Exit Interview
A series of conversations about being fired, retired, aged out, and laid off
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Projects
Human Capital
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Karl Moor / Getty / Katie Martin / ... Jimmy O. Yang Spent Years Getting Ready for Crazy Rich Asians
The actor worked in finance and at a strip club before committing to comedy.
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The Unfree
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Olivia Harris / Reuters Forced Labor Is the Backbone of the World’s Electronics Industry
Poor people around the world are streaming into Malaysia in search of factory work. Once they arrive, they often find only hardship.
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Cities Remade
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Lucy Nicholson / Reuters America's (Relatively) Dismal Showing at the Winter Olympics
Despite individual triumphs and memorable moments, Team USA had its worst performance in 20 years.
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Timothy A. Clary / Getty Missouri’s Labor Victory Won’t Reverse the Decline of Unions
Organized labor has enjoyed public support for decades. It’s still dying.
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Yoshikazu Tsuno / Getty Are Japan's Part-Time Employees Working Themselves to Death?
The country's labor policies, and a tight job market, have some people cobbling together 70-hour work weeks out of multiple jobs.
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Donald Heupel / Reuters Why Aren’t There More Indra Nooyis?
The CEO of PepsiCo is stepping down after spending 12 years of ushering the brand into the future. But the landscape for female executives hasn’t changed all that much.
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Irene Rinaldi What Your Boss Could Learn by Reading the Whole Company’s Emails
Employee emails contain valuable insights into company morale—and might even serve as an early-warning system for uncovering malfeasance.
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Spencer Platt / Getty Summer Jobs Programs Aren't Enough
Ensuring teens are employed for six-week stints can keep them out of trouble, but that doesn’t always mean long-term employment success.
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Aran Shetterly The Upside of Career Restlessness
Margot Lee Shetterly, the author of Hidden Figures, on figuring out when to leave a job
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Joshua Roberts / Reuters Jeff Bezos’s $150 Billion Fortune Is a Policy Failure
Growing inequality in the United States shows that the game is rigged.
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Lucas Jackson / Reuters Are Stock Buybacks Starving the Economy?
A new report finds that big companies could have given their workers thousands of dollars’ worth of raises with the money they spent on their own shares.
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Isabel Seliger / Sepia What It Takes to Be a Trial Lawyer If You’re Not a Man
In more than a decade of arguing cases in court, I’ve witnessed the stubborn cultural biases female attorneys must navigate to simply do their jobs.
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Laurent Fievet / Getty Why Young Chinese Artists Are Avoiding Political Art
Artists in China seem to be moving away from political pieces toward more abstract works.
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Frederick Brown / Getty A Crack in the Ivanka Trump Brand
The president’s daughter is closing her ailing fashion line—further proof that nothing is apolitical in the Trump era.
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Alastair Grant / AP Why Is It So Hard to Find an Umpire Uniform for Women?
Women are starting to break into a male-dominated field, but the attire isn’t quite catching up.
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JR Cabansag Are Universities Training Socially Minded Programmers?
Four Stanford engineers started a club for students interested in using their skills for social good. But then came job-recruiting season.
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Aleksandra Michalska / Reuters How Much Damage Will Trump’s Trade War Do?
Higher prices, slowing growth, mounting layoffs—and the indirect costs may be even greater.
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Brian Snyder / Reuters Say Hello to Full Employment
Want to know where the economy is headed? Look at Des Moines.
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Santi S / Africa Studio / hansslegers / ... Code Now. Pay Tuition Later.
Coding schools are offering free classes in exchange for a percentage of future income. But at what cost?
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J. Scott Applewhite / AP Is This the End of Public-Sector Unions in America?
Despite a crippling decision by the Supreme Court, unions say they have a plan forward.
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Leonardo Santamaria The Overlooked Children Working America’s Tobacco Fields
Kids as young as 10 and 11 are picking cash crops for giant international companies—and hardly anyone is watching to make sure the work is safe.
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Talia Herman The Immigrants Fueling the Gig Economy
The short-term promise of easy cash can trap individuals in bad long-term conditions.
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Katie Martin / The Atlantic The Subtle and Not-So-Subtle Force of Ageism
“So often, I see signs that they’re looking for someone younger. Ads ask for ‘digital natives’ and people who ‘live, eat, and dream social media.’”
