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The push for a four-day workweek has gained momentum during the coronavirus pandemic, but a shorter workweek may not resonate on Wall Street.

Wages and salaries rose at a healthy pace in the three months ended in June as employers competed to find enough workers to fill millions of available jobs.

“Sheep shearing is mostly a mental game. Doesn’t really matter about how strong you are, it’s about whether you can hack it for that many hours.”

The economy has improved and lawmakers are unlikely to offer another tax break to those who collected unemployment benefits this year, experts said.

About 38% of people who got their first installment of benefits in June had waited more than three weeks, the official barometer for a “timely” payment.

This week, Lyft announced it will push its September return date by six months until February 2, 2022, far outpacing what many other companies are doing.

When Microsoft unveiled its new Viva platform earlier this year, it was sizing up a $300 billion market for employee communications and engagement.

Child-care centers around the country still have closed classrooms because they do not have enough staff to open to full capacity.

“The pandemic really highlighted for a lot of people how important it is to have an emergency fund,” said Michelle Brownstein, a certified financial planner.

The pandemic put financial stress on college students and many chose to drop out or take time off. The Latinx student population was among the hardest hit.

Average hourly wages grew 3.6% in June relative to last year, the most in more than a decade. But has inflation mitigated that increase?

The uptick in Covid cases, as well as new CDC guidance, could be a blow to employers planning to bring office employees back to the workplace in the fall.

Walmart associates will no longer have to pay a $1-per-day fee to participate in the company’s education program.

As more employees settle into remote work for the longer term, companies are faced with a great deal of complexity around tax and compliance with employment laws.

The coronavirus pandemic created a feeling of a “lost year” for a lot of college graduate. This is part of CNBC’s “College Voices” series.

Asking yourself these four key questions can help you decide if you should accept a counteroffer from your current job, or take the new job.

Entertainers often run into state and local income tax issues for working outside of their home state. Here’s how to avoid such problems, financial experts say.

“I believe there’s going to continue to be hybrid offerings,’ said Shellye Archambeau, a director at Verizon, Nordstrom and Roper Technologies.

While plans for bringing workers back to the office are top of mind for many companies, there’s another crisis that’s far from resolved: child care.

The NHS Covid-19 app was downloaded 161,000 times last week, according to App Annie, up from 131,000 in the previous week.