As soon as AI-powered chatbots seemed functional enough, buy now, pay later service Klarna went all in on them, promising to swap much of its human workforce with robotic replacements. Now it’s on a human hiring spree after running into the limitations of AI, according to Bloomberg. Company CEO Sebastian Siemiatkowski recently announced that the […]
Undercover North Korean Remote Workers Hate This One Weird Question
There are allegedly thousands of North Koreans who have successfully disguised themselves as Americans and landed remote work jobs at Fortune 500 businesses and crypto firms. And while their techniques for getting in are sophisticated, catching them apparently just requires asking one kinda crude question: “How fat is Kim Jong Un?” According to Adam Meyers, […]
Google Calls More Remote Staff Back to Office—or Else
We forget how good we had it. Google is putting the last nails in the work-from-home coffin as it orders more remote employees to return to offices on a hybrid schedule or risk losing their jobs. The endless cubicle farms, which could have been repurposed for better use like housing or shopping, are not going […]