Browsing: Workforce
“What torments of grief you’ve endured from evils that never arrived,” wrote Ralph Waldo Emerson, the 19th-century American philosopher and writer. Millions of…
DOGE staffer says Elon Musk’s cost-cutting agency was unable to lower the federal deficit
In its early days, the Elon Musk-led Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) bragged it could cut up to $2 trillion…
Trump’s immigration crackdown has failed to increase number of U.S.-born workers, data shows
More than one year into the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown, there’s little to suggest White House Deputy Chief of Staff…
Slack cofounder says workers can get stuck doing ‘fake’ work like pre-meetings and slide shows
Some employees are guilty of coffee badging or jiggling their mouses to look active while working remotely. But even when…
Western CEOs crack down, demanding super-AI productivity to keep your job. Japanese firms pay older workers to do nothing
As corporate America and Europe drag workers back to five days in the office and squeeze for ever more efficiency,…
Less immigration under Trump will contribute to 2 million-person labor force gap, CBO says
The U.S. working-age population is headed for a cliff, one that has become much steeper over the past year due,…
Yale economists see no evidence of AI displacing jobs, raising concerns of employers ‘AI washing’
Anxieties about AI putting people out of jobs is bubbling over: A Reuters/Ipsos poll from August 2025 found 71% of…
Jamie Dimon says Warren Buffett made peace with him poaching his exec: ‘at least he’s going to you’
Jamie Dimon poached a senior figure from Warren Buffett’s inner circle, and the legendary investor was surprisingly OK with it.…
Gen Z are arriving to college unable to even read a sentence—professors warn it could lead to a generation of anxious and lonely graduates
As Gen Z ditch books at record levels, students are arriving to classrooms unable to complete assigned reading on par…
OpenAI’s CEO Sam Altman says in 10 years’ time college graduates will be working ‘some completely new, exciting, super well-paid’ job in space
Now, even OpenAI CEO Sam Altman—one of Silicon Valley’s biggest leaders driving the AI revolution—is admitting the elephant in the…












