Print Mode Enable Media Only

News chronological

10 items before 1151755 (Keyword: "remote-work" (~33 currently found))

AMERICANALMANAC (Alex Tanzer) - Hamptons "Tumbleweed Tuesday" fades as remote workers and influencers refuse to leave after Labor Day

The Hamptons tradition of emptying out after Labor Day is vanishing, replaced by year-round crowds that remote workers, content creators, and tourism marketers show no sign of surrendering. For more than five decades, the Tuesday after Labor Day carried an unofficial name on the East End of Long Island: Tumbleweed Tuesday. It marked the day […] The post Hamptons "Tumbleweed Tuesday" fades as remote workers and influencers refuse to leave after Labor Day appeared first on American Almanac .

The Hamptons tradition of emptying out after Labor Day is vanishing, replaced by year-round crowds that remote workers, content creators, and tourism marketers show no sign of surrendering. For more than five decades, the Tuesday after Labor Day carried an unofficial name on the East End of Long Island: Tumbleweed Tuesday. It marked the day summer visitors packed up, traffic evaporated, and locals reclaimed their towns for nine quiet months. That ritual is now, by most accounts, finished. Second-home owners who once left after the holiday weekend are filing earnings reports from places like Quogue. Influencers are staging fall content shoots in Montauk. And the region's own tourism office has actively campaigned to keep the crowds coming.…Open

AMERICANGREATNESS (Bryan Hyde) - FBI: North Korean IT Workers Infiltrating Western Workforces, U.S. Companies

North Korean IT workers are systematically infiltrating hundreds of global corporations, including multiple Fortune 500 companies and a U.S. government agency, by posing as remote […] Source

NPR (Chiara Eisner) - Bedbugs, bad Wi-Fi: Federal workers say forced summer relocations have been chaos

Federal agencies are rushing to move hundreds of workers into new buildings. Employees say the moves are significantly disrupting their work.

JUSTTHENEWS (Kevin Killough) - Federal appeals rules in favor of employee who was fired after refusing COVID vaccination

Weiss, a fully remote worker, initially received approval for her exemption from Kaiser Permanente's COVID-19 vaccine mandate, but Kaiser later revoked it after questioning her about her faith and medical history.

NPR (Scott Neuman) - West Virginia paid digital nomads to move there during COVID. Many are staying

Ascend West Virginia is one of dozens of relocation initiatives across the country offering cash and other incentives to move to states needing an economic boost. Here's how they're working out.

NYTIMES (Emi Nietfeld) - Gen Z Has Lost Its Ambition. Maybe It’s Found Something Better.

For Gen Z college graduates, the way millennials lived out their ambitions no longer makes sense.

DAILYCALLER (Paris Apodaca) - Socialist-Run Seattle Now Leads Nation In Alarming Statistic

‘Every empty floor not only represents lost rent’

NYTIMES (Talmon Joseph Smith) - U.S. Workers Are More Productive Than Ever. And That’s Without A.I.

Companies have been getting more out of employees for several years. Tight labor markets, digitization and remote work are among the reasons.

AXIOS (Erica Pandey) - Americans of all ages are spending less time socializing

Data: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics . Chart: Danielle Alberti/Axios Americans are spending less time hanging out than they were 20 years ago — and the trend cuts across every generation, Axios' Erica Pandey writes from new American Time Use Survey data . Why it matters: It's a fundamental shift in the way we live our lives that has implications for everything from what we believe to how long we live . By the numbers: Average time spent socializing per day has fallen from 45 to 35 minutes over the last 20 years. - The decline is steepest among young people: 15- to 24-year-olds went from spending an hour a day hanging out with others to 35 minutes. Between the lines: Sociologists and psychologists point to several trends driving this…

AMERICANGREATNESS (AG News Staff) - CFPB Orders Remote Employees to Relocate to Washington or Lose Jobs

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) has directed hundreds of employees who live outside the Washington area to relocate to the agency’s new headquarters or […] Source