Leadership
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Gen Zers are more disconnected and distrustful of coworkers than their older colleagues—and they’re so lonely they’re taking days off work
Gen Zers are craving social connection, but they’re not finding it with their office peers. Navigating work settings has been a tough ride for the post-pandemic professional cohort, who missed out on office kitchen banter while being onboarded over Zoom: Now, they’re taking time off of work to cope with their loneliness. Gen Z employees…
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CEO says anyone who works from home is grabbing groceries or at the vet 30% of the time—and shows off his busy office at Friday 5 p.m. to prove it
Just when you thought the dust had settled on the return-to-office wars, one startup founder has reignited the debate—accusing remote workers of sneaking off and doing life admin on company dime for a third of their working day. Serial founder Bridger Pennington panned his camera around an office full of people still at their desks…
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The IBM executive tasked with retraining 30 million workers is changing how she thinks about the AI finish line
Justina Nixon-Saintil has a big job: train 30 million people with new skills — with a significant emphasis on AI — by 2030. With 22 million reached and over three years left, she’s changing how she thinks about the finish line. For years, the assumption driving IBM’s skilling push — and much of the broader workforce…
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Cisco CEO says he’s the fastest messenger on his team—and hires people with the same urgency and ‘desire to move’
Professionals are now tasked with keeping up with a dizzying number of communications platforms, from Slack to LinkedIn. And being a quick communicator with a clear inbox may give you a leg up at $504 billion tech giant Cisco—CEO Chuck Robbins prides himself on his rapid-fire replies, and looks to hire talent who are just…
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The CEO who loves AI autodidacts — and desperately needs his experts
Bob Bradway has a word for the kind of leader who will thrive in the AI era: “autodidact.” Curious. Self-taught. Comfortable with uncertainty. The kind of person who picks up a new tool on a Saturday and figures it out by Sunday — which, as it happens, is exactly what Bradway himself does. The Amgen…
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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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Hundreds of teens are flooding job ads to work at ice cream shops and swimming pools as they grapple with the worst summer job market in 80 years
Summer jobs have been teenagers’ rite of passage for generations—from scooping ice cream and babysitting, to lifeguarding and bagging groceries. But as a hiring freeze has taken over the labor market, high schoolers are feeling the chill. So far 2026 is shaping up to be the worst summer job market in nearly eight decades. Teenagers…
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It’s not Buffett’s Berkshire anymore as Greg Abel splashes $16.8 billion in cash, hints at different way of doing business
Berkshire Hathaway‘s new CEO Greg Abel started off the week with a $6.8 billion acquisition of homebuilder Taylor Morrison and then followed that up Monday with a $10 billion stock investment in Google’s parent company. Abel also hinted that he may depart from Warren Buffett‘s longtime hands-off operating model by consolidating Taylor Morrison with Berkshire’s existing site-built homebuilding…
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Jeff Bezos’ 25-year-old stress cure is to ‘make the first phone call, or send the first email’— and a recruiter says it lands even harder in 2026
With economic uncertainty, AI anxiety, and a brutal job market weighing on workers everywhere, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos has a counterintuitive theory on coping with stress—and thinks most people get it completely wrong. Back in 2001, the then-new tech billionaire, fresh off Amazon’s 1997 IPO, took to the stage at the Academy of Achievement Summit…