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Studies: Stop Listing Years of Experience as a Job Requirement
Think there's a correlation between a candidate's years of experience and subsequent job performance? Think again. Skim any list of job postings and nearly all will expect candidates to meet an experience requirement. For example, one study of over 95,000 job...
Jobless Claims Mixed, but Lower on PUA
Initial Jobless Claims went back up last week, crossing the 700K mark many thought we’d left behind and up from the 675K analysts were expecting. It’s also up 62K from the previous week’s 657K, though this figure was drastically reduced on this week’s revision, from...
Coronavirus has Made Future of Entrepreneurship Digital, Greener and Diverse
The pandemic has had a devastating impact on the US$90 trillion global economy - from job insecurity and rising unemployment to huge levels of stress on people and health-care services. However, we have seen positive developments emerge: small...
Has the Gig Economy Come to Physical Therapy?
A press announcement crossed our desk recently and it sure sounded like a California based provider of on-demand physical therapy services is, in effect, becoming the Uber or GrubHub of rehab. The company, Rocklin California-based Luna Care, Inc., announced that they...
Will Robots Take Your Job? It Depends
I’ll be the first to admit that my robot vacuum has made my life so much easier that I now own several – and wonder how I ever lived without them. (Full disclosure: I test tech products, so I didn’t have to pay for my favorite housemates.) It’s not hard for me to...
Training Remote-Working Employees on Cybersecurity
Last year, the world experienced huge challenges created by the pandemic. Not only were we living in a state of uncertainty, but most of the workforce was also suddenly working from home offices and using their personal internet connections. Where once IT...
The Hidden Toll of Remote Work
Between one-third and one-half of American employees worked in person throughout the pandemic, with or without a say in the matter, and some at great personal risk. Most of the rest of us were forced to work from home, also without necessarily wanting to. And in fact,...
The Future of Work’s Diversity Challenge
While a post-pandemic shift to hybrid remote/office working models seems inevitable, there are a number of unintended consequences that organizations need to get to grips with in the emerging Vaccine Economy world of work, not least around gender divide implications....
