Reddit CEO Steve Huffman says he sees the company's new offices as "more of a collaborative space," he tells "Axios on HBO."
Why it matters: "Over a majority" of Reddit staffers want the flexibility to work from both home and the office, Huffman said.
"The only thing I know for sure is I am not going to be working in the office five days a week, and I'm not going to be working from home five days a week."
"Given how much we've learned in the last year, I think we'd be foolish to assume we know anything at all about the year to come in terms of how people want to work."
Between the lines: Reddit was in the middle of moving offices when the shelter-in-place orders started last year.
"Now we are reimagining this office as more of a collaborative space. So think a coffee shop, where people can come as individuals or as teams. They can work here as much or little as they like."
Scamming has skyrocketed in the past year, and much of the increase is attributed to COVID-related scams, more recently around vaccines.
Why it matters: The pandemic has created a prime opportunity for scammers to target people who are already confused about the chaotic rollouts of things like stimulus payments, loans, contact tracing and vaccines. Data shows that older people who aren't digitally literate are the most vulnerable.
As e-commerce sales spiked during the pandemic, backroom warehouse labor rose to meet the demand.
Why it matters: With more Americans employed in the warehouse sector, the quality of those jobs — and the effect automation will have on them — will be increasingly important.
Warren Buffett called progress in America "slow, uneven and often discouraging," but retained his long-term optimism in the country, in his closely watched annual shareholder letter released Saturday morning.
Why it matters: It breaks months of uncharacteristic silence from the 90-year-old billionaire Berkshire Hathaway CEO — as the fragile economy coped with the pandemic and the U.S. saw a contentious presidential election.
Food delivery companies have predictably done well during the pandemic. But restaurant software providers are also having a moment as eateries race to handle the avalanche of online orders resulting from severe in-person dining restrictions.
More than outright destroying jobs, automation is changing employment in ways that will weigh on workers.
The big picture: Right now, we should be less worried about robots taking human jobs than people in low-skilled positions being forced to work like robots.
