Nadia and Rob check in as the EEOC tells employers to forget about collecting demographic data, a new study shows retail workers rely on SNAP and Medicaid, and Meta does Meta things! Then Nadia and Rob hit on a rule of thumb for AI at work: AI for creating things = good, AI for making people decisions = bad.

Learn more about the topics discussed in the episode today:

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/federal-civil-rights-agency-moves-to-stop-requiring-demographic-data-collection-after-60-years

https://www.gao.gov/products/gao-26-108703

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/07/14/meta-lawsuit-layoffs-ai.html

https://hrexecutive.com/google-employees-demand-severance-guarantees-as-tech-layoffs-near-157000/?utm_source=omeda&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Newsletter-HRE+Now+newsletter+-+Wednesday&om_id=1110128066&om_eid=6122G2643790C2Z&hs_ce=&oly_enc_id=6122G2643790C2Z

https://www.axios.com/2026/07/20/artificial-intelligence-drug-development-impact

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