Alexia Elejalde-Ruiz – Page 72

As Mariano’s grows, its workers’ careers grow too

May 9, 2019 at 2:49 p.m.

"Give me an M!" Every few minutes, someone in the sea of lime-green Mariano's T-shirts would start the chant, and a chorus of fellow hairnet-topped employees would enthusiastically respond. "M!"...

Martha Galewski, left, helps JD Hiudt at the Yelp office inside the Merchandise Mart in Chicago on Oct. 16, 2015.

What’s Yelp’s rating among its own employees?

May 9, 2019 at 2:49 p.m.

Nine a.m. finds many office workers trudging to their desks gripping coffee. But at Yelp's offices in the Merchandise Mart, the music is thumping. Sales reps in headsets are pacing,...

Commune Hotels: Where core values don’t have to be boring

May 9, 2019 at 2:49 p.m.

Amid the leather couches and engraved dark woods and roaring fireplaces in the Chicago Athletic Association's stately lobby, you might hear Jane Kalenga laughing loudly or, on occasion, see her...

Thresholds: Grueling work but a lot of heart

May 9, 2019 at 2:49 p.m.

It takes a certain constitution to work at Thresholds, a nonprofit that serves people with serious mental illness. The front-line staff may spend their days on "L" trains, or in...

There are many writeable surfaces as well as some murals at Capital One.

Capital One: Cultivating a startup mentality at a banking institution

May 9, 2019 at 2:49 p.m.

This summer, Capital One unveiled The Shop. It spans the 22nd floor of 77 W. Wacker Drive, 14 floors above the financial services firm's main downtown offices, with an ethos...

Workers assemble a truck at Ford Motor Company's Ohio Assembly Plant on Aug. 12, in Avon Lake, Ohio.

Ford, UAW reach tentative agreement on 4-year contract

November 18, 2019 at 10:29 p.m.

Ford Motor Co. and the United Auto Workers union have reached a tentative agreement on a new four-year contract that would affect some 5,225 Chicago-area employees. The bargaining team unanimously...

How companies plan to deal with minimum wage increases

June 16, 2018 at 12:25 p.m.

With state and city minimum wage increases poised to kick in across the country, how do companies plan to adjust? Nearly three-quarters say they don't plan to boost the pay...

Bring your parents to the office. No, really.

June 16, 2018 at 12:43 p.m.

There is a day for bringing your kids to work and another designated for pets. For employees who have neither — or who can't get enough of showing off their...

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's office building in Washington.

$13M penalty for background check errors that cost jobs, hurt reputations

June 16, 2018 at 1:07 p.m.

Two of the nation's largest employment background screening providers must pay $13 million after a federal agency found that inaccuracies in their reports may have cost applicants jobs or hurt...

Alyson Marquiles, from left, Natalie Marquiles and Dan Marquiles buy a ticket for "The Martian" at the Glenview Arclight Cinemas.

How ArcLight Cinemas hopes to get you off the couch and into its chairs

June 16, 2018 at 12:18 p.m.

ArcLight Cinemas, a Los Angeles-based luxury movie theater chain, quietly opened its 14-screen multiplex this week atop the NewCity shopping complex in Lincoln Park, the most recent entrant to a...

All Stories