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

The Horizons Tracker

Last year online learning platform Coursera released their first Global Skills Index to try and understand the changing nature of skills development around the world. The first notable trend from the report was the relative insulation provided by high skills to the impacts of Covid-19, both from an individual and organizational perspective.

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Local Solutions Needed To Reduce Labor Shortages

The Horizons Tracker

For instance, in 2022, East Lindsey, Lincolnshire, reported an economically inactive working-age population of 36%, while Wandsworth reported only 9%. The wrong approach Despite these developments, recent proposals for local approaches to employment support may not significantly reduce inactivity levels.

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How Workplace Equality Can Drive The Economy (With A Little Help From AI)

The Horizons Tracker

This would allow them to explore how balance in the workplace contributes towards GDP. GDP is attributable to these declining barriers in the labor market,” the authors explain. Ultimately they hope to use this insight to develop an AI-based tool to help mitigate and address these biases. ” AI uncovering inequality.

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

HR Digest

Bureau of Labor Statistics reporting that the labor force participation of women in their prime, aged between 25 and 54, has increased to 77.8 Census Bureau having reported that working mothers made up almost one-third of the U.S. They also reported an average $340 per week cost to send a child to a daycare facility.

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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. trillion — more than the GDP of most countries. Heinz and others.

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How to Successfully Work Across Countries, Languages, and Cultures

Harvard Business Review

According to a recent McKinsey Global Institute report , the number of people in the global labor force will reach 3.5 Our ways of thinking about careers, colleagues, and collaboration will need to become more flexible and adaptable. Brazil reported the largest extent of these self-reported voluntary interactions at nearly 52%.

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

Harvard Business Review

Career paths are not one-size-fits-all, yet in emerging markets, it's often assumed that microfinance — the use of small loans to foster self-reliant small businesses in a community setting — is the only path for women seeking economic opportunity. Probably the most universal challenge is the aspect of caretaking.