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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…
Amazon’s “Day 1” culture primes employees for constant change. And there’s been plenty of it lately: a five-day return-to-office mandate, an AI push, and mass layoffs. Business Insider interviewed 12 current and recent employees about how it’s going.Here’s what they told us. The responses have been edited for length and…
Paramount Skydance’s tech chief is stepping down as David Ellison’s digital transformation heats up. Loading audio narration… Phil Wiser, Paramount’s chief tech officer, told his colleagues on Friday morning that he’s leaving at the end of May after seven years with the company.”Writing this and sharing this news is harder…
College students are walking off the graduation stage into a murky job market, where economic uncertainty and AI-driven changes have put some entry-level roles at risk. Loading audio narration… Their tech savviness could be an asset, though.”What this new graduate brings is a digitally native way to do problem-solving that…
Cloudflare is laying off more than 1,100 employees as the cybersecurity company says it is reorganizing for the “agentic AI era,” according to a memo sent to staff on Thursday. Loading audio narration… The cuts came hours after the company reported first-quarter earnings that beat Wall Street expectations, though shares…
