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Employers are quietly pausing 401(k) matches again. The last time this happened was the 2008 recession and Covid

Employers are quietly pausing 401(k) matches again. The last time this happened was the 2008 recession and Covid

After TTEC paused its 401(k) match for 16,000 workers, benefits experts say more employers may follow suit to avoid layoffs.

By Courtney Vinopal and HR BrewMay 18, 2026

Fortune Workplace Innovation Summit 2026 livestream

By Fortune EditorsMay 18, 2026

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Billionaire Ken Griffin used to dismiss AI as ‘garbage.’ Here’s why he changed his mind—and why he’s ‘depressed’

By Nick LichtenbergMay 18, 2026

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How a mom-and-pop car wash chain went from sticky notes to AI-powered operations that are upleveling every part of the company

By Sage LazzaroMay 18, 2026

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A record number of 18-year-olds are set to graduate into an economy designed against them

By Nick LichtenbergMay 18, 2026

A panel on Gen Z workers sit alongside Fortune's Kristin Stoller at the Fortune Workplace Innovation Summit.

AI in the workplace is stumbling. Fortune’s Workplace Innovation Summit will dive in to why

By Kristin StollerMay 18, 2026

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Commentary Musk vs. Altman: AI safety cannot be one man’s job

By Stavros GadinisMay 18, 2026

Pope Leo launches an AI commission days before he releases a papal letter alongside Anthropic cofounder Christopher Olah

AI Pope Leo launches an AI commission days before he releases a papal letter alongside Anthropic cofounder Christopher Olah

By Catherina GioinoMay 18, 2026

John Ketchum, CEO of NextEra Energy, speaks during BlackRock's 2026 Infrastructure Summit in Washington, DC, on March 11, 2026. Photographer: Daniel Heuer/Bloomberg via Getty Images

Energy NextEra’s $67 billion Dominion takeover creates the world’s largest utility—just in time to win the AI data-center power surge

By Jordan BlumMay 18, 2026

Harvard University banners hang in front of a building

Crypto Harvard sold off its entire $87 million Ethereum stake just one quarter after buying it

By Jack KubinecMay 18, 2026

Not the Allbirds effect: Japan’s top bidet maker Toto has been quietly making chip supplies for decades, and the stock market finally noticed

AI Not the Allbirds effect: Japan’s top bidet maker Toto has been quietly making chip supplies for decades, and the stock market finally noticed

By Catherina GioinoMay 18, 2026

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Economy New York Fed warns about $69 trillion foreign investment ‘burden’ on U.S. economy

By Tristan BoveMay 18, 2026

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Cybersecurity 6.7 million people thought they were ripping apart an AI-generated Monet painting. But it was real

By Nick LichtenbergMay 18, 2026

President Donald Trump speaks to the media aboard Air Force One on May 15, 2026.

Economy While Trump insisted the Iran war would end ‘soon,’ an account in his name was buying millions in oil, defense and gold

By Eva RoytburgMay 18, 2026

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Malcolm Gladwell, sitting behind a microphone, holds his hand up next to him.

Future of Work Malcolm Gladwell tells young people if they want a STEM degree, ‘don’t go to Harvard.’ You may end up at the bottom of your class and drop out

By Sasha RogelbergFebruary 14, 2026

North America Classrooms close as San Francisco teachers launch first public school strike in nearly 50 years
By The Associated PressFebruary 9, 2026

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Commentary How leaders are protecting culture while AI rewrites how work gets done

By Keith Ferrazzi and Ulrika BiesertFebruary 14, 2026

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AI Marc Andreessen made a dire software prediction 15 years ago. Now it’s happening in a way nobody imagined

By Nick LichtenbergFebruary 13, 2026

Top analyst warns the economy is figuring out how to grow without creating new jobs, leaving a major vulnerability

Economy Top analyst warns the economy is figuring out how to grow without creating new jobs, leaving a major vulnerability

By Jason MaFebruary 13, 2026

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Success IBM is tripling the number of Gen Z entry-level jobs after finding the limits of AI adoption

By Preston ForeFebruary 13, 2026

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North America Trump is making foreign tourism great again. How much will he hurt the World Cup?

By Frédéric Dimanche, Kelley A. McClinchey and The ConversationFebruary 13, 2026

Success Super Bowl champion Sam Darnold says his plumber dad played with him every day after work, no matter how tough his day was—and that taught him resilience
By Emma BurleighFebruary 9, 2026

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Law ‘This is how you end up the face of a Japanese lubricant company without ever having signed a document’: Nevada sex workers fight for union status

By Jessica Hill and The Associated PressFebruary 13, 2026

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AI Matt Shumer’s viral blog about AI’s looming impact on knowledge workers is based on flawed assumptions

By Jeremy KahnFebruary 12, 2026

Demis Hassabis, chief executive officer of Google DeepMind

Success The CEO of Google DeepMind juggles another job as the founder of a multibillion-dollar startup by starting a second workday at 10 p.m.

