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Why we tell our subcontractors how much we’re getting paid

Work Life

But while industries like tech, construction, or even healthcare often get called out, theres one sector thats often overlooked: marketing and branding agencies. Its no secret that businesses can be a bit shady when it comes to pay. These agencies are often just as guilty of questionable practices when it comes to compensation.

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Between Diagnoses and Dialogue: The Silent Conflict Between Psychiatry and Psychology

Mad in America

This pathologisation of suffering fuels a constant expansion of psychiatric categories, feeding the pharmaceutical industry and reinforcing the notion that there is a pill for every pain. Common human experiences — sadness, anxiety, grief, fatigue, disillusionment — are increasingly framed as mental disorders.

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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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The “Madness” of Inpatient Psychiatry

Mad in America

Those trapped there due to their emotions, thoughts, and behaviors are controlled by pharmaceutical Americans and their cultish mindset hailing drugs at the expense of everything else. The usefulness of this construct is almost never questioned by the mainstream, taken as fact because “experts” deem it so. Pesky “mental illness.”

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Appetite for hybrid working shows no sign of letting up at large firms

Workplace Insight

The report, “ Global Hiring Activity Trends & Signals – Q3 2023 ,” claims that sectors such as construction, insurance, banking & payments, technology and communications, and pharmaceuticals posted significant hybrid job roles during the third quarter (Q3) of 2023.

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Takeda Offices – Ho Chi Minh City

Office Snapshots

Unipace and AVT International are two companies specializing in designing and constructing office projects. Takeda’s new office in Saigon represents a unique collaboration between Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Limited and design experts.

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Power, Privilege & Controlling the Narrative: Vested Interests in ‘Mental Health’

Mad in America

It doesnt seem beyond the realm of possibility that pharmaceutical companies would deliberately disrupt the conversation in similar ways, and indeed James Davies in his book Sedated gives evidenced examples of them selectively publishing research data on the efficacy of their drugs (Davies, 2022). Davies, 2013, p.30)