People often see the return-to-office debate in black-and-white: In-person work fosters connection, while remote work breaks it down. In 2025, 37% of companies required office attendance, up from 17% the year before. Companies like Amazon, JPMorgan, a…
Working while parenting can feel a little like juggling flaming swords. Everything works fine(ish) as long as nothing surprises you. But there will always be “come pick up your feverish kid” calls from daycare and last-minute project deadlines during …
You landed your dream job, or so you thought. But quiet doubts grow harder to ignore: “Did I choose right?” “Can I do this for the rest of my life?” “I want something more.”
These questions seem to collide with major life transitions that often hit…
In 2022, an Apple Store outside of Baltimore became the first in the U.S. to unionize, fueled by worker frustrations over how they were treated during the pandemic. Two years later, they won a contract that enshrined protections that seemed designed t…
It took nearly two decades for Brent Ryan Bodner to build his career at JPMorgan. It took a deli platter to end it.In 2024, Bodner was fired from the bank after charging a $642.50 food order to his employer. While the firm claimed the order was for a …
As companies work to build more inclusive, high-performing workplaces, one major workforce issue is still hiding in plain sight: menopause. Around 1 billion women globally are currently in perimenopause, menopause, or postmenopause, equating to roughl…
“I Love Gay People”
I once had a coworker I’m going to call Maggie. And Maggie loved gay people. I know that, because she explicitly told me when she learned I was gay, probably six months into working together.
Up to that point, Mag…
Right now, I have 628 unread emails in my work inbox. That’s in addition to seven unread Signal messages, a few unopened Telegrams, dozens of texts coming in (both personal and professional), and a whole separate Google work suite to contend with for …
California governor Gavin Newsom just announced a statewide tracker that follows AI-related unemployment claims—and said it’s the first tool of its kind in the country.
Created from a partnership between the governor’s office, the California Employ…
Meta is reversing its decision to reassign 7,000 employees to different AI-focused units, like the Applied AI (AAI) taskforce to help train the company’s models, one month after those plans were announced.
According to an internal memo obtained by …
