#white-collar — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #white-collar, aggregated by home.social.
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“If #AI displaces human workers faster than the #economy can reabsorb them, it risks eroding the very #consumer demand firms depend on. We show that knowing this is not enough for firms to stop it.”
The dominating strategy of economics. Paper explained in this #BBC presenter #KattyKay <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O3gYyCB2n9o>.
The paper details are below:
#BrettHemenwayFalk / #GerryTsoukalas / #economics / #work / #workers / #ZeroHourWork / #WhiteCollar <https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.20617>
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Don't Fall Down This Monday Kiddies ☕✨
#art #memes #meme #FallingDown1992 #FallingDown #MichaelDouglas #WhammyBurger #breakfast #whitecollar #grind #boss #visualart #movies #film #cinema
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“Could Ryan Hendler be Australia’s most productive #employee? Each night Hendler and his colleagues at me&u, the QR code-based #hospitality ordering #app, assign their #AITools up to 30 complex, iterative #coding tasks, ranging from new features to #bug fixes.
Because these tasks take hours to compute, Hendler, a 26-year-old #AIEngineer, realised it was far more productive to let AI continue his workday while he slept, rather than waiting around for execution during the day.
Working under the chief executive #KimTeo, Hendler has helped catapult me&u into the #AIEra, fully integrating #Claude, #ChatGPT and bespoke AI products into a 24/7 workflow.
And at one point earlier this year, he was ChatGPT Codex’s 12th most prolific individual user worldwide by #token usage, and was spotlighted by ChatGPT owner OpenAI on LinkedIn for his 24-hour work hack.
But the AI wasn’t always up for the night shift. Hendler says the team originally had to explicitly instruct it to keep working through the night with prompts such as “please do not stop until you’ve done all the tasks” or “my boss will be angry if you stop before it finishes”.”
I’ll re-read this in 5 years and laugh. The founder is smart, but not technical. The engineer is responsible for more of the codebase than they can handle and is a cost centre. The market is exposed to consumer spending and discretional spending. 🤣☺️
#WhiteCollar / #ZeroHourWork / #software <https://www.afr.com/work-and-careers/careers/how-australia-s-most-prolific-vibe-coder-works-in-his-sleep-20260701-p60bt8> (paywall) / <https://archive.md/diVTL>
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The Demoralization of the White-Collar Worker
https://nooneshappy.com/article/the-demoralization-of-the-white-collar-worker/
#HackerNews #demoralization #whitecollar #workers #workplace #culture #job #satisfaction #mentalhealth
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No Raise, No Promotion: 1 in 4 White-Collar Workers Are Stalling Out
https://www.wsj.com/lifestyle/careers/white-collar-workers-career-nyu-study-a81a7d9c
#HackerNews #whitecollar #workers #career #stagnation #jobmarket #workplaceissues
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“OpenAI chief executive #SamAltman downplayed the threat of #AI #killingJobs just days after #WiseTech informed the police of “threats of violence” against its #CEO, who is using the #technology to replace thousands of its #workers.”
“The #Jobs picture is likely to be very different than we thought,” Altman told Commonwealth Bank boss #MattComyn in a virtual appearance at an AI event in Sydney hosted by the bank. “I don’t think we’re going to have the kind of #JobsApocalypse that some of the companies in our space advocate, or talk about.”
Bull shit boi at it again.
