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Analysis · The Big Lunch
A Microsoft researcher’s warning surfaced in a publishers’ copyright case. It raises a workplace question that extends beyond the lawsuit: who benefits when human expertise becomes a reusable company asset?
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Brian Armstrong proposes letting AI agents compare internal services and choose alternatives. The interesting part is what happens when a mandatory company tool can lose a customer.
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Analysis · The Big Lunch
Bain’s marketing research exposes the distance between adopting a tool and improving a business. The dashboard can show activity long before the work produces better results.
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Analysis · The Big Lunch
The annual self-review was already a writing assignment. AI makes it easier to complete—and harder to confuse a polished answer with evidence of a good year.
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Workday disclosed plans to cut roughly 2.5% of its workforce while continuing to hire in strategic areas. The company can be recruiting and your team can still be shrinking.
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A software engineer’s viral post describes a workplace where Claude Code generates nearly everything and management responds to the new speed by asking why teams still aren’t shipping faster.
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Analysis · The Big Lunch
Companies are counting the work AI makes disappear. New IBM research suggests they may be paying less attention to the work it creates in its place.
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Reported analysis and deeper commentary on the forces changing work.
Analysis · The Big Lunch
A Microsoft researcher’s warning surfaced in a publishers’ copyright case. It raises a workplace question that extends beyond the lawsuit: who benefits when human expertise becomes a reusable company asset?
5 min
Analysis · The Big Lunch
Bain’s marketing research exposes the distance between adopting a tool and improving a business. The dashboard can show activity long before the work produces better results.
4 min
Analysis · The Big Lunch
The annual self-review was already a writing assignment. AI makes it easier to complete—and harder to confuse a polished answer with evidence of a good year.
4 min
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Executive behavior, workplace policy, and the management logic employees are asked to live with.
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Siemens CEO Roland Busch gets roughly 200 emails a day. The system for keeping his inbox under 100 transfers the remaining context to everyone else.
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Brian Armstrong proposes letting AI agents compare internal services and choose alternatives. The interesting part is what happens when a mandatory company tool can lose a customer.
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