Twitter’s staff spent years trying to protect the platform against impulsive ranting billionaires — then one made himself the CEO. In April 2022, Elon Musk acquired a 9.2 percent stake in Twitter, making him the […]
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The $2 Per Hour Workers Who Made ChatGPT Safer
OpenAI Used Kenyan Workers on Less Than $2 Per Hour to Make ChatGPT Less Toxic. ChatGPT was hailed as one of 2022’s most impressive technological innovations upon its release last November. The powerful artificial intelligence […]
Office Shock
COVID-19, with all its tragic consequences, also created an opportunity to ask this basic question: why do we work in offices at all? In their book, Office Shock: Creating Better Futures for Working and Living, […]
Why AI-Optimized Workflows Aren’t Always Best for Business
When optimization goes wrong: AI can’t see humans behind the data points. Workflow and process inefficiencies can cost up to 40% of a company’s annual revenue. In many instances, companies seek to resolve this issue […]
A Return to the Office (RTO) Wave?
Dozens of tech companies are starting to have their staff return to the office. Are we seeing the start of a trend? Make no mistake, plenty of companies are staying remote-first. I’m especially seeing startups […]
Why Some Tech CEOs are Rooting for Musk
After a long weekend away, today let’s talk about the largely positive reception that Elon Musk’s radical remaking of Twitter is getting from tech CEOs. If you’re an executive who has grown increasingly frustrated by […]
Who Will Opt to Work at Twitter?
Why is Elon Musk creating what seems to be the most toxic working environment among major tech companies in 2022? For the fourth week in the row, Musk keeps turning up the heat and finding […]
The Harvard Business School Professor Who Isn’t Counting Elon Musk Out
Andy Wu makes the case that Twitter was in trouble long before the new CEO came aboard. Wu: I will say, on the upside, what Musk has accomplished so far at Tesla and SpaceX is […]
Two Weeks of Chaos: Inside Elon Musk’s Takeover of Twitter
Mr. Musk ordered immediate layoffs, fired executives by email and laid down product deadlines, transforming the company. Elon Musk had a demand. On Oct. 28, hours after completing his $44 billion buyout of Twitter the […]
Inside the Twitter meltdown
A truly chaotic 24 hours at the company, and the mounting fears over what it means for the service that still serves as the heartbeat of the global news cycle. Just after lunchtime on the […]
Lessons from the Deep History of Work
What hunter-gatherers can teach us about the frustrations of modern work. Knowledge workers were already exhausted by their jobs before the pandemic arrived: too much e-mail, too many meetings, too much to do—all being relentlessly […]
The 20 Biggest Tech Layoffs of the Year… So Far
More than 44,000 tech workers from every corner of the industry have already lost their jobs this year and more are almost certainly on the way. Tens of thousands of tech employees in jobs previously […]
People Are Loving the World’s Biggest Four-Day Workweek Trial – and They’re Just as Productive
86% of survey respondents said they’ll likely want to stick with a 4 day work week after the trial ends. Three and a half months ago, the biggest four-day workweek trial in the world to […]
Algorithms and the Future of Work
To achieve the benefits that algorithm-enabled systems and devices promise in the future of work, we must study how to effectively manage their risks. In the future of work, algorithms will provide many beneficial applications […]
Technology for Whom? Owning Our Platforms
Platform cooperatives are a strategy of political and organizational might, uniting workers in a concrete way to own the conditions of their work and to redirect technology to the benefit of average workers, not global […]
American Workers Need Lots and Lots of Robots
In order to make reshoring happen, though, we will need automation, automation, and more automation. Frankly, every time I’ve read about this “rise of the robots” fear, I’ve felt the urge to tear my hair […]
Twitter Misled U.S. Regulators on Hackers, Spam, Whistleblower says
Twitter Inc misled federal regulators about its defenses against hackers and spam accounts, the social media company’s former security chief Peiter Zatko said in a whistleblower complaint. In an 84-page complaint, Zatko, a famed hacker […]
What Does It Take for Employers to Attract and Retain Talent Today?
To win in the war of talent, tech companies globally have announced workplace changes to better meet the needs of young talent, which in return supports their aggressive company growth. In 2020 when the Australian-bred […]
The Efficiency Movement
There’s a fundamental tension between resilience and efficiency, between the scientific manager and the craftsperson. The period from about 1890 to 1920 was a time of great optimism and change in the US. Huge leaps […]
Work From Office
Remote work generates heat because it matters … a lot. Since the onset of the pandemic, the dispersion of work has morphed from an experiment on the fringes of the economy to the mainstream. Work […]
Tyler Cowen on Talent
EconTalk host Russ Roberts chats with economist and blogger Tyler Cowen about his new book, “Talent”. How do you hone your craft on an everyday basis? It could be writing, meeting with experts, even listening […]
How Jeff Bezos Turned Narrative into Amazon’s Competitive Advantage
Quality writing in the workplace isn’t a luxury at Amazon — it’s a cultural necessity. Bezos’s obsession with memo writing became law at Amazon on June 9, 2004. In the now-famous email, he explained that […]
The ‘Shamanification’ of the Tech CEO
From fruit-only diets to dopamine fasting, Silicon Valley founders flaunt self-deprivation like a misguided pursuit of wellness. But there’s more to it. “There’s a sort of cultural archetype against which leaders are both evaluating themselves […]
The Digital Nomad Visas Luring Workers Overseas
In a bid to attract new talent to the region, in March 2021, the United Arab Emirates (UAE) unveiled a one-year residency permit for remote workers. The visa lets foreign professionals like Julien Tremblay, a […]
There’s Now an Algorithm to Help Workers Avoid Losing Their Jobs to an Algorithm
There’s a new way to tell how likely your job is to be taken over by robots or AI, and what job to shift to if you are at risk. There have been plenty of […]
Amazon Will Pause Bellevue Towers to Study Impact of Hybrid Work
Citing ongoing uncertainty about the impact of hybrid work on its office designs, Amazon says it will pause construction on five towers in downtown Bellevue. The company says it wants to determine how its office […]
Introducing the Algorithmic Boss
All managerial functions are now entrusted to algorithm-powered tools, creating high expectations and new risks, and no economic sector is immune to the adoption of such systems. How can this AI-driven management be regulated? Facial […]
The Way We Work Has Changed. So Should Offices.
The stresses now coming to bear on the white-collar workplace are unlike anything we’ve seen before. If one thing seems to define the emerging culture of work in the US, it is the growing importance […]
The Most In-Demand Skills for The Future Of Work
Bernard Marr talks to Jeff Margioncalda, the CEO of Coursera one of the largest online learning platforms in the world. What we’re seeing globally certainly in the US but we’re also seeing it in the […]
Worker-Owned Apps Are Redefining the Sharing Economy
As Uber and its ilk face high prices, increased regulation, and labor shortages, a new cooperative model is thriving. “Platform co-ops offer a more democratic and equitable alternative to traditional companies, and they have the […]