Happy And Succeeding In The Future Of Work
Adding Insult To Injury, Being Labeled As A ‘Low Performer’ Makes Matters Worse For Laid-Off Workers
Getting laid off can be a traumatic event. The loss of a job and concerns about financial insecurity cause stress and anxiety to affected workers and their families. To compound the problem for people in between jobs, prior to layoff announcements, companies like Meta, Salesforce, Amazon, Google and other marquee names discussed or encouraged letting go of low performers.
Super Bowl LVII: Philadelphia Eagles Head Coach Said Failure Will ‘Motivate Us’ After The Team’s Loss
After the Eagles lost Super Bowl LVII to the Chiefs on Sunday night, head coach Nick Sirianni was asked what his message was to the team in the locker room. Sirianni recalled talking to the team before they faced the 49ers and asked them to remember times that they faced adversity in their lives as a way to remember what they did to pass by the obstacles in their way. He said he told the team to recall that and use the 38-35 to fuel them in the future.
Meta Reportedly Plans More Job Cuts
Facebook parent company Meta reportedly plans to further reduce its headcount in the coming weeks. According to the Financial Times, work at the tech giant has slowed to a crawl while it plots a new round of job cuts. Meta is likely to announce the restructuring after it has completed staff performance reviews sometime in March. In November, the company laid off 11,000 employees or about 13 percent of its global workforce. Those cuts were the largest in Meta’s nearly 20-year history, affecting every organization within the company. Meta did not immediately to Engadget’s comment request. The Times did not report on the potential scale of the restructuring.
US Experts Warn AI Likely To Kill Off Jobs And Widen Wealth Inequality
ChatGPT is just the latest technology to fuel worries that it will wipe out the jobs of millions of workers, whether advertising copywriters, Wall Street traders, salespeople, writers of basic computer code or journalists. But while many workforce experts say the fears that ChatGPT and other artificial intelligence (AI) technologies will cause unemployment to skyrocket are overblown, they point to another fear about AI: that it will widen the US’s already huge income and wealth inequality by creating a new wave of billionaire tech barons at the same time that it pushes many workers out of better paid jobs.
Google Employees Criticize CEO Sundar Pichai For ‘Rushed, Botched’ Leadership Decisions
Google employees are criticizing leadership, most notably CEO Sundar Pichai, for the way the company handled the announcement this week of its ChatGPT competitor called Bard. Staffers took to the popular internal forum Memegen to express their thoughts on the Bard announcement, referring to it as “rushed,” “botched” and “un-Googley,” according to messages and memes viewed by CNBC.
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Avoid These 3 Phrases In A job Interview That Make You Look ‘Weak’
In a job interview, every word counts. Even one bad answer could kill your chances at getting hired, Eric Yaverbaum, CEO of Ericho Communications, tells CNBC Make It. Yaverbaum has interviewed thousands of candidates throughout his 40-plus year career as a public relations expert. Interviewers tend to make snap judgments about candidates within minutes of starting the conversation, he explains — and saying anything that comes across as “arrogant, uninterested or weak” can instantly destroy a first impression.
‘Crypto Mom’ Hester Peirce: SEC ‘Disappoints’ When It Comes to Crypto
Speak to Hester Peirce for too long and you’ll leave with the distinct impression that she’s fed up with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). The U.S.’ securities, and sometimes crypto, regulator “has not done a good job,” the commissioner told CoinDesk. “We just haven’t made progress in the five years I’ve been here.”
7 Major American Cities That Have Lost Half Their Populations
In 2021, in the middle of the COVID-19 pandemic, the U.S. population grew by just 0.1%, the smallest growth in the nation’s history. It rebounded only slightly in 2022, growing by 0.4%. While experts point to COVID-19 as a major reason for such historically poor growth, the last two years are merely the lowest point in a trend that has lasted for decades.
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