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☆ 5 Gen Z workplace trends, from Bare Minimum Mondays to lazy girl jobs, that took off on TikTok in 2023
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-19 | by ( Sawdah Bhaimiya | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Gen Z are starting new workplace trends on TikTok from "Bare Minimum Mondays" to "lazy girl jobs." They've become disenchanted with work life as companies layoff staff and abandon remote working. AdvertisementAdvertisementGen Z workers are shaking up the professional world with new ways of finding success and happiness – and they're taking to TikTok to share their learnings. As a result, some are choosing to take a step back from work and put themselves first by prioritizing life over work. Here's five workplace trends that gained traction on TikTok this year.

Persons: Z, They've, —, –, JP Morgan, weren't Organizations: Service, Meta, Deloitte

☆ Wales crash out in quarter-finals but show improvement through tournament
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-15 | by ( Mark Gleeson | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

PARIS, Oct 15 (Reuters) - Wales produced an impressive comeback at the Rugby World Cup from a litany of recent woes and, although they ultimately crashed and burned in Saturday's quarter-final, leave the tournament in a better place than when they arrived in France. "There's some exciting players coming through, players who aren't here. Hopefully they're inspired by this," he said after Saturday's quarter-final defeat"We're all gutted about that as it slipped away from us. Gatland has seen Wales through previous highs and lows, although more highs in the time he coached from 2007-2019, finishing his first stint by taking Wales to the semi-final at the last World Cup in Japan. He signed a five-year deal on his return in December which allows him another tilt at the next World Cup in Australia four years from now and Wales will surely keep him on, given his undoubted acumen.

Persons: Warren Gatland, you've, We've, Gatland, they're, they've, Muralikumar Organizations: Rugby, Wales, Six Nations, England, Fiji, Thomson Locations: Wales, France, Argentina, Marseille, Japan, Australia, UNDERCOOKED Wales, Bordeaux, Lyon

☆ 3 reasons social listening can be the best way to connect small businesses with customers and inspire products
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-10 | by ( Erica Sweeney | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Social listening refers to monitoring your social media for customer feedback and industry trends. Social listening isn't easy, but small-business founders say it's worth your time. Here, two small-business owners explain how social listening benefits their companies. Sharma and Arias handle most of the social listening for their companies, with help from their small teams and the tools available within social platforms. "It's very manual," Arias said, adding that her customer-care consultant helped with day-to-day social listening and responding to comments and DMs.

Persons: SBOs, —, Ash Sharma, Sharma, Noa Arias, Bloomers, Shaula Alexander Yemini, David Wagner, Arias, Naomi Phan Organizations: Small, Service, New York, Cincha Locations: Oakland , California, New York City

JoeBen Bevirt is an evangelist for the new industry and the founder and CEO of Joby Aviation Inc., which delivered its first eVTOL to the Air Force last month. What will you learn from how the Air Force uses it? There will certainly be valuable learnings and the operational experience, the feedback from the Air Force pilots to the FAA flight-test pilots. Q. Joby announced in September that you’re going to build a $500 million production facility in Dayton, Ohio, with up to $325 million in state and local incentives. You’ve got Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, which is the home of the Air Force Research Laboratory and AFWERX (the Air Force’s technology-innovation program).

Persons: Bevirt, We’ve, Davis, that’s, we’ve, don’t, Joby, you’re, Wright, You’ve Organizations: Joby Aviation Inc, Air Force, Toyota, Associated Press, University of California, Joby Aviation, Federal Aviation Administration, FAA, NTSB, National Transportation Safety, Patterson Air Force Base, Air Force Research Laboratory, Boeing, Airbus Locations: Santa Cruz , California, California, Dayton , Ohio, Dayton, Ohio, Joby

☆ Brands shouldn't underestimate the truly disruptive force of Gen Z
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-09 | by ( Jackie Cooper | Gabe Gomez | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

The influence of Gen Z will not fade, it is driving long-lasting changes to the culture. Just look at the #artofnoticing trend on TikTok, in which Gen Z is posting vignette-style snapshots capturing beautiful, but rarely-emphasized, day-to-day moments. Gen Z is 3.5x more likely to buy from brands that commit to this issue. When we asked Edelman's Gen Z Lab about AI, a surprising majority admitted to being totally scared by it. Despite the micro and macro circumstances at play, Gen Z strives to combat inequality, climate change, and more.

