Employers are testing out shorter workdays and work weeks. Given that we're still early in the new phase of digital knowledge work, more productive — and hopefully much more meaningful...

Even with the strongest labour market in half a century, getting work after losing it can still be a challenge....

According to a recent paper published in the journal Nature Communications, early-career setbacks can, somewhat counterintuitively, result in a stronger career in the long term — stronger even than that of...

Gig work is providing work for a growing number of people in their 50s, 60s and beyond. When older workers who have been pushed out of the traditional workforce are...

Shifts added or subtracted at short notice play havoc with budgets and lives, and disproportionately hurt black and Hispanic women....

Automated hiring can create a closed loop system. Advertisements created by algorithms encourage certain people to send in their résumés. After the résumés have undergone automated culling, a lucky few are...

According to a study commissioned by the Freelancers Union and Upwork, 30 percent of Americans over the age of 55 did some freelance work in 2018. (Freelancing is loosely defined as...

Gen Z-ers and millennials have been called lazy and entitled. Could they, instead, be among the first to understand the proper role of work in life?...

About 15 percent of women and 13 percent of men 25 to 54 years old spend time caring for an older relative, according to the Labor Department. Among those 55 to...

From equipment automation to data collection and analysis, the digital evolution of agriculture is already a fact of life on farms across the United States....