From 2019 to 2024, the average number of minutes worked on Fridays fell by about 90 minutes in remote jobs.

By aligning the pursuit of business objectives with the meeting of human needs, companies can tap into powerful emotional forces in their current cultural situations.

When we routinely default to an attitude of mistrust, they create a negative loop that undermines relationships and hinders change.

In this Nano Tool for Leaders, researchers share a simple, evidence-based practice that strengthens trust and collaboration in teams.

Called Project Prometheus, the company is focusing on artificial intelligence for the engineering and manufacturing of computers, automobiles and spacecraft.

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Big companies have teams to guide tech strategy—smaller firms noodle until something works Quick Summary Fifty-eight percent of small businesses surveyed use generative AI, an increase from 40% in 2024 and more than double two years prior. Small businesses are using AI for various tasks, including cost analysis, customer service, shift scheduling and website development. Some small-business owners report that AI has enabled them to reduce staffing needs, such as hiring fewer

Amazon informed staffers via a text-email combo. Target asked workers to stay home. Does any of that make job cuts less painful? Quick Summary Employers are changing layoff tactics with an aim of minimizing ugly public scenes. Some companies are using remote notifications, such as texts. There are managers who have been cut out of the loop on staff reductions, unable to explain dismissals to teams.

In Miami and elsewhere, the wealthy are moving in increasingly private spheres, shelling out big money to bypass the indignities of public life

Since devoting nearly all of its profits to climate and nature in late 2022, the company has given away an extra $180 million

DM Is it true that President Obama and Harry Reid (by choosing to tamper with, and fracture, the filibuster) set the stage for our prevailing Supreme Court imbalance, ...and thus for years to come? This is a debated question with legitimate arguments on different sides. The case that Reid's move contributed: In 2013, Harry Reid eliminated the filibuster for most presidential nominations (lower court judges, executive appointments) but specifically preserved it for Supreme Co

In “Fateful Hours,” the road map to authoritarian disaster is laid out in gleamingly sinister detail by the German historian Volker Ullrich.

We need physical spaces for serendipitous, productivity-free conversation.

In this excerpt from the new book ‘Speak Data,’ the Wharton professor and best-selling author shares his thoughts on how we interpret and communicate information

Qasem Waleed is a 28-year-old physicist who has lived in Gaza his whole life. In 2024, he joined a chorus of Palestinians sharing videos and pictures and writing about the chaos and violence they were living through, as Israel’s military bombardment devastated their lives. But Qasem was trying to describe his reality through the lens of the most notoriously confusing and inscrutable field of science ever, quantum mechanics. We talked to him, from a cafe near the Al-Mawasi sec

We all feel it: the growing stream of administrative tasks sapping our time, spirits and social lives. Admin Night represents a tiny, nerdy resistance.

Machines could soon help elders get out of bed, bathe them, even provide them with emotional support.

If you say yes to any of these 5 questions, science says you’re more emotionally intelligent than you think . You may discover you’re more self-aware, empathetic, and emotionally intelligent than you assume.

Most people don't quit their jobs so much as they fall out of love with them. It begins subtly. Work that had felt energizing is now routine. The sense of connection that once anchored them starts to thin. They still show up, still deliver, look entirely committed from the outside—but inside, something essential has changed. Long before anyone hands in a resignation letter, the relationship between the person and the employer has already begun to fade.

New research shows only 30% of workers want to become managers. Here’s why, and what your organization can do about it.