Amazon’s recent return-to-office (RTO) mandate, which dictates that employees must work from an Amazon office five days per week, exemplifies a concerning trend of leaders attempting to turn back the clock to old management practices in a misguided at…
300 jobs in legal, human resources, finance and communications were impacted.
Departure is the latest high-profile exit from the Microsoft-backed start-up and maker of ChatGPT
In order to innovate, you need to break away from what’s comfortable, says founder and CEO Jeremy Gutsche
Gartner predicts Arm-based laptops will grab market share from x-86 as both consumers and business customers grab up laptops that can run generative AI.
The fight against quiet quitting has continued for years, but rates of employee engagement remain stubbornly low.
In 2023, Gallup found that a mere 33% of workers were “engaged in their work and workplace.” That might sound dire, but the peak…
Welcome to Pressing Questions, Fast Company’s work-life advice column. Every week, deputy editor Kathleen Davis, host of The New Way We Work podcast, will answer the biggest and most pressing workplace questions.
Q: How do I ask…
Management professor and author Ellen Van Oosten takes questions from listeners who are struggling to move into management and offers advice on how to make the transition.
For decades, we’ve equated leadership with controlling our teams, our employees, and the direction of our companies. But in an increasingly complex and unpredictable world, clinging to control is the quickest path to failure. In fact, the most importa…
A C-suite executive in a financial firm is contemplating a move. Yet despite her high-stress job, she hesitates to leave because she fears losing her social connections and sense of identity.
She acknowledges that she’s been a wildly successful hig…




