Noam Scheiber
@noamscheiber.bsky.social
I cover workers for the NY Times. New Book: "Mutiny, the Rise and Revolt of the College-Educated Working Class." https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780374610814/mutiny/
Over the past few years, tech companies have laid off hundreds of thousands while many tech executives have embraced the ruthless management style of CEOs like Elon Musk. Yet tech workers keep standing up to their bosses. What gives? I try to explain here www.nytimes.com/2025/12/26/b...
Despite Crackdown on Activism, Tech Employees Are Still Picking Fights
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December 26, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Over the past few years, tech companies have laid off hundreds of thousands while many tech executives have embraced the ruthless management style of CEOs like Elon Musk. Yet tech workers keep standing up to their bosses. What gives? I try to explain here www.nytimes.com/2025/12/26/b...
Very interesting piece from @timothynoah.bsky.social on why so many House Republicans voted to restore federal workers' bargaining rights. Worth keeping an eye on how it plays out in the Senate newrepublic.com/article/2045...
How Labor Scored a Surprising Win in the GOP-Controlled House
Who knew so many Republicans would support union rights—in defiance of Trump, no less?
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December 18, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Very interesting piece from @timothynoah.bsky.social on why so many House Republicans voted to restore federal workers' bargaining rights. Worth keeping an eye on how it plays out in the Senate newrepublic.com/article/2045...
"Meta built the data center, but Blue Owl was on the hook for 80% of the financing. Meta agreed to 'rent' the data center from Beignet with a series of 4-year leases, allowing it to categorize the funding as operating cost, not debt." www.nytimes.com/2025/12/15/t...
How Tech’s Biggest Companies Are Offloading the Risks of the A.I. Boom
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December 16, 2025 at 2:46 PM
"Meta built the data center, but Blue Owl was on the hook for 80% of the financing. Meta agreed to 'rent' the data center from Beignet with a series of 4-year leases, allowing it to categorize the funding as operating cost, not debt." www.nytimes.com/2025/12/15/t...
Starbucks settles with NYC over violations of the city's fair scheduling law. Presumably the deal wasn't going to get better for Sbux under the administration of Zohran Mamdani, who has joined striking Starbucks union members on their picket lines www.nytimes.com/2025/12/01/n...
Starbucks to Pay $39 Million in Landmark N.Y.C. Labor Law Settlement
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December 1, 2025 at 10:55 PM
Starbucks settles with NYC over violations of the city's fair scheduling law. Presumably the deal wasn't going to get better for Sbux under the administration of Zohran Mamdani, who has joined striking Starbucks union members on their picket lines www.nytimes.com/2025/12/01/n...
An alarming new data point in the return-to-office debate: Remote work seems to be raising unemployment for recent college grads www.nytimes.com/2025/12/01/b...
Young Workers, Eyeing Their Careers, Learn to Embrace the Office
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December 1, 2025 at 3:13 PM
An alarming new data point in the return-to-office debate: Remote work seems to be raising unemployment for recent college grads www.nytimes.com/2025/12/01/b...
Interesting story from David Streitfeld about a writer whose critique of Silicon Valley came a few decades too early but is now landing www.nytimes.com/2025/11/27/t...
The Writer Who Dared Criticize Silicon Valley
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November 30, 2025 at 6:32 PM
Interesting story from David Streitfeld about a writer whose critique of Silicon Valley came a few decades too early but is now landing www.nytimes.com/2025/11/27/t...
Great conversation today on @kqedforum.bsky.social with @alexis-madrigal.bsky.social, Aki Ito and Alisia Gill about what's going on with white-collar layoffs www.kqed.org/forum/201010...
The 'Great Flattening': White Collar Workers Hit by Historic Wave of Layoffs | KQED
We talk to experts and hear from you: have you been navigating a layoff?
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November 20, 2025 at 10:21 PM
Great conversation today on @kqedforum.bsky.social with @alexis-madrigal.bsky.social, Aki Ito and Alisia Gill about what's going on with white-collar layoffs www.kqed.org/forum/201010...
Very interesting episode of the Decoder podcast, drilling down on the mechanics of circular AI-industry financing and what it looks bubble-like www.theverge.com/podcast/8196...
