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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

Empathetic leadership, all the rage during the Covid era, isn’t part of the conversation anymore

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?

The firing of Kohl’s chief Ashley Buchanan raises questions about how much boards should know about what executives do when they’re off the clock

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?

Jamie Dimon, Elon Musk and the rest of the efficiency hive are missing the power of structure and processes

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

THIS week, rocket company Blue Origin sent six women to the edge of space – the first time an all-female crew made the trip since Soviet cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova completed a three-day solo missi...

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

At companies like Starbucks and Tiffany, fun has become a job requirement

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