There are two distinct AI anxieties spreading through the American economy right now, and they don’t speak the same language....
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There was a moment, not long ago, when “shadow AI” felt like a good-news story. Workers were sneaking ChatGPT and...
The average American manager now oversees 12 direct reports, and the data suggest AI is both the cause and the...
There’s a new acronym reshaping how workers think about their careers: FOBO — the Fear of Becoming Obsolete. Unlike traditional...
Even as global unemployment hits historic lows, a sweeping new study of the global workforce by one of the definitive...
AI is making workers more productive than ever. In fact, it’s already quietly handing workers back chunks of their day—and...
“What torments of grief you’ve endured from evils that never arrived,” wrote Ralph Waldo Emerson, the 19th-century American philosopher and writer. Millions of...
For most of modern history, human worth was measured by output — how much you produced, how fast you moved,...
AI is actually increasing strain for most employees, as the tools add more time to menial tasks, and actually takes...
If you’re always the first to volunteer and the last to leave, you might be heading for a “competence hangover.”...
Tasks that once took six hours now take less than one. A two-week process can sometimes be finished in an...
In recent weeks, Accenture made headlines for linking senior managers’ promotion prospects to their use of internal AI tools. In...