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How to Think Differently About a Flexible Workforce - SPONSOR CONTENT FROM CATALANT

Harvard Business Review

companies can’t fill their open positions, according to a McKinsey Global Institute study that found that analytical, engineering, and management roles are the hardest to fill. Economists Lawrence Katz and Alan Krueger found that American workers in alternative work arrangements, including temp workers, increased by 9.4

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Are You Setting Your Data Scientists Up to Fail?

Harvard Business Review

A few days after my arrival, I was ushered into Steve Katz’s office, my director, who was three levels above me in the organization. He thought everyone in his lab should be both a specialist and a systems engineer. I never did try out statistical control on the operation of the telephone network.

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