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The Verge’s favorite desktop accessories
No desk should be lonely — here are some of the devices that crowd our workspaces.
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The office is dead
Forget the ongoing debate about remote work or hybrid workplaces. It's time to proclaim: "Long live working from home."
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Co-working spaces limit creativity in the long run, finds new study
Co-working spaces can limit the creativity and innovation of new businesses, a study has found.
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A hundred UK companies sign up for four-day week with no loss of pay
A hundred UK companies have signed up for a permanent four-day working week for all their employees with no loss of pay, a milestone in the campaign to fundamentally change Britain’s approach to work. The 100 companies employ 2,600 staff – a tiny fraction of the UK’s working population – but the 4 Day Week Campaign group is hoping they will be the vanguard of a major shift.
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How the world's biggest four-day workweek trial run changed people's lives
Workers are fed up. More than two years into the pandemic, many have burned out, quit their jobs or are struggling to make ends meet as record inflation takes a huge bite out of their paychecks.
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The Value of Tech Work Culture
Following the great resignation, HackerEarth set out to find ways of assuaging attrition, and the answer was clear from the start: building a strong tech work culture. In this guide, we compile our most impactful findings and learnings over the last year or so, with the goal of helping organizations everywhere make their workplace more conducive to productivity and job satisfaction.
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Spain becomes the first in Europe to pitch paid 'menstrual leave'
Spain's government has greenlit plans to allow women to take unlimited paid "menstrual leave" from work, in a European first. The proposal endorsed by ministers on Tuesday is part of a broader package on reproductive rights that includes allowing teenagers to seek an abortion from the age of 16without the need to get their parent or guardian's consent.
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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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Career Choices: How to Find Work in the Remote Economy [Infographics]
Choices are sometimes conscious decisions and other times circumstances force change. Regardless of which it is for you, you do have choices! Many previously could not imagine choosing not to commute. Where they live most may live in one area and commute to another so it never occurred to them there are options. But you can, by making a conscious choice about your career.
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Amazon Workers at Three Delivery Stations Just Staged a Walkout
Last week, workers at three of Amazon’s last-mile delivery centers in New York and Maryland walked off the job to demand better pay and working conditions. It's the latest action by Amazonians United, a group organizing Amazon workers across the US and Canada.
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Boss not giving you a raise this year? With inflation this high, it could be time to quit
Inflation has risen to its highest point in a generation, pushing up the price of just about everything. But that goes for people's labour, too, as employers compete to keep up with their staffing needs.
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The elaborate con that tricked dozens into working for a fake design agency
Dozens of young people were tricked into thinking they were working for a glamorous UK design agency - which didn’t really exist.
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It's no longer about the virus — remote workers simply don't want to return to the office
Although businesses haven't really reduced office space in the pandemic and some companies may be expecting workers to return soon, plenty of employees have become hooked on the work-from-home life.
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What Will Work Look Like in 2022? (Hint: Not the Metaverse)
Here’s what industry leaders think about the future of work, from changing office hours to, yes, staying in the meatspace.
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The Strange New Trend That’s Enraging Hiring Managers
My, how the tables have turned.
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Gig workers are uncertain, scared, and barely scraping by
In Seoul, food delivery apps compete to get your meal to you at “bullet speed,” sending drivers like Jang Hyuk hurtling across the city, racing against the clock on routes pre-planned by an algorithm. It’s the same in Bogotá, where Venezuelan migrant Lisandro Linarez braves the weather, the crime, and the occasional angry dog for $9 a day, if he’s lucky, working for delivery super app Rappi.
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‘Pay me my worth’: restaurant workers demand livable wages as industry continues to falter
After the traumas of widespread economic shutdowns during the coronavirus pandemic, America’s restaurant industry is largely open for business again as eateries ranging from high-end bistros to fast-food chains are serving hungry customers.
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The 10 fastest-growing jobs of the next decade—and how much they pay
The Bureau of Labor Statistics projects the U.S. will add 11.9 million jobs through 2030, many in industries that were hit hardest by the Covid-19 pandemic....and look how many are in healthcare and clean energy!
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Why Work If You Don’t Have To?
Why work if you don’t have to? The truth is, when someone is rewarded without working for it, they lose something very special.
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Why 'rage quitting' is all the rage
It was sweltering inside the nightclub where Alexander was DJing, in the US state of Virginia. Though it was more than 40°C outside, the club’s air conditioning was broken. It felt extra sticky and humid because the club was hosting a special event: a Pokemon-themed foam party, where upwards of 400 clubbers were frolicking in suds.
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