A four-day week is to be trialled in Scotland – with no loss of pay for workers. A report published in early September makes suggestions on how shorter working hours could be implemented for Scots, drawing on experiences in Iceland and New Zealand. FOLLOWING THE ICELANDIC EXAMPLEIn Scotland, labour shortages in some sectors
Panagiotis Balatsoukas, Loughborough University; Gyuchan Thomas Jun, Loughborough University, and Isabel Sassoon, Brunel University London Imogen, a night club owner from London, hopes that COVID-19 “passports” could help with the return of customers to her venue. But the 42-year-old told us she is not happy about subjecting her customers to additional checks, and
Despite being recognized as one of the most valuable assets in an organization, corporate data remains one of the least measured or understood. While decision makers have more access to data than ever before, there’s little way to make sense of it. New research delves into the difference between executives who are data-driven,
John Kerry, the US special envoy on climate, is predicting that the shift to a green economy would entail “a bigger economic transformation” than the Industrial Revolution, according to a report. “The fact is we’re looking at the creation of the largest market in the history of the world,” he said Monday, according
Un settore in forte crescita, attrattivo per molti giovani in attesa di entrare nel mondo del lavoro, è quello della meccatronica industriale. Nella competitività dei mercati, quale sostegno offre il Governo italiano al settore? Quando si tratta di integrare i giovani dentro le aziende, esiste davvero un gap tra mondo della scuola e
Bitcoin: China’s crackdown isn’t enough – only a global effort can stop crypto’s monstrous energy demand Peter Howson, Northumbria University, Newcastle Huge concrete data centres, permanently plugged into power plants and telephone exchanges, maintain much of online life. But the infrastructure behind internet-based cryptocurrencies such as bitcoin, dogecoin and ethereum is more like
Crisi economica e pandemica penalizzano una delle skill più importanti nel mondo del lavoro: motivare le risorse umane. Analizzare le cause che demotivano le persone dentro gli ambienti produttivi, cercando di porvi rimedio riportando entusiasmo e passione nelle attività quotidiane, è oggi più che mai una delle esigenze più richieste da imprenditori e manager.
Profits at China’s industrial firms nearly doubled in March from a year ago, as demand for raw materials surged along with the economic recovery, official data showed on Tuesday. Profits rose to 711.18 billion yuan ($109.66 billion) in March, up 92.3% from a year ago, when the economy was hard hit by the
From Big Oil to Big Tech, companies are rushing into a new kind of business that they believe will allow their industry to survive in the new zero-rate economy: carbon capture. So-called carbon capture initiatives typically involve actively removing carbon dioxide from the air or cleaning the heat-trapping greenhouse gas from emissions from
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