Most federal holidays take place on Mondays or Fridays in 2026, creating natural opportunities for long weekends.

For those with 11 vacation days, for example, the company recommends 11 different trips to optimize their PTO, including ...

Here's how you can make 18 PTO days into 55 days of longer breaks: Request PTO for Friday, Jan. 2 For Birthday of Martin Luther King Jr. (Monday, Jan. 19) Request PTO for Friday, Jan. 16 ...

Employee engagement is at a 10-year low. Here are five practical leadership tips from Selena Rezvani’s Quick Leadership to help managers lead with clarity and trust.

Lounge chairs on the Castello Baunei rooftop in Sardinia, Italy. Somehow, we're mere weeks away from the end of 2025. If you're reflecting on the year gone by, asking, "Where did the time go?!" over ...

A company is being criticized after attempting to strip away employee benefits for some of its staff just to give them to others. Framed as a type of "donation program," but in reality something far ...

Unlimited PTO (paid time off) has become one of the most talked-about perks in modern workplaces. The promise is simple: employees can take as much time off as they need, promoting work-life balance, ...

A large number of Americans are using PTO to sleep rather than take a vacation, according to a new report. An Amerisleep.com survey of more than 1,200 Americans revealed that 37 percent used vacation ...

Anthropic has begun rolling out a small but significant update to Claude. Starting today you can use the chatbot to create and edit Excel spreadsheets, documents, PowerPoint slide decks and PDFs. In ...

Johnny C. Taylor Jr. tackles your human resources questions as part of a series for USA TODAY. Taylor is president and CEO of the Society for Human Resource Management, the world's largest HR ...

Q. I currently keep a static to-do list, and I would like to update it to be more dynamic. Do you have any advice? A. Microsoft Excel is best known for crunching numbers, but it’s also a powerful tool ...