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Raising Pay Can Help Organizations Overcome The Talent Shortage

The Horizons Tracker

Indeed, the unemployment rate has remained low throughout the decade since Oxford’s Frey and Osborne ignited the latest wave of concern about the impact of technology on jobs. Many managers believe that the best way to run their teams is to have no wastage or slack at all.

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Doomsday Predictions Around ChatGPT Are Counter-Productive

The Horizons Tracker

This is an especially stark juxtaposition as the company has, since its founding in 2015, marked itself as a nonprofit team of humanitarian scientists working for the good of us all. Not only have those breathless fears not come to pass but we’re actually in a period of historically low unemployment.

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Why The Robots Might Not Be Taking Our Jobs After All

The Horizons Tracker

The paper takes particular aim at the famous Frey & Osborne paper that has spawned so many of the dire predictions, both in terms of the methodology used when making the predictions, and the evidence to date in the six years since the research was published. Exaggerated expectations.

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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. Feeling vulnerable.

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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. I was understandably curious therefore to see if Technology at Work 4.0 addressed this crucial area any better.

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Resolving the Paradox of Group Creativity

Harvard Business Review

One of the fundamental drives that motivates people in their careers and personal pursuits is the need to be distinctive — to leave a mark on the world through personal achievements. So when you’re managing a team or working in a group, what can you do to help foster creative thinking? multinational.