Lauren WeberLauren Weber writes about workplace issues and employment in The Wall Street Journal's corporate bureau in New York. Her stories often explore topics such as workforce development and skills, contingent work, compensation, the bonds between employers and workers, and the intersection between economic trends and the on-the-ground practices of employers. A former Knight-Bagehot fellow at Columbia University, Lauren has won awards from the Society for Advancing Business Editing and Writing and the Newswomen's Club of New York, and she was part of a team that won a Gerald Loeb award in 2019 for reporting on Amazon's search for a second headquarters. Lauren has also been a staff reporter at Reuters and Newsday, and she is the author of the 2009 book "In Cheap We Trust: The Story of a Misunderstood American Virtue," a cultural history of frugality and cheapness in the United States. Lauren can be reached at lauren.weber@wsj.com; you can also find her on Twitter at @laurenweberWSJ.

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Persons: Lauren Weber Lauren Weber, Lauren, Gerald Loeb Organizations: Columbia University, Society for, Newswomen's, of New, Reuters, Newsday, Twitter Locations: New York, of New York, American, United States, lauren.weber@wsj.com