This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Mike Plummer, an 81-year-old REI employee in Jacksonville, Florida. Business Insider has verified Plummer's current employment. He has worked at ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Nirit Cohen covers the Future of Work, bridging trends with solutions. The future of work isn’t merely about hybrid models, remote ...

More than five years into the homeworking revolution, a narrative seems to have emerged – of employees being hauled back to the office against their will. This contrasts with what COVID taught us: ...

When I started working from home in the late 1980s as a freelance technical writer, I was clearly an outlier. Even contractors mostly went into the office in those days. Over time, though, that slowly ...

I was 16 years old when I got my first “real” job at a local Jack-in-the-Box. It was not a great gig, for sure, working over a hot grill and dealing with rude, demanding customers. But I was saved ...

I work in an office where the same floor is shared by multiple teams that don't work together, but work for the same parent company. I sit right next to a team that has a totally different job than I ...

Burnout among professional women is rising faster than it is for men, says leadership expert Meghan French Dunbar in her new book This Isn’t Working: How Working Women Can Overcome Stress, Guilt and ...

Work is an inescapable feature of the modern world. Most of us, except for a lucky few, spend a significant portion of our lives working. If this is the case, we may as well try and make it meaningful ...

Our 31st annual report finds that leading companies prioritize upskilling and retention strategies as IT expands its impact and influence across the business. What makes a company a great place to ...