Leadership
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The megamanager era: AI is doubling bosses’ workloads—and the costs are just beginning to show
The average American manager now oversees 12 direct reports, and the data suggest AI is both the cause and the justification for this quiet but seismic shift in how the U.S. workplace is organized. It is one of the starkest structural changes in the modern American office, and it is happening with relatively little public…
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Only 22% of people felt their jobs were safe in 2025—manufacturers, warehouse workers, and women are the most scared
The labor market is growing more uncertain: companies are laying off staffers in droves, job openings have screeched to a halt, and unemployment has been ticking up. It’s left very few workers confident that their livelihoods are on solid ground. Only 22% of workers globally strongly agreed that their jobs were safe from elimination in…
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Artemis II’s astronauts are on their way home—a six-figure salary but no overtime or hazard pay awaits them back on Earth
All eyes were on the Artemis II astronauts yesterday as they made history looping around the far side of the moon and traveling further into space than any humans ever. But as the crew—three Americans, Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, and Christina Koch, along with Canadian astronaut Jeremy Hansen—heads back to Earth, there’s no financial windfall…
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MacKenzie Scott’s latest donation takes her HBCU giving to well over $1 billion
MacKenzie Scott has continued her giving spree to historically Black colleges and universities, and this time she’s crossed a milestone. One of the billionaire philanthropist’s latest gifts, a $42 million donation to Elizabeth City State University on the school’s Founders Day in North Carolina, pushes her total giving to HBCUs well past the $1 billion…
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MacKenzie Scott rewrote the rules of philanthropy. Who will follow her lead?
The next wave of philanthropic courage is overdue. We need the next billionaire—or board of trustees—brave enough to say: we don’t need another five-year strategy to fix inequity. We just need to fund the people solving it right now. While MacKenzie Scott has moved billions, the silence from corporate America and traditional philanthropy is deafening. Diversity…
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Lowe’s is investing $250 million to train plumbers, carpenters, and electricians as its CEO says skilled trades are ‘critical to the future’
For decades, young people were told to go to college, with white-collar jobs like coding cast as the future. But as AI disrupts that career path, skilled trades are emerging as a more resilient route to stable, well-paying work—and Lowe’s is betting heavily in that future. The home improvement giant exclusively told Fortune that its foundation…
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Goldman just looked at 40 years of data on the ‘scarring’ effects of technological disruption and finds Gen Z isn’t the most at risk
Wall Street’s most-watched economics team has a warning for workers displaced by AI: the damage could last for years. But in a surprising twist, the people most expected to bear the brunt of the coming disruption—recent college graduates—may actually be the best equipped to weather it. In a research note published Monday, Goldman Sachs economists…
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H&R Block CEO shares the deeply human fear that separates middle managers from those destined for the C-suite
Corporate America has long been drawn to the self-made executive narrative. But Curtis Campbell, the new CEO of H&R Block, tells his version with a realism that gives it unusual credibility. Campbell, who grew up in a small Southern town and became the first in his family to attend college, traces his rise to a…
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Gen Z is rewriting the American Dream, and their parents are funding it—using tuition money for down payments, instead
The cost of college has never been higher. But for a growing share of young Americans, the return has never felt more uncertain. Faced with rising tuition, stubborn student debt, and a cooling job market, many are questioning whether a four-year degree is worth it at all. Now, their parents are coming to a similar…
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JPMorgan has 300,000 employees, but Jamie Dimon says the bank wins by deploying small teams like Navy SEALs
Jamie Dimon believes that to win big, you often have to think small—or at least in small teams. In his annual shareholder letter published Monday, the longtime JPMorgan Chase CEO said the company’s “real competitive battles” are fought on a more granular scale. Despite JPMorgan having more than 300,000 employees worldwide, he claimed the best…