What the rise of CoreWeave tells us about the AI bubble
The Nvidia-backed data center company that transitioned from crypto to AI is at the precarious center of the industry’s necessary infrastructure expansion.
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November 13, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Very interesting episode of the Decoder podcast, drilling down on the mechanics of circular AI-industry financing and what it looks bubble-like www.theverge.com/podcast/8196...
From Tom Edsall www.nytimes.com/2025/11/11/o...
November 13, 2025 at 3:08 AM
From Tom Edsall www.nytimes.com/2025/11/11/o...
“They are making $120,000, $140,000 a year, and that’s not enough to live an upper-middle-class life in New York at all. And that’s the Mamdani voter.” Great piece from Eliza Shapiro, with a nice assist from Jonathan Mahler. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/n...
Zohran Mamdani and the Revenge of the Struggling Yuppie
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November 7, 2025 at 10:24 PM
“They are making $120,000, $140,000 a year, and that’s not enough to live an upper-middle-class life in New York at all. And that’s the Mamdani voter.” Great piece from Eliza Shapiro, with a nice assist from Jonathan Mahler. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/n...
It's not that AI isn't coming for your job at some point. But the big shift toward automation of white-collar work is probably going to play out at small companies that grow into big ones, rather than at big established companies. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/b...
Mass Layoffs Are Scary, but Probably Not a Sign of the A.I. Apocalypse
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November 7, 2025 at 3:44 PM
It's not that AI isn't coming for your job at some point. But the big shift toward automation of white-collar work is probably going to play out at small companies that grow into big ones, rather than at big established companies. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/b...
Worth keeping an eye on congressional retirements after last night's results. Dems had a pretty high number of retirements in the months after the 2021 elections. (Normally a problem, though obviously didn't end up costing them much in the 2022 midterms). www.npr.org/2021/12/09/1...
House retirement tracker: Senior Democrats exit as the GOP is confident of a takeover
A growing number of House lawmakers have opted not to run again in 2022, but so far more Democrats than Republicans are choosing to end their service.
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November 6, 2025 at 2:52 AM
Worth keeping an eye on congressional retirements after last night's results. Dems had a pretty high number of retirements in the months after the 2021 elections. (Normally a problem, though obviously didn't end up costing them much in the 2022 midterms). www.npr.org/2021/12/09/1...
Great piece by @jbjudis.bsky.social on Zohran Mamdani's worldview and how it's the natural next step in the evolution of US socialism that began several decades ago. www.notus.org/perspectives...
Why Zohran Mamdani’s Socialism Might Have a Future Outside New York City
In 1973, I was part of the leadership of the New American Movement, a socialist group that would later merge with Michael Harrington’s Democratic Socialist Organizing Committee to form the Democratic ...
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November 5, 2025 at 1:41 AM
Great piece by @jbjudis.bsky.social on Zohran Mamdani's worldview and how it's the natural next step in the evolution of US socialism that began several decades ago. www.notus.org/perspectives...
I have a profile up today of the transparency activist and Tesla skeptic Aaron Greenspan, who's unearthed lots of evidence undercutting Musk's claims about the company. This is what it’s like to devote yourself to taking on Musk and Tesla www.nytimes.com/2025/10/31/b...
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October 31, 2025 at 4:41 PM
I have a profile up today of the transparency activist and Tesla skeptic Aaron Greenspan, who's unearthed lots of evidence undercutting Musk's claims about the company. This is what it’s like to devote yourself to taking on Musk and Tesla www.nytimes.com/2025/10/31/b...
Some actual NBA news www.nytimes.com/live/2025/10...
Live Updates: N.B.A. Player and Coach Arrested in Gambling Investigation
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October 23, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Some actual NBA news www.nytimes.com/live/2025/10...
I'm working on a return-to-office story focused on people under 30. Would love to hear from anyone who fits that profile. Feel free to weigh in here: www.nytimes.com/2025/10/16/b...
Are You a Young Employee Asked to Spend More Time in the Office?
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October 22, 2025 at 3:25 PM
I'm working on a return-to-office story focused on people under 30. Would love to hear from anyone who fits that profile. Feel free to weigh in here: www.nytimes.com/2025/10/16/b...
