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Workers are using AI to sneak out for spin classes and skip lunch meetings—and new research shows they’re clawing back 30 minutes a day

Your colleagues are saving so much time by using AI that they’re running errands and exercising in the middle of the workday.

By Orianna Rosa RoyleMarch 25, 2026
Banker working at laptop at desk
JPMorgan has started monitoring the keystrokes, video calls, and meetings of its junior investment bankers—and they say it’s for employee well-being
By Emma BurleighMarch 24, 2026
10 a.m. could be your new start time, thanks to AI. Billionaire Mark Cuban says companies will cut the workday by an hour—and you’ll still get paid the same
By Orianna Rosa RoyleMarch 24, 2026
Brian Niccol speaks and gestures in front of a blue and green background.
Starbucks CEO admits the chain ‘ran like a manufacturing facility’
By Sasha RogelbergMarch 23, 2026
Mark Zuckerberg
Just like Gen Z, a young Mark Zuckerberg ‘had no concept of small talk’ and would ‘just stare at you,’ the VC behind Airbnb and Reddit says
By Preston ForeMarch 23, 2026
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Tesla CEO Elon Musk listens as U.S. President Donald Trump speaks to reporters in the Oval Office of the White House on May 30, 2025 in Washington, DC.
PoliticsThe White House snubs Elon Musk’s offer to cover TSA salaries as airport miseries hit record levels
By Eva RoytburgMarch 25, 2026
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AITwo private school boys get probation for using AI to create 350 fake nudes of their classmates
By Mark Scolforo and The Associated PressMarch 25, 2026
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PoliticsIt’s time for slavery reparations, ‘the gravest crime against humanity,’ UN General Assembly says
By Edith M. Lederer and The Associated PressMarch 25, 2026
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PoliticsEnter Melania Trump, escorted by humanoid robot: ‘I’m Figure 03, a humanoid built for the United States of America’
By Darlene Superville and The Associated PressMarch 25, 2026
Personal FinanceHow to sell gold and silver: Tax implications and what you should know
By Joseph HostetlerMarch 25, 2026
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Middle East‘We do not plan on any negotiations’: Iran laughs at White House’s claims of cease-fire talks
By Jon Gambrell, Mike Corder, Munir Ahmed, Aamer Madhani and The Associated PressMarch 25, 2026
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AIBernie Sanders and AOC launch bill to ban new data-center construction
By Matthew Daly and The Associated PressMarch 25, 2026
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PoliticsMeet the 40-year-old Democrat who owns a fitness company for pregnant and postpartum women and just won in Trump’s district
By Bill Barrow, Mike Schneider and The Associated PressMarch 25, 2026
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Jerome Powell
EconomyMillions of workers are left out of the ‘low-hire, low-fire’ U.S. job market
By Michael Sasso, Augusta Saraiva, Mark Niquette and BloombergSeptember 29, 2025
Future of WorkWalmart CEO explains what the most coveted skills are and points to store managers
By Anne D'Innocenzio and The Associated PressSeptember 28, 2025
Gen Z
Future of WorkThis chief people officer is leading ‘Gen Z training’ for managers at her $1.5 billion startup. Both sides have a lot to learn
By Nick LichtenbergSeptember 28, 2025
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SuccessGoodwill CEO says hiring managers are going behind their bosses’ backs and looking for workers with college degrees, not skills
By Orianna Rosa RoyleSeptember 26, 2025
say what?
