I give all my employees August off on full pay. Here's how it works and why it's boosted productivity.

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Jo Hunter is CEO and co-founder 64 Million Artists.

Jo Hunter

If you work remotely, your bosses are probably using software to track you. Here's how they'll catch you slacking off.

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More US businesses are using employee-tracking software to monitor remote workers.

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Just under half of North American office-goers came in for less than 6 hours a day in the first half of 2023

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Just under half of North American office-goers come in for less than 6 hours a day, a new study says.

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No one can agree on whether remote work is making employees more productive

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AI is going to eliminate way more jobs than anyone realizes

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A glitchy liquid tidal wave hurls towards a group of gray cubicles with concerned workers looking upon the looming threat. The background of the scene is a glitchy bright green.
The AI revolution is about the crash into the global economy and upend millions of jobs.

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A tidal wave is about to crash into the global economy. 

The AI boom will wipe out jobs — and there's not really much we can do about it, Paul Krugman says

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Paul Krugman
Nobel Prize winner Paul Krugman said AI will wipe out some white-collar jobs — and it will be hard to design government programs to help.

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The remote work revolution is crashing into a cold reality: Research is finding workers are less productive at home

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Jeff Moriarty and Kate Ecke.

Jeff Moriarty, Kate Ecke

People who choose to work from home are actually less-productive when they do so, new research suggests. An author behind the research explains why.

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A new study on worker productivity found that those who work from home are also likely to be constrained by other responsibilities, like childcare or household duties.

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New research finds that fully remote workers are less productive than their in-office counterparts

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More employers are pushing for workers to return to the office in a hybrid role or full-time.

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How the heat wave is hurting your productivity at work

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A woman cools off with fans and mist during a heat wave at the Australian Open tennis tournament in Melbourne on January 15, 2014.

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