Workplace

Mexico Beach City Council hires HR firm amid city administrator’s workplace harassment allegations
BAY COUNTY, Fla. (WMBB) – Mexico Beach City Council members met on Monday for a special meeting to discuss the selection of a human resources firm to investigate workplace...

How “Severance” Makes a Fetish of the Office
When “Severance” premièred, in 2022, it felt like an absurdist parable about the alienation of labor—a moody, eerie critique of technocapitalism that seemed in keeping with our age of...

The Hollow Core of Elon Musk’s Productivity Dogma
On Saturday afternoon, Elon Musk posted on X that “all federal employees will shortly receive an email requesting to understand what they got done last week.” He added that...

Workplace incivility spikes around elections, expert says at Newsweek event
Talking politics at work can be a recipe for disaster—the topic is full of potential pitfalls that could lead to workplace arguments or serve as a drag on productivity....

Everything you need to know about the radical feminist movement that preaches ‘no sex’
SEOUL — The election of Donald Trump has sparked a surge of interest in the United States in South Korea’s 4B movement, a radical feminist crusade that preaches the...

Don’t Cancel Your Post Subscription—or Prime. Organize Your Workplace.
The episode offers a depressing window into how a certain kind of liberal conceives of collective action: essentially, as individuals. Boycotts have a rich history in social movements pushing...

Opinion: The evidence shows women make better doctors. So why do men still dominate medicine?
“When will I see the doctor?” Most female doctors have been asked this question many times. It feels like a slight — a failure to recognize the struggle it...

Employees With Autism Find New Ways to Navigate the Workplace
When Chelsia Potts took her 10-year-old daughter to a psychologist to be tested for autism spectrum disorder, she decided almost as an afterthought to be tested herself. The result...

Seeing Workplace Misery, They Offer Company
“Making It Work” is a series is about small-business owners striving to endure hard times.When Karen Schiro, a real estate agent in Fairfax Station, Va., realized last year that...