The Labor Department will stop accepting permanent labor certification filings from Microsoft, Adobe and six IT services firms, Vice President JD Vance said. Microsoft says most of its H-1B filings were for people it already employs.
The AI build-out has created construction jobs, and the federal data says they are smaller in number and narrower in distribution than either side of the argument claims. Electrical contractors added 42,000 people in a year. Power and communication line construction — the trade that builds the interconnection — lost 1,500. And the count of projects stopped by local opposition is roughly double the figure now being quoted.
Remote work is comfortable for people who already have a network and a reputation. It is a closed door for the person who has neither.
A mandate does not create the hours it consumes. It moves them, from the worker's day to the company's, and sends no invoice.
Chief executive departures ran at records for two years. The change worth noticing is that a growing share of them were arranged rather than forced.
Corporate learning spend was a compliance function with a course catalogue. It is being redirected at a skills gap most employers say they have.
Attendance mandates have largely won the argument. They have not produced demand for offices, only for a narrow band of them.
Headcount used to be the evidence that a company was working. It has become the thing founders are asked to justify.
As reporting, coordination, and status work automate, companies are redefining what management means rather than simply thinning it.