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TechScape: The AI tools that will write our emails, attend our meetings – and change our lives
What are the tipping points for an AI boom? Some are clear in hindsight. The open-source release of Stable Diffusion, still one of the most impressive image generators out there, was the beginning of the end for the closed-access model that had dominated the AI world until then. It arrived when the image generator Dall-E 2 was still limited to a handful of people who had been vetted by OpenAI, and offered an alternative proposal: powerful image creation to anyone who wanted it.
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‘Scanners are complicated’: why Gen Z faces workplace ‘tech shame’
Garrett Bemiller, a 25-year-old New Yorker, has spent his entire life online. He grew up in front of screens, swiping from one app to the next. But there’s one skill set Bemiller admits he’s less comfortable with: the humble office printer. “Things like scanners and copy machines are complicated,” says Bemiller, who works as a publicist. The first time he had to copy something in the office didn’t exactly go well. “It kept coming out as a blank page, and took me a couple times to realize that I had to place the paper upside-down in the machine for it to work.”
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Working a four-day week boosts employee wellbeing while preserving productivity
Some 71% of employees self-reported lower levels of “burnout”, and 39% said they were less stressed, compared to the start of the trial. Researchers found a 65% reduction in sick days, and a 57% fall in the number of staff leaving participating companies, compared to the same period the previous year.
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The climate benefits of a four-day workweek
There's growing interest in the benefits of a four-day workweek for productivity and employee wellbeing, but the picture is more complicated when it comes to climate change.
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Death Of a Programmer. Life Of a Farmer
Finding and figuring out which is which is not the easiest thing to do, and many people spend all of their days being content with not knowing the difference. For me, it took a lot of death to find what keeps me alive.
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Amazon singled out and harassed union organizers, says NLRB
Amazon is running out of time to answer allegations from an American watchdog that it unlawfully suppressed labor organizers at one of its warehouses in New York. If unable to mount a defense against charges [PDF] from the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), the internet mega-corp will be forced to tear up its rules on what staff can and can't do in break rooms and other non-work areas on Amazon property. Rules such as, you guessed it, not putting up pro-union posters.
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Three ways our work lives and education have gotten better – in data
Most people in the world hate their job, especially their boss, according to a 2019 global poll conducted by Gallup, the US analytics and consulting company. The statistic is staggering, but if you could put things into perspective, you would feel much better.
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‘Not My Choice.’ A TV Anchor Is Ousted, and Viewers Ask: Was Sexism to Blame?
The chief executive of a Canadian news network pushed back against allegations that sex, age or gray hair were factors in the abrupt dismissal of the veteran journalist, Lisa LaFlamme.
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Microsoft to curb use of non-competes, drop NDAs from worker settlements, disclose salary ranges, launch civil rights audit
Microsoft will no longer include non-competition clauses in its U.S. employment agreements, and will remove these clauses from existing agreements. And the company will publicly disclose salary ranges in job posts in the U.S. starting in January 2023. And more.
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Meta tells employees to stop discussing abortion at work
A Meta executive told employees on Thursday that they are prohibited from talking about abortion on Workplace, an internal version of Facebook, citing “an increased risk” that the company is seen as a “hostile work environment.”
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Apple employees demand more flexibility after returning to office
Earlier this month, Apple had employees return to work at the corporate office in a hybrid format. The process has been gradual. They’re currently in the office one day per week, but according to company policy, by May 23 employees will need to be in office at least three days per week.
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Mexican union calls for U.S. probe into alleged labor abuses at Panasonic plant
A Mexican union said on Monday it will ask the U.S. government to investigate a Panasonic plant for alleged worker rights abuses, the latest in a series of disputes seeking to leverage a new trade deal to improve workplace conditions in Mexico.
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Microsoft reckons businesses are making a few fatal hybrid working mistakes
Microsoft has published the results of its latest Work Trend Index survey, highlighting the various challenges businesses encounter as they transition to new working models.
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It's no longer about the virus — remote workers simply don't want to return to the office
Although businesses haven't really reduced office space in the pandemic and some companies may be expecting workers to return soon, plenty of employees have become hooked on the work-from-home life.
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Injury on way from bed to home computer is a workplace accident, German court rules
The ruling came after an employer's insurance refused to cover an accident claim from a man who slipped and injured his back on the way from his bedroom to home office.
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What Will Work Look Like in 2022? (Hint: Not the Metaverse)
Here’s what industry leaders think about the future of work, from changing office hours to, yes, staying in the meatspace.
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Fired Apple employee who aired workplace concerns gets approval to sue company
An Apple employee who spoke out publicly about workplace issues and was recently fired for allegedly leaking confidential information has been given the green light by a civil rights enforcement agency to sue her now-former employer.
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What’s going on with the ‘Great Resignation’?
You’d better work on hanging on to your workers, or you may end up shutting your business doors.
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Amazon's biggest, hardest-to-solve ESG issue may be its own workers
Amazon founder Jeff Bezos raised a few eyebrows this summer when he returned to Earth after a historic space flight in July and gave a speech thanking company employees and customers, “because you paid for all of this.″ The comments came as Amazon, the second-largest employer in the U.S. after Walmart, has faced persistent allegations regarding workplace safety.
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The case for a shorter workweek
More than ever, workers want to work fewer hours, saying they can be just as effective in less time – and happier, too. They may be on to something.
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