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Silicon Valley financial software giant Intuit to pay back $555,000 to 2,600 workers over missed overtime payments

Fri, 07/12/2024 - 05:54

A photo of a sign for financial software company Intuit at the company's headquarters in the Silicon Valley town of Mountain View, California. — Intuit is paying more than $555,000 in back wages to workers over missed overtime payments.
Smith Collection/Gado/Getty Images

Tech, Intuit, department-of-labor, Jobs, Work, Employment, trending-uk

13 successful people who got their start working in fast food

Thu, 07/11/2024 - 11:40

obama ice cream — Barack Obama worked at Baskin-Robbins scooping ice cream before becoming president.
Larry Downing/Reuters

Food, Retail, Features, fast-food, junk-food, Food, McDonalds

Some workers say they're still 'coffee badging,' or swiping into work to show their faces before quickly returning home

Tue, 07/09/2024 - 14:42

Woman passing through security check in a office building holding coffee and scanning in her employee ID badge — Coffee badging refers to workers who swipe in at the office solely to meet return-to-office requirements but don't do much work there, instead leaving quickly to finish their work elsewhere.
kotijelly / Getty Images

Careers, Strategy, Tech, Work, RTO, return-to-office, remote-work

A public sector 4-day workweek trial had practically no drawbacks, researchers found

Tue, 07/09/2024 - 07:00

Two people with laptops working in an office — Delmaine Donson/Getty Images

Careers, insider-news, flexible-work, 4-day-workweek, future-of-work, Work

Dating a carpenter taught me my career is not my identity. He doesn't worry about getting laid off and just focuses on the next job.

Sun, 07/07/2024 - 06:38

Nia Springer-Norris and her partner, Tom, standing in front of bookshelves. She is wearing a yellow printed dress and he is in a red t-shirt and jeans. — Nia Springer-Norris and her partner work in different industries and learn from each other.
Courtesy Nia Springer-Norris

Careers, health, Careers, health, health-freelancer, Essay, Work

Work friends are over and maybe that's actually fine

Thu, 06/27/2024 - 05:47

Tech Insider : Economy

A sad Dog working at a desk with a post it note saying — Work friendships are dying out, and it may be for the best.
Martin Barraud/Getty, claylib/Getty, AndyL/Getty, Mark Weiss/Getty, vauvau/Getty, Tyler Le/BI

Careers, economy, Discourse, Work, work-friends, Careers, remote-work

America's crisis of meaningless work

Wed, 06/26/2024 - 05:32

Tech Insider : Economy

Image of a statue thinking and a briefcase. — Americans are increasingly feeling like their jobs are meaningless. It could be why they aren't engaged at work.
Ricardo Tomás for BI

American workers are not all right.

economy, Careers, Discourse, Work, Meaning, employee-engagement, job-satisfaction

Don't skip that happy hour: Why losing work friendships is bad for everyone

Sun, 06/23/2024 - 05:32

Tech Insider : Economy, Economy

paper chain of people holding martinis — juliaart/Getty, 5second/Getty, Tyler Le/BI

economy, Careers, economy, Careers, Work, remote-work, Hybrid

The latest sign of America's broken work culture: 'quiet vacationing'

Thu, 06/20/2024 - 05:57

Tech Insider : Travel, Economy, Travel

3d illustration of a laptop with pool items on top. — People are going on trips without telling their bosses, and it's a sign of how messed up the American workplace culture can be.
akinbostanci/Getty Images; Jenny Chang-Rodriguez/BI

Careers, Discourse, Travel, economy, quiet-vacationing, Work, Travel

Gen Z and millennial NEETS are on the rise — many say they'd rather do nothing than be unhappy at work

Thu, 06/20/2024 - 05:45

Tech Insider : Economy

Woman standing in front of a moving train — A cohort of young people would rather wait things out and be "idle" until they find the right job.
Vuk Saric/Getty Images

economy, Careers, neets, gen-z, Millennials, gen-zers, zoomers

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