#Full-time office work is ‘over’

#Full-time office work is ‘over’

“Full-time office work is ‘over’” Airbnb boss Brian Chesky is doubling down on his view that traditional full-time office jobs are an outdated notion — arguing in a recent interview that onsite work is “from a pre-digital age” that no longer makes sense for many career paths. Chesky’s remarks came just days after Airbnb informed…

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#Company perks make staff ‘work more for less’

#Company perks make staff ‘work more for less’

“Company perks make staff ‘work more for less’” “Work hard, play hard?” Ken Waks, a former Google employee, claims he knows the “dark reason” for the company’s notoriously generous perks: to get staff “to work more for less.” In a now-viral TikTok that has amassed more than 6 million views, Waks detailed the best perks…

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#Why the working class embraced right-wing populism

#Why the working class embraced right-wing populism

“Why the working class embraced right-wing populism” Can the left win them back? What is wrong with the working class? That question has been furiously debated among left-leaning intellectuals since the days of Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher. Many of them think workers have consistently voted against their own material interests and even—as in the…

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#How Silicon Valley taught America to treat work as a religion

#How Silicon Valley taught America to treat work as a religion

“How Silicon Valley taught America to treat work as a religion” At the opening of her four-day self-improvement seminar, Jennifer Spargifiore was held in isolation for hours until a screaming man broke the silence, yelling that the attendees were “nothing.” The degrading experience “more and more resembled a cult initiation ritual as time went on,” reads a…

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#Eating away at the heart of small businesses

#Eating away at the heart of small businesses

“#Eating away at the heart of small businesses” Of the four restaurants Rick McQuaide owns across several counties in Western Pennsylvania, one is barely making a profit, two are losing money and the fourth has been “temporarily” closed for far longer than he ever anticipated. The 58-year-old small businessman from nearby Cambria County has one…

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