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The 2.20.22 Issue — The Future of Work

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  1. The Future of Work Issue

    The Age of Anti-Ambition

    When 25 million people leave their jobs, it’s about more than just burnout.

     By Noreen Malone

    CreditIllustration by María Jesús Contreras
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    Babies Have Entered the Chat

    Up close and personal with work-from-home parents — and their unruly new colleagues.

     By Amy X. Wang and Hannah Whitaker

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  3. The Future of Work Issue

    See (the Worst People in) the World!

    How defiant Covid-era customers turned a dream job — flight attendant — into a total nightmare.

     By Maggie Jones

    CreditIllustration by George Wylesol
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    ‘Nurses Have Finally Learned What They’re Worth’

    As the coronavirus spread, demand for nurses came from every corner. Some jobs for travelers paid more than $10,000 a week. Will the boom last?

     By Lauren Hilgers

    Kulule Kenea became a traveling nurse in March 2020.
    CreditGeorge Etheredge for The New York Times

  1. Hating Your Job Is Cool. But Is It a Labor Movement?

    Inside the rise and fall of r/antiwork — the Reddit community that made it OK to quit, but couldn’t quite do anything else.

     By Oliver Whang

    CreditIllustration by George Wylesol
    The Future of Work Issue

  2. Tech Companies Face a Fresh Crisis: Hiring

    Recruiters in tech are desperate for workers. But candidates are the ones who hold all the power.

     By Susan Dominus

    Tiffany Dyba is a tech recruiter struggling to place people in vacant jobs.
    CreditNaima Green for The New York Times
    The Future of Work Issue

  3. Do Today’s Unions Have a Fighting Chance Against Corporate America?

    For the workers who haven’t joined the Great Resignation, this moment has inspired a new wave of organizing — and a brutal pushback.

     By E. Tammy Kim

    CreditIllustration by María Jesús Contreras
    The Future of Work Issue

  4. Should We Fire Our Unvaccinated Babysitter?

    The magazine’s Ethicist columnist on balancing personal loyalties against possible Covid exposure in this phase of the pandemic.

     By Kwame Anthony Appiah

    CreditIllustration by Tomi Um
    The Ethicist

  5. Chicken and Potatoes With Commanding Flavor

    Country Captain is a Southern classic with roots in the British Empire. This Anglo-Indian version is simple yet luxurious.

     By Ligaya Mishan

    CreditLinda Xiao for The New York Times. Food stylist: Maggie Ruggiero. Prop stylist: Sophia Pappas.
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  1. Watching This Movie Taught Me It Was OK to Fail

    Gena Rowlands’s destabilizing brilliance in “Opening Night” turned out to be the reassurance I needed.

     By Andrew Key

    CreditIllustration by Kristina Tzekova
    Letter of Recommendation

  2. ‘Law & Order’ Is Having an Identity Crisis

    The franchise has always portrayed the police as flawed but ultimately good. The latest spinoff does away with that ambivalence.

     By Pete Tosiello

    CreditPhoto illustration by Aaron Marin
    Screenland

  3. He Could Barely Walk, and He Was Seeing Double. What Was Wrong?

    Could he be having a stroke — or was it something more unusual?

     By Lisa Sanders, M.D.

    CreditPhoto illustration by Ina Jang
    Diagnosis

  4. How to Count Polar Bears

    Get an aerial vantage. If you spot fresh tracks, follow them until you find an animal.

     By Malia Wollan

    CreditIllustration by Radio
    Tip

  5. Poem: Kingdom

    A poem that’s a spiteful elegy against the indifference surrounding a death.

     By Joyelle McSweeney and Victoria Chang

    CreditIllustration by R. O. Blechman

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