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As a CEO operating within the global supply chain—where every purchase is tied to efforts to end forced and child labor—I think often about what work is for: not just making it faster, but making it matter.That’s what makes the latest Gallup findings on AI so striking. The headline insight isn’t productivity. It’s something more revealing: We’re becoming more efficient, but not more engaged.Employees say AI is making them more productive, yet global employee engagement has declined for two consecutive years, now sitting at just 20%. We’re optimizing how work gets done, but for many people, we’re eroding the experience…
Here’s a number that should get every food franchise owner’s attention: 96% of workplaces tried a new restaurant in 2025 through catering orders. Workplace catering is becoming a customer acquisition machine for franchises. New data from ezCater shows 91% of workplaces are spending the same or more on food in 2026, with one in five bumping budgets by over 25%. Daily meal programs jumped 26% year-over-year as companies use free food to lure hybrid workers back to offices. Brands like Five Guys and Mission BBQ are capitalizing fast. The real bonus? Sixty-two percent of employees who try a restaurant at…
Salesforce has launched a new Builder Program within its university recruitment initiative to fast-track recent grads into engineering, product, and sales roles focused on Agentforce, its proprietary AI agent system. The company said it has hired more than 10,000 professionals through its university recruitment program to date.According to a recent LinkedIn report, entry-level hiring is down 6% year over year. Some major CEOs bet that AI will cause job displacement and disrupt careers, especially for entry-level candidates. But Salesforce hopes to alleviate some of those bleak stats for new grads—at least in the name of AI.“The AI-native generation entering the workforce…
Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. A company’s reputation isn’t protected in a press release. It’s protected in the quiet discipline of processes. I lead the commercial organization for a global supply chain execution company: the teams responsible for sourcing, configuring, packaging and delivering complex products for technology, healthcare and consumer brands. When launches succeed and products arrive exactly as expected, the spotlight is usually elsewhere: on innovation, marketing or growth. That’s how it should be. And over time, you start to see where the real work of trust actually happens. A few months ago, one of our…
From dating apps spreading the paradox of choice onto young daters to social media stunting the social skills of generations to come, modern relationships are comically complicated.As a result, daters trying to navigate what seems like a minefield of one bad experience after another are turning to social media to share their past experiences and dating deal-breakers with the new “date cancelled” trend.The meme is simple: Users follow a template-like structure, posting “date cancelled” followed by their personal icks and irks collected from past relationships.While the format has expanded to various social media platforms, most of the users engaging with…
Key Takeaways Small businesses are expected to hire about 974,000 recent grads ages 20 to 24 in the 2026 season, up from 962,000 in 2025, according to a new Gusto report. Traditional white-collar launchpads like financial analyst, software engineer, and research associate roles are taking up a smaller share of jobs. Over two million people earned Bachelor’s degrees last year, and just over one million earned associate degrees, according to Education Data. While many new college graduates are aiming for jobs at big-name companies, small businesses are ramping up hiring. Small businesses with one to 49 employees are expected to…
Updated May 6, 2026 12:26PMSome of the country’s most popular national parks are hiding a potentially deadly secret in their water. As part of a new study, researchers found Naegleria fowleri (N. fowleri), also known as the “brain-eating amoeba,” in hot springs and hydrothermally fed waters across Lake Mead Recreation Area, as well as Grand Teton and Yellowstone National Parks.Though rare, the pathogen kills 98 percent of those infected within five to ten days. As part of the study, researchers at the U.S. Geological Survey and Montana State University analyzed 40 recreational waterways across five western National Park Service (NPS)…
Weight loss culture in America is nothing new: Our collective obsession with being thin is more than a societal ideal—it’s practically a religion. But in a country where self-improvement through hard work is lauded, the quick-fix GLP-1 weight loss revolution—without the “no-pain, no-gain” labor—might just rub people the wrong way.That’s the suggestion of a new Rice University study published last month in the International Journal of Obesity. According to the study, despite the popularity of GLP-1 drugs like Ozempic, Wegovy, and Zepbound and their impressive effectiveness, and despite that many people praise the dramatic results, your friends and neighbors may still…
Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. The part of starting a business that scared me most wasn’t the risk. It wasn’t the uncertainty.It wasn’t even the possibility of failure. It was partnering with my sister and brother-in-law. I had heard too many stories of family businesses falling apart. Relationships strained. Communication breaking down. Personal and professional lines getting blurred beyond repair. I didn’t want that to be our story. So when we decided to build Mid-Day Squares together, we made one decision on day one that shaped how we would operate: We committed to going to therapy together…
Published May 6, 2026 01:43PMOn Friday, May 1, a helicopter landed on the Seven Summit Treks helipad at Mount Everest Base Camp carrying dignitaries from the United States. Sergio Gor, the U.S. Ambassador to India and Special Envoy for South and Central Asian Affairs, stooped beneath the whirring blades and stepped into the thin air at 17,500 feet.Gor, 39, had come to Base Camp to promote American drone technology in the extreme environment of Mount Everest. The U.S. Embassy has partnered with a Nepali drone company called Airlift Technology to fly an American-made unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)—part of the Trump…