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[unable to retrieve full-text content] Filed under: Green,Electric,Future EV automakers’ contractors are looking to be paid Continue reading Faraday Future lays off part of its workforce, cuts wages of the rest Faraday Future lays off part of its workforce, cuts wages of the rest originally appeared on Autoblog on Mon, 22 Oct 2018 18:13:00 EDT. […]
Streamlining rarely comes without a reduction in personnel, and it appears Ford’s $ 11 billion restructuring plan will indeed bring about a loss of employees in North America. While the automaker previously hinted at steep job losses in its troubled European operation, a recent report shows employees need to be worried on several continents. According […]
Anant Agarwal is a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the CEO of edX, the online learning destination founded by Harvard and MIT. The ways in which the nature of work is changing beyond our control necessitate a more flexible education system, with “students” no longer being defined just as 18-to-22-year-olds on college […]
Strelka Institute for Media, Architecture and Design/flickr Students coming from low-income families make up 15% of the top college enrollments in America. While certain organizations provide financial aid and career guidance during college, more needs to be done to help students make the socioeconomic shift once they have graduated. Many feel intense pressure to succeed, […]
Over the past few weeks, Walmart executives have sketched a picture of the company’s future that features more self-checkouts and a grocery-delivery business—soon escalating to 100 cities from a pilot program in six cities. Personal shoppers will fill plastic totes with avocados and paper towels from Walmart store shelves, and hand off packages to crowdsourced […]
Governments from Western Europe to Japan are facing challenges as aging populations trigger labor shortages and increasingly onerous social welfare liabilities. But nowhere is the issue as grim as in South Korea, where unparalleled levels of elderly poverty are forcing many pensioners into menial jobs to make ends meet. According to government statistics that highlight […]
Avegant has drawn a lot of attention in the wearable world between its Glyph personal screen and its light-field augmented reality headset, but it’s facing uncertain times. The Verge has learned that the startup cut more than half of its workforce (it’s now down to “fewer than 20” workers) and has replaced CEO Joerg Tewes […]
Not all researchers agree that artificial intelligence is as an important of a development as electricity or fire, or that hundreds of millions of jobs will be automated in the next decade. But, it is clear that an increasing array of skills will soon be completed by machines. And workers need to be prepared for […]
GUEST: In late 2016, the White House published a report titled Artificial Intelligence, Automation, and the Economy. It’s a solid work of research and forecasting that proposes equally solid policy recommendations. Here’s part of the framing, from the report’s intro: AI-driven automation will continue to create wealth and expand the American economy in the coming years, […]
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