Persons: Gen, Gen Z, Z, they've, Edelman's, Zers, it's, Jackie Cooper, Gabe Gomez

☆ I quit my $370K job at Meta after having panic attacks and hitting the lowest point of my life. I just knew the job wasn't right for me.
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-09 | by ( Aria Yang | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +10 min

Eric Yu is a former software engineer at Meta who experienced panic attacks due to work pressure. AdvertisementAdvertisementThis as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Eric Yu, a 28-year-old former software engineer at Meta. We decided we needed exit plans, because neither of us wanted to work in tech for that much longer. I even set a personal goal to quit Meta once I was making $10,000 a month from real estate. If you left your big tech job and would like to share your story, email Aria Yang at ayang@insider.com.

Persons: Eric Yu, —, Wanda, Eric Yu I, pinky, Meta, I've, there's, learnings, Eric, Wanda brainstormed, Aria Yang Organizations: Meta, Service, Google, Facebook Locations: San Francisco, Redding , California, ayang@insider.com

☆ Microsoft AI researchers accidentally leaked company passwords and 30,000 internal Teams messages
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-19 | by ( Pete Syme | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

But that accidentally gave full access to a 38TB cloud storage account. However, the cybersecurity firm Wiz discovered that the researchers accidentally gave people access to 38 terabytes worth of data. That's because the Microsoft researchers' GitHub repository told users to download AI models from a cloud storage URL. AdvertisementAdvertisementWiz found that the account included Microsoft employees' personal computer backups, passwords to Microsoft services, secret keys, and over 30,000 internal Teams messages. No customer action is required in response to this issue," Microsoft said in Monday's blog post.

Persons: Wiz Organizations: Microsoft, Service Locations: Wall, Silicon, China

☆ Couples share up to 89% of values, new study says: 'There are very few traits where opposites actually do attract'
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-14 | by ( Aditi Shrikant | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

Partners, on average, share up to 89% of traits, including deeper values such as religiosity and political learnings, and also experiences such as smoking and sexual activity. When it comes to finding a partner, it turns out that opposites don't attract . They analyzed findings from 199 published papers — some dating as far back as 1903 — that looked at 22 commonly studied traits among couples. Don't miss: Successful couples share 3 key values—forget ‘opposites attract,’ says dating expertQualities, experiences or traits that couples had in common varied. There were just three traits on which couples tended not to align: hearing difficulty, tendency to worry and whether they were morning or night people.

Persons: Jared Balbona, Balbona, ’ Organizations: University of Colorado Boulder Institute, Behavioral Genetics, CNBC, Partners

☆ US women's team ready to turn the page on disappointing World Cup
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-12 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

Soccer Football - FIFA Women’s World Cup Australia and New Zealand 2023 - Round of 16 - Sweden v United States - Melbourne Rectangular Stadium, Melbourne, Australia - August 6, 2023 Megan Rapinoe of the U.S. and team mates look dejected as the United States are knocked out of the World Cup REUTERS/Asanka Brendon Ratnayake/File Photo Acquire Licensing RightsSept 12 (Reuters) - The U.S. women's soccer team will take time to address their worst-ever performance at a Women's World Cup before shifting focus to next year's Paris Olympics, interim head coach Twila Kilgore said on Tuesday. When the team gathers for a camp ahead of Sept. 21 and Sept. 24 friendlies against South Africa, Kilgore said they will spend time addressing players' disappointment and emotions from their Round of 16 exit to Sweden at the World Cup last month. "It's something that we've talked a lot about within the programme, player to player, coach to player, amongst the staff," Kilgore told reporters on a conference call after the training camp roster for the two friendlies was announced. Vlatko Andonovski stepped down as coach of the national team 11 days after their early World Cup exit and Kilgore, who had served as his assistant for 1-1/2 years, has stepped in while a search for a permanent coach is conducted. "Both have been part of multiple World Cups and Olympics and have helped drive the game forward.

