"Increased productivity leads to more wealth, cheaper goods, greater spending power and ultimately, more jobs," said the Wall Street Journal in the latest entry in the counterpoint to articles declaring the end of work. People should trust things will work out and know the weight of historic experience is on their side, although no one really explains how. Financial services companies are required to note that previous performance is no promise of future gains.

Marie Billiel, who has worked in the restaurant industry for 10 years, talks about having to have a ”mask on” for eight hours at a time. By Adrienne Green.

So how do you revitalize hurting communities that were promised a decent life and an American dream? I believe you turn to the high-tech community for answers.

In the past, the United Nations has considered the threat posed by weaponized AI, but now the body is looking at a more mundane, but still important, robot invasion. A report from the latest UN Conference on Trade and Development has outlined how the increasing use of industrial automation is impacting jobs in developing countries, and what strategies may help in overcoming the problem.

An order signed by Pat Breen TD, Minister for Employment and Small Business, means that three pay increases for contract cleaners will kick in. It provides for a new pay rate of €10.05 per hour – up from €9.75 – to come into effect 55 days from 1 November, 2016. Two further pay increases will come into effect on 1 December 2017 and 1 December 2018, when the rates will go up to €10.40 and €10.80 per hour, respectively.

Truckers are hitting the pedal on their paychecks. Truck drivers' wages grew 7.8% in October, compared to a year ago -- the biggest jump among 60 common professions analyzed by Glassdoor.com, a job-search website. It's also far better than the overall wage growth for all jobs of 2.8%. "We have a booming economy, we're seven years into the expansion and truck drivers are the front line," says Andrew Chamberlain, chief economist at Glassdoor.

What job could be attractive enough to lure almost 8,000 candidates in China? It's not a high-flying position with a popular tech firm like Alibaba or Tencent. Instead, the legions of applicants are apparently eager to become an office worker for a powerless political party.

Donald Trump wants us to believe that immigration is hurting American workers. The truth is more complicated—and less useful.

No wonder they are frustrated. Working class white men saw their income drop 9% between 1996 and 2014, according to a new report from Sentier Research. This group, who Sentier defines as having only a high school diploma, earned only $36,787, on average, in 2014, down from $40,362 in 1996. Meanwhile, college educated white men saw their income soar nearly 23% over the same period, from $77,209 to $94,601.

Hiring managers share their sincere reasons to insist you work in the office—and a few tips for how you might convince them otherwise.

Danny Izquierdo, a 22-year-old who lives with his parents in Silver Spring, Md., has found little satisfaction in a series of part-time, low-wage jobs he's held since graduating from high school. But the video games he plays, including "FIFA 16" and "Rocket League" on PlayStation and Pokemon Go on his smartphone, are a different story. "When I play a game, I know if I have a few hours I will be rewarded," he said. "With a job, it's always been up in the air with the amount of work I put in and the reward."

Do immigrants take jobs from Americans and lower their wages by working for less? The answer, according to a report published on Wednesday by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine, is no, immigrants do not take American jobs — but with some caveats. The question is at the heart of the furious debate over immigration that has divided the country and polarized the presidential race. Many American workers, struggling to recover from the recession, have said they feel squeezed out by immigrants.

It's not a shortage of manpower, but a shortage of talent. Fink's Hoagies on Jewelers Row is closed from Monday through Friday so it can "continue our quest to find better employees to serve you," according to a sign on the door, a voicemail message and a Facebook post on Monday. Fink's, which also has a location in Northeast Philadelphia, is currently hiring to find those "better" employees. Prospective hires should have the following qualifications:

White men are among the hardest hit when it comes to finding a job a decade after being unemployed, new research has found. Researchers found that being out of work in 2011 'significantly reduced' the chances of white British men of getting a managerial job with only 23 per cent of them achieving this compared to 40 per cent of the entire population. In the case of women only 19 per cent managed to secure a professional or managerial job, the research by the University of Brighton revealed.

Walmart plans to shed about 7,000 store accounting and invoicing positions as the company moves to automate those processes, though workers will be offered positions elsewhere in their stores, the company confirmed Thursday. The big-box retailer's plans affect less than 1% of its U.S. workforce of 1.5 million employees. The move, first reported by the Wall Street Journal, comes after the company tested accounting and invoicing automation at about 500 of its nearly 4,600 stores earlier this summer.

A study of both men and women says employees perform best when they work 25 hours per week, but only if they’re older than a certain age.

The anchor insisted “this be done quietly and with no public or private acknowledgment or announcement about her gesture,” according to agent Alan Berger.

The move is part of equal pay legislation.

Are you prepared for the possibility of being too old to hire and too young to retire? Over the past five years, the Employee Benefit Research Institute's Retirement Confidence Survey (to download the survey, click here) has shown that between 45 percent and 50 percent of retirees leave the workforce earlier than planned. The American Society on Aging, meanwhile, found that 45 percent of unemployed 55- to 64-year-olds were reported as unemployed long-term (i.e., 27 weeks or longer) versus 33 percent of 25- to 34-year-olds.

People who accept a management job they don’t really want are twice as likely to end up quitting. Dear Annie: I really identified with Fortune’s recent article about turning down a promotion, because I’m facing a dilemma. I like what I’m doing now, as the logistics person on a brand-management team, and I know I’m really good at it. But our company has an unwritten rule where everyone moves “up or out,” and lately my boss has been making noises about promoting me to management.