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

Work Life

But despite government incentives for green energy initiatives, financing that growth may be challenging amid high interest rates and material costs, which could lead to project delays. Pharmaceutical Pharmaceutical companies have had a difficult year: the industry is grappling with softening demand for COVID-19-related products.

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A Simple Workaround to Overcome the Bureaucratic Mindset

Tanveer Naseer

Russell is an educational psychologist, author, executive coach and management consultant whose clients include Fortune 500 executives in aerospace, healthcare, pharmaceutical and biotechnology, information technology, telecommunications and oil and gas. Obviously, it’s pretty easy to assail government bureaucracy, but how about industry?

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Why Japan wants its citizens to try a 4-day workweek

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The Japanese government first expressed support for a shorter working week in 2021, after lawmakers endorsed the idea. A recent government white paper on “karoshi,” the Japanese term that in English means “death from overwork, said Japan has at least 54 such fatalities a year, including from heart attacks.

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Critical Psychiatry Textbook, Chapter 15: Withdrawal of Psychiatric Drugs

Mad in America

135 One should never start psychiatric drug treatment without having a tapering plan, but no one taught doctors how to stop the drugs, whereas they have learned from their professors and the pharmaceutical industry when to start them and always to blame the disease for untoward symptoms, ignoring the troubles they have caused.

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Part 4: Neurodiversity: New Paradigm, or Trojan Horse?

Mad in America

As we have seen, many people who identify as neurodivergent want a formal diagnosis in order to secure adjustments (at school, at college, in work). More recently, prominent disability scholar Tom Shakespeare argued that the model has become increasingly rigidly applied over the years, and has now outlived its usefulness.

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SUCCESS’ 2025 Women of Influence

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Since 2021, she has closed considerable government contracts for SMI with the U.S. Her clients also include multiple Fortune 500 companies and a handful of foreign governments. Prior to entering the world of global security, Bencie, a serial entrepreneur, was an internationally recognized interior designer.

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Psychology, Personhood, and the Crisis of Neoliberalism: Jeff Sugarman on Theoretical and Critical Psychology

Mad in America

These policies have very real, concrete effectslike the dismantling of welfare programs and the shifting of risk from governments to individuals. Under neoliberalism, you become responsible for your healthcare, you must ensure your childs education, you must secure your financial future for retirement. Particularly in the U.S.,