Leadership
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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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‘PTO-maxxing’ is the summer hack turning 15 vacation days into 49 days off
For years, American workers have racked up trend names for the various ways they’ve checked out of corporate life. There was “quiet quitting,” then “bare minimum Mondays,” and more recently the “date them till you hate them” trend, in which disengaged employees stick around long enough to fall out of love with jobs they’ve already…
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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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The unlikely origin of a $2.5 billion hospitality unicorn: a bored teenager working the night shift at his family business
Richard Valtr built one of the most valuable hospitality technology companies in the world simply because he was a teen who wanted to stop working the night shift. “I always remember being 14 years old on my summer holidays, thinking that this was so unfair,” the Mews founder told Fortune at his company’s Unfold conference…
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Real estate billionaire launched his entire career after being called the ‘worst analyst’ and quitting his cushy job at Goldman Sachs
Being laid off, fired, or ousted from a high-powered company can feel career-ending. But for some, it’s a springboard for success. Mexican-American real estate mogul Fernando De Leon tossed the towel on his Goldman Sachs job after being told that he wasn’t the best fit for the $293.4 billion bank—and the setback put him on…
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Ex-Disney star Hilary Duff warns saying yes too much actually hurt her career: ‘Just because something is a good paycheck, it doesn’t mean it’s right’
Hilary Duff was catapulted into stardom as the lead of Disney Channel’s Lizzie McGuire when she was just 13, and the franchise quickly expanded far beyond television—spawning movies, merchandise, video games, and a level of fame few teenagers experience. But now she regrets saying yes to too much when her career was at its peak.…
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This billionaire is capping his kids’ inheritance at 8 figures—like Bill Gates, he thinks generational wealth is bad for society
Dylan Taylor made his first million at 27. Last year, he became a billionaire at 53, after taking his space-holding company, Voyager Technologies, public on the New York Stock Exchange. But don’t expect his two children to inherit all of it. “I’m not a huge believer in generational wealth transfer,” the founder and philanthropist tells…
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Kevin O’Leary slams people who want work-life balance: ‘I hope they work for my competitors’
While some workers believe they have every right to slam their laptop shut at 5 p.m. every day, Kevin O’Leary is staunchly against it. The Shark Tank star and chairman of O’Leary Ventures is so against it, in fact, he’d be happy for employees who believe in work-life balance to work elsewhere. “People that shut…
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Standard Chartered CEO apologizes for calling some workers ‘lower value human capital’ in AI push
Workers are anxiously awaiting the fate of their careers as more employers tout the opportunity to automate certain roles, and even whole departments. Bill Winters, the CEO of Standard Chartered, for example, recently said that “lower value human capital” can be replaced by advanced tech at the global bank—but after uproar ensued, he’s now backtracking…
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‘Excited and terrified’: One of private equity’s top investors built an AI that knows every deal he’s ever done
James Brocklebank has spent nearly three decades making billion-dollar bets on companies most investors would never touch — carve-outs from struggling conglomerates, businesses buried inside bureaucratic giants, deals closed at the height of a pandemic. He has seen complexity and leaned into it. But nothing, he says, compares to what’s coming with artificial intelligence. “Excited…