Career Planning/Management

Rarely has such a robust labor market been so thoroughly scoured for signs of impending doom. Does this mean you should lower your salary expectations the next time you are up for a promotion or a new job? Or settle for a job with more…

The demand for U.S. workers has led some manufacturers, technology firms and other employers to ditch the annual raise and switch to more frequent pay reviews as they compete for talent and keep pace with rising wages.CoorsTek Inc., a maker…

New York Times Co. NYT 0.75% is resisting a unionization effort by its technology workers and is battling the newsroom’s main union over the creation of new holidays as labor strife at…

Work holiday parties—much like return-to-office plans—are all over the place this year.Some companies are keeping gatherings virtual or small due to continuing concerns about Covid-19, while others, eager to send a return-to-normal message,…

They launched careers in the years after the 2007-09 recession and only recently hit their stride in earning power. Now some young professionals are quitting their jobs with no Plan B. With several years in the workforce…

When Kristi Fox, chief HR officer of a financial-services firm in St. Paul, Minn., helped prepare the office for in-person work in May, she and her colleagues came up with the idea to offer free breakfast and lunch in their cafeteria on…

Indianapolis It had been 619 days without baseball at Victory Field, but outfielder Chris Sharpe felt calmer than he expected for the Indianapolis Indians’ May 11 home opener. He chalks it up to the day job he took up…

Jackie Cuevas has read a lot of lackluster emails from job seekers. One particularly uninspired entry last May prompted the 30-year-old human-resources manager to take to TikTok. In a 55-second video posted to her…

After months of experimenting with remote work, your company is calling you back to the office. “It’s been weighing on me,” Christina Marcellino, a 34-year-old business development manager for a law firm, says of the back-to-work question.…