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Generative AI will lead to a threefold increase in greenhouse gases from data centres

Workplace Insight

The remaining 40 per cent will be due to embodied carbon – the emissions produced during the manufacturing of construction materials and the infrastructure needed to support these facilities. A significant point raised by the report is the role that generative AI plays in driving the expansion of the data centre sector.

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What mouse mover technology teaches us about the future of work

Work Life

Last month, Wells Fargo disclosed to the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority that the bank had fired nearly a dozen employees “after review of allegations involving simulation of keyboard activity creating impression of active work.” And manufacturers report a rise in demand. What is a mouse mover?

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Workplace and property firms must wake up to the new era of networked businesses

Workplace Insight

In terms of the office workplace, banks were permitted to become JSCs in the 1830s; the first being the London and Westminster Bank, in 1834. JSCs came into fashion in the 1600s as the costs and risks associated with overseas trading voyages grew. Once held together by risk and liability management, what binds firms together now?

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The untold story of how Patricia Walsh Chadwick became one of the first women of Wall Street

Work Life

I was a twenty-year-old receptionist at the Boston office of Landenburg, Thalmann, an investment banking firm. They included Avon, General Electric, Merck, and Disney, as well as plenty of now-defunct companies such as Polaroid, Kresge, Simplicity Pattern, Control Data, Teledyne, University Computing, LTV, and more.

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A Beginner’s Guide to Alternative Investments

Success

Bitcoin runs over a network of computers that belong to many people, spread out across the globe, who are collectively charged with maintaining and validating its ledger of accounts. Thousands of individual computer systems must all validate each transaction that occurs on the bitcoin blockchain ledger.

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Businesses planning major investments into Generative AI to increase productivity

Workplace Insight

The survey was conducted in June 2024 via computer-assisted telephone interviewing (CATI).

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An Admin’s Cheat Sheet to Business Terminology

All Things Admin Blog

I supported three actuaries who were developing annuity and insurance products for banks. SaaS – Software as a Service: This is a cloud-based software delivery model in which users access software applications over the internet rather than installing and maintaining them on their own computers. It was the word arrears.