The industry is pumping ever more oil and natural gas, but it is doing so with only about three-quarters as many workers as it employed a decade ago.
Category: Careers and Professions
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Should You Consult H.R. About a Conflict With Your Manager?
Don’t count on human resources to take your side in a workplace issue, especially if it involves a conflict with your boss.
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How Three Small Independent Coffee Shops Started Their Businesses
The owners began their businesses with no college degrees and 100 percent grit. A visit from the TikTok food critic Keith Lee also helped.
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We Gave Workplace Advice. Readers Shared What They’d Do Instead.
Some readers have their own opinions about the workplace advice that this columnist doled out over the past six months.
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DealBook Summit: Women Need More Help to Rise in the Workplace
A DealBook Summit panel said a lack of helpful policies was hindering female advancement, while freezing eggs to postpone motherhood did not always work out.
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Must I Share My Story?
A reader asks whether she needs to let her new colleagues, most of whom work remotely, know that she is undergoing chemotherapy treatments.
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Do Coding Boot Camps Make Sense in an A.I. World?
Coding boot camps once looked like the golden ticket to an economically secure future. But as that promise fades, what should you do? Keep learning, until further notice.
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How to Handle Trash Talk at Work
One of my co-workers criticized another in Spanish. Should I tell them that they were understood?
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How High School Graduates Can Improve Their Earnings Potential
New research shows that 73 “launchpad jobs” can help those without a four-year college degree advance and achieve higher pay.
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How to Manage an Employee Whose Health Issues Affect Performance
Health issues are affecting a worker’s performance. But is the real problem her supervisor’s handling of the situation?
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Work Advice: How Can I Get My Male Boss to Notice Me?
When there are men in the room, a female colleague is made to feel invisible.
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How Walmart’s Donna Morris Manages the Largest Work Force in America
With 1.6 million U.S. employees under her watch, the company’s chief people officer faced a unique challenge just weeks into her new job: a pandemic.