Why Corporate Jargon Works on Some People

Why Corporate Jargon Works on Some People

Shane Littrell spent years working in a corporate environment before he quit and became a researcher. His turning point, by his own account, was a boss who regularly deployed words like “synergizing,” “derivation,” and “optimal...
Squid Game for Office Workers

Squid Game for Office Workers

Hundreds of people lined up outside Tencent’s headquarters in Shenzhen this month — retirees, students, office workers, homemakers — waiting for engineers to install a piece of software on their devices. They weren’t there for a product launch. They were...
How to Tell If AI Will Kill Your Job

How to Tell If AI Will Kill Your Job

Every major technology that was supposed to eliminate jobs — the steam engine, the spreadsheet, the ATM, the internet — ended up creating more of them. Not because the fears were wrong about what those technologies could do, but because the fears were wrong about what...
The Hidden Economics of Dating Your Boss

The Hidden Economics of Dating Your Boss

The office romance is a workplace institution — gossiped about, romanticized, and quietly navigated in every industry. A quarter of American workers have been involved in one, according to SHRM’s workplace romance survey, and the workplace ranked as the fourth...
Millions Are Taking Months Off Work

Millions Are Taking Months Off Work

There’s a particular fantasy most working adults have entertained at least once: what if you just… stopped for a while? Not a long weekend. Not two weeks of checking email from a beach chair. A real stop — months of actual breathing room to travel, think,...
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