I'm working on a return-to-office story focused on people under 30. Would love to hear from anyone who fits that profile. Feel free to weigh in here: www.nytimes.com/2025/10/16/b...
Are You a Young Employee Asked to Spend More Time in the Office?
www.nytimes.com
October 16, 2025 at 3:16 PM
I'm working on a return-to-office story focused on people under 30. Would love to hear from anyone who fits that profile. Feel free to weigh in here: www.nytimes.com/2025/10/16/b...
CA Gov Gavin Newsom signed a law today giving Uber and Lyft drivers the right to unionize: nytimes.com/2025/10/03/b... But they're still considered contractors not employees.
Gig Drivers Win the Right to Unionize in California
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October 3, 2025 at 10:10 PM
CA Gov Gavin Newsom signed a law today giving Uber and Lyft drivers the right to unionize: nytimes.com/2025/10/03/b... But they're still considered contractors not employees.
“There was a string of layoffs ... We see how everything is abused, the risk to the overall system. How if this continues there’s a real chance that people who are born in America won’t be able to get jobs.” Tech workers on why the H-1B issue blew up now. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/03/b...
The Fuel Behind Trump’s $100,000 Visa Fee: Lost U.S. Tech Jobs
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October 3, 2025 at 3:47 PM
“There was a string of layoffs ... We see how everything is abused, the risk to the overall system. How if this continues there’s a real chance that people who are born in America won’t be able to get jobs.” Tech workers on why the H-1B issue blew up now. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/03/b...
There is a real epidemic in this country of people telling you they're sending you an email from their desk. If you're sending an email, can we just assume there's a decent chance it came from your desk and skip that part?
October 1, 2025 at 9:12 PM
There is a real epidemic in this country of people telling you they're sending you an email from their desk. If you're sending an email, can we just assume there's a decent chance it came from your desk and skip that part?
"The Magnificent Seven big tech companies—Alphabet, Amazon.com, Apple, Meta Platforms, Microsoft, Nvidia and Tesla—recently made up about 37% of the S&P 500’s market capitalization, the highest share on record." www.wsj.com/finance/stoc...
Amazon.com
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October 1, 2025 at 7:15 PM
"The Magnificent Seven big tech companies—Alphabet, Amazon.com, Apple, Meta Platforms, Microsoft, Nvidia and Tesla—recently made up about 37% of the S&P 500’s market capitalization, the highest share on record." www.wsj.com/finance/stoc...
Well, kinda depends who you ask but I hear what you're saying. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/30/t...
October 1, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Well, kinda depends who you ask but I hear what you're saying. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/30/t...
To understand why Democrats feel pressure to energize their base and not compromise to avoid a shut down, consider how weak their support is among Dem voters. A recent Gallup poll found only 73% of Dems have a favorable view of their party, vs 21% unfavorable. news.gallup.com/poll/692978/...
October 1, 2025 at 2:27 PM
To understand why Democrats feel pressure to energize their base and not compromise to avoid a shut down, consider how weak their support is among Dem voters. A recent Gallup poll found only 73% of Dems have a favorable view of their party, vs 21% unfavorable. news.gallup.com/poll/692978/...
Why are so many business leaders caving to Donald Trump? Because of the collapse of "the establishment," which had many good consequences and at least one dubious one: corporate America is no longer very good at collective action. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/26/b...
Why Corporate America Is Caving to Trump
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September 26, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Why are so many business leaders caving to Donald Trump? Because of the collapse of "the establishment," which had many good consequences and at least one dubious one: corporate America is no longer very good at collective action. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/26/b...
"Since the overall number of [H1B] applications could drop drastically, Amazon, Google and other big companies may find that their bids have less competition than they used to." Great piece on the data behind H1Bs and the likely effects of Trump's changes. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
$100,000 Per Employee: How the H-1B Visa Fee Could Reshape Work Forces
Because sponsoring a visaship comes with significant upfront costs, employers need higher-earning workers to justify the new expense.
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September 26, 2025 at 1:50 PM
"Since the overall number of [H1B] applications could drop drastically, Amazon, Google and other big companies may find that their bids have less competition than they used to." Great piece on the data behind H1Bs and the likely effects of Trump's changes. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...