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Why Is Upskilling More Important Now than Ever?

Why Is Upskilling More Important Now than Ever?

Up until a few years ago, obtaining your undergraduate degree was a pass to the vast world of employment. Unfortunately, a higher education certificate might not take you that far nowadays.

Upskilling – the evolution of a person’s abilities and career path – has become a buzzword in today’s job ambience. Both employees and employers have begun looking at ways to maximise the available opportunities and minimise skills gaps. The world of work is changing at the speed of light, and you need to be able to adapt to it, otherwise you’ll fall behind. Here is how to stay […]

Shamayun Miah – Will Robots Take Our Jobs When We Graduate

Shamayun Miah – Will Robots Take Our Jobs When We Graduate

We spoke to Shamayun Miah a leading tech expert about automation, graduates, and future employment. This is what Shamayun Miah said. If I were a recent college graduate, I couldn’t help but feel concerned with automation and how AI, ML, and robotics could dramatically affect my future.

The rapid digitalisation of the economy spanning nearly every sector more than validates these feelings. Before diving into exactly how much new graduates should worry about automation crushing their hopes and dreams, let me give you some background on myself, Shamayun Miah . My experience brings value to this topic and has […]

Automation May Pose A Threat To A Developing Country Like India

Automation May Pose A Threat To A Developing Country Like India

The threats posed by automation in developing countries like India

Market volatility and rising protectionism in countries like the USA, where much of India’s IT outsourcing work comes from, saw Cognizant’s revenue grow at its slowest pace in two decades last year, and its peers in the Indian IT industry are in the same boat. Since the 1990s Indian firms have carried out back-office tasks, and IT services like data entry, running call centers, and testing software for foreign companies at cut-price rates by throwing cheap labor at them. But as machines become adept at this repetitive, rule-based work, […]

John Hagney: Sinking wages are threatening democratic capitalism

John Hagney: Sinking wages are threatening democratic capitalism

By John Hagney

It would be a hardship for half of all Americans to afford a $400 emergency expense. – 2019 Federal Reserve Study

During two decades following World War II, moderation in American politics was predicated on a muscular middle class. The 1970-2020 dissipation of this “vital center” is reflected in continuing economic insecurity that oppresses most Americans, especially among those without college educations representing two-thirds of workers, and the present polarized political landscape.Beginning with the 1970s oil crises, the industrial heartland rusted, caused initially by increased demand for fuel-efficient Japanese automobiles. Prior to this, about 16% of American […]

From smart phones to the smart home: are we ready for robots?

From smart phones to the smart home: are we ready for robots?

Bigstock The Home in the Digital Age
Edited by Antonio Argandoña, Joy Malala, Richard Peatfield
Routledge, 2021

The car has left the highway. We are close to our house. Using our mobile phone, we send a message; the porch and entrance lights come on and the heating starts up so that when we arrive the temperature is adequate, which the device itself has learned is the one we prefer. The house is filled with soft music – we are coming to our smart home .This opening scenario from The Home in the Digital Age , a collection of […]

Letting the Economy Create Jobs for Everyone Is (Sadly) Radical

Letting the Economy Create Jobs for Everyone Is (Sadly) Radical

Everyone in American politics believes that jobs should be plentiful and wages should be high — they just disagree about how to achieve those outcomes.

Or so our nation’s political rhetoric might lead one to believe.

When Republicans lambaste Joe Biden’s proposed corporate-tax hike, they do not warn of smaller dividends for shareholders but rather fewer jobs and lower wages for working people. And when Democrats advocate for their president’s climate plan, they don’t promise higher returns for green investors but good-paying jobs for blue-collar laborers. In fact, it can be hard to find an argument for or against any economic […]

The robots are coming! But could they—and should they—take your job?

The robots are coming! But could they—and should they—take your job?

Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society is an international multi-disciplinary journal publishing refereed papers on the spatial dimensions of contemporary socio-economic-political change.

Read "No automation please, we’re British: technology and the prospects for work" from the journal.

Will a robot take your job? The fear of artificial intelligence (AI) and digital automation as a growing threat to human labour has been on the rise in recent years. The widespread potential impact of these technologies has fuelled media interest. Some reports claim that between half and one-third of jobs could be eliminated in the near future. The BBC has even provided […]

Why Trump Still Has Millions of Americans in His Grip

Why Trump Still Has Millions of Americans in His Grip

Beginning in the mid-1960s, the priorities of the Democratic Party began to shift away from white working and middle class voters — many of them socially conservative, Christian and religiously observant — to a set of emerging constituencies seeking rights and privileges previously reserved to white men: African-Americans, women’s rights activists, proponents of ethnic diversity, sexual freedom and self-expressive individualism.

By the 1970s, many white Americans — who had taken their own centrality for granted — felt that they were being shouldered aside, left to face alone the brunt of the long process of deindustrialization: a cluster of adverse economic […]

What Does Differential Wage Growth Tell Us About The Future Of Work In India?

What Does Differential Wage Growth Tell Us About The Future Of Work In India?

India manufacturing jobs (MANPREET ROMANA/AFP/GettyImages) India, after liberalisation reforms, has seen consistent economic growth and diversification, leading to increased employment and growth in wages. During this period, technology adoption in Indian industry and influx of foreign technology has increased too, as the economy opened up for global capital and import of foreign technology.

These factors have induced fundamental changes in India’s labour dynamics. (Under)Employment & Economic Productivity

Indian labour has always been agrarian in nature. Agriculture employs more people than any other sector even today. Liberalisation of the economy in the 1980s showed early signs of de-agrarianism of Indian labour, […]

Contemporary Designs Created in Cambodia

Contemporary Designs Created in Cambodia

Tonlé is a contemporary Cambodian fashion womenswear collection, focused on providing customers with contemporary, wearable and relatable clothes, all at a median price point. “They’re quite accessible” exclaims Sass, who describes the collection as “based in jersey, while utilizing a number of different techniques.”

You can also listen to this story. The full podcast featuring Tonlé can be found here.

The brand is fully produced and operated in Cambodia, however founder Rachel Faller splits her time between there and Los Angeles. Sass describes Rachel as “very impressive in her understanding of the fashion system and its role in colonialism, […]