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Jane Thier

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Only 7% of CEOs appointed so far this year have been women

And a quarter of them won't stay in the role longer than two years, a new report suggests.

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Google just dropped millions of dollars to teach more people how to use AI—and an exec says it could 'create a reinvigoration of the American middle class'

AI 101 courses could produce a massive ‘upleveling effect,’ one Google exec told Fortune.

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Demand for office space is skyrocketing, especially in New York City and Los Angeles

For the ninth straight month, office space demand has shown positive year-over-year growth.

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How the ordeal of getting an ear piercing pushed a 34-year-old mom to ditch her law career to launch the adult version of Claire's

The 39-year-old mom of two needs full night's sleep, every night. And no compromising on the small details.

25.04.2024 10

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Tech CEO on the merits of virtual work: 'To think we should work in the exact same way as our industrial forefathers just seems odd to me'

Marco Zappacosta, chief executive of home improvement site Thumbtack, points out that ‘cottage industries’ refer to pre-Industrial Revolution...

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Want a four-day workweek? Head to Singapore.

Singapore’s government joins other forward-thinking countries like the UK in mandating companies take flexible-work requests seriously.

17.04.2024 5

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There’s a hidden penalty to going fully remote: A 'task tax' that stymies company growth, report finds

Remote workforces spend more time on menial tasks and require more training than their in-person counterparts, a new study finds.

16.04.2024 7

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Moved far from the city during Covid? Pray you don’t lose your job

Escape the appeal of ‘brain hubs’ like New York and San Francisco at your own risk, a Berkeley economist writes.

15.04.2024 6

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The Great Resignation is effectively over. We're now in the Great Talent Stagnation, where employers' biggest concern is the lack of qualified applicants

Companies are desperate for skilled external candidates, even while their current workers are eager for opportunities to upskill, per a new report.

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Finance returns to office as Wall Street North (NYC) and South (Miami) blow other markets out of the water with cubicles over 80% full

Offices in Miami and New York are at around 80% of their pre-pandemic occupancy, per a new report.

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$19 billion Land O’Lakes is halting churn by giving workers flexibility over their schedules—'it’s the one thing all the people can rally around'

Factory workers haven’t reaped the benefits from the flexible-work revolution like desk workers have, Land O'Lakes supply chain chief Yone Dewberry...

08.04.2024 10

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Barry Diller proposes a four-day workweek only a billionaire could love: Go to the office every day except Friday, when you can work from home

Remote work is useless for a job that involves “anything other than sitting and staring at a screen,” the billionaire said.

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Billionaire Mets owner Steve Cohen believes Fridays will be work-free once AI takes over—that’s why he's reportedly pouring millions into golf

The vast majority of people “will get an opportunity, I think, at some point, to have a three-game weekend,” Cohen predicts.

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‘A four-day workweek is coming,’ billionaire Mets owner Steve Cohen declares—and you can thank the rapid rise of AI

Just don’t expect him to let any managers at his hedge fund dip out early.

04.04.2024 10

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Here's why it's taking you so long to land that new job

Recruiting and applying looks nothing like it used to, ZipRecruiter's quarterly report finds.

03.04.2024 7

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Entry-level workers haven’t been this anxious about the job market in almost a decade

Less than half have a positive outlook, mainly due to layoffs and their managers’ refusal to clear the way.

02.04.2024 4

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White men who have been bullied are more likely to be workplace allies

White men will call out bias in the office "only to the extent they recognize that such bias exists and are willing to act," a new University of...

02.04.2024 5

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Economy be damned: Your workers still expect a hefty raise this year

Pay transparency and flexible work are also musts, a new Payscale report finds.

01.04.2024 4

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Gen Z will be spending $18,000 more on rent before they turn 30 than millennials did in their 20s

The youngest workers have the most to lose—and still no in-unit laundry

29.03.2024 10

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How the 43-year-old founder of [solidcore] made $100 million as her competitors went bankrupt

Anne Mahlum, worth roughly $100 million, shares how she came up with the idea for the [solidcore] workout and why she left the company last year.

28.03.2024 5

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Stanford economist says forcing people back to the office full time is a costly mistake

Winter has come for commercial real estate as a byproduct of remote work’s success, Nick Bloom told Kara Swisher and Scott Galloway.

28.03.2024 8

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Women outearn men in just a handful of U.S. cities, report finds—and not by a lot

Where they earn more, it’s just by a couple hundred dollars at most.

27.03.2024 10

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Oscar winner Olivia Colman said she’d make ‘a f--- of a lot more’ if she were a man—and she’s spot on

The actress isn’t imagining things: Women still make way less in most industries.

26.03.2024 10

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Meet Stephanie Pope, the longtime Boeing exec about to become CEO of its commercial airplanes division

Pope’s appointment comes amid an executive shakeup at the embattled airplane manufacturer.

25.03.2024 7

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Remote workers say they'd return to the office if they get housing benefits—and many would even take those over a pay raise

Some would even give up three weeks of vacation for some extra help with their mortgage, a new report finds.

23.03.2024 10

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Meetings are a productivity killer—and 3 in every 4 are totally ineffective, according to a new wide-ranging study

Just 28% of meetings are actually worth the time, per a new wide-ranging Atlassian report.

