Workplace Culture
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This video game company wants to make the industry safer for marginalized people
by
Kai Ryssdal
and Sean McHenry
Sep 27, 2021
Kim Belair co-founded Sweet Baby Inc. to create a safe place in the game industry. Can the values behind the company scale up?
Can companies really be empathetic toward their workers?
by
Kai Ryssdal
and Andie Corban
Aug 20, 2021
As Anne Helen Petersen writes, messaging about empathy is different from taking action, and not every employee is buying it.
More frequent, extreme heat waves linked to workplace injuries
Jul 26, 2021
New research from UCLA shows climate change-induced heat waves pose a growing threat to workers.
More health care organizations impose vaccine mandates on workers
Jul 22, 2021
There are obvious benefits to ensuring health care workers are vaccinated, but mandates have costs too.
With COVID gaps on millions of resumes, do they still carry stigma?
Jul 8, 2021
Greater acceptance for career pauses could benefit moms.
Will the pandemic make the U.S. more of a vacation nation?
Jun 11, 2021
It's profoundly changed how Americans think about work and life, one sociologist says.
OSHA issues workplace COVID rules, but they're limited to health care
Jun 11, 2021
There are still no emergency COVID standards from OSHA for other industries like meatpacking and farming.
For public good, not for profit.
Company bosses will set the tone when it comes to working from home
Jun 10, 2021
Companies may say it's OK for employees to work from home, but if CEOs are always in the office, that sends a different message.
Videoconferencing is here to stay. It’ll have a different role in the hybrid workplace.
Jun 2, 2021
Zoom beat Wall Street expectations, but the technology may evolve from replacing social life to being just a tool.
Teenagers in search of summer jobs are in luck
Jun 1, 2021
A tight labor market has brought teen employment to its highest level in a decade.