The dark core of the story of Sisyphus is not that his toil is repetitive or even that it’s eternal. It’s that the work is ...

Axiom says its AI found solutions to several long-standing math problems, a sign of the technology’s steadily advancing reasoning capabilities.

To the editor: The recent discussion at the Fairbanks City Council about discouraging remote and hybrid work raises an important question — but perhaps not the one we should be asking. The real ...

The prevailing opinion among pundits before the season was that the Ravens either had the best roster in the NFL or, at worst, were second only to the defending Super Bowl champion Philadelphia Eagles ...

One of the first sentences I was ever paid to write was “Try out lighter lip stick colors, like peach or coral.” Fresh out of college in the mid 2010s, I’d scored a copy job for a how-to website. An ...

Imagine working for a company where you notice a lot of little, annoying problems that could be easily fixed if management would just listen to the employees. Would you be really annoyed it management ...

We walk through an optimization problem step by step, clearly explaining how to identify variables, set up the correct function, apply derivatives, and find maximum or minimum values. Each step is ...

You’ve heard the gospel: AI is going to change everything. Good, great, grand. But when you’re staring down a deadline and 80 unread emails, you don’t need philosophy, you need a cheat sheet. The ...

Is Central Asia Still Russia’s Backyard? In a legislative committee meeting on November 13, Japanese Prime Minister Takaichi Sanae was asked how she planned to address Japan’s notoriously long working ...

Invisible work includes all the things employees do like answering email, attending meetings, and solving problems that are not necessarily in job descriptions or measured in any way. These things ...

As the ninth day of the government shutdown wears on, the focus is on how many air traffic controllers show up to work tonight. The Federal Aviation Administration reported staffing shortages for ...

When videoconferencing company Owl Labs surveyed 2,000 U.S. workers for its 2025 State of Hybrid Work report, almost half reported they did not have enough flexibility in regard to when they worked.