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Revealed | How the White House is tackling America's cybersecurity skills gap
The Biden-Harris administration has revealed a plan to fix America's cybersecurity...
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'Wanted: enemy agents' | Iranians root out spies using recruitment company ruse
A sophisticated Iranian espionage operation, masquerading as a professional recruiting business, has...
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Artificial bosses | Google pioneers AI leadership meetings, but staff aren't happy
Offering a tantalising glimpse of a future without meetings with your boss, Google has implemented an...
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‘Continue to upskill’ | Amazon Cloud CEO warns developers: AI could replace your coding work within 2 years
AWS CEO Matt Garman told staff to “learn about new technologies” and get closer...
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Wellbeing boost? | IKEA says it is "elevating the co-worker experience" with AI-powered drones
IKEA claims the drones will drive efficiency and improve the physical wellbeing of...
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‘Torture’ | Dell lays off 12,500 employees to become “leaner” in shift toward AI
10% of Dell's workforce are set to lose their jobs, with many employees predicting further cuts this...
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Performance | Microsoft CPO tells staff: Prioritize security or risk losing promotions & pay raises
Microsoft employees “will have to demonstrate how they've made impactful security changes,” according...
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NesGPT | Nestlé says its GenAI tool saves employees 45 minutes a week
More than 7,000 North American employees have used the tool in the past three months alone...
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“It’s maddening” | Amazon cracks down on 'coffee badging' as employees dodge in-office requirements
Multiple teams have been told to remain in the office for at least two to six hours...
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“The wrong direction” | Dell sees major drop in engagement metric after RTO push
Dell's employee net promoter score has dropped from 62 to 48 in one year, according to its annual employee...
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‘Digital employees’ | HR org Lattice scraps plans to give AI agents worker equivalency after industry backlash
HR tech company Lattice announced last week it made “AI history” by becoming...
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‘A little dystopian’ | Google tests facial recognition technology for employees at its Washington campus
Google has introduced security cameras that collect facial data to prevent unauthorized...
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“A concerning picture” | Working with AI makes employees lonely & less healthy, study finds
“Focus on humans first and AI second,” researchers David De Cremer and Joel Koopman...
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'This does a better job' | Morgan Stanley hopes its new AI assistant will save its wealth advisors thousands of hours of labor
“Debrief” will craft summarize meeting notes and draft emails for the bank's...
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PwC survey | Great Resignation greater than ever in 2024 amid GenAI rollout & rising workloads
28% of those surveyed by PwC said they were “very or extremely likely” to move...
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'This thing is dumb' | Dell's RTO push rebuffed by nearly half of its full-time US staff
Nearly 50% of Dell staff have chosen to stay remote even though it means sacrificing...
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AI replacing workers? | McDonald's halts the use of AI chatbot in drive-thrus
Over 100 US drive-thrus featured an AI chatbot, rather than a human, responding to...
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'Unethical behavior' | Wells Fargo fires multiple employees caught 'simulating' keyboard activity to fake work
Wells Fargo has fired more than a dozen employees for allegedly 'faking' their...
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‘Evil’ | Adobe employees hit back at company leadership over user AI crisis
“Let's avoid becoming like IBM,” one worker wrote on an internal Slack cha...
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'30% at risk' | IMF has sobering message about AI devastation on the jobs market
At the AI for Good Global Summit, Gita Gopinath, the IMF's First Deputy Managing...
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'It won't stop' | Chinese spies are 'targeting disgruntled U.S. workers', according to counterintelligence head
The U.S. must brace for an escalation in cyberattacks from an increasing number of...
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Fear of whistleblowing | OpenAI, Google DeepMind employees warn of a culture of retaliation in open letter
“Some of us reasonably fear various forms of retaliation,” the letter states...
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Ciphr research | Only one third of people leaders are using data in decision-making - why?
A recent report from Ciphr found that only a third are fully leveraging people data...
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“Necessary” adjustment | Microsoft announces up to 1,500 layoffs, leaked memo blames 'AI wave'
“Organizational and workforce adjustments are a necessary and regular part of managing...
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Honoring HR | Happy International HR Day! Make a wish, to shape a better future of work
“HR Shaping the New Future” is the theme for IHR Day 2024...
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Productivity vs inequality | IMF warns of impending 'AI tsunami' impacting the global labor market
In a stark warning, International Monetary Fund Managing Director, Dr. Kristalina...
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‘Bring our employees along’ | Mastercard says trust & training are key to managing “fear” as AI helps it schedule job interviews 90% faster
“The best way to build trust is to bring our employees along with us on our AI...
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‘It’s a s*** show here’ | Dell to color-code employees based on office attendance through badge swipes & VPN monitoring
"It's a shit show here,” one source has stated...
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EV 101 | Ford launches AI-driven 'University' to fix dealership employee knowledge gaps
Ford workers at 3,000 dealerships will benefit from AI-driven, video-heavy, gamified...
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“Everyone else is doing it” | Ex-Amazon AI employee claims she was pressured to breach internal copyright rules to avoid falling behind rivals
“Everyone else is doing it,” the AI researcher claims she was told by her team...
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‘Measure of magnitude' | Using AI for HR? Employees could “opt-out” of AI decision-making under proposed Congress bill
The American Privacy Rights Act, if passed by Congress, would require permit workers...
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Payroll fraud | Walmart to resolve 'paycheck discrepancies,' offer two years of fraud protection after employee-led payroll breach
The Walmart employee may have changed payroll information for other associates to...
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Muting Memegen | Google to limit employee messaging forum features after arguments about war in Gaza
Google is limiting features on Memegen, one of its internal messaging boards...
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