Inside the Social World of Shift-Scheduling Apps

By John Herrman
NYT Style
There’s no such thing as remote restaurant work. But there is HotSchedules.
Published date: September 18, 2020 at 06:33PM
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How to Save Restaurants

By Priya Krishna
NYT Opinion
Rebuilding the restaurant business requires a new model for its labor.
Published date: September 10, 2020 at 12:00PM
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Why Black Workers Will Hurt the Most if Congress Doesn’t Extend Jobless Benefits

By Emily Badger, Alicia Parlapiano and Quoctrung Bui
NYT The Upshot
An extra $600 a week smoothed out sharp differences in benefits among states, and among the people who live in them.
Published date: August 7, 2020 at 12:00PM
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Is It OK That I Haven’t Told My Parents I Was Fired?

By Kwame Anthony Appiah
NYT Magazine
The magazine’s Ethicist columnist on why it can be hard to tell family you’ve lost your job, whether to collect unemployment benefits and more.
Published date: August 4, 2020 at 12:00PM
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If Congress Cuts Jobless Benefits, ‘It Would Be a Disaster’

By Talmon Joseph Smith
NYT Sunday Review
Six unemployed Americans on what losing $600 a week would mean to them.
Published date: July 22, 2020 at 12:00PM
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As the Virus Deepens Financial Trouble, Colleges Turn to Layoffs

By Daniel McGraw, Shawn Hubler and Dan Levin
NYT U.S.
The University of Akron this week became one of the first schools in the country to make profound cuts in the number of full-time professors on its staff. Others might have to follow.
Published date: July 17, 2020 at 02:16AM
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How to Give Workers a Raise Without Employers Paying for It

By Bharat Ramamurti and Lindsay Owens
NYT Opinion
There’s a solution that can appeal to laid-off workers, their employers and perhaps Senate Republicans too.
Published date: July 6, 2020 at 02:00AM
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The Nordic Way to Economic Rescue

By Peter S. Goodman
NYT Business Day
In the face of the pandemic, Denmark is effectively nationalizing private payrolls, in contrast to the patchwork American system.
Published date: March 28, 2020 at 11:00AM
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With His Job Gone, an Autoworker Wonders, ‘What Am I as a Man?’

By Sabrina Tavernise
NYT U.S.
Rick Marsh worked in the car plant in Lordstown his entire life. Now that job is gone. What does that mean for his politics?
Published date: May 27, 2019 at 03:00PM
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What Happens to a Factory Town When the Factory Shuts Down?

By Photographs by Latoya Ruby Frazier
NYT Magazine
For more than 50 years, life in Lordstown, Ohio, revolved around the G.M. plant at the edge of town. In March, the plant ceased production. This is what their crises looks like.
Published date: May 2, 2019 at 04:24AM
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China’s Slowdown Already Hit Its Factories. Now Its Offices Are Hurting, Too.

By ALEXANDRA STEVENSON and CAO LI
NYT Business
White-collar workers face job cuts and shrinking paychecks even in go-go industries like technology, suggesting the economic pain is broader than official figures show.
Published date: March 14, 2019 at 05:04PM
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‘Not All Fun and Memes’: BuzzFeed News Employees Plan to Form a Union

By JACLYN PEISER
NYT Business
A reporter for the site estimates the effort has the support of “90 percent” of eligible employees. The BuzzFeed founder Jonah Peretti has spoken against the idea.
Published date: February 13, 2019 at 01:20AM
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