Want a Can’t Miss Productivity Tip? Forget About Being Productive.

People and industries measure how productive they are in similar ways. This extended period of remote work for many has revealed how flawed that can be.

Long Hours, Low Pay, Loneliness and a Booming Industry

The ranks of home health aides are expected to grow more than any other job in the next decade. What kind of work are they being asked to do?

Want a Can’t Miss Productivity Tip? Forget About Being Productive.

People and industries measure how productive they are in similar ways. This extended period of remote work for many has revealed how flawed that can be.

What Is Labor Day? A History of the Workers’ Holiday.

President Grover Cleveland made it a national holiday in 1894, during a crisis over federal efforts to end a strike by railroad workers.

Opinion | Other People’s Rotten Jobs Are Bad for Them. And for You.

The impact of rotten jobs radiates far beyond the workplace.

Flight Attendants’ Hellish Summer: ‘I Don’t Even Feel Like a Human’

For cabin crews, the peak travel season has turned into a chronic battle involving frequent delays, overwork and unruly passengers that leaves them feeling battered by the public and the airlines.

Opinion | Work Is a False Idol

From Diogenes the Cynic to Audre Lorde to a former factory worker in China, the “lying flat” movement is gathering steam.

Frito-Lay Workers in Kansas Ratify Contract, Ending Strike

The workers at a Frito-Lay plant in Topeka went on strike this month to protest forced overtime and so-called suicide shifts, which they said left little time to sleep or see family members.

Opinion | 8 Hours a Day, 5 Days a Week Is Not Working for Us

The goal is “one reasonable job per person,” not “two for one and half for another.”

Opinion | Why Do We Work So Damn Much?

Hunter-gatherers worked 15-hour weeks. Why don’t we?

‘Disorder and Chaos’ in N.Y.C. Jails as Pandemic Recedes

Six incarcerated people have died, a man accused of murder was accidentally released and a captain was charged with criminally negligent homicide, while the future of Rikers Island remains unclear.

Opinion | Working Less Is a Matter of Life and Death

Putting limits on labor isn’t just a perk. It's a way to safeguard workers' health.