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Future of Work

Vox’s coverage of the future of work: how we got here and what comes next.

The pandemic could have crushed WeWork. It may have saved it instead.

By Rani Molla

The future of the office has been put on hold

By Rani Molla

Why you can’t help screwing around while working from home

For remote employees, meetings and deep work are now coupled with online shopping, soothing puzzles and video games, and an array of other distractions.

By Eleanor Cummins

Facebook is the latest major tech company to let people work from home forever

By Shirin Ghaffary

Office work will never be the same

By Rani Molla

This is the end of the office as we know it

By Rani Molla

How coronavirus has changed US employment, in 6 charts

By Rani Molla

A coronavirus recession will mean more robots and fewer jobs

By Rani Molla

Not everyone is laying off workers because of coronavirus. These are the most in-demand jobs right now.

By Rani Molla

Working from home can make people more productive. Just not during a pandemic.

By Rani Molla

Microsoft, Google, and Zoom are trying to keep up with demand for their now free work-from-home software

By Rani Molla

10 cities captured nearly 50% of the growth in new tech jobs

By Rani Molla

How coronavirus could force the work-from-home movement

By Rani Molla

Meet the women suing America’s biggest companies over equal pay

A spate of lawsuits against giants from Google and Twitter to Nike and Goldman Sachs reveals the growing frustrations of women in pursuit of the C-suite.

By Alexia Fernández Campbell

90 percent of growth in high-tech jobs happened in just 5 metro areas

By Rani Molla

“Knowledge workers” could be the most impacted by future automation

By Rani Molla

WeWork is reportedly in talks to hire a new CEO, and he’s a character

By Rani Molla and Shirin Ghaffary

85 percent of WeWork’s white-collar employees don’t think Adam Neumann’s $1.7 billion exit package is fair

By Rani Molla

Leaked transcript: Read what WeWork’s new chairman told anxious employees at an all-hands meeting

By Shirin Ghaffary

Tech companies are now leasing more office space than ever

By Rani Molla

The WeWork mess, explained

By Rani Molla and Shirin Ghaffary

Robots aren’t taking warehouse employees’ jobs, they’re making their work harder

By Shirin Ghaffary

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How remote work is quietly remaking our lives

Working from anywhere: the good, the bad, the lovely.

By Rani Molla

If you think WeWork is in trouble now, just wait until the recession hits

By Rani Molla

The WeWork CEO’s outsize power is one reason the company is imploding

By Rani Molla

Startups still love Slack but big companies are bailing

By Rani Molla

Big Tech is “scary” because it wants to be the solution to everything, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio says

By Eric Johnson

Uber and Lyft say they don’t plan to reclassify their drivers as employees

By Shirin Ghaffary

The Wing wants to fight gender bias in hiring by helping its members hire each other

By Eric Johnson

Workers need to be part of the conversation about UBI, says “Beaten Down, Worked Up” author Steve Greenhouse

By Eric Johnson

Uber and Lyft just lost another battle in California

By Alexia Fernández Campbell

How WeWork is trying to justify its tech company valuation

By Rani Molla and Shirin Ghaffary

Why Amazon pays warehouse employees to tweet about their jobs

By Rani Molla

Some Uber and Lyft drivers say they were misled into petitioning against their own worker rights

By Shirin Ghaffary

If Slack is so good, why are so many companies trying to fix it? 

By Rani Molla

Foreign tech workers are turning to Canada as US immigration becomes more difficult

By Rani Molla

How much Google contractors say they get paid compared to full-time employees

By Rani Molla

How can you prepare for the future of work? The answer is not “learn to code.”

By Eric Johnson

Full Q&A: 99designs CEO Patrick Llewellyn on Recode Decode

By Eric Johnson

Full Q&A: DoorDash CEO Tony Xu and COO Christopher Payne on Recode Decode

By Eric Johnson