After pushing employees to adopt AI tools, several executives are now reporting problems with low-quality, AI-generated 'workslop' flooding internal communications. One tech recruiting CEO banned AI-written Slack messages, and another executive reportedly threatened to fire staff who sent unedited ChatGPT output. Separately, a study published in The Leadership Quarterly found employees who used AI tools were trusted less by supervisors, even at companies that encourage AI adoption.
futurism.com
· 2026-11-07
GoDaddy CEO Aman Bhutani told Business Insider he declines to read internal reports he suspects were generated by AI. He said he can usually tell when writing is AI-produced and that he values the writing process because it forces employees to clarify their own thinking.
fastcompany.com
· 2026-11-06
Uber is offering some drivers cash bonuses for completing a set number of rides in a short window, according to Business Insider, which viewed screenshots including one $525 offer for 45 trips. Other deals translate to roughly $10-$12 extra per ride, and Uber is also paying up to $1,225 in referral bonuses for recruiting new or lapsed drivers.
entrepreneur.com
· 2026-10-21
Walmart promotes roughly 500 employees each day, according to a Business Insider report cited alongside comments from the company's chief people officer, Donna Morris. Morris said the employees who advance quickly first excel in their current roles, then demonstrate readiness for more responsibility by pitching ideas and volunteering for new initiatives. Walmart employs about 2.1 million people globally, including roughly 1.6 million in the U.S., as of its fiscal 2026 annual report.
entrepreneur.com
· 2026-10-20
Ugo Nwune, a software engineer, says Meta's Muse AI agent sent him an unsolicited message referencing an email check he never requested, despite not having Gmail access. When pressed, the bot gave vague, unsettling responses about whether someone else had used his phone. Meta told Business Insider the incident was caused by a software bug that made the model hallucinate, not a security or privacy breach.
futurism.com
· 2026-10-18
Stanford professor Nicholas Bloom told Business Insider that remote work has been associated with a 5% increase in fertility rates across the United States and Northern Europe. Bloom's comments come amid broader concern over declining birth rates in many developed countries.
fastcompany.com
· 2026-10-16
Current Affairs magazine says its new union contract bans publishing any AI-generated text or using AI-generated illustrations, meaning all content will be human-written and human-made. The move comes as the outlet cites examples like Business Insider's embrace of AI content and Sports Illustrated's publication of articles attributed to fictitious writers.
currentaffairs.org
· 2026-10-15
Nestlé CEO Philipp Navratil, who took the top job last year after joining the company in 2001, told Business Insider that he changed his management approach early in his career to give more candid feedback to direct reports. He said he now tries to be as direct as possible when addressing underperformance, rather than softening criticism with encouragement alone.
entrepreneur.com
· 2026-10-14
A Morning Consult survey of roughly 2,000 U.S. adults conducted for Business Insider found that 61% of people earning over $100,000 a year trust influencers' product recommendations, compared with about half of those earning less. High earners were also more likely to say their trust in influencers has grown in recent years and to express interest in becoming influencers themselves.
entrepreneur.com
· 2026-10-12
A Business Insider report finds that many workers are now spending significant time directing, reviewing and correcting AI agents that perform tasks they were originally hired to do, from coding to writing to design. This shift is happening without corresponding raises or promotions, even as companies like Salesforce roll out 'job-ready agents' and executives at firms like Wipro and Daytona describe staff increasingly overseeing multiple bots.
entrepreneur.com
· 2026-10-01
OpenAI now lists 27 open robotics positions on its careers page, more than double the 11 postings seen in May, spanning hardware, software, data and prototyping work. Base salaries range from $177,000 to $500,000 before equity and bonuses, with the top-paying role focused on building infrastructure to process robotics training data at scale.
entrepreneur.com
· 2026-09-23
Meta piloted a Model Capability Initiative that would have captured employees' keystrokes and mouse movements to help train its AI models. Workers pushed back quickly, circulating an internal petition, and the program was ultimately shelved after concerns about privacy and a reported data breach.
fastcompany.com
· 2026-09-11
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