Nap time.
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A short nap during the working day can boost productivity as much as a pay rise, according to research.
Literary theory can help us understand why hiring managers prioritize some types of job experience over others.
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Understanding how hiring managers evaluate candidates can help us understand current hiring prejudices and, hopefully, help us overcome them.
The Alberta government recently released a report on the effect of the previous NDP government’s minimum wage increase.
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The Alberta government’s report on the supposed ills of the minimum wage should be viewed within the vast, diverse spectrum of economic literature, not just standard economics.
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Research shows having a good night’s sleep is important for being effective at work. But not all of us can manage that all of the time.
With geographic proximity no longer being a precondition of employment, the 2020s could see a shift in jobs being parcelled out to the best and most affordable talent, regardless of location.
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A shift towards a more distributed, borderless global workforce will not necessarily lead to job losses for Canada, but it will be disruptive and require restructuring in the labour market.
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The average person will spend 90,000 hours at work over a lifetime, so you might as well try and enjoy it.
UK chancellor Jeremy Hunt outside 11 Downing Street in London before presenting the latest government budget to Parliament.
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Phil Tomlinson , University of Bath ; Alan Shipman , The Open University ; Andrew Burlinson , University of East Anglia ; Catherine Waddams , University of East Anglia ; Despina Alexiadou , University of Strathclyde ; Gavin Midgley , University of Surrey ; Jim Watson , UCL ; Karen Bloor , University of York ; Karl Matikonis , Queen's University Belfast , and Steven McCabe , Birmingham City University
Childcare, pensions and support for energy bills are among the main budget plans for the UK government.
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The AI is not a major threat to human employment.
Demands associated with automation can create more work for humans.
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Automation may not reduce our workloads as much as we’d hoped.
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Flexible working can bring people autonomy and joy, but so can feeling part of a team at the office.
Gilgamesh.
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ChatGPT threatens to change writing as we know it. But the Mesopotamians, who lived 4,000 years ago in modern-day Iraq, went through this kind of seismic change before us, when they invented writing.
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Dealing with stressful environments is too often left in the hands of employees.
While young folks may view revolutions as more exciting than reforms, we need our future leaders to be open to the reality that meaningful and lasting change will be incremental.
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How can Generation Z serve as effective agents of economic reform in a system they don’t believe in?
Multinational enterprises are struggling to retain many of the employees they send abroad on international assignments.
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Multinational enterprises are facing a high rate of repatriate turnover from employees returning back home from international assignments.
Women who are seen as assertive can often be negatively labelled at work.
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Labels that reflect our gender, racial or age-specific biases can often undermine others.
An innovation strategy is a requirement for companies that want to be successful in the dynamic post-pandemic market.
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To improve firm performance and promote fiscal economic growth, corporations should strengthen and implement an innovation strategy.
Diversity is usually only thought of in terms of visible diversity, but in reality, it goes far beyond.
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True workplace diversity goes beyond visible diversity and also includes diversity of personalities, values and attitudes.
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While there’s nothing new about the return-to-work blues, few companies have any strategy to facilitate readjustment to work after vacation.
Could AI be your next colleague – or replacement?
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Now that AI systems can generate realistic images and convincing prose, are creative and knowledge workers endangered or poised for productivity gains? A panel of experts says it’s not so clear-cut.
Nearly half of all full-time college students also work.
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Taking a job while in college may put graduation out of reach for some students.