Future of Work
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The real hurdle to enterprise AI isn’t fixing productivity KPIs. It’s ‘unlearning’ old habits, experts say
When Amazon recently dismantled an internal AI leaderboard, it exposed a broader issue in corporate America’s AI rollout. The leaderboard tracked so-called tokenmaxxing, a trendy corporate phenomenon where employees maximize their consumption of AI processing power to prove they are utilizing the technology. But employees were gaming the system to inflate their productivity scores. It…
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A 5-week course and a guaranteed job: Meta commits $115 million to solve the skilled-trades shortage stalling its AI buildout
Trade jobs are the future, and Meta knows it. The company is launching an initiative called America’s Workforce Academy to train data center technicians in partnership with commercial real estate giant CBRE, the Associated Builders and Contractors, a construction trade association, and the civil rights organization National Urban League. Meta is committing $115 million this…
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Your career needs a ‘gym membership’ to keep up with continuous AI advancements, says Campus founder Tade Oyerinde
The days of learning a skill once and coasting on it for life are over. The new reality, according to AI Campus founder and chancellor Tade Oyerinde, looks a lot like a New York City gym before summer. Speaking during the first day of the 25th annual Fortune Brainstorm Tech conference in Aspen, Colorado on…
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A CEO denied raises to spend money on AI instead. Companies have ‘no idea what they’re going to need in a workforce’ when the AI race is over
While you’re worried about AI replacing you, it may already be cutting into your paycheck. In January, global cloud software company Teradata told its 5,100 employees that there won’t be annual salary raises this year as the business shifts its budget toward AI investments, Business Insider reported. The focus for 2026 is to “win in…
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AI productivity gains are real but so is bad management: ‘Leaders are really struggling to articulate what the vision and strategy is’
Earlier this year, Apollo chief economist Torsten Slok made an observation about AI’s “productivity paradox” as data emerged that employees could potentially save an entire workday a week by deploying AI, but economic data showed a steep drop in productivity: “AI is everywhere except in the incoming macroeconomic data,” Slok wrote in a blog post,…
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Data center CEO is hoping for a skilled-trades revival in his lifetime—he’s recruiting couch-dwelling Gen Z with two weeks of vacation on day one
It’s a great time to be in the skilled trades. That’s according to Dan Peyovich, president and CEO of Dycom Industries, who says surging demand for the infrastructure behind AI—from fiber networks to data centers—is colliding with a persistent shortage of hands-on workers. “There’s no doubt there’s a skilled trade shortage now,” he said at…
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Mounting evidence suggests remote work is behind the Gen Z hiring nightmare. Even the New York Fed thinks so
Just a few years ago, remote work was something like a matter of life or death. In the pandemic-stricken early years of the 2020s, most white-collar workers who fled to the country or even changed their living situations counted their blessings as bosses seemed inclined to let home offices be even as lockdown orders expired.…
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Ex–Google CEO Eric Schmidt warns U.S. tech workers: Competing with China’s grueling 12-hour workdays means sacrificing work-life balance
The former CEO of Google is sounding the alarm about the tech sector’s ability to compete with China, and he warns that working from home isn’t helping. Eric Schmidt, who was top boss at Google for a decade in the early 2000s, said during a conference interview published by the All-In podcast in September 2025…
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When loyalty is rewarded: Top earners who stay in their jobs get much larger pay increases than those who switch
To stay or to go? That’s the perennial question for workers trying to maximize their pay in a “peanut-butter” raise economy. But in the era of job-hopping and freelancing, freedom can come with a cost. For higher earners, loyalty is rewarded. The top 5% of earners who stayed with their employers received year-over-year pay hikes…
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Gen Z is booing AI at graduation. But 2 other villains add to the hiring nightmare
This graduation season, a ritual played out on campuses from Tucson to Orlando: a speaker mentions artificial intelligence, and the caps-and-gowns crowd erupts in boos. Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt got it at the University of Arizona. A real estate executive got it at the University of Central Florida, where one graduate even shouted “AI…