Tag: worker
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Opinion: Americans may have to start working younger and retire older.
[ad_1] “The demographic clock is ticking for the West.” China announced earlier this year that for the first time since the 1960s, deaths outnumbered births and its population slipped in 2022 by 850,000 to 1.41 billion. COVID-19 brought this event forward a few years. More fundamentally, the legacy of China’s now-abandoned one-child policy and the high cost of…
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Opinion: AI is now giving big business the power to bust labor unions
[ad_1] A rare good-news story made headlines recently: Artificial intelligence enabled researchers to develop an antibiotic capable of killing an exotic superbug that had defied all existing antimicrobial drugs. An AI-driven algorithm mapped out thousands of chemical compounds in key proteins of Acinetobacter baumannii, a bacterium that causes pneumonia and infects wounds so severely that the World…
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Opinion: These 4 tips will help you transition your work from office to home.
[ad_1] Switching from the home-work-home commuting cycle to an environment where your home doubles as your office can be unsettling to many, and it comes with unique challenges as well as benefits. But remote work is here to stay for many employees. Experts predict that 36.2 million Americans — a 417% increase from pre-COVID pandemic…