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No Jab, No Job: Major companies take a hard line on mandated vaccinations

HR Digest

Blackrock: Back in June, the asset manager required all of its employees to report their vaccination status. It will also require offshore workers in the Gulf of Mexico and some offshore support staff to be vaccinated by Nov. Hess: Oil producer Hess is requiring all offshore workers to be vaccinated before Nov.

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What's Next When Offshoring Isn't so Cheap?

Harvard Business Review

Over the last decade, offshore manufacturing seemed like a no-brainer. Offshoring isn't going away, but companies will have to be smarter about it. When wages are relatively low, for instance, create labor-intensive processes to reduce the cost of equipment, technology and automation.

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How the Natural Resources Business Is Turning into a Technology Industry

Harvard Business Review

In oil and gas, underwater robots fix gas pipelines off the coast and drones inspect offshore oil rigs. These are just some of the many ways technology is transforming the demand and supply of resources. How producers manage the resources they have is far more important than how much they have.

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The Talent Crisis in U.S. Engineering

Harvard Business Review

I joined Memorex Corporation in the early 1980s as a mechanical design engineer. As advances in technology have allowed us to work in more virtual ways, we have literally and figuratively lost touch with the products we're building. Offshoring manufacturing and design. featuring Ella Fitzgerald. Data storage was very tangible.

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How Technology Has Affected Wages for the Last 200 Years

Harvard Business Review

Today’s great paradox is that we feel the impact of technology everywhere – in our cars, our phones, the supermarket, the doctor’s office – but not in our paychecks. We work differently, communicate with each other differently, create differently, and entertain ourselves differently, all thanks to new technology.

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How the U.S. Can Rebuild Its Capacity to Innovate

Harvard Business Review

It’s a lesson for countries around the world: Once manufacturing bids farewell, engineering and production know-how depart as well, and innovation activities eventually follow. by looking back to the original offshoring frenzy which started with consumer electronics in the 1960s. We can trace how this happened in the U.S.

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Big Data and Big Oil: GE’s Systems and Sensors Drive Efficiencies for BP

Harvard Business Review

By combining decades of manufacturing expertise with its rapidly expanding software engineering capability, GE is leading the big data revolution so that its customers can operate both more effectively and efficiently. It also means that experts can be consulted remotely from anywhere around the world, as required.