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These are the worst-paying college degrees, according to a Fed analysis of 75 majors

The best-paid jobs are held disproportionately by men.

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Dead by 2030—C-suite execs set deadline for embracing AI at scale

Some 54% of leaders told Mercer they believe their businesses won’t survive past 2030 without incorporating machine learning.

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A TikTok star who is taking a pay cut for a 9-to-5 job explains why influencing is unsustainable

It's hard to beat an influencer salary, which can top five figures a month for just a handful of posts.

13.03.2024 10

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Why a 23-year-old TikTok influencer with 1 million followers is ready to leave it all behind for a 9-to-5 job

“When you are the brand, and you are the product, it can be very unsettling,” TikTok star Ana Wolfermann tells Fortune.

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Engagement at work among elder millennials and Gen Zers is in 'dramatic decline,' new Gallup poll says

Young people will soon make up the bulk of the workforce—but many say their bosses aren’t satisfying their needs.

05.03.2024 5

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Who are the Ambanis, the ultra-wealthy Indian family that got Rihanna to come out of retirement to play a wedding party?

They run the largest private sector company in India, where wealth inequality runs rampant.

04.03.2024 4

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‘College wasn’t for me’: Meet the 48-year-old self-made millionaire who launched a $225 million hair styling empire as a stay-at-home mom

48-year-old Alli Webb says it only took a day to realize Drybar would be a multi-million-dollar success.

03.03.2024 20

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Glassdoor is closing its final remaining offices in Chicago and San Francisco as it goes fully remote

Hybrid isn’t flexible enough for the anonymous job-review site, Glassdoor’s CEO tells Fortune.

29.02.2024 7

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ExxonMobil CEO says Big Oil has done its part—it's time for civilians generating emissions to pay

"The dirty secret nobody talks about is how much all this is going to cost and who's willing to pay for it," Darren Woods said on Fortune’s...

27.02.2024 9

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College degree requirements in job postings are slowly, but surely, becoming a thing of the past 

They’re down 4% from pre-pandemic, with no signs of slowing down, per Indeed. Here’s what might replace them.

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Billionaire Mark Cuban says don’t follow your passions—follow the money and build wealth instead

The Shark Tank judge and longtime entrepreneur may have predicted the FIRE movement—even if he’s too driven to retire himself.

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3M has a ‘future of work manager’ — here’s why her goal is to work herself out of a job

Flexible, distributed work plans will ideally exist everywhere one day—eliminating the need for the managers who bring them to life.

23.02.2024 7

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Who is Jensen Huang, Nvidia CEO and one of the world’s richest men?

The founder of the trillion-dollar chip manufacturer worked as a busboy at Denny’s, graduated high school at 16, and got the Nvidia logo tattooed on...

22.02.2024 7

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Remote work jobs are disappearing before our eyes

Workers have tripled their in-office days since 2021 while fully remote roles have shrunk by a quarter, software firm Ringover finds.

09.02.2024 10

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ButcherBox’s famed ‘free bacon for life’ promotion was actually a happy mistake, founder of $600 million meat subscription service says

A technical glitch has ended up as one of the subscription company's most popular hooks.

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AI is moving too fast to keep pace for 4 in 5 workers

“Leaders know they need their employee base to understand AI, but no one knows how to teach them,” said Springboard CEO Gautam Tambay.

06.02.2024 2

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L'Oréal just went there: Mandated Fridays in the office

At least twice a month, employees of the French cosmetics giant need to head back to their cubicles right before the weekend.

06.02.2024 7

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British billionaire Lord Sugar rips remote work—while Zooming in from offsite. But he may have a point that it’s ‘bad for morale, bad for learning’

In a remote interview, the host of the UK version of "The Apprenctice" said no one learns “sitting at home in your pajamas.”

05.02.2024 4

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ButcherBox’s founder was fired from his first CEO gig after ‘losing everyone’s money.’

Here’s how he learned from his mistakes to build a $500 million meat subscription empire.

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Most American adults don't have enough savings to pay an emergency $1,000 expense

Bankrate's Mark Hamrick tells Fortune that it's "disappointing because it is an indication that so many Americans are living paycheck to paycheck."

01.02.2024 9

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Netflix's Reed Hastings didn't just give a whopping 20% of his net worth to charity with a massive $1.1 billion donation—there's a major tax consideration

The Netflix co-founder gave 2 million shares to the Silicon Valley Community Foundation, a popular charity among tech billionaires.

01.02.2024 7

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Leaders want strategic and critical thinking more than anything.

The skills gap is only getting deeper, a worrying new report finds.

31.01.2024 7

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Meet 'Money dysphoria': Gen Z gets its very own version of ‘keeping up with the Joneses’

Intuit Credit Karma found nearly half of millennials and Gen Z are obsessed with getting rich—and even more of them fear it'll never happen.

29.01.2024 5

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Massachusetts' governor leans into the skills-based hiring revolution by axing degree requirements for state jobs. The private sector is up next

Maura Healey’s executive order removes compulsory degree requirements—ordering hiring managers to consider an applicant’s “full set of...

26.01.2024 5

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