In the largest published UK pilot, 56 of 61 companies kept the shorter week after the trial ended — and the measured effects on revenue, sick days, and quitting ran in one direction.
Sofia Lindqvist · August 28, 2026More than 200 US counties now have no local news outlet at all, and the counties losing newsrooms are disproportionately poorer and older — a documented market failure with civic bills that arrive later.
Hana Kimura · August 26, 2026
Boeing announced plans in October 2024 to cut about 17,000 jobs — one in ten employees — while 33,000 machinists were on strike over wages, a collision of a restructuring and a walkout with consequences already reaching supplier towns.
Jay Douglas · August 24, 2026
Sixty days' notice is the whole of the federal promise — and the record shows how often it is narrower, shorter, or unenforced than the phrase suggests.
Sofia Lindqvist · August 21, 2026
Pilots from the U.K. to U.S. local government documented stable output on fewer days, and the companies that kept it reveal the pattern behind the promises.
Sofia Lindqvist · July 23, 2026
The FTC's 2024 ban died in a Texas courtroom, but the state-by-state revolt against noncompetes has quietly made them unenforceable for millions of workers.
Sofia Lindqvist · June 30, 2026Labor force participation at 65-plus has roughly doubled since the 1980s, and the documented reasons mix finances, longevity, and jobs that finally fit.
Sofia Lindqvist · June 7, 2026Working from another state can create filing obligations, employer withholding duties, and audit exposure that neither you nor HR fully tracks.
Sofia Lindqvist · May 16, 2026
Hundreds of Fortune 500 companies promised emission cuts by 2025 and 2030. The scorecards now published against those pledges show a widening gap between announcement and delivery.
Jay Douglas · February 9, 2026
As Amazon, JPMorgan and a wave of other employers end hybrid work, the coffee shops, lunch counters and dry cleaners ringing their office towers are the first to feel the difference.
Hana Kimura · August 12, 2026
Hundreds of empty superstores litter the American landscape, and the documented reuse record shows what towns did with a hundred thousand square feet they never asked for.
Hana Kimura · July 27, 2026
Immigrants open businesses at higher rates than the U.S.-born, and the documented geography of that entrepreneurship is the corner store in the recovering town.
Hana Kimura · July 5, 2026
Federal law gives most large employers a fixed 60-day window to warn workers before a plant closes or a mass layoff hits. California adds its own version, with its own math on what workers are owed when a company skips it.
Jay Douglas · August 15, 2026
Tech companies promised to skill the workforces their tools would change, and the documented record shows what the billions bought and whom they reached.
Jay Douglas · August 10, 2026Companies announce hundreds of millions after every hurricane and wildfire, and the follow-through audits document the gap between the press release and the check.
Jay Douglas · July 18, 2026Employers channel billions in employee hours toward community service, and the evaluation record shows when the hours build something and when they merely photograph.
David Jordan · June 25, 2026
Federal law lets laid-off workers keep their employer health plan for up to 18 months. It says nothing about making the premium affordable.
David Jordan · August 19, 2026
Census-matched mobility data documents that a child's odds of climbing from the bottom quintile vary severalfold by county, and the research now names the neighborhood features that move them.
David Jordan · August 1, 2026Millennial homeownership trails prior generations at the same age, and the documented wealth gap compounds with every year the door stays shut.
Sofia Lindqvist · July 9, 2026Formal volunteering fell by roughly a quarter in the latest federal survey round, a documented slide with waiting lists forming where committees used to.
David Jordan · June 16, 2026
A financing tool built to help owners sell small businesses to their own employees has been gutted by a citizenship-verification rule, the nonprofit that helped design the program says.
Jay Douglas · August 10, 2026
Nearly eight hundred thousand franchise establishments employ millions, and the documented economics of ownership, fees, labor, and the joint-employer fight, define who profits.
Jay Douglas · August 5, 2026Corporations spent billions directing procurement to minority- and women-owned firms, and after 2023 the programs retreated faster than the announcements that built them.
Jay Douglas · July 14, 2026E-commerce warehouses automated furiously while warehouse employment grew for a decade, and the recent flattening documents the moment the two lines crossed.
Jay Douglas · June 21, 2026