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Future of Work

Vox’s coverage of the future of work: how we got here and what comes next.

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Will using AI make Microsoft Word better? We’re going to find out.

Microsoft and Google are rolling out AI features to write your memos and emails for you. But they’re far from perfect.

By Shirin Ghaffary and Rani Molla

Maybe AI can finally kill the cover letter

Jobs still require cover letters. Apps like ChatGPT can help.

By Rani Molla

Bosses want to pay you more but give you less

By Rani Molla

Where will all the laid-off tech workers go?

By Rani Molla

Your favorite tech giant wants you to know it’s a startup again

By Rani Molla and Shirin Ghaffary

It looks like people are actually moving back to San Francisco (really)

By Rani Molla

Quiet hiring and the endless quest to coin terms about work

By Rani Molla

How workers fought back in 2022

By Rani Molla

Conferences want to cure the work-from-home blues

By Rani Molla

Here’s what employers are cutting instead of your job

By Rani Molla

It wasn’t an ordinary Red Cup Day at Starbucks this year 

By Rani Molla

Silicon Valley layoffs are a reminder that your job won’t love you back

By Rani Molla

Twitter’s case study of how not to lay people off

By Rani Molla

Where do restaurant “service fees” really go?

By Rani Molla

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Back to the future

Rethinking old ideas about what we eat, where we live and work, and how we power our communities.

By Samantha Oltman and Adam Clark Estes

The future of the office is a lab

By Rani Molla

Our buildings are making us sick

By Keren Landman

Burnout was supposed to get better. It hasn’t.

By Rani Molla

Women in leadership are leaning out (and into a better job)

By Rani Molla

Companies are being forced to reveal what a job pays. It’s a start.

By Rani Molla

You’re going back to the office. Your boss isn’t.

By Rani Molla

This is not your millennial’s job market

By Rani Molla

Amazon’s robots are getting closer to replacing human hands

By Jason Del Rey

Remote workers are wasting their time proving they’re actually working

By Rani Molla

How unions are winning again, in 4 charts

By Rani Molla

Starbucks is not playing nice with its new union

By Rani Molla

A second Trader Joe’s just unionized. It could be the next Starbucks.

By Rani Molla

Remote workers are starting new businesses behind their bosses’ backs

By Rani Molla

We’re one step closer to robots doing all our housework

By Rebecca Heilweil

The future of remote work, according to 6 experts

By Rani Molla

Don’t mind the economy, now is still a good time to find a new job

By Rani Molla

Even bosses are joining the Great Resignation

By Rani Molla

When you drive for work, $5 gas hurts

By Rani Molla

Leaked Amazon memo warns the company is running out of people to hire

By Jason Del Rey

Finding a new job is possible — even when you’re burned out

By Allie Volpe

Why the return to the office isn’t working

By Rani Molla

Tell your boss: Working from home is making you more productive

By Rani Molla

Why unions are growing and shrinking at the same time

By Rani Molla

Amazon’s surprising new delivery partners: Rural mom-and-pop shops

By Jason Del Rey

The Great Resignation is becoming a “great midlife crisis”

By Rani Molla

What does it mean to take America’s “jobs of last resort”?

Author Eyal Press on the nation’s most morally troubling labor — and why many refuse to acknowledge it.

By Jamil Smith

Gen Z does not dream of labor

On TikTok and online, the youngest workers are rejecting work as we know it. How will that play out IRL?

By Terry Nguyen