Workplace

  • The Silicon Valley Migration: The Rise of U.S. Micro-Cores

    ByDan McLaughlin

    For decades, a 70+ square mile corridor in Northern California was the undisputed center of technological gravity. Today that center is still there, but the inherent pull unique to the location itself has changed in numerous ways.

    The story of American tech in the 2020s isn’t a tale of Silicon Valley’s collapse. It’s something more subtle and interesting in that it is characterized by diffusion. Driven by sky-high housing costs, a substantial increase remote work, and a generation of founders who grew up knowing that great ideas can happen anywhere, a constellation of new tech ecosystems has taken root across the United States.

  • AI and Performance Monitoring in the Workplace

    ByDan McLaughlin

    From remote workers to delivery vans, AI is now being utilized by a wide swath of businesses to surveil, correct, and determine workforce activities at increasingly comprehensive levels on a daily basis. The notion of monitoring production in the company environment certainly is far from new and has undergone countless permutations over the years.

  • Quiet Quitting

    ByDan McLaughlin

    The concept of quiet quitting and its various permutations has been referred to as everything from a “fake trend” by the Atlantic to a full out crisis by a number of organizations. A recent survey conducted by Gallup found that a minimum of 50% of current employees in the U.S. classified themselves in a group that is somewhat nebulously defined as conducting the bare minimum of work as specifically outlined in their job description or simply doing enough to stay under the radar and not be terminated. This is certainly not a novel concept, but are there new and unique undertones to this latest disposition that have been brought about by the events of the past few years?