The Next Big Workplace Benefit? Helping With Your Divorce

Residents can see a 180-year-old turbine as they walk to their apartments. There’s space within the lobby of the Stone Mill Lofts, a new 86-unit rental community in Lawrence, Massachusetts, that the Architectural Team, or TAT—the design firm behind the project—calls the windows into the past. Gaze into a pane of glass set in the wall, and you can see a 180-year-old turbine, machinery preserved in amber, as you walk up to your apartment.  

If the Republican candidate pursues his immigration agenda, who will run America’s farms? As Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump campaigns for a second term in the White House, the former president has repeatedly promised to enact the largest deportation of undocumented immigrants in U. S. history. It’s a bold threat that legal experts say should be taken seriously, despite the significant technical and logistical challenges posed by deporting 11 million people from the U.

The average age of agricultural workers in Japan is nearly 69, among the oldest in the world, and older people are especially vulnerable to heatstroke. In the remote village of Kamimomi in Japan’s western Okayama prefecture, a small group of rice farmers began their most recent harvest in sweltering heat, two weeks sooner than usual.

Infinite Recycled Technologies found a way to turn big panes of glass into new products. A major New York City real estate firm is on board. Sydney Mainster had a recycling problem.

El Niño led to below-average rainfall across the region, while its impact has been exacerbated by warming temperatures linked to climate change. Months of drought in southern Africa triggered by the El Niño weather phenomenon have had a devastating impact on more than 27 million people and caused the region’s worst hunger crisis in decades, the United Nations food agency said Tuesday.

Divorce has long been considered a taboo topic at work. But things might be changing—slowly—as workplace benefits for divorce become more common. When Rebecca Feinglos decided to get divorced, it was the latest in a series of personal tragedies. “My entire life has been rooted in grief and loss, but I didn’t even know it,” Feinglos says.