The Rise of RentAHuman, the Marketplace Where Bots Put People to Work

For centuries, people have catastrophized about robots taking away jobs. On February 1, the paradigm shifted: bots are creating jobs. Now, 518,284 humans—and rapidly counting—are offering their labor to AI agents on a new online marketplace called RentAHuman. There are classifieds to count pigeons in Washington ($30/hour); deliver CBD gummies ($75/hour); play exhibition badminton ($100/hour); and anything else you could possibly imagine that a disembodied agent couldn’t do.

The provocatively-titled platform enables users to connect AI agents like Clawdbot or Claude to its Model Context Protocol server so they can search, book, and pay for humans to carry out tasks in “meatspace.” Think of it like Fiverr, but doing away with the human recruiter and letting autonomous bots do the hiring instead. READ MORE

7 choices that could finally make performance management worth the effort

Performance management is broken. While HR teams and leaders often think their programs work well, many employees don’t. According to PwC’s Workforce Radar study, 97% of HR leaders believe their organizations effectively grow and develop talent, but only 50% of business leaders and 30% of employees agree.

This disconnect exists because each person experiences performance management differently. Employees see a box-checking exercise. HR views it as a development tool. Business leaders use it to manage pay and accountability. The result? Confusing signals, lost trust, and stalled growth in the very capabilities organizations need to compete. READ MORE

42% of Employee Turnover Is Preventable but Often Ignored

Self-reported employee turnover risk is at its highest point since 2015.

Gallup’s latest measure in May shows half of U.S. employees (51%) are watching or actively seeking a new job, continuing a recent upward trend. While voluntary employee turnover rates have stabilized since the Great Resignation due to cooling economic and job markets, employees’ long-term commitment to their organizations is currently the lowest it has been in nine years. READ MORE

Disciplined Entrepreneurship: What It Really Takes to Build a Business

When founders succeed, they’re often dubbed business prodigies, destined for greatness from day one. However, leaders at the MIT Sloan School of Management assert that successful entrepreneurs are made, not born.

“[Entrepreneurship] is not a science or an algorithm. It’s not art either,” says Bill Aulet, a three-time entrepreneur and MIT professor. “It’s theory and practice. In entrepreneurship, you are always doing something different. So it has to be taught as a craft through the apprenticeship model where you can apply first principles and there are master craftsmen around you to learn from.” READ MORE

How Soon Will AI Take Your Job?

In 1869, a group of Massachusetts reformers persuaded the state to try a simple idea: counting.

The Second Industrial Revolution was belching its way through New England, teaching mill and factory owners a lesson most M.B.A. students now learn in their first semester: that efficiency gains tend to come from somewhere, and that somewhere is usually somebody else. The new machines weren’t just spinning cotton or shaping steel. They were operating at speeds that the human body—an elegant piece of engineering designed over millions of years for entirely different purposes—simply wasn’t built to match. The owners knew this, just as they knew that there’s a limit to how much misery people are willing to tolerate before they start setting fire to things. READ MORE

57 Infuriating Examples Of "Enshittification" That Prove Everything Is Just Getting Worse All The Time, Unfortunately

You may have been hearing this word tossed around over the last year: enshittification. According to Merriam-Webster, it's "when a digital platform is made worse for users, in order to increase profits." However, it's colloquially come to describe more than just apps, platforms, or sites. It seems like everything these days is declining in quality just so those at the top can make a buck. Even worse, companies often frame it as "innovation" or pretend like the changes are a good thing. READ MORE

The IRS is cracking down on a type of income earned by millions of people. Here's how to prevent a letter from Uncle Sam

The Internal Revenue Service is cracking down on a specific category of income that many Americans are increasingly reliant on: side hustles.

As of 2025, roughly 27% of American workers had some form of side income, according to a Bankrate survey (1). However, for many of these side hustlers the income generated from these gigs is negligible. In 2025, the median hustler earned just $200 a month. READ MORE

Deepfakes in the talent pool: How AI is reshaping hiring

An executive in my professional network recently updated their LinkedIn profile with this message:

“Friends, if you received an email from me about an opportunity with my organization, you didn’t. My corporate email address has been deepfaked.”

