As Americans spend more of their time in the workplace, reporters are finding new ways to expand coverage of the on-the-job issues facing employees.

Whether he likes it or not, the average American spends as much time, if not more, interacting with his coworkers and bosses as he does with family and friends. But it's only been fairly recently that the media has taken this trend seriously enough to assign dedicated reporters to the workplace beat. "Over the past five ...