Tag: North America

As companies bring employees back on site, the commute is taking hours out of the day again. A new MyPerfectResume analysis frames those trips as lost personal and productive time ...

U.S. leaders have proposed financial incentives to raise birthrates as fertility fell to about 1.6 children per woman in 2024, below replacement level. But new research points to workplace structure, ...

A Texas judge's move to strike down a state law blacklisting "woke" financial firms, including BlackRock and HSBC, that used environmental, social or governance factors in investment decisions will likely ...

Growth in U.S. labor costs unexpectedly slowed in the fourth quarter, leading to the smallest annual increase in 4-1/2 years, as softening demand for labor restrained wage gains.  The Employment ...

Only 31% of workers report feeling fully focused every day. Nearly a quarter say they rarely reach deep concentration, while most experience it inconsistently, according to a new report by ...

The Trump administration is trying to make it harder for fired federal employees to get their jobs back, according to a government plan released on Monday, by limiting their right ...

Americans appear far more open to workplace automation than the debate around artificial intelligence often suggests. A large Harvard Business School survey examining hundreds of occupations found many people would ...

A planned $600 billion artificial intelligence spending splurge by big tech firms in 2026 is adding to investor unease as they assess the implications for profitability as well as a ...

Canada unexpectedly lost 24,800 jobs in January but the unemployment rate dipped to a 16-month low of 6.5% as fewer people looked for work, Statistics Canada indicated on Friday. Analysts ...

Remote work has become a defining feature of the U.S. workforce. By 2025, more than 27 million Americans worked remotely, either full-time or part-time, shaping new norms around productivity, well-being, ...