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WIRED

Science Explains Why We Should All Work Shorter Hours in Winter

People tend to get gloomy when night comes early and cold weather descends. But adjusting our workday to the season could …

TED

How to turn off work thoughts during your free time

Feeling burned out? You may be spending too much time ruminating about your job, says psychologist Guy Winch. Learn how to …

The Wall Street Journal

Inside the Bank Where Almost Every Employee Is a Gig Worker

At Standard Chartered, a ‘talent marketplace’ lets workers take on in-house ‘gigs’ to smooth the way for AI adoption. And the …

The Register

Managers are throwing entry-level workers under the bus in race to adopt AI

Does it work? Inconclusive. Still, 55% of business leaders say that adopting AI is worth the impact on workers.

Newsweek

Americans Are Using PTO to Sleep, Not for Vacation—Report

A large number of Americans are using PTO to sleep rather than take a vacation, according to a new report.

An Amerisleep.com …

Rik Huijzer

Companies are Lying About AI Layoffs

Companies are saying that the economy and AI are causing the large amount of tech layoffs, but Vanessa Wingårdh looked at the …

The Budget Lab at Yale

Evaluating the Impact of AI on the Labor Market: Current State of Affairs

Overall, our metrics indicate that the broader labor market has not experienced a discernible disruption since ChatGPT’s …

Fortune

Gen Z job crisis: Maybe there are just too many college graduates now

Amid the debate over AI’s role in limiting job opportunities for Gen Z, there is also the fact that for decades many parents …

Reuters

Britain to introduce compulsory digital ID for workers

The British government said on Friday it would require every employee to hold a digital identity document, Prime Minister …

WorkLife

The hidden talent pool: Why hiring managers may want to cast their nets in rural America

As companies struggle with talent shortages, millions of motivated midcareer workers in America’s rural communities remain …

Hacker News

Has anyone else been unemployed for over two years?

How are you coping?

Wall Street Journal

How to Handle a Job Market That’s Worse Than It Looks

It’s time to change your attitude and approach as the gloomier employment picture comes into focus.

Wall Street Journal

Seattle, Tech Boomtown, Grapples With a Future of Fewer Tech Jobs

Amazon and Microsoft remade the Seattle area. Now its economy is feeling the pain of the industry’s pullback.

Yahoo Finance

Top economists and Jerome Powell agree that Gen Z’s hiring nightmare is real—and it’s not about AI eating entry-level jobs

The dramatic rise in unemployment among Americans under 25—especially recent graduates—has become one of the most troubling …

The Guardian

How thousands of ‘overworked, underpaid’ humans train Google’s AI to seem smart

Contracted AI raters describe grueling deadlines, poor pay and opacity around work to make chatbots intelligent.

Financial Times

Why AI is sending hiring practices backwards

‘AI overwhelm’ is driving some recruiters to favour people they know already, or have employed before.

Behavioral Scientist

Why We Spiral

You’re 12 minutes late to the weekly staff Zoom. Once you’ve “joined audio,” the first thing you hear is the boss’s voice. …

Raconteur

Three-minute explainer on… polyworking

The nine-to-five job is no longer the whole story. A growing number of employees now hold more than one job at the same time. …

The Guardian

Calling boss a dickhead was not a sackable offence, tribunal rules

Woman who was immediately sacked when she insulted her manager during a row wins unfair dismissal case.

Bloomberg

US Job Openings Fell in July to Lowest Level in Nearly a Year

US job openings fell in July to the lowest in 10 months, adding to other data that show a gradually diminishing appetite for …

The Washington Post

Why it’s the toughest time to be searching for work in America in years

Tariff uncertainty, stubbornly high inflation and rising AI adoption are giving rise to labor market gridlock.

CNBC

AI adoption linked to 13% decline in jobs for young U.S. workers, Stanford study reveals

The study revealed that workers between the ages of 22 and 25 have experienced a 13% relative decline in employment since …

SFGate

New data has ugly news for a lot of young workers, Stanford researchers say

You’ve heard the anecdotes about how artificial intelligence is displacing jobs. A San Francisco AI startup’s billboards …

The Register

AWS CEO says using AI to replace junior staff is 'Dumbest thing I've ever heard'

They’re cheap and grew up with AI … so you’re firing them why?

The Wall Street Journal

More U.S. Companies Plan to Slow Hiring in Second Half of 2025

Twice as many employers as last year say they plan to pull back on filling jobs, survey finds.

The Wall Street Journal

There Is Now Clearer Evidence AI Is Wrecking Young Americans’ Job Prospects

Young workers face rising AI competition in fields like software development, but some also benefit from AI as a helper, new …

The Wall Street Journal

Nobody’s Buying Homes, Nobody’s Switching Jobs—and America’s Mobility Is Stalling

The paralysis has left many people in houses that are too small, in jobs they don’t love or shackled with ‘golden handcuffs.’ …

The Washington Post

More than a quarter of computer-programming jobs just vanished. What happened?

Learning to code was supposedly the salvation of millions of liberal art majors. But now programming jobs are plummeting. The …

Deccan Herald

Detecting toxic work culture early on

Prolonged workplace stress does not justify the persistent anxiety you feel around specific colleagues.