A longtime U.S. postal worker was found dead in her mail truck in Woodland Hills on Friday afternoon amid blistering summer temperatures, authorities confirmed Monday. By Brenda Gazzar.

The Linux Foundation and Dice.com's 2018 Open Source Jobs Report shows the demand for open-source savvy employees is stronger than ever.

Increasing numbers of workers in rich countries — as many as 35 or 40 percent in some surveys — are secretly convinced their jobs are pointless. By David Graeber.

The corporate fishbowl forces women to be overly beauty-conscious and to suppress their natural emotions.

The Supreme Court will soon decide whether employers can lawfully require workers to sign mandatory arbitration agreements that include class and collective action waivers. By Heidi Shierholz and Celine McNicholas.

Copying and pasting emails. Inventing meaningless tasks for others. Just looking busy. Why do so many people feel their work is completely unnecessary?

High-performing blue teams are "purposive social systems"—they shut up and work.

Franklin Roosevelt and Martin Luther King campaigned for it in vain—but the need for full employment has never gone away. By Harold Meyerson.

America’s self-reliance obsession makes it more acceptable to applaud working yourself to death than to argue that doing so points to a flawed economic system.

The government in South Korea's capital is introducing a new initiative to force its employees to leave work on time - by powering down all their computers at 20:00 on Fridays. It says it is trying to stop a "culture of working overtime". South Korea has some of the longest working hours in the world.

If country music gave voice to many American farmers during the 20th century, what does it have to say about the fundamental shift in farm labor that is coming to define the 21st? By Nick Murray.

Japan has again been forced to confront its work culture after labour inspectors ruled that the death of a 31-year-old journalist at the country’s public broadcaster, NHK, had been caused by overwork. Miwa Sado, who worked at the broadcaster’s headquarters in Tokyo, logged 159 hours of overtime and took only two days off in the month leading up to her death from heart failure in July 2013.

If workers are pushed hard enough, our history of revolt is not that deeply buried. By Sarah Jaffe.

It's everywhere, but it's *very* bad in tech.

If we're going to be precise about it, work gets done at 11AM on a Monday in October. At all other times of day, we're basically slacking from our most productive. Sustaining 8 hours-plus of intense focus year-round is more of a Herculean pipe dream than a reality of the modern day workplace. We come into the office with resolve and determination, pump out a few tasks, eat lunch, then gradually deteriorate into a potpourri of Reddit posts and cat videos.

For some Americans, sub-minimum-wage online tasks are the only work available.

A typical architect in California earns about $112,000 a year, according to the jobs site Indeed. For lawyers and software engineers, the…

There are right and wrong ways to ask for a higher salary. Experts weigh in on what to say, and when.

Digital microwork in the Middle East exploits occupation, war, and neoliberalism to extract the cheapest labor possible. By Miranda Hall.