by dankeelan | Jul 21, 2026 | Artificial Intelligence, Featured, Jobs
Every day, a three-year-old startup called Mercor pays more than 30,000 contractors upward of $4 million to help make their own jobs, and the jobs of their colleagues, obsolete. That figure was first reported by The New York Times in July 2026, and it says a lot about...
by dankeelan | Jul 21, 2026 | Leadership, Remote Work
As more employees are being ordered back into the office full time, new research suggests the rationale may be more about bosses’ desire for power and status than productivity. A paper published this month from researchers at the Wharton School at the...
by dankeelan | Jul 21, 2026 | Africa, Remote Work
After a wide push to get South Africans back into the office after Covid-19, new data shows that work-from-home offers have reached an all-time high in the first half of 2026. This is according to Pnet’s latest Job Market Trends Report, which found that work-from-home...
by dankeelan | Jul 21, 2026 | Mental Health, Remote Work
Remote work has increased since the COVID-19 pandemic, and many individuals seem to prefer this modality over commuting to the office. Many studies show that remote working improves job satisfaction and possibly performance—at least in the short term—but a new...
by dankeelan | Jul 21, 2026 | Featured, Future of Work, Jobs
Highlighting the importance of equipping young people with what is needed for employment, decent work and entrepreneurship, World Youth Skills Day, marked annually on 15 July, raises an important question related to its 2026 theme, Skills for the Shared Future: how...
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