Acting out: Hollywood is going on strike
Running lines After a strung-out series of unsuccessful contract negotiations with a group representing major movie and TV studios, the Screen Actors Guild and American Federation of Television and R...
Remotely interested: Workers are still eager to find remote jobs
Remotely interested If bosses are finding it tricky to convince their employees to return to the office, they might not have any more luck with new recruits either. In fact, search interest for remot...
Shipping strike: UPS workers are close to a landmark stoppage
Shipping strike On Friday, the Teamsters union, representing 340,000 UPS workers, voted overwhelmingly to strike if no agreement is reached with the company before the contracts expire at the end of ...
Electricians: Demand for electrical experts is surging
Surging The job market for electricians is booming. Driven by a seismic shift to electrify-everything, the Bureau of Labor Statistics predicts that 80,000 new electrician jobs will be created annuall...
Unscripted: Hollywood strikes are forcing reality TV to the fore
Acting out TV and Hollywood movie writers are into their 6th week of strikes, and actors could soon follow suit. 98% of SAG-AFTRA, the Screen Actors Guild, voted to strike at the end of June if they ...
Participation: Charting 60+ years of women in the workforce
Record level During the pandemic, the female labor force shrunk to levels not seen for 5 years, causing some to worry that the unemployment rate for women may not recover, with talks of the great “ s...
Contented: Job satisfaction has risen in the US, again
How was work today? US workers are feeling very contented according to an annual survey from The Conference Board which put overall job satisfaction at 62.3% in 2022, the highest level on record . Th...
Milestone: The unemployment rate for Black Americans has reached a new low
Milestone New data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics revealed that the unemployment rate for Black workers in the US fell to a record low in April, dropping to 4.7% — the first time the figure has ...
Working hard: Where do workers clock the most hours?
Working hard While Cinco de Mayo isn’t a federal holiday in Mexico — the scale of the festivities north of the border could be to blame if that fact shocks you — workers who are in today may have eve...
Side quests: Shopify is giving up on logistics
Side quests Shopify revealed yesterday that it is selling its logistics business to Flexport and laying off 20% of its workforce , as the online shopping giant essentially gives up on doing the actu...
CEOs: The number of female chief execs is rising
What’s in a name Women have long been under-represented in the boardrooms of big business, a phenomenon that led to a New York Times piece in 2015 which revealed that there were more Johns, Jons, or ...
Time's up: BuzzFeed is calling it quits in the news business
BuzzFeed, once a darling of digital media, has announced the closure of its news division, alongside plans to reduce its workforce by around 15%. CEO Jonah Peretti revealed the cutbacks in a memo to s...
Breadwinners: Charting 5 decades of societal shifts
For richer, for poorer New analysis of government figures by Pew Research Center reveals that women in opposite-sex marriages are increasingly earning more than, or the same as, their husbands. The s...
Baby steps: Shared parental leave is growing in the US
Family time In January, some 478,000 workers were taking parental leave in the US. That's the most since data first started being gathered in 1994, and although the figures for February and March are...
Priorities: Exploring the generational differences around pay and job satisfaction
It’ll be worth it, one day Our friends at YouGov have released the results of a fascinating survey run in March which asked more than 33,000 American adults whether they would rather have a low-payin...
50-50: US offices are half full (empty)
Office half full 3 years on from the start of the pandemic, American workers seem to be half-in-half-out, with US office occupancy hovering around the 50% mark, per data on office turnstile entries ...
Burrito Season: Chipotle is looking for new recruits, to help wrap up its busy season
Seeking spicemakers Last week Chipotle announced it was looking to hire 15,000 new employees in the next few months, as the fast-Mexican restaurant looks to beef up its workforce ahead of what it cal...
Ctrl+Z: Big tech is undoing some of the massive hiring spree of recent years
Undoing The tech world was rocked by another round of layoff announcements last week after Microsoft and Google’s parent company Alphabet both confirmed they’d be slashing 10,000 and 12,000 jobs, res...
Crypto Winter: Coinbase is laying off another 20% of its workforce
Winter is here Coinbase’s CEO, Brian Armstrong, announced yesterday that the crypto-exchange would be cutting 20% of its workforce. As a bellwether for the sector, Coinbase’s second round of cuts — f...
Plz fix: Subscription clothing company Stitch Fix is struggling
Plz fix Online personal stylist Stitch Fix is cutting 20% of its workforce and parting ways with CEO Elizabeth Spaulding, after sales slowed and shares shed more than half their value last year. Alwa...