In the publication Quality of Employment in Canada, the days not worked due to strikes and lockouts indicator measures annual changes in the number of person-days and hours not worked due to labour disputes. The article examines data compiled by Employment and Social Development Canada and the Labour Force Survey to better understand trends in hours lost due to labour disputes.
Opinion | 5-Hour Workdays? 4-Day Workweeks? Yes, Please (Published 2019)
Sick of round-the-clock work emails and Slack messages? Here’s some hope.
Work less, get more: New Zealand firm's four-day week an 'unmitigated success'
Reduced hours for same pay increased successful work-life balance management, cutting stress levels and boosting commitment
Why working fewer hours would make us more productive
A shorter working week could improve our mental and physical health and even mitigate climate change, research shows
3.5%, general strikes, and goals
This article is posted here in full from the Binding Chaos community. Join now to read all the articles in full as soon as they come out! There has been a lot of talk about a general strike in the …
2026 State of the Workplace
Get the latest insights from state of the workplace report spanning more than 443 million hours of work activity across 1,111 organizations and 163,638 employees over three years.
Employment protection legislation reforms and the rising cost of job loss
A widely cited argument in favour of easing employment protection rules is that greater flexibility in hiring and firing can lead to increased job matching efficiency and productivity, but this may come at a cost for certain groups of workers. This column examines the impact of the 2012 ‘Fornero Reform’ in Italy, which lowered the legal and financial risks associated with dismissals for employers in order to encourage firms to offer more open-ended contracts and thus help bridge the divide between permanent and temporary employment. In practice, the reform increased the cost of job loss, particularly for younger and more vulnerable workers.
Swedish Six-Hour Workday Runs Into Trouble: It’s Too Costly
Swedes looking forward to a six-hour workday just got some bad news: the costs outweigh the benefits.
Do Employers Have More Monopsony Power in Slack Labor Markets?
This article confronts monopsony theory’s predictions regarding workers’ wages with observed wage patterns over the business cycle. Using German administrative data for the years 1985 to 2010 and an estimation framework based on duration models, the authors construct a time series of the labor supply elasticity to the firm and estimate its relationship to the unemployment rate. They find that firms possess more monopsony power during economic downturns. Half of this cyclicality stems from workers’ job separations being less wage driven when unemployment rises, and the other half mirrors that firms find it relatively easier to poach workers. Results show that the cyclicality is more pronounced in tight labor markets with low unemployment, and that the findings are robust to controlling for time-invariant unobserved worker or plant heterogeneity. The authors further document that cyclical changes in workers’ entry wages are of similar magnitude as those predicted under pure monopsonistic wage setting.
China proposes first labour regulations to protect 84 million platform workers
The draft requires that payment cycles not exceed one month and holiday work be paid at a higher rate, but it does not specify by how much.
Exclusive: The $2 Per Hour Workers Who Made ChatGPT Safer
A TIME investigation reveals the difficult conditions faced by the workers who made ChatGPT possible
Handbook of Labor Economics
What new tools and models are enriching labor economics?Developments in Research Methods and their Application, Volume 4A summarizes recent advances in the ways economists study wages, employment, and labor markets. Mixing conceptual models and empirical work, contributors cover subjects as diverse as field and laboratory experiments, program evaluation, and behavioral models. The combinations of these improved empirical findings with new models reveal how labor economists are developing new and innovative ways to measure key parameters and test important hypotheses. - Investigates recent advances in methods and models used in labor economics - Demonstrates what these new tools and techniques can accomplish - Documents how conceptual models and empirical work explain important practical issues
When we say work can wait, we mean it. Really.
We recently had a problem with our interns. Now, in terms of problems, it was a good one to have. I noticed some of them working on their days off or very late/early hours. That’s not how we roll h…
Job-seeking graduates with disabilities launch hunger strike as protest enters 21st day
Job-seeking graduates with disabilities began a hunger strike unto death on Saturday, marking the 21st consecutive day of their protest demanding immediate government action on their five-point charter of demands. The strike, organized by the Chakri Pratyashi Protibondhi...
Work for only 3 hours a day, but everyday | plumshell
I am an indie iPhone developer, and I've been working for 3 hours everyday for almost 2 years now. It may not work for everybody, but I started this habit in early 2014, and I have continued to do it since have I found that this is the most productive way to work for me.
Minneapolis Police were once used as strike breakers • Minnesota Reformer
The Minneapolis Police union was used to violently break up strikes, most infamously in the summer of 1934. Other unions are now cutting ties.
How the Six-Hour Workday Actually Saves Money
A Swedish experiment may have missed the bigger picture of how shorter days can mean long-term profit.
