Futurism

As AI Destroys Search Results, Google Fires Workers in Charge of Improving It

Amid a massive wave of tech company layoffs in favor of AI, Google is firing thousands of contractors tasked with making its namesake search engine work better. With CEOs’ short-sighted AI gold rush ...
PBS

Fired federal workers search for new jobs but struggle to replace their old ones

NEW YORK (AP) — HIRING: Park ranger. SEEKING: Nuclear submarine engineer. WANTED: Sled dog musher. If they seem unlikely postings, they probably are. But a laid-off federal worker can dream. Axed from ...
Newsweek

‘Gig Economy’ Corporations Shouldn’t Get a Free Pass To Exploit Workers | Opinion

The U.S. Labor Department recently finalized a rule that reinforces the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA)—our federal law establishing a federal minimum wage, a right to an overtime wage, and child ...
Pew Research Center

2. Workers’ views of AI use in the workplace

To explore workers’ views of AI use in the workplace, we asked about their broad attitudes on how AI may be used in the future and how it will affect their job opportunities in the long run. How ...
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Workers are ‘job hugging’ in a stagnant labor market, but growing resentment means they could bail as soon as the next Great Resignation comes

More employees are planning to stay at their current jobs as a stagnant labor market shakes workers’ confidence they’ll be able to find work elsewhere. This act of “job hugging,” however, can ...
NBC DFW

Fired federal workers hunt for new jobs but struggle to replace their old ones

HIRING: Park ranger. SEEKING: Nuclear submarine engineer. WANTED: Sled dog musher. If they seem unlikely postings, they probably are. But a laid-off federal worker can dream. Axed from jobs not easily ...