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How to Make Expert Ethical Decisions in the AI Era

The FINANCIAL -- AI is great at cognitive thinking but terrible at ethical thinking. So bad at ethical judgment, in fact, that questions of ethics are likely to remain one of the most challenging aspects of developing large-scale commercial applications of ...

Culture Wins When You Listen to Your Top Performers

The FINANCIAL -- Retention is challenging for many organizations, especially in today's tight labor market when 63% of full-time employees say it is "somewhat likely" or "very likely" that they could ...

Are You Asking the Right Questions in the New AI Era?

The FINANCIAL -- The problem with human decision-making is that it's just plain ...

6 Steps to an Engaged Government Workplace

The FINANCIAL -- On July 30, Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President and Prime Minister of the United Arab Emirates and Ruler of Dubai, tweeted about employee satisfaction reports from ...

More than 10 million UK workers could be using smartphones to boost productivity

The FINANCIAL -- New research from Deloitte maps the state of mobile-readiness across the UK workforce and reveals how mobile devices could be critical to boosting worker productivity; Two-fifths of ...

The Neglected Benefits of the Commute

The FINANCIAL -- It can be disheartening to recognise the amount of time we spend in transit. The average Londoner passes more than 40 minutes on each leg of their journey to work, for instance. That ...

How to Get People Behind a New Company Vision

The FINANCIAL -- 22% of U.S. employees strongly agree that their company's leaders have a clear direction for their ...

Temporary and part-time jobs on the rise

The FINANCIAL -- The possibility of finding a permanent job decreased slightly between 2002 and 2017, as the share of temporary employees in the EU increased from 11 % in 2002 to 13 % in ...

Financial services missing ‘window of opportunity’ to support women’s progress, finds PwC report

The FINANCIAL -- Financial services (FS) is falling behind other sectors when it comes to supporting women’s progress into senior positions, according to a global report from ...

After Cannabis Legalization, Volume Limits on Khantsi?

People tend give a lot of weight to plebiscites and referendums due to their focus on political participation. However, petitions can also help to improve things in many ways and make life more ...

Americans Divided on Leaving Fat, Sugar, Salt Off the Plate

The FINANCIAL -- Americans almost unanimously desire to include vegetables and fruits in their diet, but their opinions on whether to actively avoid more controversial nutritional elements such as ...

A growing share of Americans now say three or more kids are ‘ideal’

The FINANCIAL -- Ahead of National Middle Child Day, some have recently pondered whether middle children are “going extinct.” Yet new data on the number of children Americans see as “ideal” ...