@_constantjo

Bloomberg reporter covering the future of work @theFuture for @Business Alum @Newmarkjschool and @UVA (she/her) opinions my own

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Exciting news: Bloomberg Work Shift is live! It’s our new home for all things future of work. Follow us at @thefuture and sign up for our newsletter: bloomberg.com/account/newsle…. Stay tuned! 💫
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Brody Ford@BrodyFord_15 Sep 2023
Looks like big tech is hiring again - @Benioff told me Salesforce is adding 3,300 people. bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

Salesforce to Hire 3,300 People After Layoffs Earlier This Year

Salesforce Inc. is hiring 3,300 people across departments, marking a new investment after it eliminated 10% of its workforce in a restructuring earlier this year.

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Working in retail has always been hard. Following the pandemic, issues such as theft, violence and tight staffing have only worsened. Many employees have had enough. Listen below for more from me, @devinleonard, @rzgreenfield and @weskosova bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

Low Pay, Long Hours, Rude Customers. Retail Workers Have Had It: Big Take Podcast

Listen to The Big Take podcast on iHeart, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Terminal.

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RTOR (RETURN TO OFFICE ROMANCE): As companies push for a return to offices, romantic relationships that blossomed between coworkers during the pandemic might get harder to hide -- story w/@lc_hurst bloomberg.com/news/articles/… via @thefuture @BBGEquality #officeromance #Management

Return to Office Brings CEO Relationships Back to the Forefront

Workplace romance still thrived during the lockdown, but it was harder to see.

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Ever wonder what it'd be like to be a pro sports team mascot? The @Phillies Phanatic gave me a behind-the-scenes look, from the subtle art of the hot dog launcher to working a room of Supreme Court justices. @thefuture @business bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

The Phillie Phanatic: The Job of a Mascot for Zealous Philly Sports Fans

You do what? The mascot for Philadelphia’s Major League Baseball team talks about how he got the job, traveling for work and the prep behind the infamous hot dog launcher.

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Matthew Boyle@bizboyle12 Jul 2023
Time is money, and @Shopify wants to prove that to its employees by calculating the cost of every internal meeting. bloomberg.com/news/articles/… via @thefuture

Shopify Shames Employees With Cost Calculator for Pointless Meetings

The company’s new internal tool is part of a push to boost productivity by removing a projected 322,000 hours of meetings this year.

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Some big-name companies are pushing for four days or more in the office, testing the norm of two to three days that's emerged as a post-pandemic equilibrium. bloomberg.com/news/articles/… via @business @thefuture #WFH #remotework #RTO

Working From Home Becomes a Once-a-Week Perk for Some Office Goers

Companies like Chipotle and Disney are testing the limits of the three-day in-office week that’s emerged as the post-pandemic standard as ‘RTO creep’ sets in.

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Davey Alba@daveyalba8 Jun 2023
SCOOP (with the great @josheidelson): Accenture workers who have helped to train Google's generative AI products, including in Bard and its search generative experience, are seeking to unionize. bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

Google Contract Staff That Helped Train AI Seek To Unionize

A worker group that includes writers and designers wants collective bargaining rights.

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Matthew Boyle@bizboyle8 Jun 2023
We're excited to welcome @MiaGindis as a summer intern for @Bloomberg @thefuture!
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Where wildfires are common, state #OSHAs have adopted emergency standards to protect workers from risk. In CA, when the AQI exceeds 151, employers have to provide respiratory protection equipment & have respirators on hand. In NYC today, the AQI is 161. No NY OSHA requirements
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Matthew Boyle@bizboyle6 Jun 2023
Call it RTO creep: Chipotle is ordering its corporate staff back into the office four days a week, joining other large companies in tightening return-to-office rules bloomberg.com/news/articles/… via @thefuture w/@dani_lsc

Chipotle Calls Corporate Staff Into Office Four Days a Week

Chipotle Mexican Grill Inc. will require corporate staff to be on-site four days a week, becoming yet another large company to tighten return-to-office rules.

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Word on the street is that WFA weeks are the new summer Fridays bloomberg.com/news/articles/… via @business @thefuture
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Matthew Boyle@bizboyle8 May 2023
These are the US cities with the most (and least) remote job opportunities, per new data from @I_Am_NickBloom and his @WFHResearch crew. bloomberg.com/news/articles/… via @thefuture #WFH #remotejobs

Best and Worst US Cities for Remote Work Job Openings

San Francisco makes the list, but just barely, while the least remote-friendly cities are typically found in Southern states.

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Scoop for @business: The first study of generative AI at a real-world company, outside the lab. @Stanford, @MIT found customer service workers at a Fortune 500 software firm given access to AI became 14% more productive on average than those who were not. bloom.bg/3mZLwVu

Generative AI Boosts Worker Productivity 14% in First Real-World Study

A study found the lowest-skilled customer-service workers reaped the greatest benefits when AI was rolled out at a Fortune 500 software firm over the course of a year.

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Brookfield Defaults on $161 Million Debt for Office Buildings bloomberg.com/news/articles/… via @markets

Brookfield Defaults on $161 Million Debt for Office Buildings

Brookfield Corp. funds have defaulted on a $161.4 million mortgage for a dozen office buildings, mostly around Washington, DC, as rising vacancies hit property values.

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What's the best #career for your child? @_constantjo has the scoop. It depends on the age of the kid. If you have a 5-year old, think about the medical field bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

ChatGPT Threat Makes Health-Care Jobs More Promising Than Finance, Tech

Investors say today’s kindergarteners will be best off becoming doctors. For high school students, they recommend a career in tech.

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Ella Cerón@ellaceron10 Apr 2023
✨Lola publishes tomorrow✨ I’ve spent 4 years on this girl, her family, and the summer unlike any she’s ever had. I hope you love her and her whole family, even the fresa cousins from hell. Last call for preorder: penguinrandomhouse.com/books…
Viva Lola Espinoza by Ella Cerón

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Key nugget from the March jobs report gain of 236K, according to Glassdoor Lead Economist @DanielBZhao, the Black unemployment rate fell to 5%, a record low based on 50-year old records.
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Overall participation is still well below its prepandemic peak, of course. But that's almost entirely about the aging population. Adjusting for demographics, participation is pretty much back to where it began, and employment is all the way back.
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So much for "nobody wants to work anymore": 80.7% of prime-age (25-54) Americans were working in March, the highest rate since May 2001.
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UBS's reported plan to lay off as many as 36,000 workers would make it the company with the largest job cuts worldwide in the past six months. Check out our updated global layoffs tracker: bloomberg.com/graphics/2023-… via @business @thefuture

UBS Joins a Rising Tide of Global Layoffs Beyond Big Tech

Massive cuts at tech giants like Meta and Microsoft dominate headlines, but don’t tell the whole story. Here’s a full picture of job cuts around the world.

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