Signal File: what’s the cost of future employment?
From a stalling jobs market to an overlooked older workforce, this week's signals show the people are taking their careers in their own hands
Signal File: exposing culture that nobody is measuring
From collapsing faith in leadership motives to unprompted AI anxiety and workers pushing through illness, this week’s signals show culture being shaped by what employees say when they think nobody is listening
Signal File: the workplace week is back up for negotiation
From the loss of six decades of workforce data and a revived fight over the German working week, this week’s signals show how the terms of where and how we work are being contested
Signal File: reimagining the office, room by room
From cognitive science and craft to festival programming and office reuse, this week's signals show design operating across every scale of working life
Signal File: who’s accountable when AI takes a wrong turn?
From AI-linked breaches and layoffs to humanoid robots on the factory floor, this week's signals show technology outpacing the guardrails built to contain it.
Signal File: what’s the cost of the work-life blend?
From unheard managers to caregiving strain, this week's signals show how personal circumstances are increasingly shaping the employee experience
Signal File: the connective tissue of workplace culture
From career-defining visibility and office friendships to unheard feedback and fragile trust in AI, this week's signals explore what holds workplace culture together, and what wears it down
The return of the cubicle? How open-plan offices lost the plot
The concept of the office cubicle is re-emerging in workplace discourse as workers and companies reject noisy, open-plan layouts in favour of privacy, focus and personal comfort
