Tag: North America

Los Angeles has approved a sweeping update to its adaptive reuse rules, allowing many newer commercial buildings to be converted into housing across the city, according to the Los Angeles ...

Mexico's Senate on Wednesday approved a presidential proposal to reduce the legal workweek to 40 hours from 48, overriding resistance from both unions and the opposition with a revamped version ...

The U.S. labor market cooled sharply in the fourth quarter of 2025, ending a year that looked far different from the post-pandemic expansion. Employers added 50,000 jobs in December and ...

A growing share of employees are staying in their current roles not because they want to, but because they feel they have to. A new ResumeBuilder survey found that 57% ...

A growing share of employees say their relationship with work is neither committed nor over. A Glassdoor poll of U.S. professionals show workers are staying put for security even as ...

Senior executives in New York expect their businesses to expand even as uncertainty surrounds the local economy. In a KPMG survey of 103 leaders at companies with at least $50 ...

Commercial and multifamily mortgage maturities are projected to drop 9% year over year to about $875 billion, according to a Mortgage Bankers Association forecast. The group expects maturities to keep ...

U.S. job growth unexpectedly accelerated in January and the unemployment rate fell to 4.3%, signs of labor market stability that could give the Federal Reserve room to keep interest rates ...

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, ...