Leadership
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SpaceX IPO targets $28.5 trillion total addressable market, mission to ‘make life multiplanetary’ and understand ‘true nature of the universe’
SpaceX filed its long-awaited S-1 registration statement with the Securities and Exchange Commission on Wednesday, formally kicking off what is set to be one of the most consequential—and closely watched—initial public offerings in corporate history. The company, officially registered as Space Exploration Technologies Corp., is seeking to list its Class A common stock on both…
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A dating expert says ghosting and quiet quitting are the same problem at their core, and corporate life has more to learn from romance than it admits
Dating and corporate America have more to do with each other than we think, and companies may be able to take lessons from the dating world to improve relationships in the workplace, one expert says. Lakshmi Rengarajan has had experience in both dating and the corporate world. She is a former director of brand strategy…
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Pay transparency is exposing a bigger problem: Most companies can’t explain why they pay what they pay
Salary transparency was supposed to be the major fix for the pay gap. But at Fortune‘s Workplace Innovation Summit in Atlanta on Tuesday, a pay transparency CEO and a viral content creator who have spent years working on the issue both said that the problem isn’t companies not sharing pay, it’s that they can’t explain…
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‘We’ve given them the short end of the stick’: Business school dean says AI could eliminate many jobs for young people—even as they lead innovation
Artificial intelligence has inspired visions of a near-utopian future: cures for cancer, breakthroughs in space, and even a world where money matters less. But the people who will experience that future the most may also be the ones most harmed by it now. Speaking at Fortune’s Workplace Innovation Summit on Wednesday, the dean of innovation…
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While other tech CEOs warn of mass job losses, Glean’s chief says AI will never replace a single worker
As AI takes over more of the grunt work of humans, some CEOs are sounding the alarm of a looming jobs wipeout. But Arvind Jain, the CEO of AI-powered enterprise search platform Glean, can’t imagine a world where workers are pushed out by the technology. “I don’t think AI—or actually, for me, hopefully forever, too—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,…
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ThredUp’s CEO has a warning for five-day companies: You’re going to lose the talent war
Finding the perfect pair of jeans requires patience and a willingness to try things that don’t always fit. ThredUp has built an entire business around that idea, giving people a second shot at finding what works, and a guilt-free way to let go of what doesn’t. And like a good pair of jeans, the same…
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Bolt CEO says he let go of his entire HR team for creating problems that didn’t exist: ‘Those problems disappeared when I let them go’:
“We got rid of our HR team.” For most executives, that’s a sentence likely to provoke intense anxiety. But for Bolt CEO Ryan Breslow, it was unavoidable. Speaking at Fortune’s Workforce Innovation Summit on Tuesday, the 31-year-old defended sweeping workforce cuts at Bolt—including a recent layoff affecting roughly 30% of employees—as well as his decision…
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DEI experts say the acronym may be radioactive, but the underlying business case is stronger than ever
Over the past year, companies have scaled back or eliminated their commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) partly under pressure from President Donald Trump—yet experts say the organizations that stay the course are the ones that will come out on top. Speaking at the Fortune Workplace Innovation Summit in Atlanta, Georgia, on Tuesday, two…
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Indeed chief economist says the sectors most exposed to AI are seeing a big growth in job demand
Leaders and researchers have predicted that a whole slew of industries will be radically upended by AI, from financial services to computer programming. But just because these human jobs will be changed, doesn’t mean they’ll be wiped from company headcounts. In fact, Indeed’s chief economist, Svenja Gudell, believes those who are most exposed could stand…