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  The laments by the jobless on tech anonymous professional network Blind, as well as more general platforms such as Reddit, might shift to this: advice on the exploding opportunities at smaller companies. BusinessInsider captures that disruption in this one sentence: "Smaller companies can often offer employees more ownership, faster decision-making and promotions , and the chance to work directly on cutting-edge AI products."  In this situation BI is referring to AI Swedish startup Lovable . It employs 149. Yet, it will be hiring 400 in the near future.  In contrast Google employs almost 191,000 and Meta about 79,000. But both, as with much of Big Tech, have become corridors of pain. Yes, all the layoffs, with those jobs probably not coming back.  The same employment pull force toward smaller is happening in the broader employment market. Financial media CNBC  documents:  "In an increasingly challenging labor market , small businesses may offer newly min...

  What constitutes "verbal abuse" as well as "bullying?" It's reported that apparently BP chairman Alpert Manifold met the criteria. Those alleged behaviors, along with alleged mishandling of confidential information, are cited as what triggered his abrupt dismissal. Could this open the door for "victims" of such treatment throughout business, including the tense corridors of professional services, to lobby the leadership to also take action?  Large law firms, from what I hear as an intuitive coach/tarot reader, are notorious for those with power indulging in yelling, throwing objects and blackballing subordinates. However, unless that crosses the line to various interpretations of sexual misconduct, no one jaw-jaws to authority. The fear is too great for being shut out of a system which can withhold the assignments which result in billable hours. Without enough of those there is no carrot (bonuses) and soon enough the stick (termination). Usually I ...

 A big part of the euphoria over Work From Home (WFH) was being liberated from the in-person social aspects of the office. You know, how everyone watches each other, the fear about the poison in the grapevines and the oversharing by colleagues. Yes, the office pests. So, the outcry in BusinessInsider about how getting tasks done with AI tools is reducing that human interaction might represent the opinions of outliers. The rhetoric reads: " AI  is unraveling the social fabric of work." Essentially that fabric had been woven by necessity through the technology of the Industrial Revolution. Labor moved to the factories where the machines were. And out of the home where craftspeople had operated for centuries in isolation.  COVID brought back the opportunity to again earn a living at home. Those I coached were unhinged by Return to the Office (RTO). For one thing, they experienced a falloff in creativity and productivity. After all, back again were all those interruptions b...

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  Influential Law Fuel  confirms what Reddit legal sector posters have been complaining about: First-year salary has been frozen at $225K, with no signals that an increase is on the way. Milbank introduced what was that magic number in 2023. The current major beef is how inflation is reducing what $225k can buy and how much loan debt it can pay off quickly. The last two salary jumps - to $215k and the $225k - essentially resulted from peak periods in transactional law practices. There was fear that without a juicy enough carrot associates would leave, the work undone. Smirk. There was even bravado speculative talk about why not form unions. Obviously, juniors had power.  With AI tools proliferating to do grunt and even more complex tasks gone is so much of that partner angst. Any residue about holding on, at least for now, to the help can be handled with bonuses.  Bonuses represent discretionary payments, not fixed items on the balance sheet. The talent war is restr...

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