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Elon Musk this week ordered his employees to return to the office full-time, asserting remote work is no longer acceptable—an ultimatum that industry insiders warn may have serious risks.
“Everyone at Tesla is required to spend a minimum of 40 hours in the office per week,” Musk wrote. “Moreover, the office must be where your actual colleagues are located, not some remote pseudo office. If you don’t show up, we will assume you have resigned.” READ MORE
Thousands of UK workers are starting a four-day work week from Monday with no cut to their pay in the largest trial of its kind.
The pilot, which will last for six months, involves 3,300 workers spanning 70 companies, ranging from providers of financial services to a fish-and-chip restaurant. READ MORE
JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon says an economic hurricane is coming. Tesla's Elon Musk says he has a "super bad feeling" about a recession. Companies are downgrading their earnings forecasts. Oh, and we're in the midst of an energy and inflation crisis, and stocks have been flirting with a bear market. READ MORE
Employers added 390,000 jobs in May, the Labor Department said in its monthly payroll report released Friday, beating the 328,000 jobs forecast by Refinitiv economists. The unemployment rate, meanwhile, held steady at 3.6%, the lowest level since February 2020. READ MORE
If you’ve ever experienced great leadership, you probably remember how that person -- your boss -- made you feel. Because true leadership, at its core, is a matter of the heart.
Poet and civil rights activist Maya Angelou famously stated, “People will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.” READ MORE
Elon Musk is like that favorite high school teacher: Half taskmaster, half curiously fun. You never know which version you’ll get on a given day.
The witty Tesla founder and potential Twitter owner just announced an ultimatum to his Tesla staff Tuesday: Return to the office to work or you’ve quit. According to emails, Musk requires car-company executives to work a minimum of 40 hours per week in office and exceptions would be made only for exceptional contributors on a case-by-case basis. READ MORE
If you didn't read Eco founder Andy Bromberg's Twitter thread last week accusing Pebble's cofounding team of the plagiarism of both Eco's marketing messaging and business model, along with a blow-by-blow accounting of what he called "lying and espionage" in attempts to surface Eco's intellectual property, you'd be forgiven - because it turned into a non-story.
What Bromberg alleges is shocking in almost every aspect, but the thread ends with a whimper, an "agree-to-disagree," with no further action to follow. READ MORE
The US economy has been mostly beating expectations for two years now, thanks in large part to consumers eagerly buying just about everything that companies could sell them.
Much of this spending was powered by an estimated $2.5 trillion in excess savings that households accumulated due to federal pandemic aid and higher wages at work. READ MORE
A buildup of inventory across major retailers is cultivating a climate of markdowns, according to a new report.
It started happening at a time when "consumers began curtailing spending and shifting away from discretionary categories," according to a research note from the Telsey Advisory Group. READ MORE
Netflix, Robinhood, Carvana and Facebook parent Meta are joining the growing list of tech firms laying off employees or slowing hiring which Parler CEO George Farmer warned is "just beginning."
"The sector is feeling the effects of this interest rate rise and the end of free money," Farmer told FOX Business’ Maria Bartiromo on Thursday. "The free pay environment has sort of exacerbated the worst of the tech hiring, which has basically meant that companies are trading off ridiculous price-to-earnings ratios and have sort of exacerbated the overstaffing of these companies." READ MORE
Former White House Council of Economic Advisers Chair Tomas Philipson slammed the Biden administration for their attempt to fight inflation, comparing it to an "arsonist trying to shut out a fire." READ MORE
Jim Farley knows time is money.
The Ford CEO sees a great profit opportunity in technology that will allow drivers to sleep in their cars. READ MORE
Organizations struggle to identify their next-gen leaders, and for good reasons. When you don’t know what the future will bring, how do you figure out who has — or can acquire — the right strengths to meet those challenges? Which high potentials will give you the best return on your development efforts? READ MORE
Tesla CEO Elon Musk, who has gained even more notoriety amid his purchase of Twitter and who has previously predicted an economic recession, claimed that the upcoming recession is "actually a good thing," a necessary "rude awakening" after a lax attitude from the COVID-19 pandemic. READ MORE
After months of shouldering increased costs, customers are pulling back.
That's according to small businesses surveyed in May by The Wall Street Journal. Some say that sales have decreased over the past few weeks--and the majority aren't optimistic about things getting better anytime soon. More than half (56 percent) of the 600 small businesses surveyed say that they expect economic conditions to worsen over the next year--up from 42 percent in April. READ MORE
With the job market still going strong, millions of workers have switched jobs in the past year.
In March, a record 4.5 million people quit their jobs, according to the Labor Department, many of whom left to seek higher pay, better benefits and flexibility or new career opportunities. READ MORE
Ten years ago, in a small hotel room in Helsinki, Finland, a young tech entrepreneur sat down with a pen and paper and calculated that one of his inventions was responsible for wasting the equivalent of more than a million human lifetimes every day. The realization made him feel sick. That entrepreneur’s name is Aza Raskin, and he’s the inventor of the “infinite scroll,” the feature on our phone that keeps us endlessly scrolling through content with the simple swipe of a finger. READ MORE
Microsoft just showed how artificial intelligence could find its way into many software applications—by writing code on the fly.
At the Microsoft Build developer conference today, the company’s chief technology officer, Kevin Scott, demonstrated an AI helper for the game Minecraft. The non-player character within the game is powered by the same machine learning technology Microsoft has been testing for auto-generating software code. The feat hints at how recent advances in AI could change personal computing in years to come by replacing interfaces that you tap, type, and click to navigate into interfaces that you simply have a conversation with. READ MORE
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