SuccessDon’t try to be funny at work unless you want to risk your job and any chance of ever getting promoted, management professors say
By Peter McGraw, Adam Barsky, Caleb Warren and The ConversationSeptember 25, 2025
AIWorkday got nearly 80% of its employees to use AI—and it took more than just one general training
By Paige McGlauflin and HR BrewSeptember 25, 2025
Future of WorkSuzy Welch uncovered the reason Gen Z seems unhireable: Their workplace values don’t match their Gen X and millennial bosses
By Sydney LakeSeptember 25, 2025
Emma Watson
CommentaryHarry Potter star Emma Watson says she paused her career at 29, after 16-hour work days turned her into ‘an insane person’ who couldn’t hold a conversation
By Jessica CoacciSeptember 25, 2025
SuccessDo you know your attachment style? It could be the reason you’re not getting promoted at work 
By Orianna Rosa RoyleSeptember 25, 2025
Duolingo CEO Luis von Ahn points his finger
SuccessDuolingo’s billionaire CEO tells his 42 new Gen Z hires his company is ‘allergic’ to toxic behavior—and not to ‘work yourself to death’
By Dave SmithSeptember 24, 2025
Business man props his feet up on an office table, with no shoes on
SuccessThe hottest workplace policy at startups right now: No shoes
By Preston ForeSeptember 24, 2025
A woman wearing glasses and business attire sits at a computer with a confused look on her face
Workplace CultureAI promised to revolutionize productivity. Instead, ‘workslop’ is a giant time suck and the scourge of the 21st century office, Stanford warns
By Lila MacLellanSeptember 23, 2025
NewslettersIs AI-generated ‘workslop’ to blame for a lack of productivity gains?
By Beatrice NolanSeptember 23, 2025
SuccessThis Gen X tech founder has a message for Jamie Dimon, Andy Jassy, and any CEO demanding a return to the office: You’re not serious about AI
By Orianna Rosa RoyleSeptember 23, 2025
Gen Z
SuccessHarvard Business School’s top negotiation expert has career advice for Gen Z: It’s not about you
By Nick LichtenbergSeptember 22, 2025
SuccessGoodwill CEO says he’s preparing for an influx of jobless Gen Zers because of AI—and warns, a youth unemployment crisis is already happening
By Orianna Rosa RoyleSeptember 21, 2025
managers
Workplace CultureMeet the millennial managers ‘stuck between a rock and a hard place’: they’re taking ‘sanity days,’ dodging layoffs and trying to stay out of the ER
By Nick LichtenbergSeptember 20, 2025
David Adelman
CommentaryI turned my $2,000 bar mitzvah money into a $2 billion student housing company. Here’s what I learned
By David J. AdelmanSeptember 20, 2025
NYU Professor Suzy Welch
SuccessSuzy Welch says Gen Z and millennials are burnt out because older generations worked just as hard, but they ‘had hope’
By Dave SmithSeptember 19, 2025
Fred Ryan
CommentaryCivility can be your edge in this polarized time, when people have forgotten how to coexist
By Frederick J. Ryan, Jr.September 19, 2025
Middle manager
CommentarySurviving the Great Flattening: The coming extinction of the middle manager
By George PesanskySeptember 19, 2025
Starbucks
LawDisgruntled Starbucks workers in 3 states sue over dress-code changes, saying the company refused to reimburse them
By Dee-Ann Durbin and The Associated PressSeptember 18, 2025
Future of WorkThe labor market is cooling, so now would be the time for companies to invest in existing employees. But employers aren’t doing that, research shows
By Paige McGlauflin and HR BrewSeptember 17, 2025
Egyptian boy scouts attend a service, with the late Pope Francis' photo in the background, for the late Pope at the Holy Virgin Mary Coptic Catholic Cathedral on April 22, 2025 in Cairo, Egypt.
North AmericaCatholic Boy Scouts chair sees ‘a hunger out there now for finding a values-based organization’ as scandal recovery continues
By David Crary and The Associated PressSeptember 17, 2025
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AI‘Bad data is AI’s kryptonite’: Experts suggest businesses fix their data first before investing too much in AI
By Alex Zank and CFO BrewSeptember 17, 2025
Anger
CommentaryHow to work with annoying people, according to peer-reviewed science
By Josh DavisSeptember 17, 2025
Pete Hegseth
LawPete Hegseth goes to war against military beards, stresses ‘grooming standards which underpin the warrior ethos’
By Konstantin Toropin and The Associated PressSeptember 17, 2025
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SuccessFemale Gen Z workers say the best kind of bosses have one thing in common—they’re ‘girl dads’
By Jessica CoacciSeptember 17, 2025
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Workplace CultureSocial media posts about Charlie Kirk’s death are baffling companies and exposing a bigger problem in American business
By Lila MacLellanSeptember 16, 2025
C-SuiteUnder Armour’s CEO says micromanagement is ‘totally underestimated’ in business: ‘There’s too much lost on pretense’
By Sydney LakeSeptember 16, 2025
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