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Do Employers Face Covid Lawsuits From Employees?

The Horizons Tracker

. “Under current legislation, incidents where a worker is exposed, or possibly exposed, to COVID-19 is reported to the Health and Safety Executive under the Reporting of Injuries, Diseases and Dangerous Occurrences Regulations 2013.” ” Full disclosure.

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How And When Automation May Affect Long-Haul Trucking

The Horizons Tracker

In Oxford’s Michael Osborne and Carl Benedikt Frey’s hugely influential 2013 paper looking at the likelihood of automation for various professions, truck driving was one of the professions that were projected to be automated in double-quick time. Bureau of Transportation Statistics. Department of Commerce, the U.S.

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Automation, COVID, And The Future Of Work

The Horizons Tracker

Ever since Oxford’s Carl Benedikt Frey and Michael Osborne published their paper on the potential for jobs to be automated in 2013, a groundswell of concern has emerged about the impact of the various technologies of the 4th industrial revolution might have on the jobs market.

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The Surprising Power of Business Experiments

Skip Prichard

These, in turn, have given us modern medicine, food, energy, transportation, communication, and so much more. Consider Kohl’s, the large retailer, which in 2013 was looking for ways to decrease its operating costs. “For an organization to fully absorb experiments, unbridled curiosity needs to drive out strong opinions and biases.”

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Leadership Matters

N2Growth Blog

In 1994 having ostensibly completed this successfully I was transferred to the mining side of the business, in iron ore, then aluminium – running the Aluminium Product Group, back to Iron Ore to run this Product Group and then in early 2013 I was promoted to Global CEO. I have been extremely fortunate to have had a very varied career.

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Avoiding The Technology Trap In The Future Of Work

The Horizons Tracker

Oxford University researchers Carl Benedikt Frey shot to public attention in 2013 when he and colleague Michael Osborne released research in which they predicted that 47% of jobs could be automated within the next decade or so.

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6 Silent Productivity and Profitability Pitfalls, part 1 of 7

Strategy Driven

Historic innovation often comes during times of historic difficulty, as these breakdowns create the demand for something new to emerge. Ohno was then a student of Henry Ford’s industrial process designs and innovations, but these would no longer work given the circumstances in post-war Japan. Suppressing Innovation.

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