I saw an article a few weeks back that didn’t sound quite right to me. The writer, a journalist, interviewed several people who said they’d been looking for part-time work without success. Some had ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Rachel Wells is a writer who covers leadership, AI, and upskilling. Part-time jobs may be elusive, but the idea of working ...

At first, getting laid off from her job at a marketing tech firm in June of 2022 was shocking and depressing for Sam Popp, 33, who had also been furloughed from a different company briefly in 2020.

Listen to more stories on the Noa app. Several years ago, to research the novel I was writing, I spent six months working in the warehouse of a big-box store. As a supporter of the Fight for $15, I ...

Ms. Waldman’s forthcoming novel, “Help Wanted,” takes place in a big-box store. Back in 2018, with an eye to writing a novel about low-wage work in America, I got a job at a big-box store near the ...

The labor force continues to evolve as freelance and part-time work popularity is on the rise, with just over a third of us workers now partaking in one of the two. But it's not just a means to an end ...

Involuntary part-time employment reached unusually high levels during the last recession and declined only slowly afterward. The speed of the decline was limited because of a combination of two ...