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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 …

Off by One

The Math of Why You Can't Focus at Work

When was the last time you had a good day of work? The kind where you got into flow and stayed there long enough to think …

The Economist

Why worries about American job losses are overstated

Bosses, investors, policymakers—all are fearful of a jobs-pocalypse.

Gallup

Hybrid Work in Retreat? Barely.

Work location trends have remained stable since 2022, reflecting the durability of the hybrid work model.

McSweeney's

I Work For an Evil Company, but Outside Work, I'm Actually a Really Good Person

I love my job. I make a great salary, there’s a clear path to promotion, and a never-ending supply of cold brew in the …

Intelligencer

There’s Just No Reason to Deal With Young Employees

AI is taking entry-level jobs. What happens when Gen-Z-ers can’t start their careers?

Time

New Findings About Getting Hybrid Right

I would say fully remote is really risky in the era of AI. Why? Because AI is great at a lot of fully remote activities, but …

Futurism

A New Paper Tested AI’s Ability to Do Actual Online Freelance Work, and the Results Are Damning

Your pesky remote freelancers demanding more money as inflation soars? You could try replacing them with AI agents instead — …

MIT Sloan Management Review

Hybrid Work Is Not the Problem — Poor Leadership Is

Learn from companies that are succeeding with hybrid work models — by building teams that are rewarded for performance, not …

Fortune

Jerome Powell says the AI hiring apocalypse is real: ‘Job creation is pretty close to zero’

Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell drew a stark picture of a labor market that looks fine on the surface—4.3% unemployment, …

Tawanda Munongo

AI is Making Us Work More

How the AI boom revived a 996 work culture - and what it says about us and the future of work.

Reuters

Amazon targets as many as 30,000 corporate job cuts, sources say

Amazon is planning to cut as many as 30,000 corporate jobs beginning on Tuesday, as the company pares expenses and …

The Wall Street Journal

More Big Companies Bet They Can Still Grow Without Hiring

It is the corporate gamble of the moment: Can you run a company, increasing sales and juicing profits, without adding people? …

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. …