America’s Productivity Boom May Have an Unlikely Hero: WFH
America has been experiencing a productivity boom for the past five years, and economists are debating what’s driving…
AI shock is looking a lot like the China shock, and that’s actually good news, top economist says
In 2001, China joined the World Trade Organization, sparking a manufacturing surge for the country. China became the…
Meta’s Embrace of A.I. Is Making Its Employees Miserable
In an internal post last month, Meta told its U.S. employees that it was making a change that…
Fed’s Goolsbee says rising productivity could restrain inflation or boost it
By Howard Schneider WASHINGTON, May 6 (Reuters) – Rising productivity won’t necessarily lower inflation and could actually increase…
What’s wrong with Canada’s productivity – and what can HR do about it?
But structural explanations only go so far. Wendy Cukier, professor of entrepreneurship and strategy at Toronto Metropolitan University, argues that…
America got rich and got sad. A top economist says 2020 broke something that hasn’t healed
For the past several years, Peltzman has been combing through the General Social Survey, a random-sample poll that…
The economist who was terrified of AI just found a rare reason for hope
Alex Imas didn’t arrive at optimism easily. The University of Chicago economist economist occupies an unusual space in…
Thousands of executives aren’t seeing AI productivity boom, reminding economists of IT-era paradox
In 1987, economist and Nobel laureate Robert Solow made a stark observation about the stalling evolution of the…
40% unemployment and a 3-day work week: they’re the same thing, top economist says
The artificial intelligence debate has a framing problem, and one of America’s most prominent economists has an idea…
Canada’s $1.3 trillion debt is draining your wealth — here’s how to shield yourself before it gets worse
Middle-aged couple Elon Musk made headlines earlier this year with a blunt prediction: without a productivity miracle from…
Stripe Engineers Deploy Minions, Autonomous Agents Producing Thousands of Pull Requests Weekly
Engineers at Stripe have developed Minions, autonomous coding agents capable of completing software development tasks end-to-end from a…
AI promised supreme productivity, but it’s actually straining workloads for employees—time spent emailing has doubled, and focused work sessions fell by 9%
AI is actually increasing strain for most employees, as the tools add more time to menial tasks, and…