Nearly half of Saudi Arabia’s internet users now use artificial intelligence. But only 17.3% use it for work-related tasks. That gap may tell us more about where AI adoption actually stands than the headline number does. Saudi Arabia’s Communications, Space and Technology Commission reported that AI-tool use reached 45.2% of internet users in 2025, more than double…
SSC News Desk The address still says California. The workforce increasingly does not. Stanford researchers analyzed 158,563 employee profiles across 334 private unicorn companies headquartered in California and found that only 21 percent of their employees actually work in the state. India was the second-largest location, accounting for 12 percent of workers. New York and the United Kingdom each held 5 percent. Texas came in…
SSC News Desk The people at Google who work on making artificial intelligence safe and aligned with human values have a message for job applicants: do not let the AI screen your resume. The document existed quietly until Bloomberg obtained it. Google DeepMind’s AGI Safety and Alignment Team — the division responsible for ensuring the company’s most…
SSC News Desk Postings for chief of staff roles have increased 85 percent since 2020 and more than doubled in the past year. The explanation is that CEOs need help managing complexity. The more specific explanation is that organizations added complexity faster than they redesigned who manages it. The chief of staff is back —…
SSC News Desk A new study spanning ten countries and 30 years of payroll data shows that the finance sector — not globalization, not education, not city size — is the primary driver of widening income gaps between cities. The finance sector employs roughly 4 percent of the workforce. It accounts for 19 percent of all top 1% earners….
SSC News Desk Friday’s Bureau of Labor Statistics report delivered a 106,000-job miss and revised May and June lower by a combined 103,000. The unemployment rate fell because the labor force shrank. The number economists projected for July was +83,000. The number the Bureau of Labor Statistics delivered Friday morning was -23,000. That is a miss of more than 106,000…
The company’s own numbers contradict the reason usually given for layoffs like this one. That contradiction is the actual story. Zillow laid off more than 500 employees on Tuesday, about 7 percent of its global workforce, in what CEO Jeremy Wacksman called the company’s largest round of cuts this year, according to a company blog…
Over 1,600 workers have lost jobs in the Charlotte region so far in 2026. Most of the companies cutting them never said a word publicly. Part of Society, Economy & Wellness — examining how economic pressure reshapes labor, access, and everyday life. NEWS DESK | SOCIAL STORYTELLERS COLLECTIVE The Charlotte Observer’s Desiree Mathurin reported this…
The E. W. Scripps Company is issuing layoff notifications this week as it installs automated systems at local TV stations across the country. The people losing jobs produced the local news. Part of Society, Economy & Wellness — examining how economic pressure reshapes labor, access, and everyday life. NEWS DESK | SOCIAL STORYTELLERS COLLECTIVE Local…
Amazon, Walmart, FedEx and more than 20 other employers filed WARN notices for August. The labor market looks stable. The WARN data tells a different story. Part of Society, Economy & Wellness — examining how economic pressure reshapes labor, access, and everyday life. NEWS DESK | SOCIAL STORYTELLERS COLLECTIVE The Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification…