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Workers aren’t always evaluated on the quality of their work alone. MIT’s Anna Stansbury explains how assessments of competence and professionalism can be shaped by cultural and socioeconomic signals, influencing who gets selected and who gets opportunities.

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Revelio Labs @reveliolabs.com · 8h

AI adoption among Meta and its closest competitors: Snap: 5.2% Meta: 4.9% Stealth Startup Solutions: 4.5% Pinterest: 4.4% NAVER: 3.9% Google: 3.8% Dropbox: 3.6% HubSpot: 3.1% Douyin: 3.0% Match Group: 2.8% Industry average: 2.3% Meta’s AI adoption rate is more than 2x the industry average.

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Revelio Labs @reveliolabs.com · 29/09/2026

Technology is changing the way workers negotiate wages. Anna Stansbury explains how new technologies could reshape bargaining power, giving some workers more influence over how technology is introduced while accelerating the decline of unions in other labor systems.

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Revelio Labs @reveliolabs.com · 29/09/2026

Tech has become a major destination for economics PhDs, with its share of private-sector first jobs rising from 23% in 2017 to 40% in 2026.

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Revelio Labs @reveliolabs.com · 29/09/2026

Amazon is the largest single employer of PhD economists, hiring more than 200 since 2017.

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Revelio Labs @reveliolabs.com · 28/09/2026

More companies are outsourcing work that was once done in-house. When work is shifted to third-party contractors, responsibility for wages, working conditions, and other worker protections can shift with it.

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Revelio Labs @reveliolabs.com · 25/09/2026

Lower-wage workers aren't always helped by a firm's success. Highly profitable firms increasingly share gains with executives and highly skilled workers, while many lower-wage workers remain outside those gains.

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Revelio Labs @reveliolabs.com · 24/09/2026

The labor market is changing faster than the categories we use to describe it. Rachel Lipson calls this the “frontier economy”: new roles and industries emerging alongside technological change that don’t always fit neatly into existing classifications.

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Revelio Labs @reveliolabs.com · 23/09/2026

Contract work doesn’t have to mean lower-quality jobs. Activision converted contractors into regular employees after scrutiny over working conditions, while Google introduced standards for contractors after pressure from its own employees.

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Revelio Labs @reveliolabs.com · 23/09/2026

The gig economy is expanding beyond Uber and Lyft. Amazon and Walmart are increasingly using independent contractors for delivery, a model companies often argue gives workers more flexibility. But does flexibility actually require freelance status?

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Revelio Labs @reveliolabs.com · 21/09/2026

Profit maximization isn’t inherently a bad thing, but it is an impulse that needs to be managed. Corporate priorities can change quickly when incentives shift, as seen in the rise and retreat of DEI as a stated priority at many major companies.

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Revelio Labs @reveliolabs.com · 21/09/2026

Women in the US quote 26% lower hourly rates than men on Upwork, even after controlling for role, experience, and ratings. And the gap is even wider in some countries. In Bangladesh, women quote rates about 30% lower than men. But there are exceptions, such as in France, the UAE, and Ireland.

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Revelio Labs @reveliolabs.com · 18/09/2026

Marginal workers can be employees without being treated like employees. They may be on a company’s payroll, but receive little investment in training or career advancement.

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Revelio Labs @reveliolabs.com · 17/09/2026

In France, Bangladesh, and Nigeria, women who freelance work roughly 40–45% more hours than men. Yet their pay gaps range from under 1% to more than 30%. In our latest newsletter, we look at why effort alone doesn’t explain the pay gap.

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Revelio Labs @reveliolabs.com · 16/09/2026

Loujaina Abdelwahed breaks down what the global gig economy reveals about women’s access to work, and why closing the participation gap is only part of the story.

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Revelio Labs @reveliolabs.com · 15/09/2026

According to workforce data, women are overrepresented in freelance work across income levels. In many countries, women make up a larger share of Upwork accounts than of the overall workforce, suggesting gig work may offer an important path into the labor market.

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Revelio Labs @reveliolabs.com · 14/09/2026

According to Harvard's David Deming, the best way to learn is through feedback, and workers often get much more of it on the job than in the classroom. At work, feedback is immediate and real outcomes make it much easier to understand what works, adjust, and improve quickly.

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Revelio Labs @reveliolabs.com · 14/09/2026

Unemployment among new grads is around 5.6%, compared with 4.3% overall. AI is only part of the story. Remote work, higher interest rates, and a post-pandemic “low hire, low fire” labor market have all disrupted the traditional path of hiring and training young workers.

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Revelio Labs @reveliolabs.com · 09/09/2026

AI may not eliminate jobs, but it will change them. As workers adapt, switch roles, and retrain, periods of unemployment could become more common. “AI Adjustment Insurance” could help bridge that transition through extended unemployment benefits, retraining, or wage insurance.

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Revelio Labs @reveliolabs.com · 09/09/2026

Computer scientists and economists see AI’s future differently. Computer scientists often see AI as a path to unprecedented growth and job displacement, while economists see it as a powerful technology that fits into a longer history of technological change.

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Revelio Labs @reveliolabs.com · 09/09/2026

One year later, Revelio Labs CEO Ben Zweig reflects on how Revelio Public Labor Statistics (RPLS) continues to provide an independent view of the US labor market, why we launched it, and what we’ve learned.

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Revelio Labs @reveliolabs.com · 08/09/2026

Google’s famous workplace perks may have started as a way around wage collusion. In Silicon Valley’s early days, major tech companies agreed not to compete for engineers through higher wages. So companies found other ways to attract talent, from free meals to haircuts.

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Revelio Labs @reveliolabs.com · 08/09/2026

Workers could earn 20–50% more if they were paid according to their productivity. In a perfectly competitive labor market, employers would bid wages up to reflect workers' contributions. But most workers have limited employment options, giving employers the power to pay less.

