Employees don’t want to return to the office. That poses a challenge for workplace designers like Yuen.
The workweek is changing for AI-enabled teams, with meetings consolidating towards the middle of the week, and engagement levels climbing.
Our research suggests something more nuanced—and hopeful—than a future of AI job losses.
The fastest-growing skill in U.S. job listings is “AI fluency,” seeing a sevenfold increase in two years.
Upskilling in AI is unavoidable as workers look to ‘future-proof our organizations and ourselves,’ Grede added.
It’s the movement Silicon Valley didn’t see coming. We fantasize about four-day work weeks but we can’t even protect five-day ones.
Text scams have grown especially quickly in the last five years, with 20,673 reports last year compared with just 4,872 reports in 2020.
The American Time Use Survey shows that from 2019 to 2024, the average number of minutes worked on Fridays fell by about 90 minutes in remote positions.
“We do not have trade schools. We are not investing in educating a next generation of people,” Jim Farley said.
CEO David Ellison offered workers an ultimatum in September: Come back to work or find a new job.