#WhiteCollar / #ZeroHourWork / #sackings / #work <https://www.smh.com.au/business/companies/openai-boss-downplays-jobs-apocalypse-as-threats-of-violence-hit-aussie-tech-giant-20260526-p600tn.html> (paywall) / <https://archive.md/IxP8G>
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“Professionals #Australia, the #union representing workers at #software company #WiseTech has told Guardian Australia about 190 staff on the company’s product development and customer service teams have been notified their #roles could go as part of the 2,000 cut due to advancements in #artificialintelligence “
#ZeroHourWork / #WhiteCollar / #Engineers
<https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/live/2026/may/26/australia-politics-live-renewables-climate-bhp-files-budget-capital-gains-tax-jim-chalmers-anthony-albanese-question-time-senate-estimates-ntwnfb?filterKeyEvents=false&page=with%3Ablock-6a142beb8f089865cf41c81d#block-6a142beb8f089865cf41c81d> -
“We are using this to feed a very large amount of content into the #AIModel, so that way it can learn how smart people use computers to accomplish tasks. I think that this is going to be a very big advantage if we can do it,” #Zuckerberg purportedly said during an April 30 meeting in which an employee asked about the "top of mind" issue. 🤪🧠
… a company spokesperson confirmed in April that Meta would monitor employees to train AI. Meta's #TrackingTool is called #ModelCapabilityInitiative, according to reports.
The audio was posted the same day Meta announced 8,000 #JobCuts. It captured Zuckerberg's thoughts on the news, first reported by #Reuters, that Meta planned to install #software on employees' computers to #monitor activity for AI training. #MorePerfectUnion did not reply to an email from The Register seeking comment.
"So if we're trying to teach the models #coding, for example, then having #people internally build tools that or solve #tasks that help teach the model how to code, we think, is going to dramatically increase our models' coding ability #faster than what others in the industry have the capability to do, who don't have thousands and thousands of extremely #StrongEngineers 💪🤓 at their company,"
Marky Mark stuffing the Meta AI LLM with data.
#Oligarch / #Meta / #MarkZuckerburg / #ZeroHourWork / #WhiteCollar <https://www.theregister.com/ai-ml/2026/05/22/zuck-defends-monitoring-employees-to-win-ai-race-in-purported-leaked-audio/5245379>
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Movie TV Tech Geeks #TV #Thriller #BreakingBad #WhiteCollar The Best Thriller Shows From Every Year of the 2000s http://dlvr.it/TSKtL2
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Choices are sacrifices. And, inevitably, that means giving up something that you want, for something you want more.
- Clinton Jones #WhiteCollar
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and so does every scene Matthew Keller is in
He is kinda like a "Moriaty". You can't help but have tremendous respect for him.
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…The answer to why powerful people in some other parts of the world face consequences, while in the #US they rarely do, is that #elite #impunity is now an American national project. We might need to reframe “American exceptionalism.” Instead of a New Deal, we have a Great Society for #WhiteCollar #crime, a New Frontier of executive lawbreaking, a No Rich Crook Left Behind. Most of us probably don’t even realize it.
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Wow... that's depressing!
And I have been reading a lot about white-collar workers finding it challenging to:
1) Obtain work because of a tough job market
2) Maintain work due to layoffs, etc.
#USA #US #employment #jobs #WhiteCollar #economics #USeconomy #MyThoughts
--https://www.businessinsider.com/job-search-after-layoff-struggles-2026-2
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The Global Intelligence Crisis, a scenario set in 2028, explores the consequences of rapid #AI advancement: By 2026, AI’s impact on the #workforce, particularly #whitecollar jobs, led to a negative feedback loop of #jobdisplacement, reduced #consumerspending, and #economicinstability. This crisis resulted in widespread #economicdisruption and adeflationaryspiral. https://www.citriniresearch.com/p/2028gic?eicker.news #tech #media #news
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Recession red flags are flying all over the place if you know where to look.
Latest jobs numbers show that with the exception of the Health Care field (which added 82,000 jobs) the data is showing job contraction.
New listings for roles in professional and business services have fallen to their lowest level in more than a decade (excluding the deepest pandemic-era lows of 2020) the steepest declines of any sector. https://qz.com/white-collar-jobs-recession-signs-data #Recession #Jobs #JobsData #Hiring #WhiteCollar #Economy #WageGrowth
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We encourage listening not just to 7-mins but entire 35:26 interview by Steve Inskeep of #NationalPublicRadio w/ Governor Spencer Cox at Western Governors Conference, for Nov 25 #NPR https://www.npr.org/2025/11/25/nx-s1-5615342/spencer-cox-utah-trump-charlie-kirk-civility
On USA social change 31:56-35:26.
