Exit Interview
A series of conversations about being fired, retired, aged out, and laid off
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Projects
Human Capital
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Robyn Beck / Getty A New Kind of Labor Movement in Silicon Valley
Employees at Google and elsewhere are protesting their bosses’ business decisions. Will that evolve into a more sustained labor movement?
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The Unfree
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Olivia Harris / Reuters Forced Labor Is the Backbone of the World’s Electronics Industry
Poor people around the world are streaming into Malaysia in search of factory work. Once they arrive, they often find only hardship.
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Cities Remade
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Lucy Nicholson / Reuters America's (Relatively) Dismal Showing at the Winter Olympics
Despite individual triumphs and memorable moments, Team USA had its worst performance in 20 years.
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Drew Angerer / Getty Colin Kaepernick, Nike, and the Myth of Good and Bad Companies
The brand’s alignment with the embattled NFL star is nothing more than smart business.
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Nick Oxford / Reuters The Viral Success of a Strike No One Can See
Inmates around the country have managed to engage the public in their ongoing prison protest through a targeted media strategy.
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Neilson Barnard / Getty Tiffany’s Sparkly Surge Reflects a Divided Moment in America
The jewelry company credits a hip-hop–inflected ad campaign for its success. It should credit the wealth gap as well.
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Kevin Lamarque / Reuters Trump’s NAFTA Strategy: Bluff, Rebrand, Declare Victory
The president’s announcement that he was “terminating” a free-trade agreement means less than he said.
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Matt Cardy / Getty The Speedy Rise and Fall of Robot Babysitters
Automation has given rise to new jobs in robot minding—but the flurry of opportunities may be short lived.
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Bobby Yip / Reuters How Does This Bull Market End?
Probably the same way it began.
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Women Who Weld There’s a Shortage of Welders. Will More Women Fill the Gap?
Past efforts to attract women to welding have had underwhelming results. New programs aim to change that.
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Molly Riley / AFP / Getty A Woman’s Paycheck Is Influenced by Her Hometown—Even If She Doesn’t Live There Anymore
In a new study, economists find women from places where sexist attitudes prevail end up earning less later in life.
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Evgenii Bobrov / Vovan / Shutterstock / Jack ... Teaching Kids to Code During the Summer—for $1,000 a Week
Are private summer camps exacerbating tech's diversity problem?
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Timothy A. Clary / Getty Missouri’s Labor Victory Won’t Reverse the Decline of Unions
Organized labor has enjoyed public support for decades. It’s still dying.
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Yoshikazu Tsuno / Getty Are Japan's Part-Time Employees Working Themselves to Death?
The country's labor policies, and a tight job market, have some people cobbling together 70-hour work weeks out of multiple jobs.
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Donald Heupel / Reuters Why Aren’t There More Indra Nooyis?
The CEO of PepsiCo is stepping down after spending 12 years of ushering the brand into the future. But the landscape for female executives hasn’t changed all that much.
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Irene Rinaldi What Your Boss Could Learn by Reading the Whole Company’s Emails
Employee emails contain valuable insights into company morale—and might even serve as an early-warning system for uncovering malfeasance.
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Spencer Platt / Getty Summer Jobs Programs Aren't Enough
Ensuring teens are employed for six-week stints can keep them out of trouble, but that doesn’t always mean long-term employment success.
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Aran Shetterly The Upside of Career Restlessness
Margot Lee Shetterly, the author of Hidden Figures, on figuring out when to leave a job
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Joshua Roberts / Reuters Jeff Bezos’s $150 Billion Fortune Is a Policy Failure
Growing inequality in the United States shows that the game is rigged.
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Isabel Seliger / Sepia What It Takes to Be a Trial Lawyer If You’re Not a Man
In more than a decade of arguing cases in court, I’ve witnessed the stubborn cultural biases female attorneys must navigate to simply do their jobs.
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Laurent Fievet / Getty Why Young Chinese Artists Are Avoiding Political Art
Artists in China seem to be moving away from political pieces toward more abstract works.
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Frederick Brown / Getty A Crack in the Ivanka Trump Brand
The president’s daughter is closing her ailing fashion line—further proof that nothing is apolitical in the Trump era.
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Alastair Grant / AP Why Is It So Hard to Find an Umpire Uniform for Women?
Women are starting to break into a male-dominated field, but the attire isn’t quite catching up.
