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Future of Work

Vox’s coverage of the future of work: how we got here and what comes next.

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The “return to the office” won’t save the office

By Rani Molla

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Why an Air Force colonel — and many other experts — are so worried about the existential risk of AI

By Kelsey Piper

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Gen Z just wants a stable job

By Rani Molla

You may never eat inside a fast food restaurant again

By Whizy Kim

Your boss is obsessed with productivity without knowing what it means

By Rani Molla

An Amazon union just won a $30 an hour contract

By Rani Molla

Tech companies are finally firing tech workers

By Rani Molla

When did mass layoffs become so normal?

By Whizy Kim

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Americans think AI is someone else’s problem

By Rani Molla

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AI is flooding the workplace, and workers love it

By Rani Molla

Starbucks won’t admit to breaking the law by union busting

By Rani Molla

It’s still possible to get what you want at work

By Rani Molla

Will using AI make Microsoft Word better? We’re going to find out.

By Shirin Ghaffary and Rani Molla

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Maybe AI can finally kill the cover letter

By Rani Molla

Bosses want to pay you more but give you less

By Rani Molla

Where will all the laid-off tech workers go?

By Rani Molla

Your favorite tech giant wants you to know it’s a startup again

By Rani Molla and Shirin Ghaffary

It looks like people are actually moving back to San Francisco (really)

By Rani Molla

Quiet hiring and the endless quest to coin terms about work

By Rani Molla

How workers fought back in 2022

By Rani Molla

Conferences want to cure the work-from-home blues

By Rani Molla

Here’s what employers are cutting instead of your job

By Rani Molla

It wasn’t an ordinary Red Cup Day at Starbucks this year 

By Rani Molla

Silicon Valley layoffs are a reminder that your job won’t love you back

By Rani Molla

Twitter’s case study of how not to lay people off

By Rani Molla

Where do restaurant “service fees” really go?

By Rani Molla

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Back to the future

Rethinking old ideas about what we eat, where we live and work, and how we power our communities.

By Samantha Oltman and Adam Clark Estes

The future of the office is a lab

By Rani Molla

Our buildings are making us sick

By Keren Landman

Burnout was supposed to get better. It hasn’t.

By Rani Molla

Women in leadership are leaning out (and into a better job)

By Rani Molla

Companies are being forced to reveal what a job pays. It’s a start.

By Rani Molla

You’re going back to the office. Your boss isn’t.

By Rani Molla

This is not your millennial’s job market

By Rani Molla

Amazon’s robots are getting closer to replacing human hands

By Jason Del Rey

Remote workers are wasting their time proving they’re actually working

By Rani Molla

How unions are winning again, in 4 charts

By Rani Molla

Starbucks is not playing nice with its new union

By Rani Molla

A second Trader Joe’s just unionized. It could be the next Starbucks.

By Rani Molla

Remote workers are starting new businesses behind their bosses’ backs

By Rani Molla

We’re one step closer to robots doing all our housework

By Rebecca Heilweil

The future of remote work, according to 6 experts

By Rani Molla

Don’t mind the economy, now is still a good time to find a new job

By Rani Molla