Fast forward to 2024. Robots have not completely taken over but they and automation have definitely changed the landscape of work. This isn’t meant to be a crystal ball into our future world but rather an attempt to extend what we already see happening in work and the movement of these practices from the fringes of ‘innovative workplaces’ to the mainstream. Being a worker in this future world might look something like this…
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iBeacon could change the retail experience for consumers.
The iBeacon is an indoor positioning system that communicates with devices via Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE). It’s basically GPS for indoors.
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The college you attend is not the secret of happiness and satisfaction with work and life.
A new Gallup survey of 29,560 college graduates has found that the college they attended didn’t affect how happy they were after graduation, or their subsequent engagement with work.
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Agricultural engineers measuring the reflectance of sunlight from cotton plants.
Agricultural engineers, computer programmers, financial analysts and radiation therapists are just a few of the many occupations that earn a median hourly salary of $35, or about $70,000 per year.If a paycheck like that sounds desirable to you, consider any of the following 14 jobs.
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There are over 20 million non-employer businesses out there today, with more starting every day.
There is a resurgence of entrepreneurial spirit ever since the recent recession, and more startup activity than ever before. The days of the “job work” mentality are waning, with more people looking to get satisfaction by making the world a better place, rather than just tolerating brain-numbing work to fund enjoyment elsewhere.
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More than eight in ten people still drive to work.
It’s been said a thousand times, but we’ll say it again: Driving is in decline.
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I wish I’d had the courage to live a life true to myself.
In a book called “The Top Five Regrets of The Dying,” a palliative nurse recorded the most common regrets of the dying. It’s not surprising to see what made the list as they are all things that touch each of our lives as we struggle to pay attention to and make time for things that we truly love.
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Monster.com and market research company GfK conducted a survey of 8,000 workers across the United States, Canada, India, and Europe which we suppose makes it somewhat official: America is number one! Number one in the percentage of employees who hate their jobs, that is.
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Some research shows that higher pay does not, on net, lead workers to do more.
The English philosopher, Bertrand Russell, was not a fan of work. In his 1932 essay, “In Praise of Idleness”, he reckoned that if society were better managed the average person would only need to work four hours a day. Such a small working day would “entitle a man to the necessities and elementary comforts of life.” The rest of the day could be devoted to the pursuit of science, painting and writing.
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What music works best with your particular job?
What music you listen to at home may depend on your mood, what you’re doing, what you’re planning to do and who you’re with. When you listen to music at work, you should also take into account what you do for a living. (Infographic)
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For most married men and women today, marriage looks pretty good.
Liza Mundy paints a dismal portrait of heterosexual marriage. In the bleak rendering, contemporary marriage comes across as unequal, unfair, and unhappy to today’s wives. Wives are burdened with an unequal and unfair “second shift” of housework and childcare, husbands enjoy “free time” while their wives toil away at home, lingering gender inequalities in family life leave many wives banging “their heads on their desks in despair,” and one poor woman cannot even have a second child because she does “everything” and her husband does nothing. Mundy also suggests that recent declines in women’s happiness can be laid at the feet of “lingering inequity in male-female marriage.”
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Are we more productive in the office, or out of the office?
According to a new survey of 1,000 Americans by uSamp, 65 percent of companies allow remote work, and an even higher percentage of big companies take advantage of home and virtual offices. But what does that do to productivity? (Infographic)
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