Tech’s Big Anxiety: Fewer Jobs, Lower Pay, More AIManagers are falling down the corporate ladder, which increases competition and lowers salaries. Meanwhile, the “Mag 7” are cutting jobs.
To Climb to the Top, Women Should Focus on Skill BuildingThe authors of the book “The Broken Rung” provide career advice for how women can climb the corporate ladder by building soft skills and meaningful networks.
Stop Trying To Do EverythingMost of us believe that success happens all at once. Real life is different.
I Reported My Colleague to HR. Somehow It Made Every Single Person at Work Turn OnI don’t deserve this.
Change the World With AI? You Need Global Data FirstData often comes with built-in blind spots, and is at this point, trained on Western viewpoints.
The Trump Resistance Won’t Be Televised—It’ll Be on MeidasTouchIn the midst of the COVID pandemic, brothers Ben, Brett, and Jordy Meiselas found themselves, like many Americans, commiserating in a group chat about the calamitous state of the world.
I'm 58 and lost my 6-figure job. Over a year of applications later, I still haven't found anything.This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Pete Petersen, 58, who has been looking for work since February 2024 after he was laid off from his corporate job. Petersen spent much of his career in the consumer products healthcare division of a pharmaceutical company.
How Contracting Work Became a Race to the BottomBen Whelan is not the kind of carpenter to wax poetic about the joys of framing a wall or redoing a roof. Like a lot of men he knows, he started working in residential construction as a teenager because it was a reliable way to earn money.
The Long Nap of the Lazy BureaucratIn December, the Republican senator Joni Ernst, of Iowa, released a report tauntingly titled “Out of Office: Bureaucrats on the beach and in bubble baths but not in office buildings.
I changed 12 Android phone settings to dramatically increase battery life (and why they work)I've spent large portions of my life looking for ways to extend the battery life on my Android phones. Admittedly, that sounds rather dramatic, but growing up with only budget models meant I was constantly tweaking device settings to squeeze every bit of juice out of their batteries.
3 things haven’t changed in software engineeringThe Fast Company Impact Council is an invitation-only membership community of leaders, experts, executives, and entrepreneurs who share their insights with our audience. Members pay annual dues for access to peer learning, thought leadership opportunities, events and more.
The Hidden Decisions Behind Trump’s Tariff FormulaPresident Trump's new tariffs on more than 100 countries used the same simple formula to calculate the rate for each of them. The formula’s central value is the trade deficit, the difference between imports and exports between each country and the United States, for the year 2024.
Best printer 2025: just buy a Brother laser printer, the winner is clear, middle finger in the airIf you buy something from a Verge link, Vox Media may earn a commission. See our ethics statement. I have been recommending people buy whatever Brother laser printer is on sale for three years now, and no one has ever gotten mad at me about it.
Mister Lonely, the New TV HeroIn the very first shot of the pilot episode of “Paradise”—a recent dystopian political thriller from Hulu—a man played by Sterling K. Brown lies alone, unrestfully, in bed. His eyes are bolted open. A watercolor wash of blue light floods his face.
'Captain America' star Anthony Mackie: 'We're lying to our kids' when we say success comes just from hard work—luck is key, tooIn many cases, "success is given [and] not earned," Mackie continued. Mackie had been an actor for over 10 years before landing the role that many consider his big break, as Sam Wilson in 2014's "Captain America: The Winter Soldier," he said.