As 7.4 million Americans sit unemployed, the path to employment has completely changed. Amid fake listings, AI filtering of candidates and widening talent pools, job seekers believe that they’re competing against a hiring ecosystem that penalizes hone…
Unlike some of his industry peers, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has been surprisingly skeptical of the notion that AI is displacing workers. In an interview a few months ago, he argued that AI was a convenient scapegoat for some companies, echoing what some …
Katelyn Ide was thirteen when she first logged onto Twitter from a small town in Connecticut and discovered Justin Bieber’s fervent online fandom. Like most fans, she wasn’t content to just hang back and idolize from a distance, but to actively partic…
Mita Mallick was barely a month into her parental leave when she got a call from a friend. “I’m thinking she’s calling to check in on me, and we’re having a nice conversation,” Mallick recounts. Then she asked a question that took Ma…
Generation Z has reshaped workplace expectations. Valuing transparency, authenticity, and purpose-driven leadership, in some senses they have mobilized management to up their game. It could probably be said that these aspirations should have been prio…
As writer Ted Chiang has observed, “Most fears about A.I. are best understood as fears about capitalism.” When we imagine rogue AI systems optimizing the world to death, we’re actually describing what many corporations already do. If an organization’s…
Before most of America pours its first cup of coffee, millions of workers are already hours into their shifts, and they’re tired. Overnight warehouse workers are packing orders. Early-morning bus drivers are taking kids to school. ER nurses are handin…
Jobseekers and recruiters are at a technological standoff.
Candidates upload (and retype) their resumes into an applicant tracking system (ATS) with no sense of whether or not their applications are getting seen. Recruiters are buried under h…
When you face a challenge, how do you know how much effort to put into solving it? How do you determine whether you’re preparing or procrastinating?
When I was 21, I got sick with a complicated and poorly understood illness. After seven…
Being penalized for using flexible working policies—remote work, hybrid work, parental leave, and more—can be subtle, or screamingly obvious.
Nicole Yelland, a communications strategist from Detroit, has experienced both. In one remote role, she w…
