Is less actually more?
Less toil is, more or less, good. Frances Coppola explains. We work less than we used to. That’s the key finding of the Office of National Statistics’ (ONS’s) review of …
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Hard knocks
Now and again I am asked by young people for advice on career choices. My main responses are: (a) experiment and find out what you enjoy and don’t enjoy; (b) …
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Prospects in the Cloud
Liepollo Pheko tells The Mint how the digital economy offers opportunities to young South Africans but security may not be one of them. Digital jobs promise a way out of …
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Making a job guarantee work
Stephen Laughton and John Pye outline a means to an end of unemployment. One of the important ideas that has come out of Modern Monetary Theory, which is an economic …
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Machine learning
The robots are here. What now? Stephen J. Frenkel and Tom Barnes explore the possibilities for workers and employers. The debate about artificial intelligence and automation is often presented as …
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Gutted, shattered, cowering and showered in shit.
Paul Frijters paints an expressionist picture of artificial intelligence’s impact on work Artificial intelligence (AI) is impressive. That much is becoming difficult to dispute. When I asked ChatGPT, “In what …
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A consideration for care
Sarah Jenkins asks: care is skilled work, so why don’t we pay for the skill? Imagine being responsible for another person’s medication, money, personal care, safety and emotional wellbeing. You …
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A modern mother of invention
Like the workshops of the past, today’s automated production schedules create necessities that give birth to innovation in the workplace. Marjolaine Rostain and Jean Clarke tell how today’s industries might …
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Now it’s China’s experts who are gig workers training AI
Chinese tech giants are recruiting skilled professionals as specialized AI trainers to build high-quality data sets. Facing economic downturns and layoffs, professionals take these challenging annotation gigs as supplementary income. …
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Zero‑hours contracts are about to change in the UK ‑ how managers respond will be crucial
Employers in certain sectors will have been concerned to read reports from the UK government that the costs of promised reforms to “zero hours contracts” under the Employment Rights Act …
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