Beth Kowitt

AI has become a justification for layoffs, while also letting companies outsource the work of empathy to a large language model.
THE BROAD VIEW

Companies are getting worse at laying people off

2025-07-11T11:41:42.000Z
The retailer said that before Ashley Buchanan was hired, the board conducted a “thorough and customary background check” on him with an investigative firm and detailed reference checks.

Can CEOs really have private lives?

2025-05-07T08:30:00.000Z
Billionaire Elon Musk famously waved a chainsaw in the air, pledging to slash through what he has called the “tyranny of bureaucracy” in the US federal government.

What if bureacracy is... good?

2025-05-01T09:30:00.000Z
The flight included a pop star, a TV journalist, an aerospace engineer, a film producer, and a bioastronautics research scientist-turned-activist. Also on board was Lauren Sanchez, a businesswoman, journalist, author, philanthropist and the fiancée of Blue Origin founder Jeff Bezos.

Women went to space, but men still want to own it

2025-04-17T21:00:00.000Z
The same week that Starbucks' cup-writing policy went into effect, it cut more than 1,000 corporate jobs and said it would outsource some of its technology work.

‘Forced Joy’ is a miserable corporate trend

2025-03-13T09:30:00.000Z