3 Reasons Leaders Fire People Too Slowly
Over more than 30 years running companies in Silicon Valley, I’ve seen countless situations where leaders waited too long to ...
Wednesday, September 16, 2026
Tag: people
We give people a few days and expect them back as themselves, when the science of loss says grief takes no days off at all, and the shame around admitting that is its own quiet cruelty
The average bereavement policy in Europe gives employees somewhere between three and five days for the death of an immediate ...
Psychology suggests that people who fear AI are often not only afraid of the technology itself — they’re afraid of what it threatens to erase: the status, competence, identity, and sense of usefulness they spent years building.
In late 2024, the Pew Research Center surveyed more than 5,000 employed Americans and found that 52 per cent were ...
As AI eats into paid creative work, people are taking up the same skills — drawing, writing, crafts — on their own time, for no money, just to feel human
I’m not a psychologist, an economist, or a labor researcher. This is one writer noticing a pattern and reading around ...
The Fortune 500 is richer than ever—and employing fewer people
Up and to the right: that’s the story of nearly all the collective data from the 2026 Fortune 500, which ...
People who reach their 60s without close friends aren’t socially deficient, they’re often the ones who spent forty years carrying everyone else’s emotional weight and never had room left to be carried
The standard reading of a friendless sixty-year-old is that something went wrong inside them — a personality too prickly, a ...
There’s a particular exhaustion reserved for people who poured their entire twenties into a life they were sure they wanted, only to hit their thirties and discover they’d been chasing someone else’s vision and mistaking it for drive
I left a finance job in Ireland in my early twenties. The reason was simple enough at the time. I ...
One question Gallup uses to gauge if people are engaged at work sounds too personal to belong – but it turns out to be one of the strongest predictors of retention and well-being, a quiet reminder that even jobs ultimately run on human friendship
The first time Gallup tested it, just 30% of employees said yes — and those who did turned out to ...
People in China are watching the World Cup differently this time
A sports-themed display in a Beijing mall ahead of the World Cup kickoff on June 11, 2026.CNBC | Yin Hon ...
People who keep every birthday card, every postcard, and every note their kids ever wrote aren’t sentimental hoarders, they’re building physical evidence that they were loved during years when it didn’t always feel certain
A 2019 study tracking 520 people in the Netherlands over six years found that participants high in nostalgia kept larger ...
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