Workplace
A leadership summit sells culture. Who actually buys it?
The Inspired Culture Summit's ticket tiers reveal what companies pay for personal transformation, and what workers get left holding.
The current edition
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
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.
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.