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Bettman / Getty; The Atlantic Where Did 7 Million Workers Go?
The U.S. economy is booming, but there’s a mysterious hole in the labor force.
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Tom Sibley / Getty The Great Resignation Is Accelerating
A lasting effect of this pandemic will be a revolution in worker expectations.
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The Atlantic What Slack Does for Women
For years, women have had to control their voice, posture, and demeanor in the workplace. With Slack, we don’t have to worry about any of that.
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Matt Chase Hard Work Isn’t the Point of the Office
The pandemic disrupted soft work—the gossip, eavesdropping, and casual relationship-building that aren’t a formal part of your job.
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Mara Truog / 13 Photo / Redux Another Truth About Remote Work
A misconception about the prevalence of working from home explains a lot about confirmation bias in America.
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Lars Tunbjörk / Agence VU / Redux Say Goodbye to Your Manager
The pandemic has exposed a fundamental weakness in the system.
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Eli Reed / Magnum The Pandemic Is Making Dads Reevaluate Their Work-Life Balance
The past year and a half has been exhausting and stressful for parents. It also, unexpectedly, gave many fathers more of the family time they want.
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Adam Maida / The Atlantic The Remote Work–Fertility Connection
It’s easier for parents whose jobs can be done remotely to juggle work and child care. This digital divide is starting to shape who chooses to have kids.
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Lars Tunbjörk / Agence VU / Redux Why Managers Fear a Remote-Work Future
Like it or not, the way we work has already evolved.
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The Atlantic Companies Want Remote Workers in All States but 1
Businesses such as Nike and Oracle are happy to let you work from home—just not in Colorado.
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Getty; The Atlantic What It Means That Kickstarter Is Trying a 4-Day Workweek
The experiment will be a valuable test of the theory that a shorter schedule can be good, or at least neutral, for businesses’ bottom line.
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Mike Blake / Reuters AI Is Coming for Your Favorite Menial Tasks
As AI gets better at performing routine tasks traditionally done by humans, only stressful ones will be left. The work experience could suffer.
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W. W. Norton The Forgotten Everyday Origins of ‘Craft’
A new book explores the fascinating medieval history of a word whose current meaning has little to do with skill or labor.
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Jessica Hill / AP One Way to Ensure Equal Pay for Men and Women
The private sector doesn’t compensate women fairly. Can it learn anything from the federal hiring process?
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Mike Segar / Reuters The Unionizing of Graduate Students
According to a new federal ruling, those who work as teaching or research assistants at private universities can now collectively bargain.
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Jeff Chiu / AP A Conservative Push for Paid Family Leave
Breaking with Republican orthodoxy, a right-leaning think tank has proposed new federal benefits for the working poor when they take time off to care for a newborn or manage an illness.
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KieferPix / Shutterstock / Zak Bickel / The … How Can the U.S. Make Life Less Draining for Workers?
The problem isn’t so much not having it all, but having way too much.
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Brendan McDermid / Reuters Is McDonald's Responsible for Its Franchise Workers?
A court case in New York City between McDonald’s and its workers could change the way employees negotiate their pay.
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Paid Sick Leave Gets Another Boost
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Charlie Riedel / AP A 2015 Labor Day Reading List
A roundup of recent stories on the changing nature of work in America
