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Significant numbers of key workers barely make the minimum wage.
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In these troubled economic times, skills and technology are key to lifting the UK out of the productivity doldrums.
Forty percent of employers have moved to virtual internships.
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Although jobs are being cut due to COVID-19-related business closures, there are still clever ways to secure meaningful work experience this summer, an internship specialist says.
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The ABS is providing near real-time data like never before. It’s labour force survey remains the most authorative way of tracking the labour market.
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Lockdown throws our relationship with work into the spotlight.
Many students scammed by for-profit colleges are still looking for student loan relief.
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For-profit colleges have a history of deceptive practices that have left thousands of students in the lurch, two higher education scholars warn.
Oxford Circus without shoppers.
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A market closure is different to a recession.
Jobs could be hard to keep or find for quite a while.
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The economic fallout from COVID-19 will likely harm new workers in distinct ways with long-term effects, three economists say.
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It’s hard to keep up with what’s regarded as essential and non-essential services.
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2.7 million jobs are at risk, 1.4 million of them immediately.
Many of the tasks employees are doing now were not imagined even weeks ago. People are becoming crisis managers, sanitation monitors and work-from-home co-ordinators.
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The coronavirus pandemic has forced employees and businesses to change the way they operate. Some of those changes may be permanent.
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Major crises all necessitate massive state intervention.
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Short-term schemes make it difficult to assess, but nine basic income-style programmes from Canada to Iran reveal some fascinating outcomes.
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More of us are in work than ever before, but we are more cautious than before, less likely to ask for more pay or change jobs.
Aimee Stephens worked for a Detroit funeral home for six years before telling her employer she wanted to be issued a female uniform.
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In a national survey, transgender individuals had worse employment outcomes, lower incomes and higher rates of poverty than cisgender people.
Co-working spaces have become an innovative way to work away from a central office without necessarily being alone at home.
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Co-working spaces have become popular since they were created in 2005, allowing self-employed workers to have a professional space outside an office and avoid isolation. But does it really work?
Shops checkouts are predicted to disappear this decade. Customers will be able to take what they want and walk out, with payment done automatically.
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Technological change has always destroyed jobs. But now automation and artificial intelligence are drying up the options for those displaced.
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Many of Britain’s elite employers do not perform well when it comes to cognitive diversity.
Men make more money in women-dominated fields, such as teaching.
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Men who work in female-dominated fields tend to get more prestige and higher wages.
America lags when it comes to being able to speak more than one language.
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Better job prospects and richer lives are among the many reasons to learn a foreign language, an expert on foreign language instruction writes.