Workplace-return dates are getting pushed to September or beyond, and that is keeping companies and their employees in a “moment of limbo.”

The business-software maker, which employs 54,000 people globally, plans to shrink its real-estate footprint as it looks to embrace more remote work after the pandemic.

The legal industry risks a long-term talent exodus—one that would disproportionately affect women and diverse attorneys—if it doesn't address the needs of working parents who are struggling during the pandemic.

Nearly four million Americans have stopped working or looking for jobs, a 2.2% contraction of the U.S. work force. A smaller labor market leaves fewer workers to build machines and clean tables, restraining the economy’s long-term prospects.

Before making a tough decision that impacts your team's future, Gravity Payments CEO Dan Price has a simple suggestion: Ask them for advice. It worked for him.

A new kind of workspace could help employees thrive.

Karen Kaplan, science and medicine editor for The L.A. Times: If you want to know why public health officials are so nervous about how much worse the COVID-19 pandemic will get as the holiday season unfolds, consider what happened after a single, smallish wedding reception that took place this summer in rural Maine.

A toy company owner decided the benefits of having everyone together, with safeguards, outweighed the risks. Some were readier than others to return.

Over 100 years later — the company now with over 200 locations in 86 countries in 32 languages and 9 million graduates — our current pandemic has driven the company to reinvent itself as their business.

Seven months into the pandemic, many professionals say they like flexible schedules, but miss colleagues and clients and cite frustrations such as Zoom fatigue.

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Early research on how people are — and aren’t — adapting and how leaders can help.

The minute we make any decision—I think COVID-19 is serious; no, I’m sure it is a hoax—we begin to justify the wisdom of our choice and find reasons to dismiss the alternative.

Those who are anxious to open up the economy have led harder lives than those holding out for safety.

Stephen A. Hart

Six strategies.

Deprive people of interactions with peers, and their social skills will atrophy. This is yet another side effect of the pandemic.

From Amazon to UPS, Boeing to Tesla, here’s a glimpse at the ways major U.S. businesses are navigating these challenging times.

Face coverings are a simple way to help prevent the spread of the new coronavirus, public-health officials say. Here’s how different types of masks stack up, and how they’re meant to be used.

Some early public health messages about COVID-19 have been overturned

Patrick Lencioni

Tens of millions of Americans are working from home and many will never go back; employers scramble to figure out what tools they’ll need to stay productive.

Joe Hart at Dale Carnegie

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Art Markman

Seriously.