Gabriel Judge's job at a tech company ended not with a whimper or a fuss, but with a video. She filmed a stressful and, in the judge's words, performance review meeting during which she told her managers she was leaving.The judge, who was doing the job alongside a part-time career as a content creator, posted a truncated version of the online meeting on social media under the moniker “Anti Work Girlboss.” She says the goal was to show viewers that she walked away from the low-stress, relatively well-paying job after her employer began laying off her team and assigning her…
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Open Editor's Digest for freeRula Khalaf, editor of the Financial Times, picks her favorite stories in this weekly newsletter.Letters from the Archives of Rutherford Hall, Critical Communications StrategistWhatsApp to Stephen: Great job getting Oliver Dowden to our platinum client's business dinner. I know Tory MPs are all looking forward to their post-government relationships, but the appointment of a Deputy Prime Minister is a real coup. Small hitch. None of the clients actually wanted to hear from him. They want Rachel Reeves or Wes Streeting or someone who will have a major role in a Labor government. Or maybe Angela Rainer.…
Stay informed with free updatesSimply sign up for the myFT AI Digest – delivered straight to your inbox.The head of Japan's largest recruitment agency said artificial intelligence will solve the country's labor shortage, but warned that its usefulness will be limited until people gain more confidence in the technology. Japan “needs to do its best on AI,” said Hisayuki Idekoba, CEO of Recruit Holdings, in an interview with the Financial Times, pointing to the successes employers have had using AI tools to attract more job candidates.He added that the adoption of AI in advanced economies will be slower than people…
Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in New York.Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesFour of the top five preferred destinations for investors are located in Europe, according to the Milken Institute's Global Opportunities Index (GOI) report.Denmark topped this year's rankings, taking first place in business perception, a measure of the ease of doing business in a country as well as other regulatory metrics.The index includes 100 indicators in five categories: business perception, economic fundamentals, financial services, institutional framework, and international standards and policies.Denmark ranked third in economic fundamentals, which captures macroeconomic performance, workforce talent,…
TechCrunch Mobility is a weekly newsletter dedicated to all things transportation. Sign up here — just click TechCrunch Mobility — to receive the newsletter every weekend in your inbox. Subscribe for free. Welcome back to TechCrunch Mobility — your central hub for news and insights about the future of transportation. I spent a few days in Austin for SXSW, where I met with founders and CEOs, gave some talks, and moderated a couple of panels. While generative AI was clearly the biggest draw, the future of transportation continues to garner attention from investors, city planners, founders, businesses, and the media.…
Construction delays led to a traffic jam at Los Angeles International Airport on Sunday morning, with some travelers claiming it took nearly an hour to get through the congestion.LAX announced lane closures for construction work on Century Boulevard Saturday evening, but delays kept the lanes closed until Sunday morning.The goal of the construction was to facilitate work on the Automated People Transport System, a driverless transportation system designed to ease traffic around the airport in preparation for the 2028 Summer Olympics.At approximately 11 a.m., Los Angeles International Airport posted onThe account added that traffic may affect journey times.At 1pm, X…
The debate over whether Chinese-owned TikTok can operate in the United States has returned with force, revealing more risks to Chinese stocks in a US presidential election year. The committee that led the TikTok-related legislation that passed the House of Representatives last week has another bill aimed at restricting Chinese biotech companies, among many policy proposals. Such considerations prompted Goldman Sachs analysts to update their model to measure the level of risks posed by US-China tensions in Chinese stocks. The analysts said their measure, created in 2020, “correlates well with the timeline of events between the US and China, and…
TikTok creators gather before a press conference to express their opposition to the Protecting Americans from Foreign Controlled Apps Act, pending legislation to crack down on TikTok in the House of Representatives, on Capitol Hill in Washington, US, March 12, 2024. Craig Hudson | ReutersThe Senate should quickly advance a bill that would force Chinese tech company ByteDance to sell TikTok, White House national security adviser John Kirby said Sunday. The bill passed the House with overwhelming bipartisan support.“We are pleased that the House approved this matter,” Kirby said on ABC’s “This Week.” “We urge the Senate to act quickly…
Washington – President Biden's campaign has raised $155 million in cash for the 2024 election, far exceeding the total amount available to his Republican rival Donald Trump. The president raised just $53 million last month, his strongest month for grassroots fundraising since the campaign launched, according to campaign officials. Among those efforts was a contest for supporters to attend a March 28 fundraiser in New York with Biden and former Presidents Obama and Clinton, which raised $4 million last month. “The enthusiasm that we're getting as we go around the country is real,” Biden said in a radio interview with…
Discussions about the potential for recession are becoming less common among American business managers. Since the Federal Reserve began raising interest rates in early 2022, companies and investors have been preparing for how a recession might play out. Now, the topic is losing its luster after earnings announcements by the largest US companies, as it becomes increasingly likely that inflation has subsided without causing an economic contraction. Word of recession appeared in the fourth-quarter earnings calls of 47 companies in the S&P 500, according to market data platform FactSet. That's the lowest number since the end of 2021. Another way…