Future of Work

One office worker puts her hand on the shoulder of another, consoling her.

‘Hushed hybrid’: Even as RTO mandates grow, workers still aren’t fully showing up to the office—a sign managers are too burnt out to enforce policies

The mandate-compliance gap of required office attendance versus actual attendance continues, despite years of RTO mandates, new Flex Index research finds.

By Sasha Rogelberg

August 27, 2025

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The housing market is no longer a wealth-building engine as home prices continue to slump

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Rural America is suffering an economic crisis as crop prices plunge — ‘U.S. soybean farmers cannot survive a prolonged trade dispute’

Chairman of the US Federal Reserve Jerome Powell speaks alongside Michelle Bowman (L), Board Vice Chair for Supervision, and Lisa Cook (R), Board Governor, as he chairs a Federal Reserve Board open meeting discussing proposed revisions to the board’s supplementary leverage ratio standards at the Federal Reserve Board building in Washington, DC, on June 25, 2025. (Photo by SAUL LOEB / AFP) (Photo by SAUL LOEB/AFP via Getty Images)

What would the Fed do in a tie vote? It’s not clear, and the Bank of England had to break a deadlock this month

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By Bernard Condon and The Associated Press

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By Jessica Coacci

August 22, 2025

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I’m the president of a $1 billion software unicorn and I’ve seen the ‘Gen Z stare’ disappear in healthy workplaces. It’s a wake-up call for hospitality

By Michael Coscetta

August 22, 2025

Stop calling for ‘ambitious’ or ‘self-reliant’ workers in job ads—they’re on the list of words that’ll attract narcissists, research suggests

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By Orianna Rosa Royle

August 22, 2025

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By Becky Frankiewicz

August 22, 2025

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By Jessica Coacci

August 21, 2025

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By Emma Hinchliffe

August 21, 2025

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U.S. unemployment claims surge to nearly 2 million, the most in almost 4 years

By Matt Ott and The Associated Press

August 21, 2025

OpenAI’s chairman says ChatGPT is ‘obviating’ his own job—and says AI is like an ‘Iron Man suit’ for workers

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By Marco Quiroz-Gutierrez

August 20, 2025

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The Great Resentment: Bosses are lording over workers as revenge for the Great Resignation when they had to hand out once-in-a-generation raises

By Nick Lichtenberg and Ashley Lutz

August 20, 2025

Billionaire Epic CEO Judy Faulkner built her $5.7-billion-a-year software firm in a basement. She says not getting an MBA was a ‘really good thing’

Billionaire Epic CEO Judy Faulkner built her $5.7-billion-a-year software firm in a basement. She says not getting an MBA was a ‘really good thing’

By Preston Fore

August 20, 2025

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Gen Z wants to have their AI cake and eat it, too: KPMG intern survey reveals a generation that wants to have things both ways

By Nick Lichtenberg

August 20, 2025

Former SEC commissioner and AI CEO: An AI-enabled future is inspiring, but it takes planning and work

By John Nay and Troy A. Paredes

August 20, 2025

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A quarter of Gen Zers have followed ChatGPT’s career advice—and just 3% have regrets

By Jessica Coacci

August 19, 2025

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The AI revolution will cut nearly $1 trillion a year out of S&P 500 budgets, Morgan Stanley says—largely from agents and robots doing human jobs

By Nick Lichtenberg

August 19, 2025

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The ‘shadow AI economy’ is booming: Workers at 90% of companies say they use chatbots, but most of them are hiding it from IT

By Nick Lichtenberg

August 19, 2025

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Workers are ‘job hugging’ in a stagnant labor market, but growing resentment means they could bail as soon as the next Great Resignation comes

By Sasha Rogelberg

August 18, 2025

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Duolingo CEO admits his controversial AI memo ‘did not give enough context’ and insists the company never laid off full-time employees

By Jessica Coacci

August 18, 2025

Ex-Google exec says degrees in law and medicine are a waste of time because they take so long to complete that AI will catch up by graduation

By Preston Fore

August 18, 2025

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‘Quiet cracking’ is spreading in offices: Half of workers are at breaking point, and it’s costing companies $438 billion in productivity loss

By Emma Burleigh and Orianna Rosa Royle

August 18, 2025

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This CEO laid off nearly 80% of his staff because they refused to adopt AI fast enough. 2 years later, he says he’d do it again

By Nick Lichtenberg

August 17, 2025

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By Muskaan Arshad

August 16, 2025

While AI wipes out entry-level roles, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says it’s actually ‘the most exciting time to be starting out one’s career’

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By Jessica Coacci

August 15, 2025

77% of Gen Z job seekers have brought a parent to an interview—they’re even getting them to negotiate pay rises and take their hiring tests

77% of Gen Z job seekers have brought a parent to an interview—they’re even getting them to negotiate pay rises and take their hiring tests

By Jessica Coacci

August 14, 2025

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As degrees get branded worthless, LinkedIn’s just revealed the universities that give Gen Z the best shot at corner office jobs

By Preston Fore

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AI is creating billionaire’s at a record pace: There are already 498 AI unicorns—and they’re worth $2.7 trillion

By Jessica Coacci

August 13, 2025

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China’s youth unemployment is so bad that Gen Z job-seekers are paying $7 a day to pretend to work in an office

By Emma Burleigh

August 12, 2025

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Despite growing up as ‘screenagers,’ Gen Z enjoys working behind a screen from home full-time less than any other generation

By Preston Fore

August 12, 2025

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Self-made multimillionaire behind $4 billion Skims empire says she was ‘using AI like a 42-year-old woman’—until Mark Cuban gave her a wake-up call

By Orianna Rosa Royle

August 12, 2025

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OpenAI’s CEO Sam Altman says in 10 years’ time college graduates will be working ‘some completely new, exciting, super well-paid’ job in space

By Preston Fore

August 11, 2025

Gen Z are sharing their unhinged hacks to surviving their toxic jobs, including CCing fake lawyers and being maliciously compliant

Gen Z are sharing their unhinged hacks to surviving their toxic jobs, including CCing fake lawyers and being maliciously compliant

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