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Employee happiness is climbing back from all-time lows, survey suggests

According to BambooHR’s recent Employee Happiness Index, the happiest companies lose 46% fewer employees than their counterparts with more negative...

07.08.2026 5

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What Fauci’s diary leak should remind employees about privacy at work

In the wake of Fauci’s subpoena, some attorneys view the moment as a cautionary tale to never treat a work account or device like a personal one.

06.08.2026 4

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Demis Hassabis steps down as DeepMind CEO, plus more Google leadership changes

Hassabis will take on a new role as Google DeepMind chair and Alphabet’s chief scientist.

05.08.2026 1

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Stripe CEO says his ‘urgency’ to drop out of MIT ‘was a bit unnecessary’

“In hindsight, I think that was a poor intuition,” Patrick Collison said during a Y Combinator interview. “It’s been pretty robustly and...

04.08.2026 5

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PwC’s US CEO on the career advice he gave to his kids

“What you put into it is what you get out of it,” Paul Griggs told Business Insider. “To me, that quote is saying ‘yes’ a lot, putting in...

03.08.2026 5

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Remote work, flexibility influence whether women apply for a job more than men

Women place greater emphasis on flexible schedules and work-life balance when making career decisions, according to a recent FlexJobs survey.

29.07.2026 5

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Businesses with less than 1,000 employees made 92% of May hires

According to federal data, companies with 10 to 49 employees made up the largest share of hires for the month.

29.07.2026 4

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Major U.S. firms spent $600 million on perks for executives

Between private jets and country club dues, S&P 1500 companies spent big on executive perks last year, according to a recent Wall Street Journal...

27.07.2026 9

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Jensen Huang has a message about AI doomerism for his fellow tech leaders

“We just all have to be thoughtful and careful,” the Nvidia CEO said in a recent interview with Axios. “You’re scaring people and wrongly.”

24.07.2026 8

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Disney layoffs hit Pixar employees, even after the success of ‘Toy Story 5’

Job cuts have hit multiple divisions at Disney, with Pixar taking the brunt of the layoffs despite a recent box office hit.

23.07.2026 6

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Workers are interested in creative AI tools. But barely any are using it.

A new Adobe survey indicates that while employee interest in creative AI is high, integration in everyday workflows is lagging.

22.07.2026 9

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The effects of big layoffs on a company’s Glassdoor ratings can linger for years

A new Glassdoor report shows it can take about 32 months for a company’s ratings to recover after laying people off. (That’s only if another one...

21.07.2026 9

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Lyft CEO David Risher on the company’s road to profitability

In a recent interview with Wired, the former Amazon and Microsoft exec called Lyft “the good Uber,” and discussed its financial turnaround.

20.07.2026 10

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Women and men in the C-suite see 2 different workplaces

A recent survey published in Harvard Business Review revealed a widening gap between male and female executives about the perception of women in...

17.07.2026 7

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Jensen Huang says the more AI is used, the more ‘we have to hire’

In a recent interview, the Nvidia CEO doubles down on his belief that AI is ‘creating a whole bunch of jobs.’

16.07.2026 7

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Nearly two million Americans are dealing with long-term unemployment

Long-term unemployment accounted for 27.3% of total joblessness in June, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

15.07.2026 10

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Meta faces discrimination lawsuit over AI use in mass layoffs

After the company fired thousands of employees, a new suit alleges Meta used a ‘constellation of internal artificial-intelligence systems’ when...

14.07.2026 7

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Chipotle’s COO looks for four key traits when promoting leaders

Jason Kidd visits several Chipotle stores a week and has dinners with regional managers to identify potential candidates for internal promotions,...

13.07.2026 6

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These are the application keywords that will bring in top creative talent

An analysis of thousands of job postings and experiments with job seekers shows employers are using the wrong recruitment language to hire creatives.

12.07.2026 10

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LinkedIn is the ‘most AI-saturated platform,’ new study suggests

Data reveals that some of the most popular social media sites are full of AI-generated writing—with LinkedIn leading the charge.

10.07.2026 8

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Walmart is latest grocer to cut prices amid high inflation and grocery costs

The country’s largest retailer joins Costco, Target, and others in reducing prices on items like household essentials, seasonal summer items, and...

09.07.2026 10

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What Microsoft is offering laid-off employees in severance

The company is providing up to 39 weeks of base pay to U.S. employees after cutting 4,800 jobs earlier this week.

08.07.2026 10

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An Xbox VP who spent 37 years at Microsoft was among those laid off yesterday

The gaming division terminated 1,600 staffers on Monday and plans to let go of an additional 1,600 by July 2027.

07.07.2026 10

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Target joins a rank of companies using a points system to track employee attendance

Other large businesses have implemented similar attendance-tracking systems for employees in recent years.

07.07.2026 20

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Microsoft layoffs: Read the email Xbox CEO Asha Sharma sent employees

The gaming division was hit the hardest, with 1,600 roles eliminated today and 3,200 more to be impacted throughout the next year.

