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Walmart is giving out 740,000 Samsung Smartphones to store employees as the retail giant rolls out a new app for its workforce
As part of the Me@Walmart app rollout, Walmart will offer 740,000 workers a new Samsung Galaxy XCov…
Áine Cain
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This chart is proof that US worker productivity is not dead
"Instead, small firms are increasingly likely to cite labor quality and costs as their biggest prob…
Myles Udland
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Worries about the election could be cutting into some workers' productivity
Election stress can impact workers' productivity. One expert says managers should be sensitive to p…
Tim Paradis
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The benefit that pays for itself and increases worker productivity
Working parents with childcare benefits are more likely to stay at their company long-term and miss…
Allie Kelly
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Worker productivity is screeching to a halt and it may be the government's fault
"Griliches and Gordon, among others, have argued that the value added of many service sectors and o…
Bob Bryan
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The drop in worker productivity today means an increase tomorrow
"For example, if Q1 real GDP is revised down to -0.8%, it brings the two-quarter growth rate from Q…
Akin Oyedele
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Email might be making American workers less productive
"As Fed chairman, Ben Bernanke used edward.quince@frb.gov, a pseudonym to avoid 'extraneous emails.…
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Hybrid workers are happier and just as productive as office workers, new study says
There are ton of benefits and not too many downsides to hybrid work, according to a new study publi…
Lakshmi Varanasi
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Here's How Climate Change Could Hurt Workers' Productivity
Warmer countries tend to have lower productivity and GDP in general, which has been backed by years…
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Your coworkers aren't less productive because they're 'quiet quitting.' They're just new to the job.
"Quiet quitting" isn't to blame for recent dips in worker productivity, an economist says. Instead …
Jacob Zinkula
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Elon Musk said working from home during the pandemic 'tricked' people into thinking they don't need to work hard. He's dead wrong, economists say.
Insider spoke to three economists who said a shift toward remote work has not damaged worker produc…
Isobel Asher Hamilton
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Older bosses can hurt the productivity of Gen Z and millennial workers
Gen Z and millennial workers are seeing their productivity take a hit partly because of friction wi…
Tim Paradis
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If the minimum wage were $24 an hour and tied to worker productivity, a long-held trickle-down myth might actually come true.
The $7.25 minimum wage hasn't changed in 12 years and is a national embarrassment, writes Paul Cons…
Paul Constant
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People who choose to work from home are actually less-productive when they do so, new research suggests. An author behind the research explains why.
Workers who prefer to work from home are less-productive when they do so, a new study suggests. Oth…
Lakshmi Varanasi
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In landmark industry move, Lamborghini to implement 4-day workweek for production workers
It is the first agreement of its kind in the European auto industry that reduces working hours with…
Sebastian Cahill
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Here are the service industries whose workers got more productive last year
The chart shows change in hours worked along the horizontal axis, and changes in output along the v…
Andy Kiersz
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I work at Amazon and I plan on 'coffee badging' instead of working from the office 5 days a week
One Amazon employee based in Germany told BI that the return-to-office mandate is a "betrayal."
Jyoti Mann
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Here's who you should sit next to at work if you want to be more productive
Researchers at Harvard Business School, who analyzed the data of more than 2,000 employees over a t…