Despite years of research that shows workers are, in fact, competent and capable grown-ups who can get work done at home, a lot of people still seem very worried about the idea. The prospect of working from home — whether because your company is shuttered for the pandemic or your […]
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It’s early morning, well before the birds have risen. It’s still dark, which is Charlotte resident Jana Wood’s favorite time. Finding comfort in the silence, she chooses her commuter bike — one of eight bicycles that she owns — for the morning’s adventure. It’s February, so she’s wearing winter tights […]
From burnout to pandemic stress, employees are coping with a variety of new mental health challenges. Like many parents, Andrew Savikas, chief strategy officer at the business publishing company getAbstract, has realized the workload the school system lifts off of parents. Schools provide education, meals and childcare. With online […]
Katherine Homuth is on a mission to prove Sheertex is unbreakable. In fact, every order of the pantyhose comes with a break-proof test kit. “So customers can kind of go crazy experiencing the strength [of the material] and testing its limits before they wear their pair,” Homuth told WWD. “They’re […]
The gig economy and high speed internet has changed the way we work, especially for women who get more flexibility in terms of work options. The Employment Outlook Report by TeamLease, a recruitment platform, finds that women gig workers accounted for more than 68,000 jobs in the country last year. […]
“When you start working at home a lot, it takes away that boundary between work and home — or work and not-work — lives,” Meuris said. “It’s very easy for work to start creeping in,” he said, noting that a worker who would usually have clocked out at 5 p.m. […]