98% of workers say breaks boost productivity, but most skip lunch due to workload
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In place of lunch breaks, there has been a rise in "little treat culture," influenced by the TikTok trend of the same name.
https://fortune.com/2024/10/16/lunch-breaks-shrinking-gen-z-work-culture-ezcater/
Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff blasts rival Microsoft’s ‘disappointing’ Copilot: ‘It just doesn’t work’
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Benioff has attacked Copilot for months as he promotes Salesforce’s own AI product.
https://fortune.com/2024/10/17/salesforce-ceo-marc-benioff-blasts-microsoft-ai-copilot/
Meta’s ‘permanent’ efficiency layoffs affected about 100 employees, including engineers and business roles
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For at least the third time this year, Meta laid off several dozen workers.
At $5 trillion investment giant Fidelity, battling burnout is a gamechanger
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Leaders at Fidelity, Cotopaxi, and Baylor University discuss how to support women in the workplace—and how to help yourself.
https://fortune.com/2024/10/17/battling-burnout-gamechanger-female-leaders/
23andMe’s entire board resigned on the same day. Founder Anne Wojcicki still thinks the startup is savable
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The blue-chip board and the startup star had been on a collision course for months. Here’s what really happened.
https://fortune.com/2024/10/17/23andme-what-happened-stock-board-resigns-anne-wojcicki/
China unveiled more stimulus actions for its property sector—investors weren’t pleased, again
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Some analysts were hoping for Beijing to expand a program that would allow the government to act as a buyer of last resort.
Top AI leaders say they don’t want women to get left behind in the tech revolution
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Tech executives at Accenture, Salesforce, and Bloomberg Beta say women need to become AI users to reduce bias.
https://fortune.com/2024/10/16/accenture-salesforce-bloomberg-ai-leaders-women-left-behind/
Meta reportedly fires staffer on $400K a year for spending $25 meal credits on toothpaste and tea
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Meta employees online alleged the fired staffers spent their in-office meal credits on goods even when working from home.
https://fortune.com/2024/10/17/meta-staff-layoffs-meal-credits/
Childcare failures and a maternal health crisis are crushing working parents
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Reshma Saujani and Christy Turlington Burns discuss the final fight for gender equality at Fortune’s Most Powerful Women summit.
https://fortune.com/2024/10/17/childcare-failures-maternal-health-crisis-crushing-working-parents/
OpenAI is quietly pitching its products to the U.S. military and national security establishment
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The hiring of a top executive from Palantir also signals OpenAI's national security ambitions
23andMe’s entire board resigned on the same day. Founder Anne Wojcicki still thinks the startup is savable
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The blue-chip board and the startup star had been on a collision course for months. Here’s what really happened.
https://fortune.com/2024/10/17/23andme-what-happened-stock-board-resigns-anne-wojcicki/
How to prevent millions of invisible law-free AI agents casually wreaking economic havoc
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There’s a real risk that a flood of AI agents will join our economic systems with essentially no legal infrastructure in place.
OpenAI is quietly pitching its products to the U.S. military and national security establishment
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The hiring of a top executive from Palantir also signals OpenAI's national security ambitions
Jeff Bezos says companies need ‘a culture that supports truth-telling.’ Here’s how he built one at Amazon
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"We mostly survive by being social animals and being cordial" but "important truths can be uncomfortable," said the Amazon founder.
Basketball great Candace Parker wants to buy a WNBA team—and an NBA team too
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Even after retirement, this three-time champion continues to aim for the biggest goals.
Walmart will sell you a tiny house for under $16,000
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There’s a cheaper option, though.
OpenAI is quietly pitching its products to the U.S. military and national security establishment
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The hiring of a top executive from Palantir also signals OpenAI's national security ambitions
Google Flights adds a ‘Cheapest’ tab in a huge assist to bargain-hunters everywhere
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Cheap doesn’t mean convenient, though.
This could be America’s first ‘podcast election’—just look across the pond
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High-profile podcast appearances by Donald Trump and Kamala Harris have brought political discussions into the podcasting spotlight.
https://fortune.com/2024/10/17/america-first-podcast-election-culture-media-politics/
Trump Media lockup deadline leaves Trump with a choice: trigger a fire sale or hold a meme stock
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Some say the stock is worth only $1.50 a share.
https://fortune.com/2024/09/18/donald-trump-media-truth-social-stock/