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TikTok is increasing how much it spends on high-performing staffers in 2026, according to a memo from owner ByteDance sent last week and viewed by Business Insider.In ByteDance’s upcoming annual performance reviews, the company aims to spend 50% more globally on incentives like bonuses or raises that increase the total…
This summer, after Meta made a $14 billion investment in Scale AI and poached its 28-year-old founder, Alexandr Wang, and after A-list clients like OpenAI and Google halted work with the startup, a worker for Scale AI anxiously asked ChatGPT what it thought of his company’s fate. He knew the…
The ultrafast delivery wars are heating up.Amazon said last week that it’s testing a 30-minute delivery option in Seattle and Philadelphia, while Walmart said it managed to fulfill a Black Friday order in 10 minutes and is expanding its drone service to the Atlanta area.The race is on to get…
Artificial intelligence may be driving a surge in productivity and pay — but that growth could soon slow.That’s according to Ioana Marinescu, an associate professor at the University of Pennsylvania’s School of Social Policy & Practice and coauthor of a new Brookings Institution paper on what she and colleague Konrad…
The hottest job on Wall Street right now isn’t a trader or dealmaker. It belongs to the human minds who specialize in building the digital ones.Bank chiefs have been touting how adopting artificial intelligence at scale will help employees work smarter and cut costs, and they’re putting serious money behind…
The Transportation Security Administration has taken a page from the budget airline playbook.The agency filed a new proposal on Thursday that would charge travelers $18 at security checkpoints if they show up without a REAL ID or another acceptable government-issued ID, such as a passport or permanent resident card.The fee…
US Navy Secretary John Phelan said the shipbuilding industry needs to up its wages if it’s going to attract and retain workers.Phelan, like other Navy officials, experts, and leaders in the shipbuilding sector, has identified pay disparity as a major cause of US shipbuilding problems, as insufficient pay can make…
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Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said on Tuesday that air traffic controllers may be punished if they started calling in sick before missing pay during the government shutdown.”My concern is, for those air traffic controllers who, before they missed a paycheck, and were in the shutdown, they decided on a continual…
Warren Buffett is generally a pretty grateful guy, but there’s one thing in particular that he’s not thankful for: CEO pay ratio rules.The legendary investor took some time in his third annual Thanksgiving letter to Berkshire Hathaway shareholders on Monday to criticize rules that require public companies to compare their…