06.07.2026 20

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Leaders weigh in on how AI is changing creativity at their businesses

During a TIME100 Talks panel, execs from Nespresso, Luma AI, PMI, and Publicis Sapient discussed how AI is shaping creativity at work.

04.07.2026 10

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Mark Zuckerberg pushes back against AI job loss fears after Meta’s own layoffs

During a recent live interview with Complex, the Meta CEO pushed back against the idea that mass AI job displacement is inevitable.

30.06.2026 10

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JPMorgan names 2 co-presidents in its CEO succession contest

As the search for the next CEO of JPMorgan stretches on, experts weigh in on whether naming a pair of contenders will make the final call easier—or...

29.06.2026 20

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Meta reverses decision to reassign employees to AI training roles

The mandatory reassignments are now up ‘to each individual’s choice,’ says an internal memo from the company.

25.06.2026 10

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California launches a statewide tracker to monitor AI-related job loss

The tracker and its accompanying report found no evidence of a statewide surge in layoffs among those working in highly AI-exposed jobs.

25.06.2026 10

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GameStop CEO says goodbye to $35 billion pay package to focus on eBay bid

Ryan Cohen won’t receive a potential performance reward from GameStop to concentrate on plans to acquire eBay, even after the commerce giant...

24.06.2026 20

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Meta hits pause on tracking employee keystrokes to train AI after internal leak

The company said it was investigating the incident after a screenshot obtained by Business Insider showed that employees’ data was exposed.

23.06.2026 10

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Domino’s gets a new CEO amid slowing sales—but is it enough to save pizza chains?

With steep competition from delivery services and rising operational costs, Big Pizza has struggled to maintain its hold on the American masses.

23.06.2026 20

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Google DeepMind CEO says these are the skills that will set humans apart from AI

Demis Hassabis predicts artificial general intelligence will be achieved by 2030. These are the human skills that will be increasingly valuable.

22.06.2026 20

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Meta CTO: Company morale is among the ‘worst it’s ever been’ after layoffs

After 10% of Meta’s workforce was laid off, Andrew Bosworth said the tech giant is working toward improving employee morale, according to reports...

18.06.2026 20

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Google AI leader Noam Shazeer leaves company for OpenAI

His decision is the latest example of top tech talent being poached to work at AI companies.

18.06.2026 20

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Robinhood lays off 10% of staff to flatten its organizational structure

‘Robinhood’s business has never been stronger,’ CEO Vlad Tenev said in a memo to employees. ‘But to achieve the massive scale of our mission,...

16.06.2026 20

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Jeff Bezos says AI will cause “labor scarcity,” not job loss

The Amazon and Prometheus founder believes that AI productivity gains will lead to more demand for human labor than there is.

16.06.2026 10

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Xbox plans layoffs, even after Microsoft CEO said company is ‘long on gaming’

Xbox is “planning major job cuts” in July after Asha Sharma stepped in as CEO, according to Bloomberg.

15.06.2026 20

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Conan O’Brien joins the fight against corporate AI scam attacks

The comedian partnered with an OpenAI-backed security firm on a 15-part cybersecurity training video series.

12.06.2026 20

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The ‘AI boomerang’: Why some companies are rehiring employees they laid off due to AI

Managers are realizing the rapidly evolving technology can’t completely replace humans after all, research suggests.

05.06.2026 10

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Uber lays off 23% of its HR and recruiting team that became ‘too complex and fragmented’

The company is cutting staffers from its People and Places division while confirming a cap on employee AI spend.

03.06.2026 20

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How Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang treats employees of the world’s most valuable company

‘You can’t show me something without me giving you some criticism,’ Huang said in a recent interview with Channel News Asia. ‘I’m always...

02.06.2026 20

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New internal Microsoft memo shows shifting employee sentiment

According to Microsoft’s biannual “Employee Signals” survey, employees feel energized to do meaningful work but worse about coaching and...

02.06.2026 10

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Cisco CEO Chuck Robbins: “A bad decision that is reversed is better than a delayed decision”

In a recent Semafor interview, Robbins talked about his decision-making strategy and company culture as the leader of the $475 billion technology...

01.06.2026 20

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120,000 people applied for this very NSFW “hottest vacancy in AI right now”

No coding skills are required for this new AI consultant job posting that went viral on X.

01.06.2026 20

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Costco CEO Ron Vachris: ‘I don’t see AI making choices’ for the retailer

The chief executive staunchly believes that human employees are Costco’s biggest competitive edge. He’s using AI to elevate them, not eliminate them.

28.05.2026 20

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Nearly half of CEOs plan upskilling, reskilling initiatives for workers to keep up with AI

A new EY-Parthenon survey shows how leaders are thinking about the future of employees, new hires, and their companies at large.

28.05.2026 20

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Why the CEO of Box says CEOs are more prone to AI psychosis

Leaders who only see ‘the happy path results’ of AI are ‘uniquely prone to AI psychosis,’ Aaron Levie wrote in a post on X.

27.05.2026 20

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Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang calls AI a ‘lazy’ excuse for layoffs

In an interview with Channel News Asia, Huang gave his advice to people who are worried about losing their jobs to artificial intelligence.

26.05.2026 20

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