Education & Workforce

U.S. job openings rose unexpectedly in September, suggesting that the American labor market is not cooling as fast as the inflation fighters at the Federal Reserve hoped.

LSU cybersecurity researchers are developing a new tool, called HookTracer, to speed up cybercrime investigations using artificial intelligence, according to a recent announcement from the university.

In the first half of 2022, productivity—the measure of how much output in goods and services an employee can produce in an hour—plunged by the sharpest rate

Baton Rouge’s not seasonally adjusted unemployment rate was 3.2% in September, down from 3.4%...

Moving forward: A stalled $100 million settlement between a dozen parishes and Freeport-McMoRan Inc....

Ever since workers moved from offices to work-from-home setups, companies have worried about how they’re spending their time. 

Restaurants have trimmed their weekly operating hours by 7.5%, or 6.4 hours, compared with...

Imagine the outrage if a manager screamed at a sales clerk for not approaching customers quickly enough the way that a coach might yell at a player on the field.  

It’s one of numerous papers, surveys, and studies attempting to assess the effect of long COVID on workers, businesses and the overall economy.

U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy wants managers to take a good, hard look at...