Sharing an expert from an NPR article. WASHINGTON — The number of Americans applying for unemployment benefits fell for the seventh straight week to a pandemic low of 268,000. The applications for unemployment aid are a proxy for layoffs, and their steady decline this year — after topping 900,000 oneContinue Reading
Sharing an expert from an NPR article. Whether it’s babysitting or flipping burgers, most people’s first jobs do not compare to what Paris Muhammad is up to. At just 10 years old, she is the CEO of her own makeup company called Paris Place LLC. The fifth-grader from Georgia made historyContinue Reading
Sharing an expert from an NPR article. DES MOINES, Iowa — Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds on Friday signed into law a bill that allows Iowa workers to seek medical and religious exemptions from COVID-19 vaccine mandates and guarantees that those who are fired for refusing a vaccine will qualify forContinue Reading
Sharing an expert from an NPR article. The five-day workweek can feel as preordained and immovable as the number of minutes in an hour. You wake up, go to work and come home. Then, wash, rinse, repeat until the weekend. But the Monday-to-Friday grind hasn’t existed forever. Nearly a centuryContinue Reading
Sharing an expert from an NPR article. Price says the idea of laziness has been effectively and expertly wielded to make people feel unproductive and unworthy. They call it a lie, and a trap that makes us believe there’s always more we could be doing — at work, in ourContinue Reading
Sharing an expert from an NPR article. “Last week, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics announced that 4.3 million Americans, or 2.9% of the entire workforce, quit their jobs in August. That was a record-breaking month, piggybacking on previous record months. ‘The Great Resignation’ is real, and it can be seen acrossContinue Reading
Sharing an expert from an NPR article. “Friday’s jobs report showed lackluster improvement in overall hiring in the U.S., adding a modest 194,000 jobs. At the same time there’s a labor mystery afoot: where have all the silver haired workers gone? Despite a lot of open jobs, there are closeContinue Reading
Sharing an expert of an article by NPR. Why do so many of us dread feedback and criticism? Receiving feedback is often characterized as an intense and intimidating experience; however, it doesn’t need to be. Feedback coach, professor, and author of Feedback Mentality, Shanita Williams says, “I think that’s where weContinue Reading
“Getting interrupted. Getting ideas stolen. Being talked over and ignored in meetings. This happens to women, people of color and marginalized workers a LOT. …being heard is key to everything. If nobody hears your ideas, how are you going to get those ideas off the ground? How will people knowContinue Reading
“The pandemic completely upended the notion of going to work and left in its place a patchwork of work-from-home and hybrid options. …in the pandemic, a lot of people who never dreamed that they could do their jobs from anywhere but their office discovered actually — they can! And now,Continue Reading
