Companies have become “very comfortable undermining” ADA labor protections, experts say.
Long Covid Disabled Millions of Workers. Then Came Trump 2.0.
Companies have become “very comfortable undermining” ADA labor protections, experts say.
Stanford professor: "The workplace is killing people and nobody cares" - Fast Company
From the disappearance of good health insurance to the psychological effects of long hours, the modern workplace is taking its toll on all of us.
Trump’s deep public health cuts hinder response to record US cyclosporiasis outbreak
Experts say layoffs, reduced disease surveillance and Medicaid cuts have made the foodborne parasite more difficult to track and contain
The Company Trump Can’t Ignore
The president wanted to unleash AI. Then came Anthropic.
Hospital crisis and mental health cuts show Labor has run health system into the ground | The Australian Greens
The Victorian Greens say revelations of massive deficits across Victoria’s hospitals, alongside explosive reports that Labor gutted the state’s mental health watchdog, reveal a public health system being starved of the funding it needs.
I tell this story periodically, but it seems like it's time again: General Motors ran an automobile manufacturing plant in Fremont, California, that was one of the worst in the country. Accident rates and defects were astronomical. Absenteeism
I tell this story periodically, but it seems like it's time again:General Motors ran an automobile manufacturing plant in Fremont, California, that was one of the worst in the country. Accident rates and defects were astronomical. Absenteeism was through the roof. They decided…— Allen Holub. https://linkedIn.com/in/allenholub (@allenholub) December 4, 2025
This is the end of the office as we know it
The pandemic already pushed millions to work from home. Many of them will likely go back to a very different office.
What do we know about how to support mental health and wellbeing during the COVID-19 pandemic from past infectious disease epidemics? - DEP
Trickle-down workaholism in startups
“And then I said anyone not willing to break their backs working for me was a tourist!”If you want to understand why so many startups become infected with unhealthy work habits, or outright workaho…
Yale School of Public Health - COVID-19 and Immune System Impacts
Freedom Now | Polity: Vol 52, No 3
Left-wing politics is resurgent. Self-proclaimed socialists are unexpectedly popular. Proposals like universal health care are a commonplace of Democratic campaigns. But there is not yet a clear, unifying idea behind this political shift. We propose that that idea is freedom. While the left once understood freedom as emancipation from the economy, the right spent the twentieth century neutralizing and appropriating the idea of freedom by reinventing the economy as the true site of freedom. To reclaim freedom as a value of the left, we have to begin with the daily experience of most people: the unfreedom of the workplace. The authoritarian organization of work is not just an offense against freedom; it also helps us understand how freedom requires emancipation both from the economy and within the economy, and why that emancipation requires mass struggle.
Nathan Witkin on Twitter / X
Does anyone disagree that pretty much every piece of empirical evidence we have about actually existing AI points toward a labor-augmenting technology with a more-or-less ordinary risk profile (no worse than cars, guns, nuclear power, social media, etc.)?On the labor front, the…— Nathan Witkin (@NateWitkin) October 5, 2026
A Meta employee gets real about the horror of working there right now
Crying in the shower. Taking mental health leave. This is what it’s like to work at the tech giant during the AI job apocalypse.
The Scourge of Worker Wellness Programs
Employers have become obsessed with improving the health of their employees. But does it do anyone any good?
