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How Skills Will Be Crucial As We Adapt To The Post-Covid World

The Horizons Tracker

The report builds upon the Skills Benchmarking tool developed by the company to help organizations not only understand the skills they have, but how their workforce compares with their peers. The report highlights how should this trend continue, it could raise British GDP by £4.1 billion per year. Crucial for a successful recovery.

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Low-Skilled Immigration Is Needed To Overcome The Western Worker Crunch

The Horizons Tracker

Meanwhile, the ifo think tank recently revealed that nearly half of German companies are currently unable to find the skilled workers they need. After all, research from the IMF shows that low-skilled immigration raises labor productivity and GDP per capita, with these gains typically shared across the population.

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Women and the economy: an opportunity for growth

Strategy Driven

As Christine Lagarde, Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund states: if women were employed at the same rate as men, GDP would increase by 5 percent in the United States, by 9 percent in Japan and by 27 percent in India. It is time to unveil some figures and share thoughts on this hidden treasure: women. About the Author.

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Adopt an Immigrant Mindset to Advance Your Career

Harvard Business Review

If you want to remain relevant and advance your career in today's global marketplace, you need to serve as an enabler of business growth and innovation. The immigrant mentality has proven time and again to accelerate careers and build enterprise. The companies noted in this study had combined revenues of $4.2

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Working Mothers Are Important Contributors to the U.S. Labor Force

HR Digest

billion across companies. Similarly, 42 percent of working mothers would look for higher pay, and 29 percent work seek additional training to boost their careers. The UN Women website states that by increasing female employment in OECD countries to match the levels presented by Sweden, GDP could be boosted by over $6 trillion.

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How to Successfully Work Across Countries, Languages, and Cultures

Harvard Business Review

Our ways of thinking about careers, colleagues, and collaboration will need to become more flexible and adaptable. Prior to 2010, Rakuten had been a multilingual global company. What’s more, the subsidiaries operated more or less autonomously, each with separate organizational cultures and norms.

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Microfinance Is Good for Women, but It's Only Part of the Solution

Harvard Business Review

Ellen Kullman (DuPont), Maria das Graças Silva Foster (Petrobras), and Chua Sock Koong (Singapore Telecommunications) lead three of the most powerful companies in the world. For many women in the developing world, a better approach may be to gain employment in existing companies.