Tag: workers
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RTO doesn’t improve company value, but does make employees miserable
For some, having to work from home during the COVID-19 pandemic was stressful. Parents balanced job duties while caring for children. Some struggled to set up a home office and adjust to new tools, like video conferencing. Lonely workdays at home added to social isolation. The line between work and life blurred. For others, working…
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AI hiring tools may be filtering out the best job applicants
Body-language analysis. Vocal assessments. Gamified tests. CV scanners. These are some of the tools companies use to screen candidates with artificial intelligence recruiting software. Job applicants face these machine prompts – and AI decides whether they are a good match or fall short. Businesses are increasingly relying on them. A late-2023 IBM survey of more…
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Microsoft’s Pricey AI Assistant Copilot Leaves Early Adopters Feeling Cheated
Hailed as an AI game-changer, Microsoft’s generative AI assistant Copilot is facing criticism from early adopters, citing the steep price tag it carries and inaccurate suggestions it offers. Microsoft has been sparing no effort in a bid to promote and improve Copilot. In line with this, the software giant has already integrated the AI bot…
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Peter Dutton commits to repealing ‘right to disconnect’ laws if Coalition wins government
Opposition Leader Peter Dutton has sworn to repeal laws that will give workers the right to ignore unreasonable out-of-hours communications from their bosses if the Coalition wins the next federal election. The government agreed to include a “right to disconnect” in its industrial relations bill, which was rushed through the senate last week in a…
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The $10 trillion benefits of overhauling our food system
One of the most ambitious assessments yet of our global food system calculates the health, environmental, and economic losses of business as usual. It also outlines what governments can do to reap trillions of dollars’ worth of benefits by producing food more sustainably. All in all, the damages caused by the current system — how…
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French farmers prepare for lengthy showdown as they launch ‘siege of Paris’
“We’ll stay for as long we have to” — that’s the mantra of protesting farmers in France who insisted they won’t back down as they launched a “siege of Paris” onboard their tractors. The slogan has been repeated by unions and first-time demonstrators alike since the disgruntled farmers’ movement was launched a week and a…
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PM defends tax cut backflip as living costs soar
More help is on its way for middle income workers stretched thin by the high cost of living in the form of more generous income tax cuts. Laying out the details of the revamped stage three tax cuts at a national address, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese defended the change in policy as the “right thing…
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Workers Need to Fight to Make Sure AI Works for Them
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is a labor issue. Maybe we’ll get lucky and it will prove to be a marginal labor issue. Or maybe it will prove to be an existential, epochal labor issue on par with industrialization or globalization, each of which revolutionized their own eras of work. Before we get completely immersed in the…