Senior journalist Carrie Gracie (right) found she was being paid less than her male colleagues at the BBC.
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Sex discrimination law has limited capacity to address the gender pay gap.
Surgeons in Switzerland use the robot da Vinci to aid a hernia operation. Over a third of US hospitals have at least one surgical robot.
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There are more robots than ever in the operating room – but that’s led to fewer opportunities for surgical trainees. Now, some new doctors are teaching themselves in secret.
Research shows open plan offices work for teams who set rules about their space.
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Rather than being distracting, open plan offices can actually work for certain situations.
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The use of big data at work could promote well-being – but only in very specific conditions.
Burning the candle at both ends.
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Do you check your work email before you go to bed at night and first thing when you wake? How about on holiday? This is the effect of mobile working.
Demand is growing for aged care workers in regional areas and so policymakers should be focused on this rather than manufacturing jobs.
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Growth in high-skilled jobs is highest in Australian cities and for the country its low-skilled jobs.
Young job seekers are more likely to be registered with Centrelink than older job seekers, while those aged 25 and over tended to rely more on social networks and employment agencies when looking for work.
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Young and old job seekers use the same methods to look for work, but young people have the highest unemployment rates.
Computer-based technologies in the workplace are suggested to be causing a reduction in the total amount of work available.
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Despite evidence to the contrary, we still view technological change today as being more rapid and dramatic in its consequences than ever before.
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Worries about the loss of low-skilled labour risk obscuring a genuine flaw in the UK economy at the upper end of the scale.
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A huge majority of humanitarian employees are local to the country of intervention, but their motivations and pressures are often misunderstood.
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The choke factor is visible in tournament-style athletics competitions, and should teach managers about incentives.
A #MeToo protestor encourages others to ‘balance ton porc’ – expose their aggressors.
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The mere existence of mechanisms to report incidents at work is not enough – whistleblowers have to believe they’ll be believed.
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The UK lags behind poor nations when it comes to young business owners, so what’s stopping them taking the plunge.
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Why working with friends – or making better friends with colleagues – is beneficial.
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People working in caring professions are not superhuman.
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Jobs of the future will require emotional intelligence to complement the sophisticated machines we work with, so we need to equip young people with this vital skill
Harvey Weinstein (third from left) faces allegations, but it’s not just a problem in showbiz.
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The nature of the entertainment industry has always made some more vulnerable.
The floor scrubber of the year 2000, as seen from the 19th century, complete with attendant human.
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A common theme from science fiction is a vision of a world where humans do less work and machines do more. Why have we not yet reached that point?
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Policymakers can get more for their money when planing incentives for mothers to work.
There may be trouble ahead.
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Did pride come before the fall for Ireland’s budget airline?