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Therapist Alexis Verbin says some checked-out employees are underused, as Gallup puts U.S. active engagement at 31% for the first half of 2026. Gallup does not say how many fit that pattern, so the case for widening the manager check-in rests on one clinician's account.
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McDonald's is exploring an $8.5 billion, ten-year "McDonald's Next" overhaul alongside smaller, protein-heavy portions aimed at GLP-1 users. Whether weight-loss drugs are steering its capital budget, and not only its menu boards, depends on how that money is split.
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Gallup found the tie between heavy AI use and job-loss fear ran 6.8 to 11.1 points weaker where workers felt respected or cared for at work. That makes part of any AI rollout a management job.
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Public companies and their trade groups supplied over 40% of the $2.5 billion raised by party 527 committees in 25 years, a Wharton-CPA primer finds. Its authors want boards to govern that giving on purpose before possible post-midterm investigations.
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A 52.5-47.5 refusal to reopen accession talks shuts the quickest route to euro alignment for a small open economy, and it happened in a country with no army while the US president was threatening Greenland.
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The build is now the largest driver of U.S. private investment growth, and 71% of Americans polled want none of it nearby, which makes entitlement risk rather than capital the thing infrastructure investors have to price.
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Trump is telling communities that refusing data centers will leave them poor, while Abbott and Pillen have paused approvals in their own states. That gap is where the schedule risk on a project now sits.
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Chase's coming report counts nearly $10 trillion of assets and roughly 12 million businesses in transition over the next decade, with 8% of owners advanced in succession planning. McKinsey counts six million transitions.
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The Gallup and Microsoft survey covers 37 of a planned 140 countries, and the one kind of trust it measures is whether people think AI returns accurate information. Governance programs run on the other kinds.
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Positive feeling about AI outweighs negative in 34 of the 37 countries Gallup has finished so far. The same fieldwork puts median awareness at 81% of adults and the median who have ever used it at 43%.
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Gallup and Microsoft's first 37-country cut puts awareness, daily use and trust in accuracy in very different places. The spread lands on whoever has to ship one onboarding flow into all of those markets.
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Microsoft commissioned the 37-country survey, and its US cut puts heavy use alongside worry, with only 45% of daily users saying they trust AI results a lot.
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Relief for older and disabled homeowners keeps widening in Texas. That leaves first-time buyers still inside the school levy pricing an increase nobody has yet measured for them.
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A Gartner survey found 87% of employees thought an algorithm could judge them more fairly than their manager. The tools large employers deployed draft and edit the review instead, so the governance question is authorship.
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Gartner's Tori Paulman says agentic AI is not carrying enough work to justify large cuts, and her team traced under 1% of more than a million 2025 layoffs to AI productivity. The rehiring bill lands on few employers.
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The Census Bureau study puts that hit on a par with graduating into a large recession. A separate study of 393 employees finds the productivity gains coming back to staff as a higher performance bar.
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About half of Americans use chatbots anyway, and the Electronic Frontier Foundation's explanation for the pushback is procedural: AI features switched on by default, with no clear way for a user to turn them off.
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A new Gallup and Pivotal survey measures how women's healthcare experiences carry into work, family and civic life. The work figure is the one benefits teams will reach for, though the survey put its questions to women only.
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Most of the money reached the South Dakota senator as outside spending from Defend American Jobs, a group funded by a super PAC financed by Andreessen Horowitz, in a state whose legislature has already made hyperscalers pay more for water and power.
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Wharton's Scale of Agency Decay runs experimenting, integrating, relying, depending. The account details the first two, and its usable marker is whether people still overrule a system that contradicts them.
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