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Bosses don’t like the sound of a ‘four-day workweek’. Maybe it’s time to rebrand it

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Some employers are reluctant to cut workers’ hours but pay them the same – but it just might be the future of workWe keep hearing that the four-day workweek is the future. So why are so few businesses actually adopting it?Belgium, Iceland and Lithuania have passed legislation requiring the practice, and other countries in Europe […]

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AI could give us our lives back – if we don’t blow it

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Could we be at the beginning of a change never before seen by humans – allowing us to escape the drudgery of work?The other day I pulled into the parking lot of a client’s offices and in the spot next to me was a woman sitting in her car blasting music. She caught me looking

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Even amid rising economic uncertainty, now is not the time to hug your job

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In a rapidly changing job market, it’s not necessarily good for workers to cling to their current employmentAfter all the employee protests over the past few years – the “great resignations”, the “quiet quittings”, the “bare-minimum Mondays” and “coffee badgings” – we have finally arrived at “job hugging”.Amid all the economic uncertainty and the rising

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AI is coming for young people’s office jobs. That’s good news for the construction industry | Gene Marks

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More young people are following the money and going into trades like construction where AI can’t easily replace themWhile standing on the sideline watching a high school soccer game, my friend, who owned a small and successful construction company, complained that his son – a senior – was starting at a respected local university that

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