Australia’s Chief Scientist Alan Finkel says while it’s possible to build robots to take over jobs – including his own – humanity still has the edge over machines.
His anti-PC ‘manifesto’ might be filled with nonsense, but that doesn’t mean James Damore’s thoughts have no value, or that he should have been fired.
U.S. President Donald Trump enjoys some time in the cab of a mover truck parked at the White House in March when truckers and industry CEOs came for a discussion on health care.
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Mexico has traditionally been NAFTA’s biggest loser. But Canada is at risk if the U.S. gets its way in removing a dispute settlement mechanism from the deal in the upcoming NAFTA renegotiations.
Healthcare workers tend to think that women are better than men at the job and that there is a bias in favour of women.
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The effect of gender quotas on an organisation’s performance depends on employee’s attitude towards quotas, which in turn depends on the labour market environment.
New research released today by the Grattan Institute shows that income growth and unemployment rates are not obviously worse in regional areas.
Since 2001, the proportion of full-time workers who believe they will not be with their current employer has been stable at about 7.5%; and the rate for part-time workers has decreased from 15.5 to 12.6%.
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Two experts assess the prime minister’s claim and what the evidence says about the impact of a ban.
Refugee Talent, a digital matching platform to assist refugees in finding work in Australia, emerged out of one of the Techfugee Sydney Hackathon events.
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Social enterprises set up by refugees are also helping countries to overcome some of the challenges of economic and social integration of new arrivals.
Ironically, one of the biggest advantages of a bot-based application system is that it can come across as more personal than a human.
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