Rebecca Greenfield Bloomberg

Amazon has long resisted pleas to provide a backup day care benefit for employees, even though other tech companies have offered the perk for years.

Citigroup Inc. offered an uncharacteristically blunt assessment of the pay gap between men and women in its global workforce Wednesday, revealing that female employees earn 29 percent less than men do.

A stem cell storage company that promises the chance for a longer and healthier life, Forever Labs asserts that young, healthy cells may someday be used for what Chief Executive Officer Steven Clausnitzer calls "health maintenance."

AI companies claim not only to find better candidates, but also to pinpoint those who may have previously gone unrecognised in the traditional process.

Historically, employers used past accomplishments as the sole metric for compensation decisions, premised on the idea that the past is prologue.

Workplace harassment needs to be dealt with, on utmost priority basis. And its first step, needs to be well equipped and well functioning HR Department.

The human-free video job interview is on the rise. For many of us, the experience will soon be unavoidable.

The 9-to-5 schedule doesn't conform to most people's lives or workflows. Sitting in a chair for eight hours straight doesn't produce results; many studies have established the benefits of taking breaks during work.

Chatbots, the much-hyped future of the Internet, have had a rough start in the consumer world.

After three years working at a startup, Julie Tracy wanted to leave her company so she could travel. Her employer, online lingerie retailer Adore Me, gamely threw her a going away party at a bar across the street -- a pretty standard affair until this happened: "This enormous foam check starts coming at me through the crowd," she recalls.

"Shhh, Mom. Lower your voice. Mom, you're being loud." That's how Natalie Kitroeff, a reporter at Bloomberg, spent a good bit of Bring In Your Parents Day last week. Kitroeff's mom, unfortunately, mostly ignored her daughter's requests.

Some studies indicate that women value power less than men, and the studies try to explain the phenomenon.

Amazon has long resisted pleas to provide a backup day care benefit for employees, even though other tech companies have offered the perk for years.

Citigroup Inc. offered an uncharacteristically blunt assessment of the pay gap between men and women in its global workforce Wednesday, revealing that female employees earn 29 percent less than men do.

A stem cell storage company that promises the chance for a longer and healthier life, Forever Labs asserts that young, healthy cells may someday be used for what Chief Executive Officer Steven Clausnitzer calls "health maintenance."

AI companies claim not only to find better candidates, but also to pinpoint those who may have previously gone unrecognised in the traditional process.

Historically, employers used past accomplishments as the sole metric for compensation decisions, premised on the idea that the past is prologue.

Workplace harassment needs to be dealt with, on utmost priority basis. And its first step, needs to be well equipped and well functioning HR Department.

The human-free video job interview is on the rise. For many of us, the experience will soon be unavoidable.

The 9-to-5 schedule doesn't conform to most people's lives or workflows. Sitting in a chair for eight hours straight doesn't produce results; many studies have established the benefits of taking breaks during work.

Chatbots, the much-hyped future of the Internet, have had a rough start in the consumer world.

After three years working at a startup, Julie Tracy wanted to leave her company so she could travel. Her employer, online lingerie retailer Adore Me, gamely threw her a going away party at a bar across the street -- a pretty standard affair until this happened: "This enormous foam check starts coming at me through the crowd," she recalls.

"Shhh, Mom. Lower your voice. Mom, you're being loud." That's how Natalie Kitroeff, a reporter at Bloomberg, spent a good bit of Bring In Your Parents Day last week. Kitroeff's mom, unfortunately, mostly ignored her daughter's requests.

Some studies indicate that women value power less than men, and the studies try to explain the phenomenon.