I finally closed a browser window this morning. I’ve been keeping this particular window open for two years. It was an online obituary. My father’s obituary, specifically, from 2023. I’m not sure why I was so averse to closing the window.
Indian outsourcing giant Tata Consultancy Services’ decision to cut over 12,000 jobs signals the start of a broader AI-fueled trend that could end up eliminating around half a million jobs over the next two to three years from the $283 billion sector, experts said.
I’ve long suspected that leaders cement their understanding of the rules, mores, and expectations of the workspace during their first leadership experience.
For Cape Town-based filmmaker Kate D’hotman, connecting with movie audiences comes naturally. Far more daunting is speaking with others. “I’ve never understood how people [decipher] social cues,” the 40-year-old director of horror films says.
There’s something to be said about hiring £500/hour shiny-suit consultants fresh out of university to change how you do business. Specifically, it’s “NO!” and “[BLEEP] off!” If you’re an executive and you’re truly desperate to empty your cash reserves with no expectation of getting anything back for it, just give the money to your employees.
Chinese electric vehicle maker Xpeng’s planned hires for this year have been revised up to 8,000 from 6,000, founder He Xiaopeng said in an internal speech.
Today’s technology leaders face an unprecedented challenge with the integration of artificial intelligence (AI) within the workplace: building teams that can ensure these increasingly powerful, and significantly influential, systems remain both capable and controlled
There have been issues with skills gaps in the booming STEM industry for some time now. The pace of change and society’s acute reliance on the sector’s breakthroughs – from the green transition to AI to biotech innovations – has meant that the demand from companies to “find talent” has skyrocketed.
In a workplace defined by constant disruption, where technology is driving change across every industry, one thing is clear: More skills lead to more opportunities. That means a lifelong learning mindset is your biggest professional asset.
Energy majors are pouring money into gas exploration and production in Malaysia and Indonesia to meet rising power demand from growing populations and a proliferation of data centres in the region.
As we start the new work week, it’s a near certainty that the main topic of conversation in every American office will be the weekend’s duelling political spectacles. In case y’all missed it – good for you if you escaped the coverage! – two major events occurred this weekend that sucked all the air out of the national conversation.
Capita, a British outsourcer that works with government, armed forces and companies, said it was using AI to cut recruitment from weeks to just hours, and it would roll out the service, developed with Salesforce Inc, this summer.