Some doormen say it started as long as six years ago. Others say the surge started more recently. But they all say the volume of packages delivered to their buildings during the holidays has ballooned in recent years, bringing the rush of a mailroom to their once-peaceful front desks.

A male Craigslist poster in Pittsburgh is looking for someone to attend Harvard University in his stead.

That midafternoon ennui that takes over most days isn't a sign that you are lazy or unmotivated; it just proves that you are normal. According to recent research, most people in creative or professional jobs can only churn out about six (worthy) hours worth of quality work a day; the rest is what it feels like — dithering.

People's lives would be more fulfilling if they were given greater freedom in the workplace

The founder of the New York City-based custom closet design company Clos-ette, Melanie Charlton, 37, does a lot of yoga and dance, but says she has had some of her best workout results sitting down.

A look at SpaceX's "open positions" page shows the company needs people in all types of positions, with a focus on its Dragon craft.

In a post on its employee website, McDonald’s gave some particularly tone-deaf holiday tipping advice to its employees, suggesting what they might give to an au pair or a pool cleaner as a holiday bonus.

In the United States we are raised to appreciate the accomplishments of inventors and thinkers—creative people whose ideas have transformed our world. We celebrate the famously imaginative, the greatest artists and innovators from Van Gogh to Steve Jobs. Viewing the world creatively is supposed to be an asset, even a virtue. Online job boards burst with ads recruiting “idea people” and “out of the box” thinkers.

Vatican City newspaper L’Osservatore Romano reports that Pope Francis, the Fellini-downloading, couch-surfing, gay-accepting, capitalism-hating holy hipster, once worked as a nightclub bouncer. At this point, it would have been more surprising news if L’Osservatore Romano reported that Pope Francis had not ever worked as a nightclub bouncer.

When government pays for something, it gets more of it. For the past five years, Congress has been pushing “emergency” subsidies for long-term unemployment, and, not surprisingly, we’ve been getting more joblessness — a fact some have been working overtime to conceal.

Last month, a blog post by Sam Cookney captured the imagination of anyone who pays a little too much money for the convenience of living near work. He reasoned that, for the same price he paid for his one-bedroom London flat, he could live in a three-bedroom flat near the beach in Barcelona and fly to work in London four days a week. And he'd still have 387 Euros left over at the end of the month.

Sure, everyone loves monkeys. But few test that love like Jake Owens. An environmental science Ph.D. candidate at Drexel University, Owens studies the ecology and behavior of drill monkeys. Typically, that involves trips to places like Bioko, an island off Africa’s western coast, where he crawls through snake-infested vegetation to collect monkey dung.

A 21-year-old London intern who was found dead in a shower after working for 72 hours in a row died of an epileptic seizure, an inquest has found.

What happens when Big Data meets human resources? The emerging practice of "people analytics" is already transforming how employers hire, fire, and promote.

A curious thing has happened in the tech world. In an industry that has long been considered a boys club, suddenly firms are hiring more women than men. Over the last 12 months, the tech industry added 60,000 jobs, and 36,000 - or 60% - of those positions went to women, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

On a cold October morning, just after the federal government shutdown came to an end, Jenner Barrington-Ward headed into court in Boston to declare bankruptcy.

a breakdown of the current and future outlook for STEM jobs. Bright futures for qualified STEM workers predicted.

Struggling BlackBerry is sparing no expense for new CEO John Chen, bestowing upon him a compensation package currently worth $88 million.

With Italy’s unemployment at an all-time high of 12.5% and youth unemployment at a dismal 40.4%, young Italians might well think that now would be a good time to go back to school. They might well be wrong. A college or advanced degree may actually put young Italians at a higher risk of unemployment, according to economic data gathered by the European Union’s statistical agency, Eurostat.

Luis Rivera had some peace of mind for about five months, from late fall of 2010 through early spring of the following year. That’s the closest thing he’s seen to financial stability in more than twenty years.