Human Resources
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His boss wants him to keep meeting with clients, but without pay
Aug 23, 2020 6:00 am - Q: Early in March, my husband was laid off because of the coronavirus pandemic. The owner of the company told laid-off employees he would pay them their equivalent hourl...
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Grocery workers say morale at all-time low: 'They don't even treat us like humans anymore'
Aug 16, 2020 6:20 am - This spring, for the first time, Angel Manners found purpose and pride at the supermarket where she has worked the past decade. Customers praised her as a hero for putti...
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With official systems swamped, union gets into contact tracing
Aug 16, 2020 6:16 am - The United Food and Commercial Workers International Union is stepping in where the government has failed, running its own coronavirus contact-tracing program for 1.3 mi...
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Black women's natural hair may hinder job prospects, study finds
Aug 16, 2020 6:10 am - Black women wearing natural hair styles are often seen as less professional than those who straighten their hair, a new study finds. The research, forthcoming in Social ...
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Interns find creative ways to impress bosses on Zoom
Aug 15, 2020 6:19 am - It's tough enough for interns and young employees to make an impression on their Wall Street bosses during the best of times. Try projecting an aura of future indispensa...
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For Uber, the 'stall game' averts a reckoning over driver pay
Aug 15, 2020 6:13 am - Uber Technologies Chief Executive Officer Dara Khosrowshahi's warning that the company may have to temporarily shut down in California is textbook strategy for the ride-...
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Your future workplace: A network of offices and teamsAug 13, 2020 1:00 am - The workplace's largest global experiment due to the global pandemic has amplified two trends: Remote work and collaborating in distributed teams. These trends change ou...
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The day the schools don't reopen: A workplace perspectiveAug 13, 2020 1:00 am - I wrote an article this spring about the stresses of being a CEO, contrasting the elaborate lifestyles featured on television with the reality of making decisions every ...
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You are only as strong as your weakest linkAug 13, 2020 1:00 am - The FBI reported $3.5 billion business losses in 2019 due to cybercrime. Actual losses are estimated to far exceed what was reported. It is much less expensive to preven...
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Analysis: The value of my $150,000 MBA is now in question
Aug 12, 2020 1:00 am - When I decided a few years ago to spend $150,000 on an MBA while a reporter at Bloomberg, I had an ambitious goal: be the best financial reporter the world has ever seen...