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Job roles dominated by women are at the highest risk of being automated, according to a study by Credera.
The same jobs are also 20% less likely to use GenAI, the data showed, with jobs for administrative assistants, office clerks, bookkeepers and cashiers in the most jeopardy of being replaced.
“We stand at the precipice of the greatest economic revolution in generations,” said Brian Peret, director of the software engineering service company, CodeBoxx Academy. READ MORE
While a number of high-profile organizations have called workers back to the office full-time in recent months, leaders largely recognize that employees are craving flexibility, according to new research.
The survey from International Workplace Group reinforces “what we are seeing play out on a global scale: Long, costly, daily treks to faraway offices no longer make sense in today’s tech-enabled world,” says Mark Dixon, IWG’s founder and CEO. As a result, he adds, many organizations are empowering employees to work closer to where they live and want to be. READ MORE
Galvorn is stronger than steel, lighter than aluminum, and has the conductivity of copper, according to an article on LinkedIn. While the jury is still out on whether it's faster than a speeding bullet, experts at Houston-based DexMat suggest their product can revolutionize the green tech landscape.
Galvorn can be an alternative to rare and expensive copper — a crucial metal in electronics, according to a report from GreenBiz. What's more, the inventors plan to displace dirty materials, contribute to cleaner air, and advance green tech as their "magical" material is rolled out. READ MORE
A Japanese company finished testing a superconducting magnet that could help make fusion energy work on a commercial scale, reported Interesting Engineering.
Helical Fusion tested a coil that kept electricity flowing steadily while exposed to the intense magnetic forces present in a working fusion reactor. This marks the first time a commercial-scale coil has operated successfully under such conditions. READ MORE
From Verizon to Amazon and beyond, large-scale layoffs are redefining the current job market—but another tactic may be just as destabilizing to the American workforce: quiet firing.
Zety’s Layoff Lifeline Report finds that a majority of workers surveyed report having experienced “quiet firing” tactics: when employers try to push employees out without actually formally showing them the door. The report was compiled from three Zety surveys conducted throughout 2025, including one of 1,000 U.S. employees and two surveys of nearly 1,000 employees who had been laid off within the past two years. READ MORE
The U.S. labor market is showing further signs of weakening as the pace of layoffs has picked up over the past four weeks, payrolls processing firm ADP reported Tuesday.
Private companies lost an average of 13,500 jobs a week over the past four weeks, ADP said as part of a running update it has been providing. That’s an acceleration from the 2,500 jobs a week lost in the last update a week ago. READ MORE
As workforces wind down the year in the coming weeks, many HR and benefits professionals will face a key question: Why are so many employees leaving unused PTO on the table?
Research from FlexJobs highlights the scope of the issue: Almost a quarter of employees the organization surveyed didn’t take a day off in 2024, while more than 20% took fewer than five days. This is despite the vast majority—more than 80%—having access to paid time off. READ MORE
Artificial intelligence might be the most transformative technology in generations. It is also the most joyless.
While Wall Street greets AI with open arms, ordinary Americans respond with ambivalence, anxiety, even dread.
This isn’t like the dot-com era. A survey in 1995 found 72% of respondents comfortable with new technology such as computers and the internet. Just 24% were not. READ MORE
Mental health researchers relying on ChatGPT to speed up their work should take note of an unsettling finding from Australian researchers. The AI chatbot gets citations wrong or invents them outright more than half the time.
When scientists at Deakin University tasked GPT-4o with writing six literature reviews on mental health topics, they discovered that nearly 20% (19.9%) of the 176 citations the AI generated were completely fabricated. Among the 141 real citations, 45.4% contained errors such as wrong publication dates, incorrect page numbers, or invalid digital object identifiers. READ MORE
In a recent interview, Alex Karp said that his company Palantir was “the most important software company in America and therefore in the world”. He may well be right. To some, Palantir is also the scariest company in the world, what with its involvement in the Trump administration’s authoritarian agenda. The potential end point of Palantir’s tech is an all-powerful government system amalgamating citizens’ tax records, biometric data and other personal information – the ultimate state surveillance tool. No wonder Palantir has been likened to George Orwell’s Big Brother, or Skynet from the Terminator movies. READ MORE
After a long decline in the number of organizations investing in executive benefits, new research suggests a turnaround.
A recent report from Goldman Sachs Ayco found that nearly a quarter of the almost 300 compensation and benefits professionals surveyed have enhanced their executive benefits offerings in the last two years. This is significantly more than the 20-year average of 8%. READ MORE
Despite being nearly six years past the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, the debate over return-to-office wages on, colliding with ongoing efforts to cut costs, drive efficiencies with AI and navigate an uncertain economy.
The RTO push took on new momentum at the start of 2025, as the Trump administration gave thousands of federal employees an ultimatum: Return to the office or resign, with some experts predicting private employers would follow suit. As predicted, the year is now closing out with a wave of similar headlines. READ MORE
Are you a little weary of hearing about all the things that AI will do? Not yet? How about all the claims that your job is going to be taken over by AI (along with everyone else’s on the planet)? How about the recent layoffs and the assertion that they are due to AI?
In my May column, I wrote about the survey of C-suite executives showing how much pressure they were under to prove that they were getting AI to work (which really means cut headcount), and how out of touch these promises were with reality. I strongly believe that employers wanted to do layoffs anyway to keep investors happy, and are hoping the cuts will somehow be offset by introducing AI. READ MORE
“It’ll happen slowly, and then all at once.”
That’s how Jim Morrow, founder and chief investment officer of Callodine Capital, describes the eventual – inevitable – unwinding of what he calls “the most crowded trade in history.” READ MORE
When companies massage earnings reports to make profits look larger, do investors buy it? In some cases, they don't. That's the lesson from new research by John McInnis, professor of accounting at Texas McCombs.
The results are "comforting," he says, indicating that current accounting rules give investors enough information to make informed decisions. READ MORE
Microsoft's early investments in OpenAI may seem like a no-brainer today, but Satya Nadella says the company and its founder, Bill Gates, saw the decision as a risk back then.
Microsoft invested $1 billion in OpenAI in 2019, less than four years after its founding. The company has since invested over $13 billion in the ChatGPT maker. READ MORE
America is facing a demographic nightmare that could change the nation forever.
For decades, experts warned that falling birth rates would eventually chip away at population growth. But few imagined the reckoning would come this soon - or this brutally. READ MORE
In two decades, the app has grown from a user-generated circus into the most powerful platform on earth. CEO Neal Mohan on his $100 billion vision for YouTube’s future and the disruption it’s left in its wake. READ MORE
Microsoft on Thursday rolled out a series of artificial intelligence upgrades to Windows 11 that would make its Copilot AI assistant more appealing to users by making it easier to automate tasks and connect with services across devices.
Users can now use the wake word "Hey Copilot" to activate the AI assistant and execute voice commands in a new opt-in feature on any Windows 11 PC, Microsoft said. READ MORE
Lucy Jackson uses a phone that can do little besides make a call and, with some effort, send a text. That complicates life for a college freshman in 2025.
But for Jackson, who uses paper maps and calls the local cab company when she needs a ride, the added challenges of low-tech life are a small price to pay.
“I have a lot more appreciation for things that I can’t access readily at my fingertips, like any kind of media,” said Jackson, 17. “It is a little bit harder to make friends with people and keep in contact.” READ MORE