Variable work schedules—which employers increasingly use to maximize profits amid unpredictable market conditions—can actually undermine organizational performance, especially in crisis periods such as the pandemic, according ...
Economics & Business
Apr 18, 2022
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About 3.5 million people have at least temporarily left the U.S. workforce since March 2020. Over one-third of them—1.2 million—are in the leisure and hospitality industry.
Economics & Business
Feb 1, 2022
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A recent analysis published in Economic Inquiry found that during the COVID-19 pandemic, U.S. women with school-age children suffered losses in employment (and reduced work hours) to a greater extent than men. Male-female ...
Economics & Business
Jan 6, 2022
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The villainous boss memes, workday gripes, and big corporation throwdowns shoot fast and furious on the Reddit forum r/antiwork, which has become a viral post Howitzer. In one recent post, a Calm app tweet poses this well-meaning ...
Economics & Business
Dec 20, 2021
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Workplace culture and masculine norms are keeping fathers from asking for flexible working hours, including paid parental leave, according to research from University of South Australia researcher, Dr. Ashlee Borgkvist.
Economics & Business
Nov 5, 2021
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The social safety net is intended to improve the lives of low-income families and individuals. But as assistance programs have become more complex, families face challenges in navigating them. As a result, low-income people ...
Economics & Business
Oct 13, 2021
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More than two-thirds of Australian early childhood educators reported working many extra hours to satisfy regulatory requirements in our 2021 survey. Half did unpaid work during accreditation—the process of demonstrating ...
Economics & Business
Sep 22, 2021
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Recreational fishing in the U.S. is largely a personal hobby that scales up to a multibillion-dollar economic activity. More than 44 million people in the U.S. identify as recreational anglers making this hobby second only ...
Ecology
Aug 18, 2021
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Working mothers are often expected to work like they don't have children and raise children as if they don't work. This impossible standard is at the root of gender inequalities in the workplace, according to two new Washington ...
Social Sciences
Jul 21, 2021
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Since the arrival of the pandemic, media accounts about the new world of work have painted a curiously uniform picture of the jobs that people across the UK do. Chief among them was the idea that everyone was all suddenly ...
Social Sciences
Jun 17, 2021
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