Content by Angie Basiouny
Can the US Embrace a Four-Day Workweek?Three Wharton experts don’t hold out hope for change

Wed, 10/05/2022 - 12:01
When Wharton management professor Matthew Bidwell first came to the U.S. from England in the 1990s, he was struck by the dogged American work ethic. “It was a culture that was much more organized around work than in the UK,” he recalls. “When I was…
Is Workplace Loyalty Gone for Good?The postwar days of lifers, gold watches, and pensions are past and gone

Tue, 07/12/2022 - 12:03
Walter Orthmann has worked for the same textile manufacturer in Brazil for more than 84 years, setting the Guinness World Record last month for longest career at a single company. It’s a remarkable stretch, considering American workers now spend a…
Why Women Are Leaving Male-dominated STEMNew research from Wharton’s Tiantian Yang shows how rejection dampens job-seeking persistence for women in male-dominated fields
Mon, 07/07/2025 - 14:51
A new study from Wharton management professor Tiantian Yang finds that when women are rejected for contract jobs in male-dominated fields, specifically IT and computer programming, they are far less likely than men to continue looking for work in…