Work Life
MARCH 9, 2024
According to outplacement firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas, 84,638 U.S. employers have laid off workers in 2024 so far. Of these layoffs, 15,225 were attributed to a “technological update” and just 383 were explicitly blamed on artificial intelligence. It may be that AI is not yet capable of replacing many workers. Or it may be that transparently replacing workers with AI is a bad look.
Workplace Insight
MARCH 9, 2024
The rate of change in business today is accelerating, whether that’s technological change, customer demands, economic uncertainty – all are complex challenges. As a result, employees have to be more resourceful, hard-working and dedicated in order to keep up. But according to McKinsey , over half of our employees are not engaged. Productivity is stagnant, Quiet Quitting is rife and employees feel a sense of not being connected to anything.
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Work Life
MARCH 9, 2024
Many of us are still on a celestial high from the “Year of the Woman.” The higher-ups in corporate America, though, appear out to lunch. While the entertainment industry’s elite still favors content from traditional authorities and male actors, we the people thirst for more. Barbie has been snubbed, battered, and bruised by industry powerbrokers and traditionalists in this year’s award season.
Mad in America
MARCH 9, 2024
From Shaun Attwood : Psychiatrist Bob Johnson, along with his wife Sue Johnson, speaks about his years working in the UK’s prison for its most violent offenders, and how, rather than give his forensic patients drugs, he led them into telling of their traumatic histories, which ultimately ‘cured’ them, allowing them to give up their need for violence.
Work Life
MARCH 9, 2024
People caring for elderly or disabled relatives need a break – and, in Michigan, Gov. Gretchen Whitmer has a proposal to give them one. Whitmer’s recently proposed $5,000 tax credit, the Caring for MI Family Tax Credit, is part of a growing trend of public subsidies for families shouldering the responsibilities of caring for family members.
Mad in America
MARCH 9, 2024
Editor’s note: This article by Gaurav Datta was first published on Mad in South Asia. Some of the most marginalized and stigmatized people in a community are those with psychiatric diagnoses and those who are HIV positive. What remains common about these two groups are how they are portrayed through a “humanitarian gaze” as helpless, burdensome, and unable to contribute meaningfully—their lives are often reduced to how much they cost (Global Burden of Disease).
Work Life
MARCH 9, 2024
In The Dark Side of the Moon, one of the most iconic albums of all time, Pink Floyd reflects on the unpredictability of life, the yearning for connection amid isolation, and the tension between holding on to the familiar and embracing the constant of change: And if the cloud bursts thunder in your ear You shout and no one seems to hear. And if the band you’re in starts playing different tunes I’ll see you on the dark side of the moon.
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Work Life
MARCH 9, 2024
Transparency and employee consultation led to GTAA’s successful bounce-back from air travel challenges at Toronto Pearson. Agency staff shortages. Airline delays and misplaced baggage. A brutal winter storm during peak holiday travel season. Headlines warning of “chaos.” At this time last year, many workers at Canada’s busiest airport, Toronto Pearson, felt dispirited.
Workplace Insight
MARCH 9, 2024
Boots has ordered staff to return to the office full-time, five days a week, starting from the first of September this year. Employees at the company’s headquarters in London, Nottingham, and Weybridge were reportedly informed via email this week about the stricter policy on remote work. This is a shift from Boots’ current policy, implemented after the COVID-19 outbreak, which encouraged a three-day-a-week office presence.
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