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Labor trends to watch in 2024: A U.S. economic outlook and sector play-by-play

Work Life

Construction and utilities: building the future Construction Strong growth is in the cards for the domestic construction sector next year. construction spending hit a more than $2 billion record-high. Meanwhile, job growth slowed in October, in part due to the United Auto Workers (UAW) strike.

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New Guidelines on How to Accurately Convey ADHD Information

Mad in America

A vivid example is that healthcare professionals tend do classify the youngest in a classroom as having ADHD up to twice as often as their older classmates—due to their normal age-appropriate behavior: a stunning but long-known research finding that has insufficiently found its way to a broader audience.

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NHS to offer workplace health checks to middle aged staff

Workplace Insight

The workplace health checks will be specifically targeted at individuals over the age of 40, with a focus on male-dominated industries such as factories and construction sites, where men are statistically more susceptible to heart disease.

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Government says launch of Skills England will transform the economy

Workplace Insight

The government says that training and development is vital to economic growth, with improvements accounting for a third of productivity gains over the past two decades. Skills England is intended to collaborate with central and local governments, businesses, training providers, and unions to address the needs of the next decade nationwide.

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There’s a happiness gap at work. Here’s what we learned from leaders in Finland and Denmark, the happiest countries in the world

Work Life

We recently spoke with business, academic, and government leaders in Finland and Denmark, the top two happiest countries in the world , about how enacted values impact workplace happiness. There, transparency begins at the topmost levels of government. Can workers be happy and trust their leaders?

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On Systemic Personal Boundary Violations, Low Self-Esteem, and Superiority Complex

Mad in America

Healthy personal boundaries need to be taught or role-modelled during childhood, but can still be built and constructed in later life, through healing trauma. . ‘We have seen that early life experiences determine whether we have healthy, compromised, or non-existent personal boundaries as adults.

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The greatest gift you can give employees this holiday season: Time and worker protections

Work Life

Workers are often treated as disposable—becoming martyrs in the pursuit of profit, growth, deregulation, and government austerity. But that commitment has been exploited throughout history, manipulated into a myth that work and extreme sacrifice are inextricably linked.