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Prepare for the New Permanent Temp

Harvard Business Review

Temporary employment has jumped 50% since the depths of the financial crisis. Technology makes reviewing, refining, redesigning and revising both jobs and job descriptions as dynamic as a commodities trading desk. For the gainfully underemployed, everyday is BYOD; their technologies are becoming their toolkits. Of course not.

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Where the Green Jobs Really Are

Harvard Business Review

There's much brouhaha about "green jobs" those that arise from new clean-tech companies, created to help solve the climate crisis. For most, real estate is the second-largest expense. I'm all for this — we need this kind of innovation — but green jobs are hardly the economic cure-all they are often made out to be.