A single internal memo reset the week’s mood. As Big Tech reshuffles for AI, pay debates get louder, monitoring gets normalised, and confidence drops. This edition covers the new bargain at work, what it’s doing to retention, and why trust is now the scarce resource.
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Low unemployment can still hide a labour crisis. This week: underemployment in plain sight, AI reshaping work without shrinking headcount (until it does), surveillance and “proof-of-work” culture, and the slow slide from careers to gigs. Plus The Cut List.
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The employee deal is tightening while the measurement layer grows. This week: culture as an operating system, leaders reframing hiring and layoffs through AI, burnout boundaries snapping back, and the quiet risks nobody budgets for, from shadow IT to discoverable workplace texts.
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Benefits are being trimmed, AI adoption is being measured, and HR is stuck managing the fallout. This week: the perks rollback, the rise of AI scorecards and surveillance, a widening career divide for graduates, and why HR governance is suddenly the main brand risk.
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AI was meant to save time. Many employees say it is creating more work through errors, rework, and unclear expectations. This week covers the trust gap, AI moving into pay and performance, early-career squeeze signals, and why remote work fights keep returning.
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AI is being sold as productivity. Employees are experiencing rework, mixed incentives, and new rules that feel suspiciously one way. This week covers the adoption trust gap, AI moving into pay and performance, the rise of salary transparency, and why layoffs keep being narrated as automation.
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AI rollouts are hitting a wall. Some Gen Z employees are pushing back, organisations are flattening into player-coach leadership, and managers are losing engagement. HR is also testing AI for pay decisions while facing fairness scrutiny. This week: trust, capacity, and control.
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Oracle’s “significant” cuts have turned AI infrastructure into a people story overnight. This week: what the Oracle layoffs reveal about modern comms and control, why AI skills are earning premiums while engagement sinks, and how identity risk is quietly becoming HR’s biggest AI problem.
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Work is getting more managed, more measured, and in some places more monitored. This week: HR rebuilding foundations as engagement slides, workers using ChatGPT for wage help, the return of monitoring and tougher RTO, and why the AI layoff narrative is becoming its own management problem.
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Meta’s reported 20% layoff plan has turned “AI efficiency” into a boardroom headline. This week: workplace friction as AI speeds up expectations, Gen Z’s growth gap, the real risks behind open models and token costs, and why layoffs are increasingly being narrated as automation.
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Hiring isn’t just hard, it’s riskier. AI has flooded recruitment with “resume slop”, pushed candidates to hide experience, and opened the door to sophisticated fraud. Meanwhile, AI rollouts still need humans, process, and proof. This week: trust, verification, and work redesign.
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AI was meant to buy time. For many teams, it’s doing the opposite. This week: why AI can lengthen workdays, how L&D is being pushed to prove impact, why remote work is drifting into law, and what fresh job cuts say about where the pressure is landing.
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