Tag: North America

New data from Anthropic’s February 2026 Economic Index shows AI usage is broadening across the economy. Earlier implementation was concentrated in high-value tasks like coding, but that is changing. The ...

Women are no longer being siloed into secretary and back-room jobs; for decades, they’ve been breaking into male-dominated jobs they were once locked out of. Trading pencil skirts for scrubs ...

Bonuses for Wall Street executives jumped 9% to a record $49.2 billion in 2025, according to an estimate from New York State Comptroller Tom DiNapoli published on Thursday.  The average ...

AI is making workers more productive than ever. In fact, it’s already quietly handing workers back chunks of their day—and instead of taking on more tasks, most are stepping away ...

New applications for U.S. unemployment benefits rose slightly last week, suggesting the labor market remains stable and likely giving the Federal Reserve scope to hold interest rates steady while monitoring ...

New federal requirements for classified workspaces are forcing a wave of upgrades across the U.S. office market, according to BisNow.  The 2025 update to Intelligence Community Directive 705 introduced tighter ...

Meta Platforms has offered top executives stock options that could pay out hundreds of millions of dollars and are tied to lifting its valuation six-fold to more than $9 trillion, ...

Meta Platforms is laying off a few hundred people across multiple teams on Wednesday, a source familiar with the matter told Reuters. Reuters reported earlier this month that Meta was ...

The U.S. labor market is leaning heavily on one sector: healthcare. Over the past year, total job gains reached 156,000—but healthcare alone added 375,000 jobs. Outside of healthcare, employment declined, ...

New data from Gallup shows a reversal in how U.S. workers view their lives. By the end of 2025, 49% of employees said they were struggling, compared to 46% who ...