Persons: Megan Rapinoe, Asanka Brendon Ratnayake, Twila Kilgore, Kilgore, we've, Andonovski, Julie Ertz's, Frank Pingue, Ken Ferris Organizations: Soccer Football, FIFA, World, Olympics, South, Chicago, Thomson Locations: New Zealand, Sweden, United States, Melbourne, Australia, South Africa, Kilgore, Cincinnati, Toronto

☆ Wales's victory over Fiji raises hopes of emulating 2019 semi-final spot
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-11 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

Australia are the other Tier 1 nation in the pool and fancied to advance with the pre-tournament expectation that either Fiji or Wales would take the other qualifying spot. England are one of two teams that Wales managed to beat in eight internationals played this year before the World Cup. Although it is still a long way off, the Welsh could be eyeing a semi-final spot thanks to Sunday’s success in Bordeaux. This is despite a year of mediocre returns as they lost four of five games in the Six Nations and two of their three World Cup warm-up internationals. So that's exciting,”Gatland had taken them to the 2019 World Cup semi-final where they narrowly lost to eventual winners South Africa.

Persons: ”, Warren Gatland, We've, Gatland, Mark Gleeson, Pritha Sarkar Organizations: Wales, Rugby, Fiji, Six Nations, eventual, South, Thomson Locations: BORDEAUX, France, Fiji, Bordeaux, Australia, Wales, Georgia, Portugal, Argentina, England, Cape Town

☆ Wendy's chief development officer had male mentors make room for her ideas, even when they weren't popular. It's made a big difference.
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-10 | by ( Josée Rose | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +14 min

In the latest Equity Talk, Pringle said male mentors made room for her ideas, even if they weren't popular. With growth comes opportunity, she told me, because "new restaurants create the next big promotion." It's working in our restaurants and talking to our crew members and our general managers on what we can do to really create opportunities. You know, new restaurants create the next big promotion — the next DM and GM and director of operations. Those are the things that I see in part of my role as being able to help create growth.

Persons: Abigail Pringle, Pringle, dulce, she's, I'm, Lindsay Radkoski, Lindsay, Suzie, You've, it's, We've, Wendy's, that's, we've, It's, I've, —, Thiti, Zers Organizations: Service, GM, CMO, CSR, Twitter Locations: Wall, Silicon, Wendy's, Canada, Philippines, India, Australia, Puerto Rico, leche, Argentina

☆ All Blacks left to plot course through uncharted waters
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-09 | by ( Nick Mulvenney | Thomson Reuters | Leads Coverage Of Sport Across The Asia-Pacific. Still Reports On The Full Panoply Of Sport. Many Olympics World Cups World Championships Grand Slams Grands Prix | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

So there's some really good things to take out of the week, (but) the biggest thing would be we gave away a few too many penalties. "Everyone's got to understand what we're trying to do and understand how the referees are refereeing. "What we've got to take from this game is the learnings but also keep believing because we did a lot of good things out here tonight." We're still All Blacks, we're still proud of who we are and what we are," he said. And we showed how dangerous we are on the break so that's what we'll be going for next week."

Persons: Sam Whitelock, Aaron Smith, Beauden Barrett, Whitelock, Everyone's, Fullback Barrett, Smith, France's Thomas Ramos, We've, we're, Ramos, Jasper Shine, Mike Harrison Organizations: New Zealand, Blacks, Thomson Locations: Zealand, France

☆ The CEO of Spora Health on fighting bias as a startup founder and his inspirations to improve healthcare for people of color
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-07 | by ( ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +13 min

Dan Miller founded Spora Health in 2019 to deliver better healthcare to people of color. AdvertisementAdvertisementDan Miller founded the startup Spora Health in 2019 to provide better medical care to people of color. Most of Spora's healthcare providers are people of color, and all its clinicians are trained in health equity and cultural competence. How has your experience as a Black patient in the US healthcare system informed what you built at Spora? But I knew there was a lot of demand and interest from Black folks that I would meet in the community.

