A CEO with a salary of millions of dollars annually kicked off a controversy by demanding his employees, most of who earn a tiny fraction of that amount, should work 90 hours a week, including Sundays. Kevin Ku/Credits Unsplash International
Time to stop burning the midnight oil
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Data suggests women do at least two and a half times more unpaid household and care work than men. Time use surveys help quantify that labour for making better policy decisions. Amit Ranjan/Credits Unsplash International
Making women’s work count, in real time
Manjula M & Sangita Dutta Gupta 2025-01-21 13:31:01
Cities in India are major transit points for trafficking of women to Middle Eastern countries. Tanmoy Bhaduri/ Flickr International
How South Asian workers land in modern slavery in the Middle East
Nilanjana Ray 2024-09-17 07:50:57
An increasingly AI-reliant economy underscores the importance of continual reskilling and upskilling. An increasingly AI-reliant economy underscores the importance of continual reskilling and upskilling. Photo by Andy Kelly. Credits Unsplash License International
AI and the gig economy deliver an opportunity
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Many workers are finding themselves re-evaluating the time and cost of a commute to the office. Many workers are finding themselves re-evaluating the time and cost of a commute to the office. International
Designing an office worth going back to
Iva Durakovic, Christhina Candido & Samin Marzban 2024-03-01 09:07:35
Women engaging in rural work in Maharashtra, India. (Gyan Shahane, Unsplash) International
Where did India’s millions of working women go?
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