Work
What counts as work
- What stays when the subsidy ends Europe says it will stop being a customer for chips and become a producer. Two plants are going up in Dresden, one of them for more than €10 billion and about 2,000 jobs. Using the EU's own documents, we asked what kind of work is left behind once the money stops. October 10, 2026
- Faster work, same deadline I overtook the slow car ahead and met it again at the next red light. AI has made my work quicker, yet the monthly report still comes out on the usual date. Why doesn't one person's speed bring the result forward? The story of factory electrification, and recent research on AI, point to the same place. September 24, 2026
- Not laid off, just not hired What if the earliest sign of job displacement is not lay-offs but fewer hires? Unemployment protection, meanwhile, is built mostly around people who have already worked. September 5, 2026
- When work is judged by its paper trail An assessment can't see inside a person, so it reads what the work leaves behind. The question is whether the person being judged ever finds out what was read. September 3, 2026