Indian men line up at a registration office set up in a technical college in the northern Indian city of Lucknow, where they hope to sign up to work in Israel. Diaa Hadid/NPR hide caption toggle caption Diaa Hadid/NPR Indian men line up at a registration office set up in […]
Workers
Austin Smith was given the news not long after he walked into the office one morning in June. His employer, Netflix, was laying off some 300 employees. Smith, a data analyst in Salt Lake City, was one of them. In a state of shock, Smith drove home to break the […]
A lack of staff, exacerbated by the Covid-19 pandemic, meant that she ended up working 70-hour weeks as she fulfilled her office duties and also provided in-person patient care. Far from being able to spend evenings at home, as she had hoped, “I was doing ridiculous hours and I did […]
The push to return to normal has found the spark companies need to kick it into high gear. We’ve gone through just about every narrative at this point: remote work is dead, it’s here to stay, it is the new normal. Whatever side of the argument you may be on, […]
