Steven Greenhouse is an American labor and workplace journalist and writer. He covered labor for The New York Times for 31 years until he left the newspaper in 2014. On December 2, 2014, he announced on Twitter: "Thanks All. With great ambivalence, I'm taking NYT buyout. I plan to write a book & still write lots of articles on labor & other matters". He has contributed as an occasional op-ed writer to The New York Times since February 2015.