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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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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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Should Doctors Work for Hospitals?
Hospitals are buying up medical practices at a feverish pace. According to data from the American Hospital Association, the number of physicians employed by hospitals grew by 34 percent between 2000 and 2010, and the pace shows no signs of slackening. In reviewing its data for the past decade, a large physician recruiting firm found that in 2004 only 11 percent of physician searches were conducted by hospitals, but by 2013 that figure had risen to 63 percent.
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Record number of working-age men are not working
More than 10 million working-age men are not working, and the majority of them are not looking for work, according to a congressional analysis of Labor Department statistics that provides context for the decreasing official unemployment rate. The number of men out of the labor force is higher than it has ever been since records began being kept in 1955.
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If TaskRabbit Is the Future of Employment, the Employed Are Fucked
The employment of the future is here, and it's terrific for everyone except the people doing the work. TaskRabbit, which lets you outsource the things you don't want to do to people who need money, is at the forefront of this chore revolution, and it's already making some lives harder.
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Bolivia's child labour law shames us all
Aidan McQuade: Children aged just 10 are now permitted to work – why do we keep denying children their right to a childhood?
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Think you’re better off with a lump sum over a monthly pension? Think again.
NCR Corp. Lockheed Martin and packaging firm RockTenn are among the growing number of employers who in recent years have hit tens of thousands of their workers and retirees with an enticing offer: to accept lump sum payouts, often well into six figures, in lieu of monthly pension payments.
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Experts fret Canada becoming a ‘nation of part-time workers’
The revised employment figures for July from Statistics Canada provided some relief to experts on Friday, showing the economy added far more jobs than the federal agency had originally stated.
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Average full-time workweek is 47 hours, Gallup says
Full-time American workers labor the equivalent of nearly an additional day each week, averaging 47 hours instead of the standard 40, according to Gallup poll results released Friday.
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Bonuses Are the New Raises
Payrolls are rising, but there are strings attached. A new survey from human-resources services firm Aon Hewitt found that companies are spending a record share of their payroll on performance-based bonuses, signaling a shift away from longer-term salary increases.
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Civil disobedience expected in fast-food pay fight
McDonald's, Wendy's and other fast-food restaurants are expected to be targeted with acts of civil disobedience that could lead to arrests Thursday as labor organizers escalate their campaign to unionize the industry's workers. Kendall Fells, an organizing director for Fast Food Forward, said workers in a couple of dozen cities were trained to peacefully engage in civil disobedience ahead of this week's planned protests.
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Legal Use of Marijuana Clashes With Job Rules
Brandon Coats knew he was going to fail his drug test. Paralyzed in a car crash when he was 16, he had been using medical marijuana since 2009 to relieve the painful spasms that jolted his body. But he smoked mostly at night, and said marijuana had never hurt his performance answering customer calls for a Colorado satellite-television provider.
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Starbucks may lift workers' visible tattoo ban
One employee — who has had to hide her tattoos while working at Starbucks for years — says she hopes she won't have to hide them much longer.
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Modern-day slavery rife in Malaysia’s electronics industry
One-third of migrant workers in the Malaysian electronics industry, which produces goods for some of the world’s best-known brands, are trapped in forced labour, a form of modern-day slavery, according to new research.
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Microsoft Lays Off 2,100 Employees
The next round of Microsoft layoffs is here. Microsoft is cutting another 2,100 positions on Thursday as part of a previously announced staff reduction plan. The layoffs were first reported by ZDNet and confirmed to Mashable by a source close to the company.
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Microsoft, frustrated as ever with H-1B policy, considers options
A two-day conference on high-skilled immigration policy, which attracted researchers from the U.S. and Europe, offered Microsoft an opportunity to voice frustration over U.S. immigration policy.
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China's Funemployed Grads "Gnaw On the Old"
They don't want to work in factories or farms, but at the same time, the white-collar lifestyle remains far out of reach. For the 7.27 million Chinese students who graduated from college last year -- a number roughly 2.5 times the U.S. figure - the job market can be brutal: low salaries, long hours and the knowledge that there are millions of other people just waiting to replace you.
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If You Have Unlimited Vacation, Will You Take It?
Last week, the Virgin Group founder Richard Branson announced he’d be giving his employees unlimited time off — and in so doing, incited a debate about whether they’d actually feel they could take it.
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U.S. Supreme Court agrees to hear Amazon workers' security check case
The U.S. Supreme Court agreed on Monday to hear a case that could determine whether companies such as Amazon.com Inc (AMZN.O) must pay workers for the time they spend waiting to clear security checks at the end of their work shifts.
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Foxconn Workers Walk Off Job at Chinese Plant
About 1,000 workers at a Foxconn Technology Co. 2354.TW -0.13% plant in southwest China assembling printers and computers for companies including Hewlett-Packard Co. HPQ -1.69% went on strike for several hours this week demanding higher pay.
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