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Will AI become your assistant or your boss? An ethicist explains

Work Life

These systems integrate with large language models (LLMs) to provide tools for innovation, logistics, and risk management. But now, AI is also taking over more “intellectual” tasks like data analysis and customer service. Algorithm-driven customer service often lacks human nuance and understanding, depersonalizing solutions.

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Ep 222: Chynna Clayton – Former Special Assistant to Michelle Obama

Go Burrows

Chynna is the founder and CEO of Matriarch Made Development, a consulting firm that helps organizations develop high performing administrative teams and identify and address overall operating structure and events logistics inefficiencies.

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The leaders of IKEA, ServiceNow, Coursera, and Publicis Sapient offer different visions of how AI will impact their companies

Work Life

For us, we’ve been using AI but more in technical ways of [automating] customer service and improving our logistic positions. JESPER BRODIN, CEO OF INGKA GROUP, THE HOLDING COMPANY THAT OWNS AND OPERATES IKEA STORES “It’s deeply inspiring, deeply [filled with] potential, and deeply dangerous at the same time.

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Office trends may come and go, but some values (such as good ergonomics) are eternal

Workplace Insight

We have been fortunate enough since then to win National Awards for our Customer Service, Website, Workplace Wellbeing programmes and marketing initiatives, all driven by our ongoing desire to help our clients work well, wherever and however they are working.

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This workplace perk may boost your employees’ morale

Work Life

He decided to give logistics-side workers Friday afternoons off while the six staff who work on the brick-and-mortar side and do customer service for online orders get off on Mondays, when the store was closed. Some workers can sign on remotely to answer customer queries if they want to, but it is not required.

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4 Ways To Invest in Women in the Workplace This International Women’s Day

Great Place to Work

On a global level, the supply-chain and logistics company had 26.6% To help support women with caregiving responsibilities in its China operations, DHL Express runs a re-boarding program in its Shanghai customer services department to help women ease back into work after being away on maternity leave. in December of 2020.

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Forget the 4-day workweek. We should be talking about the 5-day, 32-hour week instead

Work Life

Granted, we’ve made big shifts before, but a national four-day workweek would mean a lot of logistical challenges for businesses. For instance: Will your customer service shut down for three days a week? It’s a big shift to how we think of the traditional workweek.

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