On Artificial Intelligence 24:46- 31:50— a snippet @ 30:49:
“We’ve gotten into this mode, I’d say on both the right and left, where we’ve become subservient to technology. Instead of technology serving us, we’ve become slaves to the #technology. And I think that’s going to happen with #AI if we’re not very careful….We’ve started an AI policy lab in Utah, it’s the #first of its kind anywhere in the world, where we have experts now, in the government, working directly with the companies, to make sure their products are safe, passing legislation that gives them a safe harbor so that they can do what they wanna do, as long as it protects our #people.”
#DataScience #connection #SocialMedia #Meta #ChatBots #loneliness #BowlingAlone #MentalHealth #BlueCollar #WhiteCollar #job -
AI đang thay đổi công việc văn phòng: tự động hoá báo cáo, nhập liệu và phân tích dữ liệu khiến nhiều vị trí trung cấp giảm sút, trong khi nhu cầu giám sát AI, sáng tạo và tư duy chiến lược tăng. Các nhà quản lý cần nhanh chóng đào tạo lại nhân viên, tái thiết kế vai trò để tránh sa thải. #AI #CôngNghệ #ViệcLàm #Reskilling #Layoffs #WhiteCollar #Jobs #Tech
https://dev.to/jay_all_day/whats-ais-impact-on-white-collar-jobs-and-layoffs-56p8
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AI is reshaping white-collar jobs faster than expected, warns Samantha Subin. CEOs from Ford to Salesforce admit AI has already replaced many roles and could risk half of these jobs soon. Companies like Amazon plan huge hiring freezes due to automation. The workforce must adapt as AI transforms industries—will your job survive? Read more: https://www.cnbc.com/2025/10/22/ai-taking-white-collar-jobs-economists-warn-much-more-in-the-tank.html #AI #automation #whitecollar #jobloss #futureofwork #economy #technology #workforcedisruption #corporateleaders
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You would think this would give #WhiteCollar worker's #ClassConsciousness, but no.
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#Trump #DOJ Closed Investigation Into #TomHoman for Accepting Bag of #Cash Tom Homan who was later named Trump’s #borderczar, recorded in September 2024 accepting a bag w $50,000 in cash in undercover #FBI #Investigation. It was shut down by Trump admin officials. Top down #corruption #illegal #whitecollar #crimes Homan’s encounter w undercover agents, recorded on audiotape, led him to be investigated for potential #bribery. #coverup #epsteinfiles #humantrafficking https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/20/us/politics/tom-homan-fbi-trump.html?unlocked_article_code=1.nk8.guGA.9HnVhL7eJqvY&smid=url-share
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I'm mostly enjoying my rewatch of #WhiteCollar, but in this ep they keep pronouncing Tycho Brahe's first name as "tie-ko", and it's like sandpaper on my brain
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The #WhiteCollar disruption is real as 5000 employees got dissed & discarded for robot #ArtificialIntelligence agents taking over once high flying prestigious consulting jobs.
World's top tier business #consulting firm #McKinsey unleashed #AI #bots to do same jobs that it's highest priced #executive level #consultants and teams of many minions once did to advise, plan and restructure biz for its high flying #corporate clients.
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Is The Man in the Pink Polo Shirt as unhappy as The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit was in the mid fifties?
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So let's see where we are at - 1. #AI means fewer #whitecollar jobs 2. Ending #studentloans cancellation means #education is more #expensive 3. #healthcare is more expensive 4. #tariffs means stuff is expensive 5. #deportation of #labor means #housing #food #water #energy expensive
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So let's see where we are at -
1. #AI means fewer #whitecollar jobs
2. Ending #studentloans cancellation means #education is more #expensive
3. #healthcare is more expensive
4. #tariffs means stuff is expensive
5. #deportation of #labor means #housing #food #water #energy expensive
6. #climatechange means #insurance is expensive plus actual #lossWhat should the #youth look forward to?
#democrats any ideas? Anyone?
