No-hour work week.
The 9 to 5 workday is outdated. Happy workers are more healthy and more creative, so it’s time to start giving our workers the leeway to be happy (because otherwise they work all the time). The secret: Treat them like people.
Continue reading… “The 9 to 5 is dead – redesigning work for the modern economy”
Ambitious people are unhappier.
A new study found while people who are ‘go-getters’ are more likely to attend prestigious universities and hold high-paying jobs, they are only slightly happier than their less-ambitious counterparts—and actually live shorter lives.
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Daycares adapt to the demand for round-the-clock childcare.
At 8:30 p.m 6-year-old twins Michael and Mateo Lopez are snuggled under blankets, watching television in their pajamas after eating a dinner of spaghetti and meatballs.
Continue reading… “Demand for round-the-clock childcare on the rise”
The number of women earning more than their husbands had gradually been rising for years.
Julee Schirmacher has found herself in a spot that has become familiar to many families over the past few years since her husband was laid off last fall. She works full-time for a marketing company and, for now, her husband stays home and takes care of the couple’s two kids, ages 5 and 2.
Continue reading… “More wives outearning their husbands”
Colorado’s savvy entrepreneurs and highly skilled workforce make it a perfect location for a new satellite patent office.
Colorado is a hub for economic innovation. Colorado has some of the most savvy entrepreneurs, a highly skilled workforce and an array of top-tier research institutions that help make Colorado a place where innovation thrives.
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Construction workers scored high for happiness.
If you work in retail or media it isn’t just your imagination when you think your friends who work in education and real estate are all happier than you.
Continue reading… “The happiest and unhappiest fields to work in”
Google’s self-driving car
Google wants to hire engineers to design and test the self-driving cars it’s been working on. Check out some of the new job listings Google has posted in the last couple weeks:
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It’s no longer uncommon for people to work until 70.
In 1972, when Paula Symons joined the U.S. workforce, typewriters in her office clacked nonstop, people answered the telephones and the hot new technology revolutionizing communication was the fax machine.
Continue reading… “Baby boomers in America enter new era of ‘work til you drop’”
Investment banking may be bad for your health.
On the list of things that could be dangerous to your health: add investment banking.
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6th fastest-growing job in the U.S. is veterinary technologists & technicians
In January, the economy added nearly 250,000 jobs, but that’s only the tip of the iceberg. The economy is expected to add more than 20 million jobs by 2020, a 14.3% increase from 2010 in the number of people employed, according to recent data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Many of these jobs will be focused in a few key industries.
Continue reading… “Top 10 fastest growing jobs in the U.S.”
The demand for applications has created 466,000 jobs in the U.S. since 2007.
If you are looking for a promising career in a lousy economy then you are apt to find it in apps — the services and tools built to run on smartphones, computer tablets and Facebook’s online social network, according to a new study.
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A picture of me speaking at yesterday’s TEDxReset in Istanbul.
Futurist Thomas Frey: Yesterday I was honored to be one of the featured speakers at the TEDxReset Conference in Istanbul, Turkey where I predicted that over 2 billion jobs will disappear by 2030. Since my 18-minute talk was about the rapidly shifting nature of colleges and higher education, I didn’t have time to explain how and why so many jobs would be going away. Because of all of the questions I received afterwards, I will do that here.
Continue reading… “2 Billion Jobs to Disappear by 2030”