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Most leaders are asking the wrong question about AI. Workquake Weekly is where we find the right one. Each week, Steve Cadigan, LinkedIn's founding CHRO and author of Workquake, breaks down what's actually happening at the intersection of AI, talent, and organizational transformation. Not hype. Not fear. The patterns that separate companies building lasting competitive advantage from those chasing a mirage. Ten minutes. One insight. Every week.
For more on Steve visit stevecadigan.com
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English
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47 episodes
since May 21, 2025
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75% of AI Strategies Are for Show. Is Yours?
A former Lululemon CIO just said the quiet part out loud — and Steve thinks every executive needs to hear it.
This week, Steve digs into Julie Averill's New York Times opinion piece on what's actually happening with AI…
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Amazon Just Proved Nobody Has AI Figured Out
Business Insider dropped a story this week that might be the most important workplace story of 2026 — and it's not about what Amazon is building with AI. It's about what they're being forced to tear down.
Amazon is winding down its flagship AI models, sh…
There's a question I ask before I take on any new client: does leadership already know what's broken, or are they hoping I'll discover it so they don't have to say it out loud themselves? If the answer is the second one, I walk.
This week I connect that standard to something quietly telling: OpenAI…
The AI Jobs Story Nobody Is Telling
Everyone is afraid AI is coming for the jobs. But what if we've been afraid of the wrong number?
New research from the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, the Bank of England, and the Bundesbank surveyed nearly 6,000 senior executives across four economies — and fou…
For two years, we've blamed AI for the disappearance of entry-level jobs. But what if that story was never true?
In this solo episode, Steve digs into new research from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York — a source with nothing to sell — that ties roughly 64% of rising unemployment among young gr…
A new PwC analysis of nearly a billion job postings found something hard to ignore: when a role asks for AI skills, it pays about 56% more than the identical role that doesn't — and that premium has doubled in a single year, up from 25%.
In this episode of Workquake Weekly, Steve Cadigan unpacks wh…
The Megamanager Era: What Happens When We Stretch Managers Too Thin
The average U.S. manager now has 12.1 direct reports — up nearly 50% in just twelve years. Meta is running new teams at 50-to-1. Nvidia's Jensen Huang famously keeps 60 people reporting directly to him. The "flatter is better&…
Three headlines from this week in work, and the pattern connecting them.
Steve breaks down: why dropping degree requirements barely moved the needle on who actually gets hired (fewer than 1 in 700 hires affected), why 55% of HR leaders regret their AI-driven layoffs and one in three companies are n…
Loyalty Is a Broken Contract… And It’s Time to Stop Pretending Otherwise
What if the biggest misunderstanding in the workplace today isn’t about AI, remote work, or even talent shortages… but about loyalty?
In this episode of Workquake Weekly, Steve Cadigan challenges one of the most deeply held as…
Oracle cut 30,000 people last week. At 6 AM. Via email.
No manager conversation. No handoff. Just: you're done, your access is revoked.
Steve has been through dozens of staff reductions in his career — and this one hit differently. Not because of the number, but because of what the process communic…
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