Future of Work
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Fewer than 1 in 4 workers feel their job is safe. Here’s why worker ‘FOBO’—fear of becoming obsolete—is hurting companies
When Oracle cut scores of jobs last month, Melody Wilding, an executive coach and author, knew she was going to hear about it from her clients. For months now, the corporate professionals Wilding advises have been airing fears about losing their jobs, and their worries seem to spike “when big companies make layoff announcements,” she
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The Gen Z Pout and the Gen Z Stare are both a warning to Fortune 500 CEOs
When a customer at a fast-food counter asks for help, and the teenage employee responds with a blank, unblinking stare, it’s easy to write it off as a bad day. When it happens enough to earn its own Wikipedia page, it’s a workforce trend. The “Gen Z stare” — a deadpan, unresponsive gaze that young
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Elon Musk bans résumés and cover letters in hiring for his chip team. These are the 3 bullet points he’s looking for instead
It takes hours for some people to craft a résumé and cover letter, listing past experience and accomplishments on a sheet of paper—details your interviewer is likely to ask you to explain face-to-face anyway. That redundant, time-consuming process has forced many to ditch the career materials, and Elon Musk is leading the charge. The Tesla
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The org chart isn’t ready: How AI exposed the hidden crisis inside the American corporation
Something is breaking inside the American corporation. Not the balance sheet, not the brand, not the technology stack — those are mostly fine. What’s breaking is harder to see on a slide deck and harder to fix with a budget line: the unwritten rules, shared assumptions, and organizational muscle memory that tell people how to
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When AI sells to AI, brands win on data and identity
Personal AI use is collapsing the customer decision-making process into a single conversation, and most brands aren’t ready for it. The window of influence that once spanned dozens of touchpoints is shrinking to seconds. What’s more, AI is now selling to AI. Brands themselves are using the technology to market to consumer AI intermediaries before
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Palantir CEO says AI ‘will destroy’ humanities jobs but there will be ‘more than enough jobs’ for people with vocational training
Some economists and experts say critical thinking and creativity will be more important than ever in the age of artificial intelligence, when an LLM can do much of the heavy lifting in coding or research. Take Benjamin Shiller, the Brandeis economics professor who recently told Fortune a “weirdness premium” will be valued in the labor
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Meet ‘trendslop,’ the new, AI-fueled scourge of workplace consultants everywhere
Economists Mariana Mazzucato and Rosie Collington argue that consultants can, at best, give dubious guidance, and at worst, exacerbate government and private sector dysfunction. In their book The Big Con: How the Consulting Industry Weakens Our Businesses, Infantilizes Our Governments, and Warps Our Economies, the economists argue consultants emerged in a post-Ronald Reagan era of
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The megamanager era: AI is doubling bosses’ workloads—and the costs are just beginning to show
The average American manager now oversees 12 direct reports, and the data suggest AI is both the cause and the justification for this quiet but seismic shift in how the U.S. workplace is organized. It is one of the starkest structural changes in the modern American office, and it is happening with relatively little public
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Goldman just looked at 40 years of data on the ‘scarring’ effects of technological disruption and finds Gen Z isn’t the most at risk
Wall Street’s most-watched economics team has a warning for workers displaced by AI: the damage could last for years. But in a surprising twist, the people most expected to bear the brunt of the coming disruption—recent college graduates—may actually be the best equipped to weather it. In a research note published Monday, Goldman Sachs economists
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AI is about to send millions to ‘professional identity purgatory.’ Here’s what I discovered after my 30 year career crashed to a halt
On November 7, 2023, my career ended. Not with a dramatic firing, not with a bitter exit, but with an acquisition that made my role redundant. Nearly three decades in the industry. Nine years in an executive role at a biotech company. And then: nothing. I didn’t just lose a job. I lost the scaffolding