WASHINGTON — Unemployment zoomed to 8.5 percent last month, the highest in a quarter-century, as employers axed 663,000 more workers and pushed ...
AP | ALEX VEIGA | Posted 05.03.2009 | Business
LOS ANGELES — Free granite countertops, swimming pools and landscaping aren't going to convince anyone who's afraid of losing a job to buy a hom...
Martha St Jean | Posted 05.03.2009 | Business
Being smart, young and Ivy League educated does not keep you from being one of the twelve million four hundred sixty-seven thousand of Americans out of a job.
Alex McCord | Posted 05.03.2009 | Entertainment
I had some good meetings as well. There's the licensing of a clothing line, a cosmetics company looking for a face, a product line looking for an ambassador, and commercial opportunities.
Nanette Lepore | Posted 04.30.2009 | Style
The worst has happened, the moment I dreaded. I have had to succumb to the hellacious economy and cut my staff.
Dave Astor | Posted 04.30.2009 | Comedy
Many Americans don't care that newspapers are hemorrhaging jobs, but laid-off journalists wandering the streets could become a quality-of-life issue.
Stephen Viscusi | Posted 04.29.2009 | Business
Today's career fairs seem anything but "fair" to me. Approach those companies that don't appear to be looking. Another secret if you're unemployed is to offer yourself to employers on a "per-project" or "temp" basis.
Joan Williams | Posted 04.26.2009 | Business
Employers with telecommuting and flexible programs that really work are finding that these new ways to work can enhance their competitive position in a recession.
Tom Doctoroff | Posted 04.23.2009 | World
What explains the dramatic difference in how Japanese and Chinese people absorb the financial crisis?
Telegraph | Andrew Pierce | Posted 04.20.2009 | Green
Tim Nicholson's commitment to green causes was enshrined in law by an employment tribunal as a "philosophical belief" under the Employment Equality (R...
AP | DANIEL LOVERING | Posted 04.17.2009 | Business
PITTSBURGH — Caterpillar Inc. on Tuesday announced plans to lay off more than 2,400 employees at five plants in Illinois, Indiana and Georgia as...
MediaWorks | Nat Ives | Posted 04.17.2009 | Media
NEW YORK (AdAge.com) -- Conde Nast is planning cuts as soon as this week to Richard Beckman's Conde Nast Media Group, which handles more than 80% of t...
Dr. Susan M. Guthrie | Posted 04.16.2009 | Living
Dear Dr. Susan, Although I don't like my job, it's been perfect for me because my daughters are young and my bosses are great about letting me take time off when they're sick. Should I stay?
Ralph Gomory | Posted 04.16.2009 | Business
While it is tempting to blame the succession of economic crises on greedy executives, sub-prime mortgage pushers and others of that ilk, it is in fact much more a system problem than a sudden widespread collapse of human nature.
Nicole Williams | Posted 04.16.2009 | Living
These are cutthroat times, and even the smallest mistake could put your name on the layoff list if it's not handled correctly.
Dave Astor | Posted 04.15.2009 | Comedy
At a time when financial bigwigs have made a mess of the U.S. economy, the deserved scorn heaped upon these greedy "masters of the universe" poses a problem for people with blue-blood monikers like mine.
Martin Kearns | Posted 04.12.2009 | Politics
Those who are suddenly jobless lose the connections that are so vital to fighting their way back into the workforce. Internet access could help eliminate or at least alleviate many of those challenges.
Ken Dychtwald Ph.D. | Posted 04.12.2009 | Living
Perhaps it's time to make the transition from the pursuit of more to the pursuit of more important.
Jon Santiago | Posted 04.11.2009 | Business
I now think the "Main Street" perception of recklessness in the ivory towers of Wall Street, which initially struck me as too emotional and unfounded, is partially accurate.
John Wagner Givens | Posted 04.09.2009 | World
In the world's biggest annual migration every Chinese New Year over one hundred million internal migrants take a break from their jobs and studies in ...
Lee Stranahan | Posted 04.09.2009 | Business
Understanding the difference between the bad economy and the changing economy could be the key difference between just squeaking by in tough tough times and prospering.
Annabelle Gurwitch | Posted 04.06.2009 | Politics
We should really think twice about making instant judgments. Sometimes what smells like "pork" is really just smoked tofu.
Penny Herscher | Posted 04.06.2009 | Business
There's evidence that the number of layoff announcements and reported layoff events has started to drop.
Hale "Bonddad" Stewart | Posted 04.06.2009 | Business
Since the recession began, we've lost 4.4 million jobs or 53%. There is no way to spin those numbers as anything except terrible.
AP | JEANNINE AVERSA | Posted 04.06.2009 | Business
WASHINGTON — Tolling grimly higher, the recession snatched more than 650,000 Americans' jobs for a record third straight month in February as un...
AP | JEANNINE AVERSA | Posted 05.04.2009 | Business