COVID-19Make Me Smart DailyEcon Extra Credit

Loading...

0:00
0% played
Stories Tagged as

Workplace

COVID-19

People are adjusting to working from home for the long haul

by Meghan McCarty Carino
May 22, 2020
We check in with three people adapting to their new work environments. Zen attitudes about pantsless kids in video chats helps.
After two months of working remotely, people are adjusting to the idea of working from home long-term.
Olivier Douliery/AFP via Getty Images
ListenLISTEN
HTML EMBED:
COPY
EMBED EMBED
Share Now on:
SHARE
Subscribe Using:
SUBSCRIBE SUBSCRIBE
COVID-19

Will COVID-19 end open plan offices, useless meetings, and handshakes?

by Jana Kasperkevic
Apr 29, 2020
We ask experts to imagine American workplace after COVID-19.
http://www.fotogestoeber.de
Share Now on:
SHARE
COVID-19

Could employers start testing employees for COVID-19 at work?

by Meghan McCarty Carino
Apr 17, 2020
The prospect raises health care privacy concerns about protections for workers found to be ill.
Will testing at work be feasible, given concerns about privacy and availability?
Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images
ListenLISTEN
HTML EMBED:
COPY
EMBED EMBED
Share Now on:
SHARE
COVID-19

What happens if air-traffic controllers come down with COVID-19?

by Jack Stewart
Mar 26, 2020
Cases of the disease have been reported in a handful of air traffic control sites around the U.S.
What happens if crucial air traffic controllers get COVID-19?
Mandel Ngan/AFP via Getty Images
ListenLISTEN
HTML EMBED:
COPY
EMBED EMBED
Share Now on:
SHARE
COVID-19

Some must go to work, as others work remotely to avoid COVID-19 exposure

by Jasmine Garsd
Mar 18, 2020
Firefighters, health workers, paramedics, sanitation workers and others still need to go out to do their jobs.
Essential jobs, like sanitation services and firefighters, can't be done from home.
Karen Bleier/AFP via Getty Images
ListenLISTEN
HTML EMBED:
COPY
EMBED EMBED
Share Now on:
SHARE
Workplace Culture

Online shopping deliveries overloading office mail rooms

by Meghan McCarty Carino
Dec 23, 2019
Some employers have banned personal packages.
How to protect your packages from porch pirates? Get them delivered to your office.
Sébastien Duval/AFP via Getty Images
ListenLISTEN
HTML EMBED:
COPY
EMBED EMBED
Share Now on:
SHARE
The Season

Getting holiday shopping done at work can boost productivity ... maybe

by Meghan McCarty Carino
Dec 18, 2019
It can save time and clear your mind ... or send you down an e-commerce rabbit hole.
Do you shop online while at the office?
Matt Cardy/Getty Images
ListenLISTEN
HTML EMBED:
COPY
EMBED EMBED
Share Now on:
SHARE

You’ve got questions. We help you answer them.

Support nonprofit, independent journalism that makes you smarter.

Invest in Marketplace

Tell us about your online shopping ... at work

by Meghan McCarty Carino
Nov 25, 2019
We all do it. How has it changed your workplace?
Do you shop online while at the office?
Matt Cardy/Getty Images
Share Now on:
SHARE
overtime

New overtime rule covers fewer workers than Obama version

by Kimberly Adams
Sep 24, 2019
Had the 2016 rule been instituted, roughly three times more workers would have been covered.
Under the new rule, employers will be required to pay overtime to employees making less than $35,568.
Christopher Furlong/Getty Images
ListenLISTEN
HTML EMBED:
COPY
EMBED EMBED
Share Now on:
SHARE

The opioid epidemic is killing Americans at work, and employers are taking notice

by Jana Kasperkevic
Sep 24, 2019
To battle opioid overdoses, experts want businesses to think of naloxone like an EpiPen.
Ken Duckworth, a psychiatrist and medical director for behavioral health at Blue Cross Blue Shield Massachusetts, holds up a nalaxone kit.
Courtesy of Blue Cross Blue Shield Massachusetts
Share Now on:
SHARE