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Sam’s Club Memberships to Increase Monday

Sam’s Club Memberships to Increase Monday

Sam’s Club will increase its entry-level membership for the first time in almost a decade to help the retail outlet be better able to deal with inflation costs and the impending recession (which financial experts claim will hit within the next 8 months). Sam’s Clubs around the U.S. are making a bold but necessary move that will increase Club memberships and Plus memberships starting Monday, October 17, 2022. Sam’s Club will raise membership fees starting Monday, October 17, 2022.

Club memberships will increase by $5 annually.

Plus memberships will be upped $10 annually. You may remember a few weeks […]

Opinion: Automation is not a blessing, but it doesn’t have to be a curse either

Opinion: Automation is not a blessing, but it doesn’t have to be a curse either

Automation is imminent, but humans must control the rate of its takeover CHRISTINA DINH/THE VARSITY If there’s one thing that seems to move faster than time nowadays, it is the pace of scientific innovation. New technology threatens to change everything in our lives, especially what is required of human beings in the labour market, as artificial intelligence (AI) and automation take over businesses.

The power of automation is real

Automation is when machines work to reduce human intervention in tasks. However, the idea is not just to replace, but to outperform, human labour. Enthusiasts of self-driving cars and AI-powered […]

Young job-seekers prepare for job changes

Young job-seekers prepare for job changes

With robotics and artificial intelligence causing job cuts and large-scale automation in most industries, tech-savvy young people are already preparing for rapid changes in their working lives.

However, new Flinders University research in the Journal of Youth Studies warns of a ‘strong social cleavage’ with some young Australians with socio-demographic disadvantages – including informal computer skills and limited ITS access at home – may be destined to work in ‘dead-end’ industries forecast to be most affected by automation. Associate Professor Andreas Cebulla, researches the Future of Work at the Australian Industrial Transformation Institute based at Flinders University’s Tonsley Innovation District […]

‘In the Battle With Robots, Human Workers Are Winning’

Despite warnings that AI will rob humans of jobs, "Somehow we sacks of meat — though prone to exhaustion, distraction, injury and sometimes spectacular error — remain in high demand," writes New York Times columnist Farhad Majoo. AI has yet to replace humans in supposedly at-risk professions like truck driving and fast-food services.

Majoo’s conclusion? " Humans have been underestimated ." It turns out that we (well, many of us) are really amazing at what we do, and for the foreseeable future we are likely to prove indispensable across a range of industries, especially column-writing. Computers, meanwhile, have been overestimated. […]

Tepid September Job Numbers Cap Off a Sluggish Third Quarter

Tepid September Job Numbers Cap Off a Sluggish Third Quarter

Employment held steady in September, following three consecutive months of decline. The labour force participation rate continued to trend downwards, falling by 0.1 per cent on the previous month. Fewer people searching for work pulled the unemployment rate down to 5.2 per cent. Today’s Labour Force Survey release caps off a sluggish third quarter in which the labour market made scant progress in terms of employment growth.

Among goods-producing industries, there were significant job losses in manufacturing. These losses were partially offset by gains in utilities and the forestry, fishing, mining, quarrying, oil and gas sectors. In the […]

Bots offer US, Europe a way out of workforce shortage, and delays for customers – New York News

Bots offer US, Europe a way out of workforce shortage, and delays for customers - New York News

New York, Oct 7 (IANS) Layoffs make headlines, but in the post-pandemic world, businesses are neck-deep in the U.S. and Europe in an unprecedented workforce shortage, which, when combined with the supply chain crisis and macroeconomic uncertainties, can be like a migraine that refuses to part ways with you. "You cannot hire yourself out of the challenge," declares Mihir Shukla, the founder-CEO of the San Jose-based Automation Anywhere, Inc, who launched the company with his wife and two friends in 2003, when robots and artificial intelligence (AI) were still in the realm of science fiction or scholarly journals. Today, […]

5 Reasons Why AI Will Not Replace Musicians

5 Reasons Why AI Will Not Replace Musicians

With the recent popularity of AI-produced art by systems like DALL-E or Stable Diffusion a lot of musicians might wonder if we are next.

The thing is, AI-created music is already here and platforms like Soundful are already facilitating the creation of beats for a lot of producers.

But, luckily, I’m here to tell musicians that you shouldn’t lose sleep about it.At least for the near future.We will now lay out briefly 5 reasons why I think your employment is not at risk, but if you want a deeper dive into the topic, I suggest you check out my original article […]

Global Smart Factory Market Report 2022: Market to Reach $214.2 Billion by 2026 – Intelligent, Digitized & Automated Smart Factories to Transform the Manufacturing Industry

Dublin, Oct. 07, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — The "Smart Factory – Global Market Trajectory & Analytics" report has been added to ResearchAndMarkets.com’s offering.

Global Smart Factory Market to Reach $214.2 Billion by 2026

The global market for Smart Factory estimated at US$152.2 Billion in the year 2022, is projected to reach a revised size of US$214.2 Billion by 2026, growing at a CAGR of 7.4% over the analysis period.`Smart Factory` or `Smart Manufacturing` or the `Factory of the Future` is a concept that envisages creation of intelligent factories, where the traditional disparate manufacturing processes are linked to generate intelligent […]

Public Comment Taken on Next New York State Minimum Wage Increase

Public Comment Taken on Next New York State Minimum Wage Increase

Public Comment Taken on Next New York State Minimum Wage Increase Public comment is open now that the New York State Department of labor is taking the next steps in raising the state’s minimum wage for non-farm workers.

While reaction is coming in for the phase-in of a 40-hour workweek and overtime for agricultural workers, Labor Commissioner Roberta Reardon Friday issued an Order calling for the minimum wage in counties outside of New York City, Long Island and Westchester go up by one dollar an hour from $13,20 to $14.20 as the phase-in toward a $15 minimum hourly wage continues. […]

Finland should increase annual immigration growth from 15,000 to 35,000 by 2040

Finland should increase annual immigration growth from 15,000 to 35,000 by 2040

future According to demographic projections published by MDI, a Helsinki-based regional development consultancy, a proportion of Finland’s welfare society is dependent on labor-based immigration.

The MDI on Friday said globalization was the best cure for the problems of labor shortages and an aging population, and immigrants would likely be needed to provide the services the aging population needs. I thought.

expert Rasmus Allo Finland said it should increase its relative net income from immigration to the level of Sweden by 2040.“In the Finnish internationalization scenario, the increase in international immigration relative to the population would increase to the current level of […]