AI is quietly eroding competence, connection, and autonomy for early-career workers, and most organizations haven’t noticed yet.
Archives for May 25, 2026
Forget quiet quitting—4 in 10 millennials are taking ‘quiet vacations’ and checking out of work (and the country) on company dime instead
Nearly 4 in 10 millennials secretly take time off work and go on vacation behind their bosses back. They’re taking their work phone to the beach to not get caught.
The pig in the python: Baby Boomers are strangling the economy they built by refusing to move or retire
From the housing market to the corner office, America is paying the price for a generation that never learned to let go
7 Interview Questions To Find Out If A Company’s Work-Life Balance Is Actually Real
Many companies assert a great work-life balance, yet that may not be true. Here’s 7 interview questions that truly reveal a company’s work-life balance.
Why AI Likely Means More Work For Humans
The paradox of AI is that replacing some aspects of expert work may only accentuate the need for human experts.
AI hallucinations are infiltrating expert work—and entering the permanent body of knowledge
A Columbia researcher who studies AI nearly published a study with a hallucinated reference himself. He’s not alone.
What Stephen Colbert’s Exit Reveals About Your Career
The end of Stephen Colbert’s *Late Show* highlights a growing professional identity crisis, mirroring the struggles of thousands of workers laid off in recent years.
More Dads Are Scaling Back at the Office for Kids and Housework
College-educated men lead the way among dads sacrificing hours at work for time at home.
What United Airlines CEO Scott Kirby Gets Right About High Performance
United Airlines CEO Scott Kirby takes 20-minute naps on his office floor. It sounds odd. But it reveals what every leader needs to understand about high performance.
Are AI Layoffs Really About AI? Adecco’s CEO Suggests Otherwise
Meta laid off 8,000 workers to accelerate AI investment. Other tech companies are doing the same. But new data suggests AI may not be the real cause of layoffs.
‘HR is the wrong energy’: Bolt CEO defends eliminating the entire department
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Speaking at Fortune’s Workforce Innovation Summit in Atlanta, CEO Ryan Breslow told the audience that Bolt’s HR team was “creating problems that didn’t exist.” Later on LinkedIn, he said, “Those problems disappeared when I let them go.”
Breslow cofounded Bolt in 2014 out of his Stanford dorm room, building it
Indeed chief economist says we’re entering an era of ‘great mismatch’ thanks to a generational imbalance of workers
Svenja Gudell, chief economist at Indeed, says baby boomers are retiring at a speed and magnitude that young generations can’t replace.
5 Ways To Ace An AI Agent Job Interview
AI agent job interviews are becoming more common. Here are five behaviors new research found can improve your chances of success.
What SurveyMonkey Found About The Hidden Cost Of AI At Work
SurveyMonkey’s new curiosity report found AI may be making work faster while weakening critical thinking, collaboration, questioning, and original ideas.
6 Career Paths That Reward Quiet Excellence (Not Loud Networking)
Not every strong career is built on loud networking. Here are 6 career paths that reward deep expertise, quiet consistency, and results that speak for themselves.