According to a recent internal memo, Microsoft employees are feeling positive about producing meaningful work, but less so about coaching, feedback and motivation from managers, Business Insider reports. In Microsoft’s biannual “Employee Signals” survey, Microsoft Chief People Officer Amy Coleman shared the “top strengths” of the company, naming a “focus on addressing security challenges” and “feeling included in teams.” Coleman also named the “top opportunities” that arose in the survey. “Comments surfaced challenges around strategy, communication, processes, customer focus, and speed of execution,” Coleman wrote. In the survey, employees responded most favorably to questions about feeling included and acting in…
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ASIA: The major Asian stock markets had a mixed day today: • NIKKEI 225 decreased 200,09 points or -0.30% to 66,734.24 • Shanghai increased 17.362 points or 0.43% to 4,075.102 • Hang Seng increased 640.14 points or 2.52% to 26,038.32 • ASX 200 decreased 5.00 points or -0.06% to 8,724.40 • SENSEX increased 382.50 points or 0.52% to 74,649.84 • Nifty50 increased 100.95 points or 0.43% to 23,483.55 The major Asian currency markets had a mixed day today: • AUDUSD increased 0.00231 or 0.32% to 0.71816 • NZDUSD decreased 0.00075 or -0.13% to 0.59245 • USDJPY increased 0.264 or 0.17%…
College graduates are up against a number of forces as they navigate the current job market—AI being chief among them. As companies cut entry-level jobs and cite AI adoption to justify layoffs, new entrants to the workforce have found themselves in an especially precarious position. By the end of 2025, unemployment among young college graduates had soared to 5.6%. But there might be another explanation for why the job market has proven so challenging for recent graduates, according to new research from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. It turns out the rise of remote work might be working…
If you’ve ever cruised on a Carnival ship, your personal information might have been exposed in a recent hack. The accessed data included personal information from customers such as their name, address, email address, phone number, date of birth, and ID information like their passport or driver’s license number. According to a notice published by the company on May 27, Carnival’s IT department first became aware of unidentified access to a “limited portion” of the company’s IT system on April 14. The data is said to have been accessed through an act of social engineering, a form of cyberattack where…
This week, nationwide rallies and vigils are protesting more than $1 trillion in healthcare cuts—to Medicaid, Medicare, public health and disease prevention programs and hospitals—in H.R. 1, President Trump’s so-called “One Big Beautiful Bill Act,” which Congress passed last year and was signed into law on July 4. The week-long event is dubbed “Seven Days in June: Health is Primary.” “This week is all about taking action. Our message is very clear that healthcare cuts hurt real people, weaken public health, and they put millions at risk,” organizer Cleve Jones tells Fast Company. “These cuts will be devastating to hospitals, clinics, workers,…
A $1,100 vanity. An $800 water heater. A $450 ceiling fan. All sold for just a single cent each. TikToker Tylernap Deals has gone viral over and over again for finding “penny items” at Home Depot. By taking advantage of an internal loophole, he’s able to check out items worth hundreds of dollars for just a single cent—and though the practice might sound shady, it’s technically well within the law. In Tylernap’s most-viewed video, he rolled up to self-checkout with 101 smoke detectors, normally worth more than $4,000—but Tylernap was able to ring them up for a total of just…
Empathy has become one of the most appreciated and universal ingredients of work-related potential. Leadership books praise it. CEOs display it on LinkedIn. HR departments measure it, train it, benchmark it, and occasionally weaponize it. In the modern organization, empathy is no longer a “nice to have,” but widely treated as the hallmark of modern leadership. To be fair, there are actually good reasons for this. Empathy, broadly defined, is the ability to understand and share the feelings of others. Psychologists usually distinguish between cognitive empathy, understanding what someone else feels, and affective empathy, actually feeling some version of it…
Anyone who has looked into flights in recent months will know that airfares are rising. The main driver behind this is the increasing cost of jet fuel prices, which have skyrocketed this year due to the ongoing US-Israeli conflict with Iran. As the rising ticket prices show, most airlines choose to pass some of the increased jet fuel costs on to their customers. But many airlines across the globe are also choosing to suspend or eliminate less-profitable routes to save on fuel. And now this is exactly what American Airlines is doing with the upcoming elimination of six routes. Here’s…
“Shadow IT”—people within companies using tech products without any explicit directive or authorization from the top—is nothing new. The phenomenon dates at least to the era when certain daring professionals purchased newfangled gadgets called “PCs” and brought them to the office, well before having a computer on your desk was the norm. But the AI boom has made shadow IT more chaotic than ever. Many employers are pressuring staffers to embrace the technology without being terribly specific about best practices to use it productively and safely. Excited by the possibilities, workers may feed sensitive data into AI tools that are…
An Introduction to Cycles of Confidence Most people are taught to view the economy through headlines, political debates, and short-term events. Yet beneath the daily noise are long-term cycles that influence markets, governments, business activity, and even society itself. Join Martin Armstrong for a special educational event designed to introduce attendees to the concept of confidence cycles and how they shape the world around us. This presentation will provide an accessible overview of the theories and observations that have made Martin Armstrong one of the most recognized independent economic thinkers in the world. This event is not limited to…