Senior correspondent for Business Insider (@thisisinsider) covering the economy, the workplace, and other things. Email: aito@businessinsider.com
Joined September 2009
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I dove deep into the overemployed community, where tech workers trade secrets about juggling 2 or more full-time jobs. Lots of fun & outrageous details about how they do it, but the phenomenon also says something deeper about the nature of work today businessinsider.com/overempl…
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19 Sep 2023
A must-read re: #AI from leading @MIT economist Daron Acemoglu. And like we’ve been saying, without very robust regulations we are completely fucked. But, US legislators are too busy cashing tech checks and making TikToks.
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21 Sep 2023
Thank you @AkiIto7 and @BusinessInsider for this comprehensive discussion of my research on technology, including my new book #PowerAndProgress with @baselinescene.
AI is flexible and could promote shared prosperity, if developed with workers in mind.
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You've probably read a 100 takes on what AI will do to our jobs. But if you were to trust a single person's predictions, you couldn't do better than the MIT economist Daron Acemoglu.
I profiled Acemoglu and his dire warnings about our AI future.
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Couldn't be more thrilled to be a @LoebAwards finalist! I've admired the work of so many of the journalists named here for years, and I'm honored to be in their company
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The package we submitted included a series stories I wrote last year about America's changing relationship to work after the pandemic
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Thrilled to be recognized for my stories last year on America's changing relationship to work – and honored to be in such great company among all the recipients! Thank you @PressClubDC!
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@AkiIto7 of @BusinessInsider is the winner of the @nminow Award for Cultural Criticism for “The Rise of ‘Quiet Quitting.’” The series captures the human experience and provides insight into an ongoing conversation. businessinsider.com/quiet-qu…
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I'll be on @KQEDForum at 10am tomorrow for the full hour to talk about the California job market! I'll be talking about the tech layoffs, still-very low unemployment outside of tech, coming generational shifts, WFH / RTO, AI, and more 🎙️🎙️
22 Jun 2023
As Baby Boomers retire, it's workers, not employers, who hold the power...FRI at 10 AM we'll take a pulse on the labor market.
❓ What's been your experience applying for jobs lately?
📧 Send a voice memo to Forum@KQED.ORG
📱 or call 415-553-3300
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Thrilled to be back at work today! So proud of the amazing contract we won, and thank you to everyone who supported us through these last two weeks. Now that our strike is over, please read our stories again! 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉
14 Jun 2023
Our unit will vote to ratify soon, but here’s some of what we won:
-$65k salary minimum
-Just cause
-Layoff moratorium through the end of the year
-Raises of over 10% during the term of the contract
-Over $400,000 in healthcare cost reimbursements
ALT picket sign with text saying WHEN WE FIGHT WE WIN
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The @InsiderUnion is holding the line!
Join us and tell Insider management to remedy the ULP and settle a fair contract NOW! ⤵️ actionnetwork.org/letters/te…
13 Jun 2023
Good morning on Day 12!!!! of our ULP strike!🪧
Thank you for all the support — we’re going strong and holding the line! Come picket with us at One Liberty Plaza if you’re in NYC. Let’s get this contract!!🥳
📸: @maddierenbarger
ALT film photo of an Insider Union strike captain yelling into a white and red blow horn outside the Insider office
ALT film photo of Insider employees holding picket signs outside Insider office (signs in view say Management getting worse every day, Solidarity Forever, Insider Union)
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It's Day 12 of our @InsiderUnion strike.
@thisisinsider doesn't pay us while we're withholding our labor. I can afford that – but not my younger colleagues. Please consider donating to our hardship fund while we hold the line: gofundme.com/f/support-insid…
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9 Jun 2023
Good morning. Today is Day 8 of @InsiderUnion's strike.
And, in case you hadn't heard, Trump has been indicted.
@nichcarlson @hblodget the world is turning. Readers are not getting what they need from a skeleton crew.
Our demands are reasonable. We can end this strike by EOD.
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8 Jun 2023
Today, our bargaining committee sent two letters to groups with meaningful influence on Insider: Axel Springer and KKR.
We asked them to encourage Insider to give us reasonable counters, a key move toward ending our ULP strike.
Here are the letters and their key points: (1/6)
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Aki Ito retweeted
7 Jun 2023
There's a lot of news going on out there.
@InsiderUnion is still striking for a fair contract — esp w/r/t wages and health care.
@hblodget @nichcarlson, let's get a deal done.
Your writers shouldn't have to choose bt crushing their beats and backing up their colleagues.
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2 Jun 2023
It's official: THE INSIDER UNION IS ON STRIKE.
Management failed to agree on a fair contract that settles our healthcare ULP and pays us what we're worth. Starting now, over 250 Insider employees are on indefinite strike.
You want us back @thisisinsider? Settle the contract. ✊
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Save the middle manager!
They're often ridiculed as petty, powerless, thumb-twiddling bureaucrats – but middle managers (at least the good ones) are actually the people who make large organizations work.
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Thrilled to have contributed to this series, and a shout out to researchers like @am_kowalski who are trying to make warehousing a better job for millions of Americans. It's too often a dangerous, alienating job with unpredictable hours – but it doesn't have to be
9 Mar 2023
Warehouse Nation, an edit project I helmed last year, picked up Insider's first @SABEW vs. very burly competition. Thanks to reporters @emmacos, @_katya_long, @AkiIto7, and to @lilykatzman @CadieThompson, @_bmturner_, @nichcarlson for time & support businessinsider.com/warehous…
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Aki Ito retweeted
8 Feb 2023
We’re live for our #TwitterChat with Insider’s Senior Correspondent, @AkiIto7. Follow along to learn about Aki, the latest chapter on “quiet quitting,” the future of the workplace, and much more! #TheInsideStory
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7 Feb 2023
Associates are now “partners,” and everyone’s a “senior executive VP.” Why are job titles so fancy these days?
@AkiIto7 explores the factors fueling the rampant title inflation. ⬇️
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ALT Image of a baby sitting behind a job title card that says, “Senior executive vice president.” The text on the graphic reads, “How Gen Z and the Great Resignation created a wave of overinflated job titles.”
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Aki Ito retweeted
7 Feb 2023
Insider’s Senior Correspondent, @AkiIto7 will join us tomorrow at 2 p.m. ET for a new #TheInsideStory live Q&A. Read along to learn more about Aki’s career, how her work ignited the viral “quiet quitting” trend, and what she’s currently focused on.
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