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A growing number of workers are taking on second or third jobs simultaneously, often without hiding it from employers as they once did. This practice, sometimes called 'parallel work' or overemployment, is reportedly becoming more common and more socially accepted in white-collar workplaces.
Apple's upcoming macOS 27 (Golden Gate) will automatically remove Rosetta, the translation layer that lets Intel-built apps run on Apple Silicon Macs, with full support ending in macOS 28. IT admin Bradley Chambers notes that while most traditional apps will prompt users to reinstall Rosetta, some menu bar utilities from vendors without native Apple Silicon builds are failing silently with no warning.
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.
OpenAI has updated its ChatGPT Chrome extension so the assistant can view a user's open tabs to give more personalized answers, such as comparing products across multiple pages. The extension's agentic mode, ChatGPT Work, can now fill forms, send messages, organize tabs and draft emails based on content from several tabs, and the sidebar can also access full browsing history for in-context tasks.
OpenAI has updated its ChatGPT Chrome extension so the assistant can view browser tabs tagged with '@chrome' in the web or desktop app, letting users ask it to compare items or summarize information across open pages. The update also brings ChatGPT's sidebar full chat history and lets ChatGPT Work take actions in tabs, such as filling forms, sending messages, downloading files, or organizing tabs.
Ultramarine 1 Flash is a new model priced at $0.13 per task on internal benchmark PI Knowledge Work, which the company says correlates strongly with the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index. It is built on GLM-5.3 Flash and generates 6.5% fewer tokens than that base model while outscoring Claude Fable 5 (max) and GPT-5.6 Sol (max), which cost $8.19 and $2.09 per task respectively. Pricing on the Ultramarine API is $0.15 per million input tokens, $0.03 for cached input, and $0.50 for output.
New research examines how workplaces treat parents differently when childcare emergencies arise during work hours. Fathers who leave work for a sick child are generally seen as facing a temporary logistical issue, while mothers in the same situation are more often perceived as themselves being the problem. The findings point to uninterrupted work time as a resource unevenly distributed between parents.
A developer with 20 years of experience, known for maintaining popular Ruby packages and writing programming books, says he has applied to more than three dozen jobs and received 24 rejections. Citing the toll of repeated rejection on his mental health, he says he is stepping away from the tech industry. He also notes that remote work from his home in Warrnambool, where he has worked for six years, appears incompatible with current hiring expectations.
Nature's 2026 job satisfaction survey of nearly 4,000 scientists across 133 countries found 61% at least moderately satisfied with their jobs, with about 75% optimistic or neutral about career prospects and 65% willing to recommend research careers to students. Salary ranked seventh of eight satisfaction factors, behind meaningful work, work-life balance, job security and research funding. The survey also found men more optimistic than women (56% versus 44%) and no significant satisfaction gap between industry and academic scientists, despite industry pay being 66% higher on average.
A collection of 34 leaders shared the small personal rituals they rely on to stay energized and focused during business travel. The habits cover ways to manage the physical and mental strain of frequent trips for meetings and conferences.
California's attorney general and city attorneys from San Francisco, San Diego and Los Angeles reached a settlement with Lyft over claims it misclassified drivers as independent contractors from 2016 to 2020, denying them owed wages and benefits. Pending a judge's approval, Lyft will pay $272.5 million, making it the largest wage-and-hour settlement in state history.
Fast Company featured an interview with a professional named Adeela, who said she takes pride in her work and wants to model for her family that ambition and busyness can coexist with love for one's job. The feature ties into Fast Company's M-suite, a private community for women managing leadership roles alongside motherhood.