Job
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Newyork
Leaving the Office at 5 Is Not a Moral Failing
In my 20 years in the work force, I have had many types of white-collar jobs at wildly different organizations. I have been an assistant at a midsize company, I have been the head of editorial at a tiny start-up, I have been a middle manager at a ...
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News
The Recovery Left Nevada Behind. Can the State Change Its Luck?
Pedro Alvarez never imagined his high school job delivering filet mignon and sautéed lobster tail to rooms at the Tropicana Las Vegas would turn into a longtime career. But in a city that sells itself as a place to disappear into decadence, if for ...
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News
Air Taxis, Hyped for Years, May Finally Take Off
Federal regulators released a plan that would allow a new generation of small aircraft to transport people short distances.
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News
Ex-Prisoners Face Headwinds as Job Seekers, Even as Openings Abound
An estimated 60 percent of those leaving prison are unemployed a year later. But after a push for “second-chance hiring,” some programs show promise.
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World
China’s Young People Can’t Find Jobs. Xi Jinping Says to ‘Eat Bitterness.’
With youth unemployment at a record, the Communist Party is trying to reset expectations about social mobility by talking up the virtue of hardship.
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Newyork
The Unemployment Gap Between Black and White New Yorkers Is Widening
The unemployment rate for Black New Yorkers was 12.2 percent in the first quarter of the year, while the white unemployment rate dropped to 1.3 percent, a new report says.
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News
The Week in Business: Cuts to Oil Production
Credit...Giulio BonaseraWhat’s Up? (April 2-8) Surging Oil Prices An unexpected move by Saudi Arabia, Russia and other members of OPEC Plus to cut oil production by more than 1.2 million barrels a day, or more than 1 percent of the world’s supplies ...
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Books
High-Profile Art Couple Offers Worst Job Ever
Emily Colucci, a freelance art writer, “constantly, mindlessly” browses the online job listings hosted by the nonprofit New York Foundation for the Arts — and last week she found a doozy. The ad, seeking a full-time “Executive/Personal Assistant ...
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Newyork
Looking for a Job? The Cannabis Industry Is Hiring in New York.
The industry estimates that there could be 63,000 jobs in weed across the state by 2025, many of them in retail and hospitality.
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News
When Having a Baby and Losing Your Job Collide
At tech companies that spent recent years expanding paid parental leave, parents have felt the whiplash of mass layoffs in an especially visceral way.