Persons: Dan Miller, Miller, I'd, He's, Spora, I've, they're, who's, you've Organizations: Spora Health, San Francisco Bay Area, Fortune, Bay Area Locations: San Francisco, San Francisco Bay, America, Bay, New York, Silicon, United States

☆ Leaked Microsoft documents reveal a new employee rating system only visible to managers
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-06 | by ( Ashley Stewart | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Microsoft introduced a new rating system for employees in performance reviews, documents show. Microsoft introduced a new rating system for employees in performance reviews that are visible only to managers, documents viewed by Insider show. The ratings are used to determine employees' "rewards," Microsoft's term for pay and bonuses. The guide states that if an employee does not meet all of these conditions, they are delivering slightly lower impact than expected or lower impact than expected. The new rating system comes after Microsoft froze salaries and cut budgets for bonuses and stock awards this year.

Organizations: Microsoft

☆ I give all my employees August off on full pay. Here's how it works and why it's boosted productivity.
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-02 | by ( Polly Thompson | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

Jo Hunter was already offering her employees remote working and a four-day week. Hunter repeated the move this year and says taking a month off is a revelation – and good for business. During the pandemic, we moved to working a four-day workweek and remote working to support our employees. The company had grown from four to seven employees over the last few years and demand for our creativity workshops increased. Right now, CEOs of some of the world's biggest companies are pointing to productivity data to call their employees back to offices.

Persons: Jo Hunter, Hunter, –, I'm, Jo, We've, hardwired, Jo Hunter I'm Organizations: Service, Artists, Staff Locations: Wall, Silicon, Finland, France, Spain

☆ I made $175,000 in less than a month teaching people how to use AI for their businesses. Here are 5 ways you can use ChatGPT to produce the best content.
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-26 | by ( Aaron Mok | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

Ole Lehmann, a crypto trader who lost money when FTX crashed, spent months experimenting with and creating content with help from ChatGPT. Earlier this month, he launched a course teaching entrepreneurs how to use AI to create marketing content. I was a crypto trader and investor for over six years. Two months later, in early August, the AI Audience Accelerator course, which teaches solopreneurs how to use AI to create content that could help market their businesses, was born. Everyone says you have to create content to get customers, but most people don't have the time or frameworks for how to do that.

Persons: Ole Lehmann, FTX, he's, Lehmann, Insider's Aaron Mok, —, OpenAI, I've, Anthropic's chatbot, Claude Organizations: Canada Locations: ChatGPT, Cyprus

☆ Ford reveals 800 horsepower Mustang with $300,000 price tag
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-17 | by ( Peter Valdes-Dapena | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

CNN —Ford has just unveiled the 800-horsepower Ford Mustang GTD which will be available in late 2024 or early 2025 at a starting price around $300,000. “Ford vs. Ferrari” recounted the 1960s Le Mans races won by the Ford GT40 race car which was developed specifically to spite the Italian automaker after Ford couldn’t buy the company. In the 2000s, Ford has produced two modern versions of the Ford GT that have both become highly collectible. The Ford Mustang GTD's body is made almost entirely from carbon fiber. Multimatic is a specialist automotive company that also works on the Mustang GT3 race car.

