Workplace/Jobs

Companies face plenty of pitfalls when selecting a new leader.

Amazon, Dow, UPS, Pinterest, and T-Mobile are among the many companies to announce layoffs in the last couple of weeks.

Do recent layoffs signal AI is actually replacing human workers? Or, do those companies just think it sounds good to investors?

Productivity growth allows companies to pull in more profits, which can allow them to raise wages. But recently, wage growth has slowed — even as productivity has stayed strong.

People have participated in collective work stoppages to raise the pressure on employers for more than 150 years.

This week’s winter storm means working parents tried to do their day jobs with kids in the mix.

Ever since the Civil War, unions and others have used mass slowdowns and work stoppages to advocate for changing things, especially in times of economic uncertainty.

“It's something I've done myself and have seen amongst other younger female job seekers,” said freelance writer Megan Robinson. “But in my own case, and in the other women I interviewed, it didn't help any of us get a job.”

Staffing shortages are likely to intensify as the Trump administration ends a program that gave 350,000 Haitians the right to live and work in the United States.

BlackRock predicts a massive influx in infrastructure across the globe — if we can find enough skilled workers to do the building.