Stop calling them soft skills. These human competencies—judgment, empathy, trust—are core to resilience in an AI-driven workplace.

Plus, quirky alternative measures to track the economy, Starbucks’ flat-rate raise, and Air Canada restores flights as strike ends in this week’s Careers newsletter.

Ashlee Turner, founder and CEO of The Pocket Panty and The Pocket Panty Project is leading Breaking The Cycle, a two-part workshop designed to ensure that incarcerated mothers feel equipped and empowered to have open and informed conversations about menstruation with their daughters entering into late adolescence.

Gen Z is bringing cringe culture to the office, and it is hurting everyone. Here’s how to boost morale across generations.

In 2024, the Bencheghib siblings launched Sungai Design — a for-profit social enterprise that transforms hard-to-recycle plastic into beautifully designed products. Their mission is simple but ambitious: reduce river pollution by building a circular system where trash is recovered, cleaned, reprocessed, and remade into something useful and desirable.

Wealth isn’t just created through action. It’s preserved through awareness. And the difference between the two is wisdom.