Jobs
Our Columnists
An Impressive Jobs Report Shows the U.S. Economy Powering Into an Election Year
Strong employment growth and improving consumer sentiment are good news for any Presidential incumbent seeking reëlection.
Our Columnists
Americans Are Finally Starting to Feel Better About the Economy
Consumer sentiment, among Democrats and Republicans, has jumped sharply in the past two months. That’s encouraging news for Joe Biden.
Shouts & Murmurs
One Woman’s History of Unpaid Labor in Romantic Relationships
Including but not limited to working as a dog-walker and trainer and acting as a public-relations specialist.
Annals of Inquiry
What Happens When Jobs Are Guaranteed?
In a small Austrian village, an experimental program finds—or creates—work for the unemployed.
Campaign Chronicles
Can Organized Labor Win Back Wisconsin?
The Senate race between Ron Johnson and Mandela Barnes is a battle between two visions of how jobs are made and kept.
Our Columnists
Biden Heads for the Midterms with Ten Million New Jobs
Inflation is still a cause for concern, but no other President has had this pace of job growth in their first two years in office.
Daily Cartoon
Daily Cartoon: Monday, September 12th
“Quiet quitting was O.K. for a while, but loud quitting gave me the results I wanted.”
Shouts & Murmurs
If You Want This Job, We Must Interview You Forever
We loved your role-play with Benjamin Franklin! We want to hire you, probably.
Cultural Comment
The New Season of “Industry” and the Rise of Workplace TV
Not since “Mad Men” has a show had so much fun exploring the shadowy chaos that can develop when too many young people spend too much time at the office.
Shouts & Murmurs
Other Great Resignations
Because working for someone else has always been insufferable.
Our Columnists
How the U.S. Economy Defied Omicron to Add Nearly Half a Million Jobs
More people worked from home, but employers kept hiring, giving the Biden Administration an unexpected political lift.
Our Columnists
Joe Biden Starts to Make His Economic Case
Inflation is a big challenge, but job growth reached record levels in 2021 and wages rose for many low-paid workers.
Letter from Fuling
China’s Reform Generation Adapts to Life in the Middle Class
My students from the nineteen-nineties grew up in rural poverty. Now they’re in their forties, and their country is unrecognizable.
Office Space
Revisiting “The 4-Hour Workweek”
How Tim Ferriss’s 2007 manifesto anticipated our current moment of professional upheaval.
Our Columnists
When It Comes to Jobs: It’s the Pandemic, Stupid
More than any other factor, the spread of COVID is limiting how many Americans are able to find work.
Our Columnists
It’s Still the Coronavirus Economy
A disappointing jobs report shows that mass vaccination hasn’t yet broken the link between the pandemic and our economic fortunes.
Office Space
Why Are So Many Knowledge Workers Quitting?
The coronavirus pandemic threw everyone into Walden Pond.
Our Columnists
Three Big Takeaways from a Strong July Jobs Report
The Biden economy is growing, but there’s a great need, and a great potential, for further job growth.
The New Yorker Radio Hour
The Battle Over Britney Spears’s Conservatorship
Ronan Farrow and Jia Tolentino speak with David Remnick about the pop star’s legal fight to regain control of nearly all aspects of her life.