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Diversifying the workplace has become a central objective for many employers, with U.S. firms spending nearly $8 billion annually on diversity efforts.

After four decades of earning a living in the world's preeminent tech hub, David Jolles gave up on Silicon Valley. It's been a year and a half since he was laid off from his role as a project manager at a fintech company and he estimates he's since applied to some 1,000 jobs.

If you’ve worked for a company big enough to have an HR department, you’ve probably been advised that Human Resources is not your friend.

America's relationship with work has been tenuous lately. Remember the wave of quiet quitting in 2022? In surveys over the past couple of years, Gallup researchers have found only about a third of U.S. workers feel engaged with their jobs. It's a concern for companies and the economy.

In an essay published in The Economist in 1955, British historian Cyril Northcote Parkinson noted how work often “expands so as to fill the time available for its completion.” Writing a few lines on a postcard, he observed, can take an entire day if one has the entire day to write it in.

Amazon told its corporate employees on Monday that they had to return to working in the company’s offices five days a week starting in January.

Ever left a meeting not sure why you were invited to attend it in the first place? What about walking out unclear about what happens next? Most of us would answer those questions with a resounding “yes.

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The World Bank has ceased all paid advertising on Elon Musk's social media platform X, which was formerly Twitter, after a CBS News investigation found promoted advertisements from the organization showing up under a racist post from an account that prolifically posts pro-Nazi and white nationalist

The machines can have our chores, but we can’t afford to outsource creation. Why should humans do anything, if machines can do it better? The answer is crucial to the future of human civilization—and may just lie in religious texts from centuries ago.