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AI Displacement In The Workplace Is Increasing – And Affecting Young People Most

There is good and bad news about AI disruption in the labor market. It’s still barely discernible as a trend with the technology responsible for adding around only 15 basis points to the overall unemployment rate. But, that figure has risen from 10 basis points last...

China: Proposed Social Security Law Sparks Gig Worker Pushback

With China's flexible workforce estimated at nearly 300 million, Beijing pledges to strengthen their safety, wages and basic social security. Guangzhou delivery vehicle driver Zhang Liang watches on warily as more graduates, former factory workers and other jobseekers...

Upwork: Skilled Freelancing Jumps To 38%

The future of work took a measurable step this month, as Upwork’s Future Workforce Index 2026 found that 38% of skilled U.S. knowledge workers now freelance. That is up sharply from 28% a year ago. The report, released July 14, surveyed 2,400 U.S. workers and paired...

‘Digital Lifeline’ – Gaza Tech Workers Give Glimpse Of Possible Future

"I was just in a trough, drowning in uncertainty," says Walaa Volidis, a Palestinian software engineer. "But deep inside, I made a decision: it will not be the end, no matter how hard it gets. I'll keep fighting for my dreams." Wearing a headset and glued to her...
Creating a Culture of Creativity

Creative companies will win the battle of the 21st century, of this decade, of the next week, for that matter. What is creativity? In early November 1997 when, sitting with a corporate client in his New York office, he said – in an aside from the matter at hand...

Coaching Leaders from Insecure to Secure

In my roles as a professional coach, Agile Team Facilitator, and leader with different companies, I have observed people in action. From being part of a team to an individual contributor, and within many levels of an organization, I have realized that leaders who are...

Managing Marijuana in Workplaces

New Jersey: State marijuana regulators have finally released guidance, though not yet formal regulations, for how businesses can try to ensure their workers aren’t high while on the job. Cannabis sales at state-regulated dispensaries became legal in April, but...

How to Make Workplaces Work for Autistic People?

The unemployment rate in Australia for autistic people is 34.1%, according to the most recent data. This is more than three times the rate for people with disability (10.3%) and almost eight times the rate of people without disability (4.6%). Autistic people...

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