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Research Roundup: How Technology Is Transforming Work

Research Roundup: How Technology Is Transforming Work

Summary. Digital technologies promise to bring new levels of productivity and efficiency in a wide variety of applications and organizations. But how are they transforming the experience of the employees who actually interact with them every day? In this research roundup, we…

From AI recruiting tools to industrial automation and robotic assistants, new digital technologies are transforming the modern workplace. Many of these systems promise to improve efficiency, productivity, and well-being — but how are they actually affecting the people who interact with them every day?

It’s a complicated question with no cut-and-dry answers. But a growing body of research has […]

Research Roundup: How Technology Is Transforming Work

Research Roundup: How Technology Is Transforming Work

Summary. Digital technologies promise to bring new levels of productivity and efficiency in a wide variety of applications and organizations. But how are they transforming the experience of the employees who actually interact with them every day? In this research roundup, we…

From AI recruiting tools to industrial automation and robotic assistants, new digital technologies are transforming the modern workplace. Many of these systems promise to improve efficiency, productivity, and well-being — but how are they actually affecting the people who interact with them every day?

It’s a complicated question with no cut-and-dry answers. But a growing body of research has […]

Will deepfake cybercrime ever go mainstream?

Will deepfake cybercrime ever go mainstream?

Impersonating someone is hardly a revolutionary type of fraud, but this summer Patrick Hillmann, chief communications officer at cryptocurrency exchange Binance, found himself victim of a new approach to spoofing – using an artificial intelligence (AI) generated video also known as a deepfake. Deepfakes take existing video of a real person and create a simulation that can be used in criminal activities (pic: Yakov Oskanov/Shutterstock) In August, Hillmann, who has been with the company for two years, received several online messages from people claiming that he had met with them regarding “potential opportunities to list their assets in Binance” […]

Developing career-readiness quotient among learners

Along with assimilating new age learning, children also need to be exposed to skills that will fast-track their absorption in the rapidly changing and highly competitive employment market. As the country’s education hub, schools can play the role of catalysts in reducing unemployment in our country by integrating career education with academics.

The world as we knew it when we were children, could have never prepared us for the world we are living in today. Schools used to be a place to go every day, study some, play games, take tests, and make friends. Today, schooling is so […]

How AI and automation are changing the nature of work

How AI and automation are changing the nature of work

Many of us treat the technological substitution of employees, entrepreneurs, workers, etc. as a cause of concern, but complementarity as a good. In a recent study, scholars have predicted that by 2030 global economy might benefit from artificial intelligence (AI) by up to $16 trillion. The present time is evident that AI may enhance productivity or wages for those who remain employed, on the other hand, it may have a negative or mixed impact on worker well-being. The potential risk of labor substitution due to automation is a subject of great concern. According to McKinsey, by 2030, 30 percent […]

Here’s how automation and job creation can go hand in hand

Here’s how automation and job creation can go hand in hand

(Credit: Unsplash) This article is brought to you thanks to the collaboration of The European Sting with the World Economic Forum .

Author: Revathi Advaithi, Chief Executive Officer, Flex The real impact of automation depends on how we manage the transition.

Our responsibility is not to protect the jobs that machines can do better, but to prepare the labor force for the kind of work that is likely to be required. We must invest in people by providing training they need to succeed in this new landscape. We are often told that millions of jobs will be lost […]

Man vs the machine: How automation can nudge the employment balance of USA’s teetering trucking industry

Man vs the machine: How automation can nudge the employment balance of USA's teetering trucking industry

For the operator hours affected, the duo propose a ‘transfer hub model’ which may lead to alternative job sources for the displaced truckers. ( One debate that has endured throughout the ravages of the 20 th century spilling on into the new millennium is that of the social consequences of automation. From the factory worker who first protested new technology in the 1940s, to modern-day cab drivers waxing eloquent over their new driverless counterparts, the social impacts of automation are felt in nearly every domain.

In this regard, Parth Vaishnav, an assistant professor in the Centre for Sustainability at the […]

What impact is robotics and AI having on the job market?

What impact is robotics and AI having on the job market?

According to a study recently published in the academic journal, Science Robotics , almost 1,000 existing job roles from financial analysts to sales assistants are at risk of being assimilated by robotics and AI, with the food industry, building and maintenance, construction and mining the most exposed.

By combining scientific and technical literature on robotic capabilities with statistics on employment and wages, the authors of the report from HEC Lausanne , University of Lausanne and EPFL have created an easy-to-use tool which can calculate the jobs that are most likely to be replaced by technology by comparing the human and […]

Progressive Education, Controversy Nothing New to Richland Schools (OpEd)

Progressive Education, Controversy Nothing New to Richland Schools (OpEd)

The recall effort being mounted against 3 Richland School Board members is not that unusual if you consider some of the more ‘interesting’ events in RSD history. RSD has seen more liberal, progressive education than the rest of Tri-Cities

I am a Tri-City native, my parents moved here from Bellevue, WA in August 1966 when I was 3 years old. I went through the RSD and while I did get a solid education, the time was not without controversy. Progressive Education SPI elected.

In 1972 my dad worked as a local campaign officer for OSPI Candidate James S. Moore, […]

Companies are mitigating labour shortages with automation — and this could drastically impact workers

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This article was originally published on The Conversation, an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts. Disclosure information is available on the original site. Author: Geraint Harvey, DANCAP Private Equity Chair in Human Organization, Western University Last month, unemployment in Canada reached a record low of 5.2 per cent. Alongside low unemployment, many industries saw — and are still seeing — a worker shortage, with the number of job vacancies in Canada reaching 900,000 in January. Article content Both of these things are good for workers, right?Prospective employers, desperate for […]