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Flunkies, goons and managerial feudalism: why David Graeber’s Bullshit Jobs is the book that keeps on giving
In 2013, anthropologist David Graeber wrote an article for an obscure, left-wing magazine. It spawned a book – and a turn of phrase – that became a cultural phenomenon.
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I've made thousands of dollars writing trivia questions as a side gig. It helps me pay my rent and makes socializing so much easier.
Noah Sheidlower has made thousands by writing and editing trivia questions for school competitions. He believes it has helped him become a better reporter.
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Walk in Interview in Dubai Today & Tomorrow UAE (SEP 2023)
Get the latest Walk in interview in Dubai, Abu Dhabi, & across UAE for freshers & experienced. Here is the list of walk-in interviews available today & tomorrow!
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The Great Resignation is 'over'. What does that mean?
A years-long period of record-high quits rocked the workforce in ways we couldn't have imagined. But the mass exodus is done, say experts.
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Ex-Google employee reveals one major mistake candidates make in writing a resume
The former recruiter from Google believes you should enlist the help of five to ten people in your network to review and edit your resume.
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Meta is one of the most brutal tech job-choppers so far, axing about a quarter of employees
Meta has laid off nearly a quarter of all employees since November. This ranks it second in a list of major tech firms who cut the most jobs
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The real reason bosses are freaked out by remote work
Why are so many CEOs ordering everyone back to the office? Because they think offices are "hardcore" and working from home is "soft."
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Unemployment in Mexico reaches historic low
Mexico’s unemployment rate hit a historic low of 2.7% in February, according to figures published today by the National Institute of Statistics and Geography (INEGI). The INEGI’s National Employment and Occupation Survey (ENOE) shows that unemployment in February was a full percentage point lower than the same month in 2022, and 0.1% lower than in January this year.
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A Large Four-Day Workweek Trial Has Been Declared A Huge Success
You’ve probably heard about school districts that are moving to four-day school weeks, but did you realize there are studies out there trying to see whether or not the model might be beneficial for companies and workers, too?
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California Proposes Bill to Protect Contract Workers from Sudden Layoffs
Assembly Member Matt Haney, D-San Francisco, has proposed a bill that would extend the Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act (WARN) to cover contract workers, increase the required notice period for layoffs to 90 days, and ban companies from requiring terminated workers to sign non-disclosure or non-disparagement agreements as a condition of receiving WARN Act notice or pay.
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Tech Giants Are Building a Dystopia of Desperate Workers and Social Isolation
Tech companies like Amazon and Uber are creating a society divided between the served and their servants, where the “friction” of in-person interaction is eliminated. That friction is the stuff of social connection — a world without it is nightmarish.
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Elon Musk's Twitter ordered by officials to properly label bedrooms in San Francisco HQ as sleeping areas — or convert them back to offices within 15 days
San Francisco officials ordered Twitter to restore its bedrooms back to offices in 15 days if it doesn't label them as sleeping areas, per a notice.
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The US should break up monopolies – not punish working Americans for rising prices | Robert Reich
The Fed is putting people out of work to reduce workers’ bargaining power and reduce inflation. They’ve got it all wrong
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The workers getting 100% pay for 80% of the hours
Thousands of UK workers are starting a four-day week trial from Monday. About 70 companies are taking part in what is thought to be the world's biggest pilot scheme into the working pattern over the next six months. The experiment has been organised by a group campaigning for a shorter working week, but for no loss in wages.
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Higher testosterone levels reduce men's risk of becoming or staying unemployed, study finds
New research provides evidence that higher testosterone levels reduce the risk of unemployment and increase the odds of landing a job. The findings, which appear in the journal Economics & Human Biology, suggest that testosterone levels in men are related to behaviors and cognitive processes that influence labor market transitions.
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Apple's Director of Machine Learning exits over return-to-office policy
Apple's director of machine learning, Ian Goodfellow, has resigned from the company after three years, in part due to the iPhone maker's policies about returning to work in offices.
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US jobs rise again as firms raise wages to woo staff
US employers added 431,000 jobs last month as the American economy continued to rebound from the shock of the coronavirus pandemic. The figures from the Labor Department marked the 15th month in a row of job gains and helped to push the unemployment rate down to 3.6%. Bars, restaurants and hotels were among the businesses leading the hiring last month.
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Sen. Ron Johnson says it's not 'society's responsibility' to care for 'other people's children' while arguing against child care subsidies for working parents
Wisconsin Sen. Ron Johnson argued against government efforts to make child care cheaper for parents during a visit on Tuesday to Kwik Trip's headquarters in La Crosse. "People decide to have families and become parents. That's something they need to consider when they make that choice," Johnson told local Wisconsin TV station WKBT. "I've never really felt it was society's responsibility to take care of other people's children."
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Jobless claims plunge to their lowest level in 52 years
The number of Americans applying for unemployment benefits plummeted last week to the lowest level in more than half a century, with employers opting against layoffs amid a persistent shortage of workers. Jobless claims dropped by 71,000 to 199,000, the lowest since mid-November 1969, according to figures released by the Labor Department on Wednesday. The drop was much bigger than economists expected.
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Uber is looking at dispatching New York's yellow cabs from its app amid a driver shortage
Uber app users could see New York City's yellow cabs as another option alongside "UberX," which would be facilitated through TLC's "E-Hail" program.
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