More than any other generation, 18-24 year olds have confessed an interest in a ‘Severance’ situation where they have no memory of their nine to five. But why do Gen Z hate work so much?
Not my generation, but I support the message:
ILA President Daggett on Automation and the Future of Work
I think automation is unavoidable, but what is next?
Anyone who thought the debate over remote and hybrid workplace plans had been settled was clearly wrong.
Researcher Christina Bodin Danielsson calls open office landscapes a “sea of slaves.”
^^ more like tin can :)
ILA union longshoremen at East Coast, Gulf Coast ports walk off the job after ownership and labor failed to reach a deal in a blow to the U.S. economy.
In a statement on Tuesday, ILA President Harold Daggett said the union is “now demanding $5 an hour increase in wages for each of the six years of a new ILA-USMX Master Contract. Plus, we want absolute airtight language that there will be no automation or semi-automation, and we are demanding all Container Royalty monies go to the ILA.”
With bosses ripping up their resignation letters, many Japanese workers hire these proxy firms to help them resign stress-free.
I am really happy that the younger generation is re-evaluating views on work.
Yuki Watanabe used to spend 12 hours every day toiling away in the office. And that’s considered a short day.
Asking to leave work on time or taking some time off can be tricky enough. Even trickier is tendering a resignation, which can be seen as the ultimate form of disrespect in the world’s fourth-biggest economy, where workers traditionally stick with one employer for decades, if not for a lifetime.
In the most extreme cases, grumpy bosses rip up resignation letters and harass employees to force them to stay.
...She turned to Momuri, a resignation agency that helps timid employees leave their intimidating bosses.
For the price of a fancy dinner, many Japanese workers hire these proxy firms to help them resign stress-free.
At a cost of 22,000 yen (about $150) – or 12
Broadly speaking, the role of an establishment economist is to come up with new ways of saying, "actually, your boss is right."
Now, Lowe's has 285,000 employees, half of whom earn less than $33,000/year. Divide Ellison's $18m among those workers and each of them would net a paltry $126/year. But if you were to share out the $43 billion Ellison had to piss up against a wall on stock buybacks among those workers, you'd be able to give every worker a $30,000 bonus, every year:
The largest 20 companies in the Low-Wage 100 spent nine times more on stock buybacks than they spent on worker retirement plan contributions. Chipotle spent $2b on buybacks – that's 48 times what the company put into its workers' 401(k)s. That's because 92% of Chipotle employees can't afford to have a 401(k).
In incentivizing CEOs to keep share prices high above every other consideration, establishment economists set the stage for a corporate America where CEOs were punished for investing
Should people who quit get unemployment benefits?
So the point of the American UI system is not to make it easier to quit a job. But a few economists are now beginning to ask: Should it be?
A safety net program that would encourage more Americans to quit their jobs has generally been seen as a bad thing.
Boosting UI generosity doesn’t affect overall employment rates one way or the other. Instead of loafing around in subsidized unemployment, more generous benefits can support people to quit their jobs in search of better ones, which benefits workers through higher wages and better job satisfaction, and the economy through enhanced productivity as people find better uses for their skills.
The real losers would be lousy jobs, which would struggle to retain workers w
Senior management remains heavily male, and honestly I’m not entirely sure why.
Alice Evans is diving into a new Econ paper.
Ingrid Haegele finds that junior men are more likely to apply for promotions, primarily due to a greater desire for team leadership.
OR: The secret geniuses of Wisconsin
Similarly, when you survey people about what motivates them at work, they go “Feeling good about myself! Having freedom, the respect of my coworkers, and opportunities to develop my skills, learn things, and succeed!” When you survey people about what motivates others, they go, “Money and job security!” In another survey, people claimed that they value high-level needs (e.g., finding meaning in life) more than other people do.3
I’m saying “people” here
Remote work sucks. If you work at Dell, that is. In March, it announced remote employees would not be considered for promotions, or be able to…
Remote work doesn't work without a strong writing culture.
If a decision is made on a call and nobody writes it down, was a decision even made?
Writing is thinking, so it helps you think through both what you’re trying to achieve and how you want to communicate it, making everyone more intentional.
But the manager's schedule is the enemy of remote work. Successful remote teams avoid it entirely, which makes them incredibly good at getting shit done.
We optimize for productivity, not presence.
The biggest (and stupidest) argument against remote work? It makes people less productive. This is demonstrably untrue.
So, if productivity isn't the problem, what is it? It’s trust. If you trust people to do their very best work, and create a culture that values transparency, they'll deliver.
We trust people to
Calm companies are profitable, value freedom, have a purpose, and improve the team's lives. Frenzied companies are crisis-driven.
Would be nice ;)
Web dev at the end of the world, from Hveragerði, Iceland
Don't read if you don't want to ruin your day.
Many organisations are also resorting to employee-hostile strategies to increase employee churn, such as forced Return-To-Office policies.
Finding a non-bullshit job is likely only going to get harder.
• Finding effective documentation, information, and training is likely to get harder, especially in specialised topics where LLMs are even less effective than normal.
as soon as you start to try to predict the second or third order consequences things very quickly get remarkably difficult.
In short, futurists are largely con artists.
you need to do something Note: ah.. the famous "you need to do something" This is not a one-off event but has turned into a stock market driven movement towards reducing the overall headcou
The Basque Country’s Mondragón Corporation is the globe’s largest industrial co-operative, with workers paying for the right to share in its profits – and its losses. In return for giving more to their employer, they expect more back
Generation Z is unprecedentedly rich
Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy?
Why a big law firm is rolling back parental leave
The big picture: Employers don't offer parental leave out of the goodness of their hearts.
What to watch: So far, no other firms have followed suit — but Big Law is a lock-step world, so it's not something to rule out.
To make the most money after graduating college, consider majoring in engineering.
