Aki Ito is a chief correspondent at Business Insider, writing about all things work. Her biggest features have reported on burnout, salary transparency, hustle culture, the dangers of AI, and the end of workplace loyalty. She also frequently writes about remote and hybrid work, the white-collar recession, the tech layoffs, job searching, and management.
In 2022, Aki's story about people refusing to go above and beyond on the job sparked the national firestorm over quiet quitting. That story, along with her feature about hustle culture, won the National Press Club's award for cultural criticism and was a finalist for the Gerald Loeb Award in commentary.
Aki's journalism has also won awards from organizations including SABEW, the New York Press Club, the San Francisco Press Club, the Institute on Political Journalism, the Webbys, the Northern California chapter of the Society for Professional Journalists, and the Society of Publishers in Asia.
Before joining Business Insider, Aki was a reporter and editor at Bloomberg News for 10 years, covering the tech industry, the Federal Reserve, and Japan's economy.
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