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Employers鈥� views changing in testing of marijuana, other drugs

December 26, 2018 at 9:16 p.m.

One of the largest U.S. drug-testing laboratories has analyzed its millions of urine drug test results by industry for the first time, and found the two industries with the highest...

Why “buycotts” could overtake boycotts among consumer activists

March 2, 2018 at 8:15 a.m.

Amid all the talk of avoiding purchases from companies affiliated with the National Rifle Association in the aftermath of the massacre in Parkland, Florida, plenty of consumers are also planning...

Alex Crook, a photographer with Seattle ...

Why Amazon built its workers a mini rain forest inside three domes in downtown Seattle

February 3, 2018 at 6:24 p.m.

Microsoft employees have treehouses. Apple workers have what's been called a spaceship. And now Amazon's staffers have a rainforest - or at least something like one - right in the...

According to the Computing Research Association, female students earned just 16 percent of computer science bachelor鈥檚 degrees in the U.S. in 2015.

The 50 best jobs in America, according to Glassdoor

January 27, 2018 at 6:49 p.m.

America's corporations have been hiring armies of data scientists and data engineers as they collect exponentially larger amounts of data about their customers, their businesses and their markets.

In this April 30, 2015, file photo, Tesla Motors CEO Elon Musk unveils the company's newest products, in Hawthorne, Calif. Electric car maker Tesla has added another product to its lineup: Solar roof tiles. As of Wednesday, May 10, 2017, customers worldwide could order a solar roof on Tesla's website.

Elon Musk’s pay deal could theoretically be worth $55.8 billion — but he could also get nothing

January 23, 2018 at 8:45 p.m.

Tesla outlined a potentially massive - and massively unconventional - compensation plan for its unorthodox CEO on Tuesday, setting a series of ambitious growth targets that, if various conditions are...

An initiative that failed to make the Denver ballot in November 2017 sought to spend city money 鈥� as much as $8 million every four-year election cycle 鈥� to publicly fund political campaigns.

World’s largest money manager to CEOS: You must do good for society

January 20, 2018 at 7:35 p.m.

More than 1,000 global CEOs received a letter Tuesday from one of the world's most influential money managers with a pointed message: Simply posting good financial returns is no longer...

These three companies have made this best workplaces list for 10 consecutive years

December 6, 2017 at 6:59 p.m.

Glassdoor released its 10th annual list of the best-reviewed workplaces by employees on Wednesday, and Facebook is ranked No. 1, topping the list for the first time since 2013.

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Why sexual harassment training doesn’t stop harassment

November 17, 2017 at 11:39 p.m.

From Hollywood to the halls of Congress, suddenly no American workplace seems safe. And the topic of harassment training has taken center stage.

Men carrying briefcases walk in Berlin, Germany.

Apprenticeships, long common in blue-collar industries, are coming to white-collar office work

October 21, 2017 at 10:00 a.m.

Andrew Skelnik grew up in what he calls a "strong blue-collar background" in Chicago. The word "apprenticeship," to him, meant learning a similar skilled trade: He was waitlisted for two...

A surprising number of men think women are “well represented” when just 1 in 10 executives is female

October 10, 2017 at 9:11 p.m.

The survey, by consulting giant McKinsey and the Sheryl Sandberg-funded women's organization Lean In, shows a sharp divide between how men and women view their companies' efforts at advancing women.

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