Amid rising disenchantment with college, more Gen Z workers are opting for the skilled trades. “The pendulum swing has happened hard and fast.”

Read our deep dive here: wsj.com/lifestyle/care…

The new geography of work: pay is flattening across the U.S., while the Sunbelt adds jobs at a heady clip & growth in traditional superstar cities like San Francisco takes a hit wsj.com/economy/jobs/n…

“It feels like living in the future.”

Ha Jin:

Excellent long form article

Two ideas that stuck out to me.

1. Written in the 60s 👀👀 👀 “we have extended our central nervous system itself in a global embrace, abolishing both space and time as far as our planet is concerned.”

2. Outsiders to their fields have an advantage

'In the future, serendipity will either be designed or dead.' What a treat to chat with Priya Parker -- about the future of work, cold plunges & the biggest Trojan horse inside workplaces today: wsj.com/lifestyle/work…

Today marks an outrageous 250 days of Evan’s detainment. #IStandWithEvan #JournalismIsNotaCrime

A powerful print ad that appeared in the Wall Street Journal, The New York Times and The Washington Post print editions today.

Also, this is a genuinely delightful species of reader (e)mail:

On mail, romance and the lack thereof: wsj.com/lifestyle/mail…

Loved getting to interview folk for this ahed, in tomorrow's @wsj

“It was a gorgeous day, I just wasn’t in the mood to work.” More Americans are taking sick days, and not just when they're sick.

The rate of people aged 25-34 taking sick days has jumped 45% since the pandemic: wsj.com/lifestyle/work…

“This is obviously a bot.” Inside the wild, woolly new world of company meetings, where AI assistants sometimes outnumber the humans: wsj.com/lifestyle/care…

It's been six months since Evan Gershkovich was wrongfully detained in Russia. He's still there.

Bring him home now.

On a soccer game played to raise awareness in his hometown:

wsj.com/sports/soccer/…

The work ID, long used for gaining entry to the office, now has a new job: tracking how long people stay.

w/Chip Cutter wsj.com/lifestyle/care…

The most-read and most-admired thing I've ever written is an essay I co-wrote with AI — ChatGPT's predecessor, GPT-3 — called 'Ghosts,' about the death of my sister, which went viral. Not just that: I believe the AI wrote the essay's best lines. (1/x) wired.com/story/confessi…

Why did momentum to ban TikTok fizzle this summer?

One big reason was opposition from congressional Republicans with something in common: Funding from a billionaire megadonor who happens to own 7% of TikTok’s parent company.

Our investigation:

wsj.com/politics/polic…

Today WSJ corrected an article … from 1963!
Apparently we quoted a draft of John Lewis’s speech at the March on Washington and not what he really said. Poor job then, but we fix the record. wsj.com/articles/corre…

All year, I’ve been talking w/jobseekers who've been applying for hundreds of jobs and getting no reply.

PSA: 1/2 of all government jobs attract just 5.5 applicants.

The bottom 25% of government jobs get just 3 applications per role. wsj.com/lifestyle/care…

Americans side with workers in big recent labor disputes, and want unions to have more influence than they do today news.gallup.com/poll/510281/un…

It has been 22 weeks since Evan was detained for doing his job. #IStandwithEvan

Our newsroom this morning in solidarity with Ella and Mikhail, Evan's parents.

Thousands of corporate diversity-focused workers have been laid off since last year, and some companies are scaling back racial justice commitments. Te-Ping Chen and Lauren Weber on the rise and fall of the chief diversity officer - wsj.com/articles/chief… via The Wall Street Journal

A bleak milestone. We stand with our @wsj colleague, detained in Russia now for 100 days. Journalism is not a crime.