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Revelio Labs @reveliolabs.com · 04/09/2026

Mentions of recruiter ghosting in no-offer interview reviews have fallen back to roughly their October 2022 level, after rising as much as 9% over the past two years.

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Revelio Labs @reveliolabs.com · 04/09/2026

AI isn’t driving mass layoffs, but it is changing who gets hired. Revelio Labs CEO & Labor Economist Ben Zweig breaks down the latest jobs data and why AI’s impact is falling disproportionately on younger workers.

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Revelio Labs @reveliolabs.com · 04/09/2026

Layoff anxiety at AI-adopting companies is increasing relative to non-adopters.

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Revelio Labs @reveliolabs.com · 04/09/2026

NEW: The wage premium for AI-exposed jobs has fallen to nearly zero, down from around 2% before ChatGPT launched.

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Revelio Labs @reveliolabs.com · 04/09/2026

AI is making it harder for entry-level employees to break into the labor market. Revelio Labs’ Evan Sohn joined CNBC to discuss what the latest data shows about AI’s impact on junior workers, and what early-career employees can do to stay ahead as AI reshapes work.

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Revelio Labs @reveliolabs.com · 03/09/2026

NEW: Computer Science + IT now accounts for 7.5% of bachelor's degrees, down from a 2022 peak of 12.4%. Engineering has grown to 18.4%, up from 11.3%.

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Revelio Labs @reveliolabs.com · 03/09/2026

NEW: Firm-level evidence continues to point away from broad AI-driven displacement. The most AI-exposed firms are seeing fewer layoffs than the least-exposed firms, rather than more.

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Revelio Labs @reveliolabs.com · 03/09/2026

NEW: Since before ChatGPT, employment in the most AI-exposed occupations is down around 6% relative to the least-exposed occupations, with the gap reaching 19% among workers aged 22–25.

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Revelio Labs @reveliolabs.com · 03/09/2026

NEW: The US added just 36.5K jobs in August 2026, despite continued cooling in labor demand.

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Revelio Labs @reveliolabs.com · 03/09/2026

Job seekers don’t just care about what a company pays. They care about what it does. Students were shown companies’ CO₂ emissions and whether they had plans to reduce them. The reaction was immediate: students began challenging employers directly about their climate plans.

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Revelio Labs @reveliolabs.com · 31/08/2026

We may be underestimating corporate CO₂ emissions by as much as 70%. Emissions estimates largely rely on voluntary disclosures, but only 20% of firms worldwide report their emissions. And the companies that do report tend to be cleaner than those that don’t.

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Revelio Labs @reveliolabs.com · 31/08/2026

The workforce changes behind AI-driven layoffs are more specific than simply hiring more AI talent. Companies are adding roles that build and integrate AI into their operations, while retaining workers in areas that remain difficult to automate, from transportation to project management and legal.

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Revelio Labs @reveliolabs.com · 28/08/2026

It took more than 12 years of planning to figure out how to collect a 10-question census on a phone. That level of caution is by design. A mistake in official statistics can shape political representation and public spending for a decade.

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Revelio Labs @reveliolabs.com · 27/08/2026

Economist Nate Lawrence examines the workforce patterns behind companies citing AI for layoffs. Many show clear signs of an AI transition, while others show little evidence of the same shift, cutting AI roles and falling behind their peers in adoption.

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Revelio Labs @reveliolabs.com · 26/08/2026

Efforts to help workers in developing countries can sometimes have unintended consequences. When consumers avoid products made by workers they perceive as vulnerable, concerns about exploitation can end up reducing demand for the very goods those workers produce.

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Revelio Labs @reveliolabs.com · 24/08/2026

Around 70% of workers in engineering, data science, management, sales, and HR receive equity compensation. For workers in business and finance roles, that falls to just 25%.

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Revelio Labs @reveliolabs.com · 21/08/2026

Wearables made continuous health tracking normal. Full-body imaging could be next. As scans become cheaper and easier to interpret, health data could shift from diagnosing individual problems to building a more complete picture of our health over time.

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Revelio Labs @reveliolabs.com · 20/08/2026

AI may be changing the economics of the career ladder.

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Revelio Labs @reveliolabs.com · 20/08/2026

The human parts of leadership are much harder to automate.

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Revelio Labs @reveliolabs.com · 19/08/2026

US and Europe took very different approaches to protecting workers during COVID.

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Revelio Labs @reveliolabs.com · 18/08/2026

Among tech workers who report compensation on levels.fyi, equity is the norm: 70% receive stock compensation. But only about one-third of companies in our sample offer it at all.

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Revelio Labs @reveliolabs.com · 18/08/2026

Only 25% of workers in business and finance roles report receiving stock compensation, well below any other group.

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Revelio Labs @reveliolabs.com · 18/08/2026

What workers change about their professional histories can tell us what they think the labor market values. By tracking “time travel,” or edits to jobs workers have already left, we can see how people reposition their experience as employer demand shifts.

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Revelio Labs @reveliolabs.com · 17/08/2026

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Revelio Labs @reveliolabs.com · 17/08/2026

Research shows that the biggest productivity gains from new technology come when it’s paired with a redesign of the jobs and processes around it. It’s a useful lesson for the AI era: adopting the technology is only part of the equation.

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Revelio Labs @reveliolabs.com · 17/08/2026

LLM-associated language appears most often among workers with less formal education and declines as education levels rise. The same pattern shows up within MBA programs, where graduates of higher-ranked schools are less likely to show signs of AI-assisted writing

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Revelio Labs @reveliolabs.com · 17/08/2026

“Time traveling” on LinkedIn is more common than you might think. About one in five users studied have gone back to edit a job they already left, often starting around six months before a job change.

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