American businesses have found themselves as a crossroads. One path prioritizes profitability for shareholders, oftentimes at the expense of the natural environment, workers' rights and even executive wellness. The other track, which a growing number of companies are beginning to follow, evaluate... (Read More)

Recent studies indicate that breastfeeding moms aren’t getting the accommodation they need at work—although there's something they can do about it. Pumping milk at work is one of the worst indignities of new motherhood. The woman is hiding away in some tiny windowless closet, breasts out,... (Read More)

What do changes to workers compensation mean for injured workers? Last week ProPublica and NPR released the second extensive report in their investigative series on the dismantling of the American Workers Compensation system. As they explain, corporate lawyers like Bill Minick in Dallas have li... (Read More)

Thanks a lot, technology. The most frightening part of the automated workplace isn’t necessarily that robots are coming to steal our jobs -- it's that robots are coming to measure our jobs. In the 2015 edition of MIT Technology Review's Future of Work report, economist Tyler Cowen analyzes... (Read More)

A recent submission to “Workaholic,” the New York Times career advice blog, highlighted a dilemma that may be familiar to many pregnant workers out there. The anonymous advice-seeker asked the following: “Last December, I applied for a position at a big technology firm. The description indica... (Read More)

. “Ask for what you want.” This job advice is so rarely acted upon that it deserves endless repeating: “Tell people what you want, and then go out and get it,” said Eileen McDonnell, the CEO of Fortune 1000 insurance firm Penn Mutual. In a recent interview, McDonnell shared how surprised she... (Read More)

Washington state’s Department of Labor and Industries has fined the retailer Target $21,000 following a worker’s death after a ladder accident at a Lake Stevens Target in June. L&I cited the store for three serious workplace safety violations, according to findings published on Monday. Each ... (Read More)

Our jobs shouldn’t suck the life out of us. So in the current trend toward enhanced worker wellness, we’ve seen the spread of standing desks, office meditation sessions and healthy snacks in our places of employment. But those measures are just the first step. Recently corporate research firm ... (Read More)

August would traditionally be high season for vacationers, but fewer and fewer of us are doing that these days; in fact, according to data reported in The New York Times earlier this year, Americans are taking less time off than at any point in the past 50 years. And this isn’t just because we... (Read More)

We all know there are certain questions a job interviewer cannot ask you: religious affiliation, marital status, sexual orientation, whether you have kids, etc. But it seems that many employers get around that these days by simply snooping through your social media. In fact, applicants report an ... (Read More)