In Kampala and other Ugandan cities, around 86% of the urban workforce is informally employed–that is, employed without legal and social protection either independently or by small, unregistered local ...

Photo by Valentina Giarre on Unsplash. If you ever paid your neighbor’s brother-in-law to put up a screen door on your house and you paid in cash – or venison – you and your handyman-for-hire have ...

There is a dentist in Mitchell County, North Carolina who often gets paid in art. Artists who don't have health insurance will offer something like a painting or a sculpture in exchange for dental ...

Young people across Asia are facing growing struggles in securing decent employment, with millions trapped in low-paying, unstable jobs that offer little room for advancement. A new World Bank report ...

NEW YORK (Reuters Life!) - Informal networks at work are fostering inequality and preventing women from advancing their careers and breaking through the glass ceiling, according to new research.

Hi, I'm Reese Alexander. Today, I'm describing the best way to deal with informal rules at work. Informal rules are part of every organizations informal culture, or the ways people behave outside of ...

CIUDAD JUAREZ – Although Lara has not been able to cross the border for her job cleaning houses for 20 months, the 45-year-old woman said she never lost contact with her El Paso employers. With this ...

A Syrian worker in a garment factory celebrating Independence Day In late April 2025, the Jordanian Ministry of Labour announced that the government had deported over 3,000 foreign workers for ...

Compared to urban residents, more people in rural areas engage in the informal economy, like home repair and subsistence food production, among other things, according to rural sociologists. There is ...