The Future of Work

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• The upper echelon is hoarding money and privilege to a degree not seen in decades. But that doesn't make them happy at work.

  

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  America’s Professional Elite: Wealthy, Successful and Miserable

  The New York Times - Charles Duhigg

  My first, charmed week as a student at Harvard Business School, late in the summer of 2001, felt like a halcyon time for capitalism. AOL Time Warner, Yahoo and Napster were benevolently connecting the world. Enron and WorldCom were bringing innovation to hidebound industries. President George W. …

• From the 1970s into the ’90s, women made serious progress in the workplace. Then that progress stalled, especially at the top.

  

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  Why Aren’t Women Advancing More in Corporate America?

  The New York Times - Emily Bazelon

  More than 40 years ago, the Harvard business professor Rosabeth Moss Kanter published a pivotal book, “Men and Women of the Corporation.” Kanter showed that the disadvantages women experienced at work couldn’t be attributed to their lack of ambition: Women aspired to leadership as much as men did. …

• The co-working giant’s real product isn’t office space — it’s a new kind of “corporate culture.“

  

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  The Rise of the WeWorking Class

  The New York Times - Gideon Lewis-Kraus

  Imagine you trained an artificial intelligence on a comprehensive stock-photo set of every boutique-hotel lobby from Palm Springs to Stockholm to Milan, then connected it to a five-story 3-D printer fully furnished with pendant-dome lamps, waxy leaves and old-school hip-hop lyrics. The output would …

• Nannies and housecleaners have some of the hardest, least secure jobs in the nation. Now they’re organizing to change that.

  

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  The New Labor Movement Fighting for Domestic Workers’ Rights

  The New York Times - Lauren Hilgers

  On a beautiful April day in 2002, a woman named Ai-jen Poo walked into the River Run Playground on New York’s Upper West Side, where a cluster of Caribbean women had gathered, tending to children who were not their own. Kids ran chattering up the play structures, following the trail of a concrete …

• A living wage is an antidepressant. It is a sleep aid. A diet. A stress reliever. It is a contraceptive, preventing teenage pregnancy. It prevents premature death. It shields children from neglect.

  

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  The $15 Minimum Wage Doesn’t Just Improve Lives. It Saves Them.

  The New York Times - Matthew Desmond

  In 2014, Julio Payes was working 80 hours a week at two full-time jobs. A permanent resident from Guatemala who came to the United States on a work visa, Payes labored in Emeryville, Calif., a city of roughly 12,000 residents and almost 22,000 jobs, sandwiched between Oakland and Berkeley. He began …

• What happens when people who have trouble fitting into a traditional workplace get one designed just for them?

  

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  An Office Designed for Workers With Autism

  The New York Times - Susan Dominus

  Before Ben Hirasuna showed up for the first job interview of his life, he went for weeks at a time without leaving his parents’ home in Santa Monica. Outside, sun poured down; inside, he looked at the top of his forearm and noticed it was every bit as pale as its underside. To say Hirasuna is shy …