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Long COVID can make work challenging. Accommodations can make a difference.

by Samantha Fields
May 22, 2024
In more than half of cases, workplace accommodations don’t cost an employer anything, according to one survey.
For many, long COVID is severe enough that it affects their ability to work. One study estimates about 700,000 people are likely missing from the labor force because of it.
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Business is getting personal as values take over the workplace

by Meghan McCarty Carino
Jun 3, 2019
From meat-free corporate culture to climate activism, personal beliefs are moving front and center in the professional world.
A WeWork co-working location in Tokyo.
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Younger workers are pushing for greater work-life balance

by Meghan McCarty Carino
Jun 3, 2019
They're bringing self-care to work and pushing for more flexibility to have a life.
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The high economic toll of mental illness

by Tracey Samuelson
Oct 10, 2018
Costs are often indirect, such as not being able to work.
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Activists work to put #MeToo on the menu for restaurant workers facing sexual harassment

by Laura Benshoff
Apr 2, 2018
Sexual harassment has long been a problem in the restaurant industry.
Juliana Sarita, with Women Organized Against Rape, leads a training to prevent and address sexual harassment against restaurant workers at a South Philadelphia taqueria. 
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