Workplace
Shift work and the body clock
A primer on non-day schedules — who works them, what federal safety research says about the health evidence, and which scheduling design rules follow from it.
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Workplace: Jobs and Careers
Workplace looks at the job itself: pay and benefits data, staffing and scheduling practices, automation on the shop floor and office, and the conditions surveys and statistics actually measure.
Pay data, staffing, scheduling, automation and the working conditions shaping jobs, grounded in federal statistics and company filings.
Workplace
Workplace surveillance and the law
Most workplace monitoring is lawful, with notice required in a minority of states; this explainer covers what can be tracked, disclosed and challenged.
Workplace
Algorithmic management at work
The NLRB's general counsel told regions in 2022 to treat algorithmic management as a labor law problem; this analysis maps where software-made decisions meet the act.
Workplace
Reading employer health data
A primer on the federal sources behind workplace health coverage statistics — Census coverage counts, BLS employer-cost series and plan documents — and how not to mix them.
Workplace
Why hospital staffing falls short
GAO found hospital labor costs spiked on contract nurses during the pandemic; this explainer covers ratio laws, the retention record and the unresolved outcomes debate.
Workplace
Automation on the warehouse floor
Robotics now touch most large-fleet e-commerce orders while warehousing injury rates run near double the private-industry average; the two facts are connected.
Workplace
What scheduling laws do to hours
Fair workweek ordinances require advance notice and premium pay for changes; evaluations find instability falls without measurable hour losses.
Workplace
Overtime and the salary threshold
A primer on who qualifies for overtime under the FLSA, the duties tests, and where the salary floor stands after the 2024 vacatur.
Workplace
How OSHA counts injuries at work
A plain-language guide to what the recordkeeping rule logs, what the annual rate measures, and what both miss.
Workplace
The union pay gap, in the 2024 data
The Bureau of Labor Statistics' annual union file puts a number on the weekly earnings difference between covered and uncovered workers.