Persons: CNN — Ford, It’s, “, ”, Jim Baumbick, Ford, Ferrari ”, “ Ford, Le, Ford couldn’t, Baumbick, “ We’ve Organizations: CNN, Ford, Lamborghini, Le Mans, Ford GT, Le, Ford Motor Co Locations: Italian, , Michigan, Markham , Ontario, Canada

☆ Walgreens' HR chief says leaders need to 'take the wall down' and be open about themselves at work
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-14 | by ( Josée Rose | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +15 min

May told Insider that being open about the challenges you're facing can make you a better leader. Leaders need to "take the wall down" so those under them can say what they need to perform best. Insider recently asked May about her work in HR and meeting the needs of the company's large employee base. But you also need to work for companies with leaders that really understand the challenges. But I think employers need to keep top of mind the needs of their people.

Persons: Holly, she's, they're, They've, —, It's, I've, I'm, Roz, Rosalind Brewer, COVID, we've, Steven Senne, We're, We've, Gen Zers, you'll Organizations: Walgreens Boots Alliance, May, Service, Abercrombie & Fitch, Starbucks, Visa, Walgreens, Mental Health, Sundance, WBA Locations: Wall, Silicon, COVID, ESG, Georgia, America

☆ I'm a CEO who was burned out. So I took 30 days off from work to recharge in Paris and found my creative spark.
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-13 | by ( Imani Ellis | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

It became clear that I needed to take time off and create space to reignite my creative spark. Therefore, rest felt foreign to me, shame-inducing even. Instead of planning a vacation, I produced my very own creative residency— a dedicated time to think, play and rest inspired by the acclaimed novelist and essayist. Here's how I crafted my creative residency in case you want to create your own. Imani EllisWhat I learned most during my creative residency was that going forward, I needed dedicated time to be alone with my thoughts so that I can revisit what I really desire for my life.

Persons: workaholic, James Baldwin, Imani Ellis, Baldwin, James, isn't, Deepak Chopra, I've Organizations: Service, Star, Refining Locations: New York, Wall, Silicon, Paris, America, South, France, Cadenet, New York City

☆ Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan's charity organization is making a major change in strategy after laying off 48 people. Read the leaked emails.
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-10 | by ( Kali Hays | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +9 min

The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative conducted layoffs this week, in a major blow to its education team. However, the cuts were entirely focused on employees in tech and grantmaking in CZI's education department, a core pillar of the organization's since its founding. As part of the changes, two leaders in CZI's education work are leaving their roles. While today's announcement most directly impacts our Education teammates, I know we are all affected regardless of where we sit in the organization. I am grateful for all of our Education teammates, past and present, whose contributions made our accomplishments to-date possible and carved our path forward.

Persons: Chan Zuckerberg, Priscilla Chan, Mark Zuckerberg, Zuckerberg, Chan, Brooke Stafford, CZI's, Dakarai Aarons, Sandra Liu Huang, Huang, CZI, Slack, Brizard, Brooke, Dakarai, Sandra, Priscilla Organizations: Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, Meta, CZI, Facebook, Education Policy Center, University of Colorado, Education, People Team Locations: Meta, Boulder

☆ Amazon Prime Air loses two key operations leaders, as drone delivery struggles continue
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-09 | by ( Annie Palmer | In Annierpalmer | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

An Amazon delivery drone is on display at Amazon's BOS27 Robotics Innovation Hub in Westborough, Massachusetts on November 10, 2022. Jim Mullin, Prime Air's chief pilot, left Amazon last month, according to his LinkedIn profile. Just as Prime Air was set to launch early this year and start delivering packages sent to consumers, CEO Andy Jassy, who succeeded Bezos in 2021, embarked on the largest round of layoffs in company history, which included significant job cuts at Prime Air. But problems for Prime Air predated the economic downturn. At the beginning of the year, the company began durability and reliability (D&R) testing, which requires that Prime Air complete several hundred hours of flying without any incidents.

