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Employee rants about work problems and how easy they’d be solved, but management would rather throw a pizza party

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Forbes

‘Work Hours Lost By The Millions:’ A New Index Is Tracking The Cost Of The Child Care Crisis

Thanks to previously unpublished Labor Department data, KPMG is now reporting the number of U.S. workers each month who are cutting their hours due to a lack of child care options. KPMG, the ...
CNN

Most employees think it’s OK to talk about mental health at work. Some still don’t do it, survey finds

World events, work problems, illness, financial issues — there are plenty of unhappy stressors that can harm an employee’s mental health. “People are coming (into work) with a lot more than what is on ...
ZDNet

The four-day week will solve some of work's biggest problems - but only if companies can adapt

Knowledge workers have made up their minds about how they want work to look from now on. For most, that means not having to drag themselves out of bed and into an office five days a week – or at all, ...

Inventory issues prompt worker concerns at Springfield rail car plant

The Trump administration is reportedly concerned that CRRC is using parts and materials created by child laborers or by the ...
The Conversation

Drink problems at work got much worse during the pandemic – here’s how employers can tackle them

Lisa Rodgers is a member of the Industrial Law Society Ian Hamilton does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, ...
Entrepreneur

The Most Common Work From Home Problems — And How to Solve Them.

The following is an excerpt from The Remote Worker’s Handbook, the new book from Entrepreneur Press, available now at Amazon, Entrepreneur and Barnes & Noble. Miriam Groom, an industrial and ...
Psychology Today

7 Work Problems Only Highly Sensitive People Will Understand

It's a sad truth that the work world doesn't understand highly sensitive people. But at 15 to 20 percent of the population, highly sensitive people (HSPs) aren't rare—in fact, almost every workplace ...
ZDNet

Remote work is the new normal. But the tech problems won't go away

When COVID-19 hit, little thought was given by business leaders to fine-tuning the work-from-home experience of their employees. If things worked slowly, it didn't matter: at least, they worked. The ...
Just The News

Hegseth promises to fix barracks, but work could take time

Secretary of War Pete Hegseth has pledged to tackle longstanding issues with U.S. military barracks that have frustrated troops, lawmakers, and taxpayers for decades. In a recent social media post, He ...
Forbes

5 Common Problems Plaguing Remote Workers And What To Do About Them

Alina Clark is a member of Business Journals Leadership Trust and co-founder of CocoDoc, a software development company based in the U.S. Flexible scheduling and working from home have quickly become ...
The University of Chicago Chronicle

Social work, explained

Social work is a field of study and profession aimed at addressing problems in society—from educational inequality to health disparities to child and family welfare. Whether they practice directly ...