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I’ve tested dozens of items to perfect my work-from-home setup. These 13 make all the difference

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OnlyFans and AI training: why gen Z doesn’t care where our money comes from | Alice Lassman

With traditional goals such as stability and homeownership feeling out of reach, young people are focused on the presentBy now, we all know the shape of financial nihilism: the throw-your-money-at-anything reaction to the dissolution of the slow, linear path to wealth; the prediction markets, meme stocks, cryptocurrencies and microluxuries growing in its place. We’re left

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AI was supposed to destroy jobs. Where’s the carnage?

The AI jobs apocalypse never showed up. Still, jobs are changing and economists expect more to come.The prediction was stark: artificial intelligence advancements would wipe out jobs en masse. “Half” of all entry-level white collar jobs would vanish, Anthropic’s CEO, Dario Amodei, said in May 2025. A month later, OpenAI’s CEO, Sam Altman, went further,

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Corporate America may be using AI to cut jobs, but small businesses are using it to keep them

Reports of wide-scale replacement of workers by AI are overblown. Small businesses use it to help workersI recently met the owner of a company that sells windows and doors. He told me he invested about $10,000 in an AI application that is used by his salespeople in his showroom. The application listens to the conversations

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The AI jobs apocalypse probably isn’t coming anytime soon

Artificial intelligence may not deliver on its promise of vast economic opportunity at a price that humanity is willing to payIn March, Anthropic, the cutting-edge artificial intelligence business that gave us the chatbot Claude, published an analysis on the impact of AI on employment, to help us assess the claim that intelligent robots were about

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We are witnessing the slow death of the prestige career | Alice Lassman

White-collar work is at risk across the board, including at elite consulting firms that used to be a pathway to the 1%Consulting is a delicate contract: endure two challenging, formative years – and in return, get a golden ticket to anywhere. Firms like McKinsey tout themselves as the “CEO factory”, and boast they’re “not surprised”

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Office workers of the world unite: it’s time to revive the three-martini lunch | Andrea Javor

The three-martini lunch allowed us to mix business and pleasure, a phenomenon that is missing during the AI boomAs a 46-year-old executive who now has both people and AI agents reporting to me on the org chart, I think corporate America needs to revive a much-mocked relic of mid-century American business life: the three-martini lunch.In

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Gig workers are endlessly exploited. AI could make more of us share their fate

As companies integrate AI and hire fewer employees, a shift toward a ‘gig economy’ will commenceIn 2024, the buy-now-pay-later company Klarna announced that it would cut hundreds of customer service roles and begin using an artificial intelligence chatbot instead. The move was expected to save the company millions. But a year later, after customers complained

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AI absolutism is breaking our brains. The apocalyptic future we’re being sold isn’t inevitable

Nor is the dreamy promise that this tech will unlock boundless potential and productivityEverything we hear about artificial intelligence is conflicting, and hearing about it feels inescapable. AI is terrible. AI is wonderful. It will break the world. It will transform the future. It’s essential to embrace it. It’s a moral imperative to abstain from

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‘Instagram truly is the new LinkedIn’: why gen Z is using social media to get hired

In this competitive market, gen Z has started to turn to untraditional ways to land a job – including dating appsSibusisiwe Khupe, 26, entered the job market once again in September after a wave of unexpected layoffs at London marketing agency Wieden+Kennedy.She knew landing her next full-time role was not going to be easy. Young

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