Meta’s Embrace of A.I. Is Making Its Employees Miserable
In an internal post last month, Meta told its U.S. employees that it was making a change that would affect ...
Tag: Productivity
AI angst mutates into ‘FOBO’ as Fear of Becoming Obsolete fuels quiet resistance across the economy
There’s a new acronym reshaping how workers think about their careers: FOBO — the Fear of Becoming Obsolete. Unlike traditional ...
AI isn’t reducing workloads for employees, it’s straining them—time spent on emailing has doubled, while deep-focus work has fallen by 9%
AI is actually increasing strain for most employees, as the tools add more time to menial tasks, and actually takes ...
AI can double output. Human biology can’t
In recent weeks, Accenture made headlines for linking senior managers’ promotion prospects to their use of internal AI tools. In ...
Goldman finds no relationship between AI and productivity but a 30% boost for 2 specific use cases
Corporate America is talking about artificial intelligence (AI) more than ever, but a new analysis by Goldman Sachs reveals a ...
Why Europe can lead in trusted, industrialized AI
Headlines about AI often focus on the most surprising or concerning innovations. But this misses out what really matters: the ...
Slack cofounder says workers can get stuck doing ‘fake’ work like pre-meetings and slide shows
Some employees are guilty of coffee badging or jiggling their mouses to look active while working remotely. But even when ...
Western CEOs crack down, demanding super-AI productivity to keep your job. Japanese firms pay older workers to do nothing
As corporate America and Europe drag workers back to five days in the office and squeeze for ever more efficiency, ...
Thousands of executives aren’t seeing AI productivity boom, reminding economists of IT-era paradox
In 1987, economist and Nobel laureate Robert Solow made a stark observation about the stalling evolution of the Information Age: ...
You hate AI because corporate profits are capturing your extra productivity, and your salary isn’t
“Those who do not learn history are doomed to repeat it.” So said George Santayana, the Spanish-American philosopher who was ...
Trump crackdown drives 80% plunge in immigrant employment, reshaping labor market, Goldman says
A sweeping crackdown on immigration in President Donald Trump’s second term, characterized by elevated deportations and strict new visa bans, ...
AI is everywhere except in the data, suggesting it will enhance labor not displace workers
Despite hopes for unlocking a new era soaring growth and abundance, AI has yet to manifest itself clearly in macro ...
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