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Jobs Report: Unemployment Rate of 3.7 Percent Lowest Since 1969
brownpau/Flickr Despite lower than predicted job gains, unemployment reached a 49-year low last month, according to this morning’s report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. The monthly Employment...
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The PayScale Index: The Economy Is Booming. Wages Are Not.
Lukas/Pexels Unemployment is down. The stock market is booming. And employers are reaping record profits. But workers aren’t necessarily seeing the rewards. The PayScale Index, which measures the...
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Tariffs Have Cost This Many American Jobs So Far
Pexels Throughout the year, the Trump administration has levied new tariffs on goods from China, Canada and the European Union. Fears about the effects of these tariffs have clouded otherwise sunny job...
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3 Associate Degrees That Lead to High-Paying Jobs
Baim Hanif/Unsplash Want to earn the big bucks and skip the hefty student loan debt? Pick the right two-year program, and you can earn more than many bachelor’s degree holders in half the time. Not all...
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Don’t Fall for These 5 Salary Negotiation Myths
Pexels Seventy percent of people who ask for a raise get some kind of pay increase, according to recent results from PayScale’s survey. Thirty-nine percent even get the exact amount they ask for....
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Report: The Gender Pay Gap Costs Women $500B a Year
JD Hancock/Flickr Women earned 80 cents, on average, for every dollar earned by men in 2017, according to the latest report from the American Association of University Women (AAUW), even though women...
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Could You Do Your Job in 5 Hours a Day?
Jane Palash/Unsplash Nearly half of employees said that they could do their jobs in five hours a day or less if they were able to work uninterrupted, according to a recent survey from The Workforce...
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Is Student Loan Debt Killing Marriage?
Pixabay The average college student owes $37,172 in student loan debt, according to higher-education expert Mark Kantrowitz, the highest student debt load ever. Collectively, 44 million borrowers owe...
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ADP: Private Payrolls Added 227,000 Jobs in October
Rawpixel/Pexels Private-sector employers added 227,000 jobs last month, according to the ADP National Employment Report, which was released this morning. The tally exceeded economists’ predictions by...
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Avoid These 7 Real-Life Office Horror Stories on Halloween (and Every Day)
ocipalla/Getty Images As any horror fan will tell you, the real scary stuff happens against a backdrop of everyday normalcy. In a movie, that might mean the killer popping out of the bushes...
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This Japanese Company Pays Employees to Sleep
Pixabay/Pexels How much sleep did you get last night? If you’re like most people, the answer is: not enough. According to a 2013 Gallup poll, Americans average 6.8 hours of sleep a night. That’s down...
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Jobs Report: Payrolls Added 250,000 Jobs in October
brownpau/Flickr Employers added more jobs than expected last month, according to this morning’s release of the monthly Employment Situation Summary. The Bureau of Labor Statistics reported the addition...
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How to Vote When You Have to Work on Election Day
Rawpixel/Pexels Election Day is on a Tuesday in the U.S., a remnant of our formerly agrarian society. (Farmers often needed a day to travel to the polls, leaving Monday a necessary buffer between...
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Why Is Amazon Hiring Fewer Seasonal Workers? Blame the Robots, Analyst Says
Tony Webster/Flickr Amazon plans to hire 100,000 holiday workers this year to work at its fulfillment centers across the country — 20,000 fewer than last year. Why the change? One analyst suggests that...
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Maybe the Gig Economy Was Never Going to Replace Real Jobs
why kei/Unsplash Fewer workers participated in “alternative work arrangements” last year than in 2005, according to data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Does this mean that the gig economy is on...
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5 Ways to Prevent Burnout (Even When You’re Really Busy at Work)
Jamie Street/Unsplash Twenty-three percent of full-time employees surveyed in a recent Gallup study reported feeling burned out at work “very often or always.” An additional 44 percent said that they...
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Military Times: These Are the 100 Best Companies for Veterans
Osman Rana/Unsplash Earlier this year, Military Times released a list of the 100 best employers for veterans in 2018. These rankings, which are released annually, are based on employers’ answers to a...
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5 Work-From-Home Jobs That Pay $100,000 or More
Pexels When you think of work-from-home jobs, do you think of low-paying customer service gigs – or outright scams, like stuffing envelopes? If so, it’s time to expand your horizons. While there are...
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Do This Before You Answer, ‘What Are Your Salary Requirements?’
Pexels It’s everyone’s least favorite job interview question: “What are your salary requirements?” And while there are ways to avoid answering until you’re comfortable starting the salary negotiation...
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Want Teamwork? Kill Open Offices.
Marc Mueller/Pexels Open offices reduce face-to-face interactions among coworkers by about 70 percent, according to new research from Harvard. In two field studies, researchers followed workers at two...
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