Author Archive
Olga Khazan
Workforce
What Bosses Really Think of Remote Workers
COMMENTARY | People Who Work From Home Get Fewer Raises and Promotions. But There Might be a Way to Avoid the Remote-work Penalty.
Digital Government
You’re Gonna Miss Zoom When It’s Gone
For people like me, who have social anxiety, videoconferencing can be easier than in-person interactions.
Management
Americans Aren’t Actually Quarantining
Many states have quarantine requirements for visitors, but only one really enforces them: Hawaii.
Management
How to Tell If Socializing Indoors Is Safe
As the weather gets colder, many Americans have no idea whether hanging out with other people inside is risky. That’s a big problem.
Management
Why Can’t We Just Have Class Outside?
It might be the answer to America’s school-reopening problem.
Management
Why People Loot
On who looters are, what they want, and why some protests are more likely to include them.
Management
A Hidden COVID-19 Risk Factor: Your Boss
America’s flawed approach to sick leave is making the pandemic worse.
Management
We’ll Be Wearing Things on Our Faces for a Long Time
You can choose between a mask and a face shield, but you can’t choose nothing.
Workforce
Work From Home Is Here to Stay
The future of jobs after the pandemic is a blurry mix of work, life, pajamas, and Zoom.
Management
Grocery Stores Are the Coronavirus Tipping Point
Even one of the last bastions of normal American life could not escape the outbreak.
Management
Amazon Confirms First Known Coronavirus Case in an American Warehouse
Workers at the Queens, New York, facility say employees were expected to come in for their night shift after the case was identified. Amazon denies this.
Featured eBooks
Management
The Opioid Epidemic Might Be Much Worse Than We Thought
A new paper suggests that death certificates dramatically undercounted the number of people dying from opioid overdoses.
Management
What Happened to the Anti-Alcohol Movement?
Unlike in previous generations, hardly any formal organizations are pushing to reduce the amount that Americans drink.
Management
Why Opioids Are ‘An Everything Problem’
New research supports the idea that economic distress sparked the opioid epidemic. But others say the true causes are far more complicated.
Infrastructure
The Trouble With America’s Water
Lead-tainted drinking water is not only a problem in Flint and Newark.
Management
What Happens When You Don’t Pay a Hospital Bill
As Americans sink under medical expenses, debt collectors go to great—and sometimes strange—lengths to collect.
Management
The Misplaced Optimism in Legal Pot
A new study throws cold water on hopes that more liberal cannabis policies could stem the opioid epidemic.
Workforce
Frigid Offices Might Be Killing Women’s Productivity
As their goosebumps have long suggested, women perform better on tests of cognitive function at toastier room temperatures.
Management
Invisible Middlemen Are Slowing Down American Health Care
Nurses spend 16 hours on the phone, medications take months to arrive, and patients suffer as they wait.
