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What Are The Skills Critical For The Future Of Work
This week, a first-of-its-kind study from Stanford put numbers to AI and the job market. The paper says not only is AI taking jobs, it is making it harder for young people to find work, and pointed to traditional tech roles like software developers as being most...
Gen Z: Future Of Work Is Purposeful, Digital And Flexible
As Generation Z—those born between 1997 and 2012—enters the workforce in growing numbers, Canadian employers are encountering a cohort whose expectations and behaviors signal a fundamental shift from current norms. Unlike previous generations, Gen Z brings pragmatic...
Amazon Releases AI Agents It Says Can Work For Days
Amazon Web Services on Tuesday unveiled a host of new artificial intelligence tools and features designed to help companies nab more value from generative AI. Included is a new category of AI agents that can carry out tasks for hours or days without getting stuck and...
Gen-Z Founders Automating Future Of Hiring
By combining relationship mapping with AI-powered search, Clado's human search engine, Atlas, turns recruiters and sales teams into digital Sherlock Holmeses. The platform allows recruiters to search across a large number of professional profiles using complex,...
Does The US Have A ‘K-Shaped’ Economy?
A big reason the term is popping up so often is that it helps explain an unusually muddy and convoluted period for the US economy. Growth appears solid, yet hiring is sluggish, and the unemployment rate has ticked up. Overall, consumer spending is still rising, but...
‘Micro Jobs’ Help People Out Of Poverty – Charity
A charity which has won a national award for its "micro jobs" scheme has said it is helping people out of poverty. Zink, based in Buxton, Derbyshire, set up the project in 2016 to provide small, paid roles within the charity and support people who have been out of...
Top SME Insurance Focus: Cyber Security
For much of the past five years, the biggest worry for many commercial insurance clients has been brutally tangible: the soaring cost of rebuilding. Conversations were dominated by materials inflation, labour shortages and construction delays after COVID-19. Today,...
7 in 10 Pickup Owners Are Using Their Trucks for Side Hustles
According to a poll of over 1,020 owners by parts company American Trucks, fully 70 percent of pickup owners said they’d begun using their vehicles for side hustles or gig work over the past year. Both demand for their services and the income truck owners generated...