By Emma BurleighFebruary 12, 2026

Donald Trump, holding two babies in his arms, leans over to kiss on on the head.

Future of Work ‘Fertility president’ Trump has demanded a baby boom, and Stanford researchers have a solution: Let more people work from home

By Sasha RogelbergFebruary 12, 2026

The CEO of Capgemini has a warning: You might be thinking about AI all wrong

Europe The CEO of Capgemini has a warning: You might be thinking about AI all wrong

By Kamal AhmedFebruary 12, 2026

Commentary The next 18 months of the agentic era will feel like a slow-motion stress test for CEOs. Most will make the same critical mistake
By Amy Eliza WongFebruary 9, 2026

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AI The godfather of AI predicts mass unemployment is on its way. This CEO warns even a 10% reduction ‘will feel like a depression’

By Jake AngeloFebruary 12, 2026

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Economy Turns out the U.S. economy didn’t create half a million jobs last year. It was just 181,000

By Paul Wiseman and The Associated PressFebruary 11, 2026

The Gen Z job nightmare is so bad that even billionaires are worried their kids won’t be able to keep a job, says wealth advisor to the 0.1%

Success The Gen Z job nightmare is so bad that even billionaires are worried their kids won’t be able to keep a job, says wealth advisor to the 0.1%

By Sydney LakeFebruary 11, 2026

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Economy The 45-year decline of the middle class costs you $12,000 a year

By Jake AngeloFebruary 11, 2026

Fed Chair Jerome Powell testifies before the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs during a hearing to "examine the Semiannual Monetary Policy Report to the Congress" on Capitol Hill on June 25, 2025 in Washington, DC. Powell says that the central bank will wait for clearer economic signals on the effects of President Donald Trump's tariffs on the economy before cutting interest rates, despite pressure from the President and divisions among Fed officials.

Economy Nightmarish labor market finally shows signs of letting up—and some ‘vindication’ for Jerome Powell

By Eva RoytburgFebruary 11, 2026

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Commentary Bausch + Lomb CEO: Standing still is the new falling behind

By Brent SaundersFebruary 11, 2026

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Commentary Something big is happening in AI — and most people will be blindsided

By Matt ShumerFebruary 11, 2026

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Future of Work Career quilts, not career ladders: a new way to think about growth

By Ashley HerdFebruary 11, 2026

Success Ex–Google exec says degrees in law and medicine are a waste of time because they take so long to complete that AI will catch up by graduation

By Preston ForeFebruary 11, 2026

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Politics San Francisco teachers to 50,000 students: no school for you

By Olga R. Rodriguez and The Associated PressFebruary 11, 2026

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Future of Work Work is a ‘situationship,’ and your manager is a millennial: Welcome to the economy where breaking up is hard to do

By Nick LichtenbergFebruary 11, 2026

The job market is so tough white-collar workers are ‘reverse recruiting,’ shelling out thousands to get headhunters to find them their next role

Economy The job market is so tough white-collar workers are ‘reverse recruiting,’ shelling out thousands to get headhunters to find them their next role

By Molly Liebergall and Morning BrewFebruary 10, 2026

Why GM’s supply-chain chief sees suppressed dissent as a business risk

C-Suite Why GM’s supply-chain chief sees suppressed dissent as a business risk

By Ruth UmohFebruary 10, 2026

Salesforce founder and CEO Marc Benioff on stage, scowling.

AI AI agents from Anthropic and OpenAI aren’t killing SaaS—but incumbent software players can’t sleep easy

By Jeremy KahnFebruary 10, 2026

A woman sits in front of her laptop, holding her hand to her head

AI In the workforce, AI is having the opposite effect it was supposed to, UC Berkeley researchers warn

By Marco Quiroz-GutierrezFebruary 10, 2026

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Future of Work ‘AI-washing’ and ‘forever layoffs’: Why companies keep cutting jobs, even amid rising profits

By Claire ZillmanFebruary 10, 2026

Head coach Mike MacDonald

Success Seahawks head coach turned down a cushy career in finance at KPMG for a football internship—12 years later, he won the Super Bowl at 38

By Emma BurleighFebruary 10, 2026

Photo of Elon Musk

C-Suite ‘Don’t look at the résumé’: Elon Musk admits he’s ‘fallen prey’ to flashy credentials but says conversation matters most when hiring

By Jacqueline MunisFebruary 9, 2026

David Risher, wearing a patterned shirt, speaks in front of a bright magenta background.

C-Suite Lyft CEO David Risher is still a driver for the company: It made him realize being even one minute late could cost the customer their job

By Sasha RogelbergFebruary 9, 2026

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