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Childcare, pensions and support for energy bills are among the main budget plans for the UK government.
The AI is not a major threat to human employment.
Automation may not reduce our workloads as much as we’d hoped.
Flexible working can bring people autonomy and joy, but so can feeling part of a team at the office.
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.
Dealing with stressful environments is too often left in the hands of employees.
How can Generation Z serve as effective agents of economic reform in a system they don’t believe in?
Multinational enterprises are facing a high rate of repatriate turnover from employees returning back home from international assignments.
Labels that reflect our gender, racial or age-specific biases can often undermine others.
To improve firm performance and promote fiscal economic growth, corporations should strengthen and implement an innovation strategy.
True workplace diversity goes beyond visible diversity and also includes diversity of personalities, values and attitudes.
While there’s nothing new about the return-to-work blues, few companies have any strategy to facilitate readjustment to work after vacation.
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.
Taking a job while in college may put graduation out of reach for some students.
Men in rural China spend more time in leisure or social activities, or just hanging around and resting.
What a ‘gig worker’ is remains ill-defined, which can suit employers. But the spread of the gig economy means more workers don’t have the same rights and protections as employees.
Green jobs go beyond solar panel installation and wind turbine maintenance. They’re found in fields from design to economics and in many types of management.
Gig workers navigate the challenges of solo work by seeking out relationships and cultivating skills to cope with emotional turbulence
‘Career portfolioing’ is a trend where people assemble different sources of income, such as side gigs, to give them a measure of independence from employers who provide little job security.
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Professor of Economics and Political Economy, University of Leeds
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Professor of Organisational Psychology and Health, University of Manchester
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MBA Director & Assistant Professor of Organisational Behaviour, Bond Business School, Bond University
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Senior Lecturer and Researcher in Innovation and Digital Leadership, University of Brighton
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Associate professor of work and employment, University of Southampton
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Professor of Economics, The University of Melbourne
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Senior Lecturer in Psychology, University of Tasmania
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Professor of Sociology and Social Policy, University of Kent
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Adjunct Research Fellow, Centre For Design Innovation, Swinburne University of Technology
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RBC Professor in Responsible Organizations and Associate Professor, Concordia University
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Director, Field Experience (Community-Based), Werklund School of Education, University of Calgary
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Assistant professor, Administrative Studies, York University, Canada
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Adjunct Senior Lecturer, School of Law, La Trobe University
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Professor Emeritus, Griffith Business School, Griffith University
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Senior Lecturer, School of Aviation, UNSW Sydney