Persons: Jim Mullin, Robert Dreer, Mullin, Jeff Bezos, Obama, Andy Jassy, Bezos, David Carbon's, There's, Nobody, Simone Griffin, Griffin, Zipline Organizations: Amazon, Prime Air, Marine, College Station, CNBC, Federal Aviation Administration, Air, Walmart Locations: Westborough , Massachusetts, Pendleton , Oregon, Oregon , California, Texas, , California, Pendleton

☆ I landed a job at Google right out of college. Here are 10 things I wish I knew before starting my career.
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-07 | by ( Charlene Lee | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +15 min

Charlene Lee is a former product manager at Google who wishes she had a guide prior to starting her first job. Today, I'd like to share some of the lessons I wish I had learned before starting my career, lessons that I now teach my team. It's your job to find a good managerOne of my best managers, Paul, spent a lot of time with me early in my career. Things changed when the next box, like writing a book, started conflicting with things that weren't on the list. The start of your career is the beginning of your journey, and I hope that this guide helps you with yours.

Persons: Charlene Lee, she's, Lee, Google's, I'd, would've, Paul, wasn't, I've, didn't, Paul didn't, It's, Jon, Jon wasn't, wouldn't, —, hadn't, Carissa wasn't, Marty, Dan Gilbert, Inbal, Ralph Waldo Emerson Organizations: Google, Jon's, AngelList, Duke University Locations: Asia, New York, China, Singapore, Shanghai, —

☆ I'm a former senior leader at Amazon. Mentorships can be a waste of everyone's time unless you do it right — here's how.
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-01 | by ( Brandon Southern | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +9 min

I've had the opportunity to mentor several people during my 20-year career in tech as a senior leader at companies like Amazon and eBay. To start your mentorship off right, come prepared with specific, time-based goals for what you'd like to accomplish. Without knowing why you want a promotion, what the promotion duties look like, and when you want to achieve a promotion, your mentor won't be able to give the specific feedback you need. Without this practice, not only will you not make progress, but you'll end up re-hashing the same conversation from the previous meeting. This will be a waste of time for you and your mentor and quickly result in a frustrating and unsuccessful mentorship.

Persons: Brandon Southern, mentees, I've, you'll, aren't, you've, it's, that's Organizations: eBay, GameStop, Morning

☆ Warner Bros. Discovery is making a big shake-up to its ad sales org. Read how its sales chief explained the changes.
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-31 | by ( Lucia Moses | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Discovery is shaking up its ad sales organization. It's also expected to make further staff reductions in ad sales as part of the restructure. Discovery is shaking up its ad sales organization and structure. EVP Jim Keller, who was key to bringing a digital approach to the merged company's newly combined sales team, left, along with Scott Kohn, EVP of national ad sales, and John Dailey, SVP of ad sales. Based on the learnings and successes we've experienced in the past year, this morning we are announcing a new sales structure and strategy.

Persons: It's, Marybeth Strobel, Greg Regis, Regis, Strobel, Ryan Gould, Jon Diament, Sheereen Russell, WBD, Jon Steinlauf, Jim Keller, Scott Kohn, John Dailey, David Zaslav, we've, AE's, Lucia Moses, lmoses Organizations: Warner Bros, WBD, Max, CNN, NBA, NCAA, MLB, NHL

☆ Meta's stellar quarter shows Zuckerberg can both monetize and cut costs
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-26 | by ( Jeff Marks | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +10 min

But the company delivered on those lofty expectations with a quarter that was the best among the group so far. Taken together, the company has been able to significantly accelerate revenue growth. Coupled with rebounding operating margins, the stock is now more deserving of a so-called growth stock multiple instead of the "value" label investors had attached to the firm last year. But for now, Zuckerberg has a pass because, to his credit, Meta's cost structure has been reduced significantly this year. After buying back $9.22 billion worth of stock in the first quarter, Meta only repurchased $793 million in the second quarter.

Persons: Meta, Mark Zuckerberg's, Zuckerberg, Susan Li, It's, Elon, Jim Cramer's, Jim Cramer, Jim, Stefani Reynolds Organizations: Revenue, Meta, Facebook, Microsoft, Labs, Reality Labs, Twitter, repurchases, CNBC, AFP, Getty Locations: U.S, Canada, Washington ,

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