Is the future of work in employees’ hands? · Recode

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How to Take a Rival Job Offer to Your Boss · The Wall Street Journal
The Problem Isn’t The Office – It’s The Commute | HubbleHQ
In our survey, 79% of employees named the lack of commute as one of the best things about WFH, making it the most popular response. But that’s not all: we found that there’s actually a direct correlation between employees’ commute time and their enjoyment of remote working—find out more in this blog.
Job Postings Requiring Vaccination Climb - Indeed Hiring Lab
Vaccination requirements are appearing in sectors such as software development and marketing that typically didn’t mandate vaccines.
Meet the People Who Are Working Two Remote Jobs Simultaneously: WSJ Report
While offering remote positions can open up new talent pools for employers, it can also lead to apathy in employees and a sense of disconnect from their jobs
Who Wants To Return To The Office? | FiveThirtyEight
If you started working from home in the last 16 months, you’re in good company. Over 100 million Americans transitioned from in-person to remote work during the…
American motherhood vs. the American work ethic
Working motherhood is getting harder. Let’s fix that.
Are Workplace Diversity Programs Doing More Harm Than Good? · New York Times Opinion
CEO pay has skyrocketed 1,322% since 1978: CEOs were paid 351 times as much as a typical worker in 2020 | Economic Policy Institute
What this report finds: Corporate boards running America’s largest public firms are giving top executives outsize compensation packages that have grown much faster than the stock market and the pay of typical workers, college graduates, and even the top 0.1%. In 2020, a CEO at one of the top 350 firms in the U.S. was paid $24.2 million on average (using a “realized” measure of CEO pay that counts stock awards when vested and stock options when cashed in rather than when granted). This 18.9% increase from 2019 occurred because of rapid growth in vested stock awards and exercised stock options. Using a different “granted” measure of CEO pay, average top CEO compensation was $13.9 million in 2020, slightly below its level in 2019. In 2020, the ratio of CEO-to-typical-worker compensation was 351-to-1 under the realized measure of CEO pay; that is up from 307-to-1 in 2019 and a big increase from 21-to-1 in 1965 and 61-to-1 in 1989. CEOs are even making a lot more than other very high earners (wage earners in the top 0.1%)—more than six times as much. From 1978 to 2020, CEO pay based on realized compensation grew by 1,322%, far outstripping S&P stock market growth (817%) and top 0.1% earnings growth (which was 341% between 1978 and 2019, the latest data available). In contrast, compensation of the typical worker grew by just 18.0% from 1978 to 2020.
For first time, average pay for supermarket and restaurant workers tops $15 an hour
$15 an hour is suddenly the rule, not the exception, for U.S. workers. It’s a major shift from pre-pandemic.
Leaving a Career to Find a More Equitable Workplace · Fast Company
Care workers are deeply undervalued and underpaid: Estimating fair and equitable wages in the care sectors | Economic Policy Institute
The Biden administration has made large investments in care work—both child care and elder care—key planks in its American Jobs Plan (AJP) and American Families Plan (AFP). These investments would be transformative, and a greater public role in providing this care work can make the U.S. economy fairer and more efficient. The administration has also…
Why it Pays to Raise Pay - WorkLife with Adam Grant
When employees are paid more, they give more. Going above market pay might sound like a fantasy, but in a growing number of companies it’s becoming a profitable reality. Peek inside workplaces that have reinvented their pay structures to give employees their worth and more—and explore the science of how it can pay off for everyone in the long run.
We should allow sad days, not just sick days · Work Life with Adam Grant
People are finally paying attention to mental health at work, but some major myths are holding us back. Adam breaks down what we get wrong about mental health at work, what individuals and organizations can do to start getting it right, and why we all need compassion more than empathy. Thanks to our guests Demar Derozan, Sally Maitlis, Darlene Upton and Paul Bloom for joining us on this episode.
This should be the remote workers’ ‘Bill of Rights’
The executive director of Tulsa Remote asks (and answers): “What is the remote worker owed? And, to what extent, if at all, are remote workers different from their office-bound counterparts?”
Google offices to mandate vaccines
The tech giant's move is another sign that businesses are changing plans thanks to the Delta variant.
Spotify – The Great Debate of 2021: WFH or RTO? - The Argument | Podcast on Spotify
Jane Coaston is joined by Sean Bisceglia, the C.E.O. of Curion, a consumer insights company, and Anne Helen Petersen, the writer of the newsletter “Culture Study” and the author of “Can’t Even: How Millennials Became the Burnout Generation,” to debate the pros and cons of returning to the office.
Best of The New Way We Work: How to avoid the biggest resume mistakes · Fast Company
Opinion | The majority of Americans lack a college degree. Why do so many employers require one?
Employers have been sleepwalking into a system that screens out the majority of workers, including millions of people who possess sought-after skills.
Generation Z fears being left behind by the push to remote work
Why the youngest workers seem most eager to go back to the office
How to Craft a Job You Love · QuickAndDirtyTips.com
Remove these 7 things from your resume 'ASAP,' says CEO who has read more than 1,000 resumes this year
We constantly hear about what to put on your resume, but rarely talk about what to leave out. The CEO of a resume writing service, who has helped hundreds of candidates land jobs this year, shares the most overlooked things that can hurt your chances of landing an interview.
Best of The New Way We Work: When is the Right Time to Quit Your Job · Fast Company
Spotify – Building High-Performing Teams By Encouraging Learning - Think Fast, Talk Smart: Communication Techniques. | Podcast on Spotify
Nick Caldwell on the engineering cultures that power Microsoft, Reddit, Looker & Twitter · First Round
Here's Precisely How to Quit Your Job
If you need to quit by Tuesday to give two weeks’ notice but your boss can't meet until Thursday, what are you supposed to do?
5 studies for journalists covering the truck driver shortage
We summarize five studies on issues facing the trucking workforce, including pay, working conditions and whether the labor market is broken.
Unlocking experience-based job progressions for millions of workers
Millions of US workers without four-year college degrees are unemployed. Novel data analytics reveal opportunities for them to attain better jobs than they had before the pandemic if there’s action to build a more inclusive economy.
The search for purpose at work
Individuals find purpose in their work. Companies need to harness that to boost engagement and meaning.
Microsoft is giving employees a $1,500 pandemic bonus
The gift is for employees worldwide.