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Do We Need A Recruitment Agency For Robots?

The Horizons Tracker

The number of industrial robots in operation around the world has grown rapidly in recent years, but nowhere more so than in China, where some 30% of the world’s robots are in operation. The report finds that investment in technology such as robotics has a greater positive impact on the economy than almost any other form of technology.

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A Better Metric for the Value of a Worker Training Program

Harvard Business Review

And most programs have no positive effect at all. We need to adopt something similar to a “total cost of ownership” (TCO) analysis. Now common in industry, TCO considers both direct and indirect costs over time. But adopting more-accurate measures of success increases accountability.

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