Could AI personas attend your work meetings for you? One tech CEO says yes — and by the end of the year

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The CEO of Otter believes AI avatars will attend meetings for workers by the end of the year.

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A woman says she was fired for being 'too efficient' at her job and outshining her manager

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A woman was fired, and she thinks one reason is that she did her job too well (stock image).

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What I got wrong about loyalty at work

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Fiefdoms, 'orphan problems' and too many emails — just some of the most common workplace 'frictions'

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Robert Sutton, an expert in organizational behavior at Stanford University.
"The Friction Project" coauthor Robert Sutton.

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My toxic boss ruined my confidence in the workplace. I'm learning to build myself back up again.

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The author says her boss made her question everything she did at work.

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I worried I'd lose all my work friends when I quit. It surprisingly brought us closer together.

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Rachel Craft, left, worried about losing work friends when she quit, but they became closer instead.

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Casual friendships are dying out — and we're all worse off for it

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Casual friendships are key to our emotional lives, but these "fringe friends" are slowly disappearing.

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Nikol Moses felt the itch to head somewhere new.

Working for Google used to be 'sexy and exciting,' with a strong sense of security. Now, not so much.

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Google laid off hundreds of staff.
Layoffs may be the new normal for Google staff.

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My business partner ended our relationship via email and outlined everything wrong with me. She still wanted to be friends.

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The author received an angry email from her business partner.

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I tried Google's AI-powered workplace assistant, Duet AI. It can help draft emails and edit documents, but I wouldn't trust it for anything important.

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Zoubin Ghahramani, vice president for Google Research, speaking at an AI event.

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