As a growing wave of tech companies announce job cuts, more employees are being informed by email or video call.
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Earnings of laid-off workers in southern Europe are 30% lower five years later, while in northern countries the decline is less than 10%. The differences are largely due to the likelihood of finding a new job.
Employment law is all at sea.
Zero hour contracts remove job security and impact workers’ health, finances and prospects.
The huge cuts to Australian journalism over the past decade have decimated mentoring in the industry. This is not easy to see with the naked eye but it has a huge impact on what gets produced.
Being made redundant reduces a person’s life satisfaction by about 20% – and this psychological scarring can even remain after getting another job.
Google claims quantum supremacy – IBM says not so fast. One researcher explains why he doesn’t see quantum computers outpacing classical computers any time soon … and maybe not ever.
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Lecturer in Human Resource Management, University of Leeds
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