In this Saturday edition of Business Insider Today, we're talking about taking time off from work and finding community.

From "The Hooky Book: More than 200 Excuses for Rolling in Late, Skipping Out Early and Scamming a Whole Day Off" (Apiary Inc.) by Kerry Speckman Before you even think about skipping work, look at the ...

The poll found that employees had offered some humorous reasons for calling in sick. Such excuses ranged from not being able to extricate one's arm from the cuff of a blood pressure machine at the ...

I’ve played hooky exactly twice in my life. The first time was in college, in the late 1990s, when a guy I knew convinced me I should ditch my American Literature seminar for a day of skiing. I ...

Get the best of Vancouver in your inbox, every Tuesday and Thursday. Sign up for our free newsletter. Janine Felst did not set out to become a robe evangelist. She was just trying to avoid becoming ...

Employees are struggling with burnout, but taking time off isn’t always that easy. For its latest report on out-of-office (OOO) culture, the Harris Poll surveyed 1,170 American employees over the age ...

A husband and wife working as LIRR conductors cheated the MTA out of thousands of dollars by playing hooky and punching each other’s time clocks, MTA Inspector General Carolyn Pokorny said Thursday.