Why top firms fire good workers(rochester.edu)

108 points by hhs 11 months ago | 113 comments

Deming Paradox: Operationally rigorous companies aren't nice places to work(commoncog.com)

255 points by nsoonhui 3 years ago | 147 comments

When new hires get paid more, top performers resign first(hbr.org)

160 points by mooreds 2 years ago | 125 comments

Thousands of CEOs just admitted AI had no impact on employment or productivity(fortune.com)

725 points by virgildotcodes 8 months ago | 637 comments

Fortune article on a survey of thousands of CEOs reporting AI had no measurable effect on employment or productivity, reviving the Solow productivity paradox.

When CEOs Are Paid for Bad Performance (2005)(gsb.stanford.edu)

71 points by segasaturn 3 years ago | 68 comments

JPMorgan Reportedly Ending Remote Work for More Than 300k Employees(forbes.com)

55 points by this_weekend 1 year ago | 40 comments

Loyal workers are selectively and ironically targeted for exploitation(sciencedirect.com)

341 points by ck45 3 years ago | 219 comments

Abstract page for a Journal of Experimental Social Psychology paper finding that loyal workers are selectively targeted for exploitation by managers.

What happens if an entire class of workers loses faith in their careers(noemamag.com)

970 points by RickJWagner 2 months ago | 1138 comments

Noema Magazine essay arguing that tech and knowledge workers are realizing their work feels pointless and that AI may cause a whole class to lose faith in careers.

When everyone has AI and the company still learns nothing(robert-glaser.de)

355 points by youngbrioche 5 months ago | 234 comments

Robert Glaser's blog essay on why companies fail to turn individual AI tool use into organizational learning and team capabilities.

Study: 61 UK firms tried a 4-day workweek and after a year, they still love it(npr.org)

342 points by giuliomagnifico 2 years ago | 245 comments

NPR article on UK companies that trialed a four-day workweek and, more than a year later, mostly kept and still favor it.

If AI displaces human workers, they will lose more than just pay(economist.com)

23 points by andsoitis 13 hours ago | 34 comments

An Economist business article arguing that workers displaced by AI lose more than wages; the captured page shows an access-restricted bot block.

Remote work doesn't seem to affect productivity, Fed study finds(bloomberg.com)

706 points by simula67 2 years ago | 467 comments

Bloomberg article reporting a San Francisco Fed study finding no evidence that remote work affects productivity, with about 30% of paid workdays remote at end of 2023.