Tag: employers
People are increasingly interrupted at work, but it’s not all bad
Elana Feldman, University of Massachusetts Lowell
An email pops up on your screen. It’s a client sharing a project update. A Slack message appears. It’s...
What Amazon’s decision to retrain a third of its employees means...
Scott F. Latham, University of Massachusetts Lowell
Amazon’s announcement that it will invest US$700 million to retrain 100,000 employees – a third of its U.S....
#MeToo whistleblowing is upending century-old legal precedent demanding loyalty to the...
Elizabeth C. Tippett, University of Oregon
When was the last time you agreed to keep a secret?
Perhaps it was a personal confidence shared by a...
No wonder dads aren’t taking shared parental leave – most employers...
Ernestine Gheyoh Ndzi, University of Hertfordshire
Parental leave for new mums as well as new dads was always going to be a potentially tricky sell....
How timekeeping software helps companies nickel and dime their workers
Elizabeth C. Tippett, University of Oregon
If you work on an hourly basis, you may not have given much thought to what happens to your...
EXPLORING NATURE
Trump’s EPA decides climate change doesn’t endanger public health – the...
Jonathan Levy, Boston University; Howard Frumkin, University of Washington; Jonathan Patz, University of Wisconsin-Madison, and Vijay Limaye, University of Wisconsin-Madison
