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Childcare is a hellscape for most US families. Why isn’t there a bigger push for change? | US politics
In 2021, Bri Adams was pregnant with her first child and began signing up for waitlists for childcare – eight, to be exact. She was…

Self-serving Post Office bosses deserve nothing short of prison | Post Office Horizon scandal
So now we know – the Post Office Horizon scandal has not been about senior management’s incompetence and their struggles to recognise that an expensive…

Intelligent machines are already reshaping careers | Graduate careers
Your editorial rightly highlights the challenges facing today’s graduates (The Guardian view on the graduate jobs crunch: AI must not be allowed to eclipse young…

The new rules of small talk: how to nail every conversation, from first dates to weddings, parties and funerals | Social etiquette
The cliche about small talk is that everybody hates it. The misapprehension is that it has to be small. In fact, conversational interactions are objectively…

UK bosses to be banned from using NDAs to cover up misconduct at work | Employment law
Bosses in the UK will be banned from using non-disclosure agreements to silence employees who have suffered harassment and discrimination in the workplace as part…

The good, bad and ugly of life as a digital nomad | Work & careers
I enjoyed reading the stories of those who have had a taste of the nomadic lifestyle (‘My mind was shrieking: “What am I doing?”’ –…

As if graduating weren’t daunting enough, now students like me face a jobs market devastated by AI | Connor Myers
September is the beginning of many young people’s lives, as cars speed along motorways transporting 18- and 19-year-olds to their new university accommodations. I remember…

Nearly 1,000 Britons adopt permanently shorter working week after trial | Four-day week
Nearly 1,000 British workers will adopt a permanently shorter working week, after the latest trial of a four-day week and similar changes to traditional working…