The country’s new Startup Act offers some eye-catching incentives to boost entrepreneurship, including a one-year leave period for employees to set up a new business with the right to ret...

Johnny Wood 20 Mar 2019

Drones

This drone is a sheepdog

Drones are being used in New Zealand to herd sheep, and they're even being fitted with a 'digital bark' to help.

Jon Christian · Futurism 20 Mar 2019

Global Economic Imbalances

Which countries are best at attracting high-skilled workers?

In order to survive and prosper, companies must attract the top talent from around the world. This is where they're all coming from and going to.

Jeff Desjardins · Visual Capitalist 20 Mar 2019

European Union

What I learned from a year of working Danishly

The Danish working model could offer lessons for the rest of the world.

Christian Bason and Simona Maschi · Quartz 19 Mar 2019

Artificial Intelligence and Robotics

These are the jobs increasingly at risk from automation

In his new book, The Globotics Upheaval, economics professor Richard Baldwin argues the twin trends of globalization and robotics will usher in a period of unprecedented disruption that c...

Knowledge@Wharton · Knowledge@Wharton 19 Mar 2019

United States

In polarized America, a new divide looms

The IT revolution changed the way people work. The advance of automation could call into question whether people will work at all. Not all people, however. Just some.

Sean Fleming 18 Mar 2019

Education, Gender and Work

This is what people find distracting at work

From noisy coworkers to browsing social media, these are the most common distractions in the workplace.

Sarah Feldman · Statista 18 Mar 2019

Inclusive Growth Framework

What Italian board reform tells us about the gender gap

Mandated gender quotas in Italy have been successful at increasing the number of women on boards. But the relevant law is temporary and affects only a small number of firms. The column us...

Andrea Weber and Agata Maida · VoxEU 18 Mar 2019

Artificial Intelligence and Robotics

The impact of AI and information technologies on worker stress

The development and diffusion of new information technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI) continue apace (Bughin and Hazan 2017), but how are these factors likely to change work ...

Isamu Yamamoto · VoxEU 18 Mar 2019

Workforce and Employment

Should you listen to music while doing intellectual work?

Researchers have revealed that the need to listen to music when working is based upon personality, the music and work involved.

Christian Jarrett · Big Think 15 Mar 2019

Workforce and Employment

This robot could be conducting your next job interview

Tengai the robot is designed to conduct interviews in a consistent and controlled manner, and eliminate any chance of bias that could interfere with a human interviewer's judgement.

Kristin Houser · Futurism 15 Mar 2019

Workforce and Employment

Flexible jobs can make work-life balance worse, a German study finds

Working from home and at odd hours can lead to more overtime and less freedom, according to a new study of working parents in Germany.

Douglas Broom 14 Mar 2019

Inclusive Growth Framework

Vienna has the world's best quality of living

They’re the engines of the global economy and home to more than half the world’s population. But city life can differ greatly from one metropolis to another.

Sean Fleming 14 Mar 2019

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