Ikea’s newest collection is designed for young renters on the move

Business 7/15 5:00A Nate Berg

These furnishings are meant to suit young urbanites’ nomadic tendencies—and the general precarity of living in a city in your twenties. Ikea s newest collection is designed to move. And move. And move.

Why have people historically quit their jobs? The real reason comes down to 4 words

Business 7/15 4:00A Inc.

Employees are ready to leave if their boss fails in this crucial area of leadership. It’s a familiar rhythm. Just like many employees around the world, they go through a detailed interview process, taking weeks to find the perfect match through...

Why Apple cares so much about a metal finishing

Business 7/14 8:00A Hunter Schwarz

In Apple’s lawsuit against OpenAI for theft of trade secrets, more is at stake than a pretty metal finish—it’s the whole innovation process. In a lawsuit Apple filed Friday against OpenAI accusing the AI giant of trade secret theft, attorneys for...

The workplace isn’t designed for older women

Business 7/14 7:54A Moe Carrick

After parenting, many women encounter other invisible walls—elder care, menopause, and age bias—during the very years they should be reaching the top. My kids were finally almost grown, and I was in my late 50s, when my mother started to fall....

This designer is using AI to make clothing with zero fabric waste

Business 7/14 5:00A Elizabeth Segran

Shelly Xu Designs uses AI to reengineer clothing patterns, cutting fabric waste to near zero—without asking factories or consumers to change a thing. Walk onto the cutting floor of almost any garment factory in the world and you ll see rolls of...

Volkswagen is a case study in what’s wrong with many of our biggest industrial companies

Business 7/14 3:30A Rita McGrath

There’s a lot to learn from what’s happening with one of the world’s most consequential employers. If you want to understand why so many of our industrial giants are in trouble, you could do worse than study what is happening right now in...

The European Union’s chief is considering social media restrictions for kids under 13

Business 7/13 9:21A Associated Press

Children under 3 shouldn’t be looking at screens at all, says the president of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen. A top European Union official on Monday called for limits to be placed on children using social media as a special EU...

This prefab homebuilder is moving from tiny ADUs to small-scale starter homes

Business 7/13 8:00A Nate Berg

Samara, the prefab homebuilder cofounded by Airbnb’s Joe Gebbia, is developing single family homes with a small footprint to meet Californians’ housing needs—and budgets. Samara , the prefabricated homebuilder that was created to chip away at...

Leadership still hasn’t accepted this key truth about performance

Business 7/13 6:17A Mark C. Crowley

How people feel matters. Leaders ignore that fact at their own peril. This month marks the 15th anniversary of the publication of my book Lead From The Heart . While years have passed since then, I m very much aware that the book s central premise...

Four lessons in handling uncertainty from an ER doc turned CEO

Business 7/13 6:00A Stephanie Mehta

John D’Angelo, CEO of Northwell Health and former emergency medicine physician, offers advice on how to deal with uncertainty. Hello and welcome to Modern CEO ! I’m Stephanie Mehta, CEO and chief content officer of Mansueto Ventures. Each week...

These are the application keywords that will bring in top creative talent

Business 7/12 8:00A Ella Chakarian

An analysis of thousands of job postings and experiments with job seekers shows employers are using the wrong recruitment language to hire creatives. A recent Resume.org survey of 991 U.S. hiring managers found that creative skills have surpassed...

The new rules of leadership start with emotional intelligence

Business 7/12 12:00A Harvey Deutschendorf

As workplaces become more complex, employees are looking for leaders who inspire trust, show empathy, and foster genuine human connection. Leadership has never been easy. Today there are additional challenges that make it increasingly difficult....

Companies keep talking about the motherhood penalty. They’re missing the motherhood advantage

Business 7/12 12:00A Anne Welsh

For decades, workplaces have focused on the motherhood penalty. But research shows parenting develops many of the leadership skills organizations most value. Motherhood is one of the most intense leadership incubators many women will ever enter....

Facebook and Instagram have to dismantle these addictive design features, says EU watchdog

Business 7/10 9:01A Associated Press

The European Commission has its crosshairs on features like infinite scrolling. The European Union accused Meta on Friday of breaching its social media law by designing Facebook and Instagram to get users hooked, and demanded it disable key...

New York City construction scare highlights the challenges of converting offices into housing

Business 7/10 8:07A Associated Press

The recent scare in midtown Manhattan shows the complex engineering behind reuse projects. When two steel columns buckled this week inside the former Pfizer headquarters in midtown Manhattan, the scare prompted evacuations and halted work on one...