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 […]

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 […]

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, […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 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 […]

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 […]

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 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 […]

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 […]

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 […]