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AI Policy Proposal In EU Could Change Hiring Landscape

AI Policy Proposal In EU Could Change Hiring Landscape

AI policy proposals – ideas for laws and regulations covering the use of artificial intelligence (AI) – for the workplace and for hiring are incubating throughout the world as the technology rapidly evolves. AI not only promises to take jobs from humans, AI will also play a role in how humans who are still in […]

AI Wants Your Job: Avoiding The Robot Job-Killing Apocalypse

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AI Wants Your Job: Avoiding The Robot Job-Killing Apocalypse

AI: Automation is currently displacing millions of workers. By John Feffer Originally in Tom Dispatch My wife and I were recently driving in Virginia, amazed yet again that the GPS technology on our phones could guide us through a thicket of highways, around road accidents, and toward our precise destination. The artificial intelligence (AI) behind the […]

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Epic Fail! The Internet is not driving economic development, job creation

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Epic Fail! The Internet is not driving economic development, job creation

By Nicolas Friederici, Researcher, Digital Economies, University of Oxford — With almost half the world’s population now online, attempts to spread the Internet continue unabated. Underlying this agenda is a rationale that the spread of the Internet leads directly to economic growth and development.  The likes of Facebook and Google offer data services for “free”, while satellites, […]

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Timekeeping Software Helps Companies Cheat Their Workers

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Timekeeping Software Helps Companies Cheat Their Workers

By Elizabeth C. Tippett, Assistant Professor, School of Law, University of Oregon — There are a lot of ways employers can manipulate your time using timekeeping software, some of which are legal and others highly questionable. If you work on an hourly basis, you may not have given much thought to what happens to your […]

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Startup Act 3.0 Aims To Attract Immigrant Entrepreneurs, Students

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Startup Act 3.0 Aims To Attract Immigrant Entrepreneurs, Students

Aiming to attract immigrant entrepreneurs and science and technology students, a group of lawmakers has reintroduced, Startup Act 3.0, a new high-skilled visa scheme. A bipartisan group of U.S. senators on Feb. 13, 2013, introduced the Startup Act 3.0, a bill giving as many as 75,000 immigration visas each year to immigrant startup entrepreneurs and 50,000 […]

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Corporate Training Spending Training Up 12% In 2012, Study Finds

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Corporate Training Spending Training Up 12% In 2012, Study Finds

Corporate training spending rose 12% on average in 2012, a sign that amidst greater financial stability, organizations are focused on reskilling their workforces, a new study found. The fining is one of the results of human resources consulting firm Bersin by Deloitte’s new training industry study, “The Corporate LearningFactbook 2013: Benchmarks, Trends, and Analysis of the […]

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Facebook Vacations: Coming And Going On Facebook

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Facebook Vacations: Coming And Going On Facebook

Two-thirds of online American adults (67%) are Facebook users, making Facebook the dominant social networking site in this country.1 And new findings from the Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project indicate there is considerable fluidity in the Facebook user population: 61% of current Facebook users say that at one time or another in […]

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Demographics: Social Networking And Social Media Users

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Demographics: Social Networking And Social Media Users

Highlights of the Pew Internet Project’s research related to social networking. See also: Facebook Vacations: Coming And Going On Facebook As of December 2012, 67% of online adults use social networking sites. As of December 2012: 15% of online adults say they use Pinterest 13% of online adults say they use Instagram 6% of online […]

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Women, Science And Technology – The Attitude Gap

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Women, Science And Technology – The Attitude Gap

ILO News- Science and technology are advancing at a rapid pace, offering new opportunities in the workplace. Women, however, are in danger of being left behind. And that is a question of attitudes, not aptitudes. “Women tend to be overrepresented in the humanities and social sciences, and underrepresented in science and technology,” says Claude Akpokavie, […]

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Manpower Spots 4 Big Trends Transforming The Wide World Of Work

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Manpower Spots 4 Big Trends Transforming The Wide World Of Work

Manpower Inc., a global employment services firm and strategic partner of the 2013 annual meeting of the World Economic Forum, says it has spotted four important trends in the wide world of work. These four World of Work Mega Trends are transforming where, when, why and how individuals and companies work, according to Manpower. “In […]

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