Future of Work
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Adding AI ’employees’ is backfiring by creating new office scapegoats and making human workers sloppier and lazier
In summer 2024, software company Lattice announced some new hires of sorts: a cadre of AI “employees” the firm would onboard, train, and manage like human workers. Though the tech unicorn founded by Sam Altman’s brother ultimately walked back some of the “rights” for its digital employees following pushback after it laid off 15% of…
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Labor union participation is on the rise even as U.S. companies spend $1.7 billion annually to halt union formation
On Tuesday, members of the newly formed App Drivers Union rallied victoriously outside the Massachusetts State House, celebrating the certification of the first statewide rideshare union, representing nearly 70,000 workers. The organized group of Uber and Lyft drivers is a rare—though increasingly less so—example of new unions forming in the U.S. In 2025, just 16.5…
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AI is changing the hospitality industry, and it’s changing how you stay in hotels
At this point, it’s safe to assume if AI is not already implemented in an industry, it soon will be. And as use of the tech becomes all the more proliferated, experts have said people will become lonelier—and as a result, crave genuine human interaction all that much more. Enter the hospitality industry, built entirely…
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Big Four consulting has 2 AI nightmares. KPMG’s answer to both is the same
The fear stalking the consulting industry right now comes in two flavors. The first is that AI can’t be trusted — that the same tools promising to transform client work will confidently produce wrong answers, expose firms to liability, and erode the hard-won trust that is the entire basis of the business. The second fear…
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PepsiCo CPO says their ‘secret sauce’ to hiring top talent is that they all have hustle—And are agile and curious in the AI era
Employers are shifting their hiring requirements in the AI era; while some are seeking vibe coding and prompting skills, others are doubling down on human intuition and empathy. Becky Schmitt, the chief people officer at PepsiCo, says the legacy brand is still looking for old-school skills as it shifts gears amid its current tech transformation.…
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40 is the new 50: Millennial jobseekers are giving their resumes a facelift by hiding years of experience to land jobs
Millennials are feeling the pressure of the white-collar job recession. Jobseekers in their 30s and 40s have begun slimming down their resumes to reflect only the past 10 years of experience and limiting their public work history on LinkedIn and professional websites, Business Insider reported earlier this year. Online resume advice gurus are also encouraging…
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Is a college degree is still worth it? Here are 3 things it can teach you that AI can’t do
College is expensive, and a growing number of skeptics have questioned its value proposition. Palantir CEO Alex Karp said late last year it doesn’t really matter where his employees went to college, and Apple CEO Tim Cook has said a four-year degree isn’t even required to work at the company. The rise of AI has…
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Beyond the diploma: Skills that actually get graduates hired
The class of 2026 is walking into one of the most unforgiving job markets in recent memory — and HR leaders are increasingly worried that the traditional on-ramps into corporate America are buckling under the weight of AI, shrinking entry-level roles, and a generation losing faith in the system. At Fortune‘s Workplace Innovation Summit this…
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Top economist Tyler Cowen on the biggest problem of the AI age: not mass unemployment but adjusting to a new reality
The dystopian scenario has become familiar: artificial intelligence sweeps through the economy, machines take the jobs, and workers are left behind. Tyler Cowen doesn’t buy it — but his alternative isn’t exactly reassuring. “AI will not bring mass unemployment,” the George Mason University economist and Bloomberg columnist said during a keynote at the Sana AI…
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Accenture exec says the consulting giant is hiring more entry-level workers out of college compared to last year
Leaders are split on how AI will change the entry-level labor market: while some warn of a jobs armageddon, others believe it’ll usher in a golden era of new opportunities for young workers. Some employers like Meta and PwC have already reeled back their hiring of fresh-faced graduates—but Accenture’s global chief diversity officer, Beck Bailey,…