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☆ If You Haven’t Checked Your Mail in Weeks, You’re Not Alone
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-16 | by ( Te-Ping Chen | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

When Raleigh, N.C.-based tech worker Brittany Sharnez Turner, 29, got an irritated text message from her building management, she knew she deserved it. You’ve got mailThe text message notified all residents that if they didn’t pick up their mail in a timely fashion, management would return it to the post office. “It was all in caps,” says Turner, who’d been checking hers only every few months. “I knew I was one of the people they were yelling at.”

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The reverberations of the Israel-Hamas conflict are playing out loudly everywhere in life—except at work. The muted discussion is a sharp turn from the forceful statements and candid conversations that companies organized after #MeToo, George Floyd’s murder and anti-Asian attacks of recent years. This time, employees on many sides of the issue are criticizing their companies’ responses as tepid or tardy, and saying they feel as though leaders want to avoid the subject.

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☆ ‘I Just Wasn’t in the Mood to Work.’ American Employees Reinvent the Sick Day
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-18 | by ( Te-Ping Chen | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

The bar for taking a sick day is getting lower, and some bosses say that’s a problem. U.S. workers have long viewed an unwillingness to take sick days as a badge of honor. The number of sick days Americans take annually has soared since the pandemic, employee payroll data show. Covid-19 and a rise in illnesses such as RSV, which can require days away from work, are one reason. Managers and human-resources executives also attribute the jump to a bigger shift in the way many Americans relate to their jobs.

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☆ Bosses Have a Problem: People Are Actually Using Sick Days
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-18 | by ( Te-Ping Chen | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

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☆ The Annoying Person in Your Work Meeting Might Just Be You
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-14 | by ( Te-Ping Chen | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

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☆ Bots Are Joining Your Work Meetings. They Think You Talk Too Much.
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-13 | by ( Te-Ping Chen | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

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☆ Bots Are Joining Your Meetings and They Think You Talk Too Much
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-13 | by ( Te-Ping Chen | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

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☆ If the Job Market Is So Great, Why Do I Feel So Stuck?
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-07 | by ( Te-Ping Chen | Vanessa Fuhrmans | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

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☆ If The Job Market Is So Great, Why Do I Feel So Stuck?
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-07 | by ( Te-Ping Chen | Vanessa Fuhrmans | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

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☆ The ‘Hot’ Labor Market Isn’t Helping a Certain Group of Jobseekers
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-07 | by ( Te-Ping Chen | Vanessa Fuhrmans | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

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☆ Bosses Aren’t Just Tracking When You Show Up to the Office but How Long You Stay
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-25 | by ( Chip Cutter | Te-Ping Chen | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

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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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☆ Attention Office Resisters: The Boss Is Counting Badge Swipes
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-24 | by ( Chip Cutter | Te-Ping Chen | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

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☆ The Big Employer Still Adding Jobs and Boosting Pay: The Government
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-18 | by ( Te-Ping Chen | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

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☆ Government Is Hiring This Year and Boosting Pay: ‘We’re Booming’
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-18 | by ( Te-Ping Chen | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

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☆ Pay for New Hires Is Shriveling
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-22 | by ( Te-Ping Chen | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

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☆ The Worker Bidding War Is Over. Companies Are Cutting Pay for New Hires.
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-22 | by ( Te-Ping Chen | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

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☆ The Rise and Fall of the Chief Diversity Officer
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-21 | by ( Te-Ping Chen | Lauren Weber | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

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☆ NATO Pledges Ukraine Support Without Clear Path to Membership
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-12 | by ( ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Tech Layoffs Put H1B Visa Workers on Deadline to Find New JobsLayoffs sweeping the tech industry have not spared workers on temporary visas, known as H1Bs. They have just 60 days to find a new visa sponsored position before they are forced to leave the country. Host Zoe Thomas speaks with one worker facing this challenge and WSJ reporter Te-Ping Chen about the wider ramifications.

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☆ No One Is Happy About Diversity Efforts at Work
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-03 | by ( Te-Ping Chen | Ray A. Smith | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

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☆ Bosses’ New Task Is Figuring Out Who’s High at Work
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-22 | by ( Te-Ping Chen | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

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☆ Helicopter Parents Show Up in the Workplace
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-07 | by ( Te-Ping Chen | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

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☆ To Work Fewer Hours, They Put AI on the Job
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-31 | by ( Te-Ping Chen | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

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☆ Nine Rounds of Interviews and No Call Back: It’s Harder Than Ever to Land a White Collar Job
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-20 | by ( Te-Ping Chen | Ray A. Smith | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

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☆ A Crisis Over Child Care Is Holding Back Companies and Blue-Collar Workers
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-09 | by ( Te-Ping Chen | Photographs Wes Frazer For The Wall Street Journal | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

More companies that rely on hourly shift workers are trying to fix the child-care needs of their employees by providing it themselves. So far, few have cracked the code. Working against these companies is a lack of care, especially in rural areas where many manufacturers and other blue-collar employers operate, some companies say. Affordability, even with employer subsidies, is often a hurdle. So is providing care for parents who work nights or frequently changing shifts.

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