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This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Brandon Card, founder and CEO of Terzo. It has been edited for length and clarity.In my 20s, I looked like a corporate guy through and through. I worked for Big Tech — Microsoft, Oracle, and IBM — and was on track…
Employees at Paramount Skydance are wrestling with whether the planned mega-merger with Warner Bros. Discovery would put them on the chopping block or help save their jobs.”I’m definitely worried about impending layoffs post-merger,” a Paramount research staffer said. “But I’m worried about the company as a whole if it doesn’t…
Meta used AI-powered workplace systems to penalize employees for taking medical and parental leave and then selected them for layoffs, according to allegations in a new lawsuit.The complaint, filed by 26 current and former workers on Monday in federal court in Northern California, alleges that Meta relied on AI-assisted tools…
What if the company you worked for just ghosted you?A group of staffers at Triller, a company that raised over $400 million to challenge TikTok, say they haven’t received a paycheck in the past year, nor heard from their bosses in months. The company shut down their work emails and…
This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Mark Pincus, founder of Zynga and author of “Life at the Speed of Play.” It has been edited for length and clarity.Whether I’m doing interviews or just talking with friends, people always want to know more about my parenting. I’m a…
How much would you pay to help your employees have a good night sleep?Last year, the CEO of AI startup Factory took an unusual talent management tactic: buying everyone pricey sleep tech.Factory has grown rapidly since its 2023 founding. Factory now has 120 employees and raised $150 million in April,…
Ask a tech worker how AI has changed their jobs, and chances are they’ll answer with a single number: hours saved.In interviews with Business Insider, Big Tech software engineers, product managers, and data scientists described using AI to compress hours of work into minutes. They use it to draft documents,…
An Anthropic employee said AI advancements are leaving them in a state of internal turmoil.In a blog post on its website on Thursday, Anthropic wrote about the risks of AI progressing to a point where it could improve itself autonomously. The post quoted unnamed Anthropic employees who talked about AI’s…
