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Gallup's Q3 survey found only 29% of US employees are engaged at work, down two points from the previous quarter and the lowest level since 2011. The decline, which Gallup estimates equals about 3.2 million fewer engaged workers this quarter and 11 million since 2020, was driven largely by remote and hybrid employees, particularly at companies using AI.
Engadget announced it is recruiting contributing writers to supplement its news and features coverage. The outlet says candidates need broad consumer-tech knowledge and strong English writing skills, with a strict policy against using AI to produce copy. Positions are remote, paid hourly or per word, and open to applicants across any timezone.
New research cited in the report finds that women perceived as highly intelligent tend to face worse treatment at work, while men with similar cognitive ability do not experience the same penalty. The findings point to an unconscious bias affecting how competence is perceived and rewarded differently by gender. The report illustrates this with the experience of sales veteran Sara Winslow, who said conditions grew uncomfortable after nearly 20 years in her field.
Stellantis is deploying AI across its operations while emphasizing employee training as a core part of the effort. The automaker frames the initiative as shifting workplace priorities away from pure expertise and information-gathering toward learning, collaboration, and empathetic leadership. The company says its goal is to make AI integration seamless for customers.
A poster on Hacker News announced plans to go on strike in November and invited others to join by informing their employers they are also striking, citing grievances to be detailed in comments due to character limits. The post encourages participants to share the thread with employers and frames the action as a collective, decentralized effort rather than a formally organized labor action.
A workplace commentary argues that organizational culture is shaped primarily by the people employees work alongside rather than the physical office environment. The author recounts working in a nondescript corporate building in the late 1990s, noting that a small team's dynamics mattered more than the building's layout or appearance.
A new workplace survey examined how different generations feel about their jobs, measuring both genuine dissatisfaction and the tendency to mask unhappiness at work. The results show that one generation stands out as significantly less content with their careers than others, countering assumptions that younger workers are the most disengaged.
A contributor to Entrepreneur argues that companies should shift hiring criteria away from matching past job experience toward assessing a candidate's capacity to learn and adapt as AI changes job requirements. The piece cites NFIB data from September showing 45% of small-business owners had few or no qualified applicants, and 26% ranked labor quality as their top business concern, more than double the historical average.
Self-improvement app RiseGuide has posted a one-month 'chief small talk officer' role paying $2,000 plus a going-out budget. Up to three people, preferably in New York or Los Angeles but open to any U.S. applicant, will visit cafés, bars, parks and other public spots to strike up conversations with strangers and document the experience in notes, videos and stories.
A business commentary argues that companies frequently misdiagnose customer service failures as training deficiencies when the underlying cause is disengaged employees. The piece uses an anecdote about a team member whose persistent health issue went unresolved by doctors treating symptoms rather than root causes, drawing a parallel to how leaders treat service problems superficially.
An Entrepreneur contributor argues that poor performance at work is often misdiagnosed as a lack of skill or motivation when the real cause is overload. The piece categorizes overload into three types—cognitive, emotional and social—and says identifying which type is at play is the necessary first step to managing it. It recommends practicing 'non-reaction,' a deliberate pause between stimulus and response, as one tool for regaining control.
Sheryl Sandberg's organization Lean In released new survey data showing that six in 10 employees say they've encountered sexist opinions at work that they trace to manosphere and tradwife media influences. The findings suggest online gender-role content is bleeding into workplace culture and conversation.