Deepfaking involves using AI to generate convincing false communications (such as in the case of my LinkedIn friend)—emails, voice recordings, even videos—that mimic a real individual. These communications appear so authentic that they can bypass human skepticism, fooling even the tech-savviest among us. READ MORE

Amazon’s layoff leak: What went wrong?

After news broke last week that another round of mass layoffs was impending at Amazon, employees were waiting for the hammer to drop. Late Tuesday night, it did—seemingly by accident.

An assistant to the vice president of AWS Solutions reportedly inadvertently sent a calendar invite to a handful of employees for a “Project Dawn” meeting—referencing the name of the company’s stated efforts to enhance efficiency—with an accompanying message about job cuts. The event was quickly cancelled. READ MORE

Musk’s fantasy for a future where work is optional just got more real

Tesla CEO Elon Musk has made no secret of his robot-powered fantasies for the future. Within the next couple of decades, work will be optional due to the widespread proliferation of AI and automation, he has predicted. Gone will be the need for retirement savings, as money will be irrelevant. Instead, Musk sees a world of robots outnumbering humans, providing healthcare and other services for their organic counterparts. READ MORE

Elon Musk is betting Tesla’s future isn’t about cars at all

Tesla dominated the electric vehicle industry by the mid-2010s with sleek, fast cars that helped combat the public perception that EVs were severely limited by short ranges.

Now the company – and its controversial CEO, Elon Musk – face stiffer competition and political headwinds. Its EV sales fell by a record 9% in 2025, amid increasing rivalry from China and the expiration of the US EV sales tax credit. READ MORE

Forget the four-day workweek: CEO of the world’s largest workspace provider says it’s not coming, despite what Bill Gates and Elon Musk predict

Billionaire Microsoft cofounder Bill Gates, JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon, Nvidia’s boss Jensen Huang and Elon Musk have all made the same prediction in recent years: The workweek is about to shrink. Automation will take over routine tasks, they argue, freeing workers’ time and pushing a four-day week toward becoming standard. Gates has even floated the idea of a two-day workweek.

But Mark Dixon, CEO and founder of International Workplace Group (IWG) CEO isn’t buying it. From his vantage point, running the world’s largest flexible office provider—with more than 8 million users across 122 countries and 85% of the Fortune 500 among its customers—the math doesn’t add up. READ MORE

Boomers are staying in the job market as Gen Z struggles to break through

Since graduating from Barnard College of Columbia University in 2024, Menasha Thomas has learned to navigate the swirl of networking and referrals, online job-search groups and interview processes. But after 14 months of soldiering through scores of applications, the 23-year-old has yet to put her urban planning degree to use in a full-time job.

In the meantime, she took professional certification and real estate courses to make herself more hireable while working as a nanny and at New York City cafes. It has been challenging but not “entirely isolating,” she said, because she knows many other recent grads also are struggling to get started professionally. She recently landed a paid internship with a real estate company, for which she feels “extremely grateful.” READ MORE

This Is What Convinced Me OpenAI Will Run Out of Money

Wall Street fears it has an artificial intelligence problem. A.I.-related stocks are up so much that a fall feels inevitable, particularly if A.I. appears unlikely to live up to its hype. This is the wrong worry; A.I.’s promise is real. The big question in 2026 is whether capital markets can adequately finance A.I.’s development. Companies such as OpenAI are likely to run out of cash before their tantalizing new technology produces big profits. READ MORE

Netflix Preparing to Make Warner Bid All-Cash

Netflix is preparing to make its bid for Warner Bros. Discovery’s WBD 1.62%increase; green up pointing triangle studios and HBO Max streaming business all-cash, according to people familiar with the matter.

Netflix struck a $72 billion cash-and-stock deal with Warner in December. Making it all cash would simplify Netflix’s deal and could sway some shareholders who have been weighing the two offers. READ MORE