compensate for limited control in their traditional jobs.
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‘Career portfolioing’ is a trend where people assemble different sources of income, such as side gigs, to give them a measure of independence from employers who provide little job security.
Is a food courier who owns one scooter a worker?
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Innovation in the digital space is not necessarily working for people in the global south.
Amazon has historically opposed trade union recognition by engaging in union suppression practices, like resisting trade union recognition through coercion.
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Amazon can become the Earth’s best employer, but this must involve democratizing the workplace, recognizing the legitimate right of employees to organize and cooperating with labour representatives.
The pandemic and the aging population are both partially responsible for the current labour shortage.
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An increasing number of workers are demanding a more human-centric work environment, with space to express trust and vulnerability.
A recent study suggests that organizations can lessen the negative effects of the pandemic by implementing key support measures to make employees feel more committed and content in their jobs.
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Organizations can reduce some of the negative effects of the COVID-19 pandemic. Providing customizable support measures can improve employees’ work commitment and well-being.