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Job hugging. Quiet cracking. Rage applying. Are these buzzwords helping — or hurting — the workplace?

I’ve been in HR for over two decades, and I’ve never seen workplace terminology evolve this quickly: Job hugging. Quiet cracking. Rage applying.  Every few months, a new phrase takes over headlines and social feeds. They’re hard to keep up with and often even harder to decipher. But here’s the dilemma: Are these buzzwords just … Read more

Shale oil execs say Trump policies are hurting investment, ‘business is broken’

U.S. President Donald Trump speaks during the 80th session of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) at the UN headquarters on Sept. 23, 2025 in New York City. Chip Somodevilla | Getty Images Shale oil executives say President Donald Trump is hurting investment in the oil patch, and are giving a grim outlook for the … Read more

Tariff whiplash is hurting small businesses — and it’s only getting worse

Trump’s trade war isn’t failing. It’s working, just not for the people who voted for it. When Trump eliminated the de minimis exemption, four million packages daily lost duty-free status. That’s 92% of all cargo facing tariffs, and small businesses are drowning. Eight major tariff adjustments in the past 12 months have created a policy … Read more

Trump’s attacks on the Fed are hurting the dollar and driving up the price of gold

Global stock markets are essentially on hold until U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell delivers his expected 0.25% cut to interest rates later today.  In the meantime, the real drama is all about the U.S. dollar—which is down 10.83% against foreign currencies on the DXY index year to date, and will likely tumble further as … Read more

Return-to-office mandates are corporate helicopter parenting—and it’s hurting everyone involved

Across industries, companies are doubling down on return-to-office mandates, framing them as essential for productivity and fostering a positive culture. The message is clear: get behind the return, or get left behind. But this stance comes at a cost, especially for working parents, and mothers in particular. As childcare costs soar and flexibility erodes, participation … Read more

UK age check law seems to be hurting sites that comply, helping those that don’t

The United Kingdom recently started enforcing the Online Safety Act’s age-check rules, and The Washington Post reports that it’s already having a significant effect on web traffic. U.K. law now requires pornography websites to verify their users’ ages through means such as face scans and driver’s licenses; it also requires that online platforms prevent children … Read more

X’s declining Android app installs are hurting subscription revenue

Elon Musk’s X is struggling on Android devices in terms of new installs, even while App Store downloads grow, according to new data from app intelligence provider Appfigures. In July 2025, X downloads on Google Play saw a significant decline, as new installs dropped by 44% year-over-year worldwide, even as iOS downloads grew by 15%. … Read more

Young people say social activities are hurting their money goals

Emmy, a 31-year-old living in Los Angeles, has been in a credit card debt cycle — racking up balances, paying a card off and then maxing it out again — since she was 18.  When Emmy, who uses a pseudonym online to protect her privacy, started sharing her debt journey on TikTok in March, her … Read more

UK CMA finds Microsoft and Amazon are hurting cloud competition

Attendees walk through an exposition hall at AWS re:Invent, a conference hosted by Amazon Web Services, in Las Vegas on Dec. 3, 2024. Noah Berger | Getty Images LONDON — Britain’s competition regulator on Thursday declared that Microsoft and Amazon are hurting competition in the cloud computing industry and called for a further probe under … Read more

Employees are so worried and stressed about world affairs nearly 70% say it’s hurting their productivity at work

Here’s another acronym to add to your vocabulary: VUCA. It stands for volatility, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity, and it is just as dramatic as it sounds. A pair of economists coined the term VUCA in the late ‘80s and the US Army War College picked up on it in the early ‘90s to describe how … Read more

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