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 …
In an era of shrinking aid budgets and multiplying conflicts, every dollar spent on humanitarian aid must work harder than ever. As the Ebola crisis shows, aid cuts can bring disaster, but the question is not just how much the world spends. It’s…
Across organizations, leaders are asking teams to move faster, adapt sooner, and make decisions with less certainty. Yet many are seeing the opposite: hesitation, silence, delayed decisions, and cautious compliance. This is the Big Freeze, a pattern t…
As America prepares to celebrate its 250th birthday, it’s tempting to focus only on the milestones: from the ratification of the Constitution, to the abolition of slavery, to the suffrage movement, to the moon landing, to the civil rights victor…
