Plants Improve Work Life – Study
Scientist says not many people fully understand benefits of stress recovery brought by plants
Tag: work
Why Minimum Wage Is Bad for Young Workers
Study shows set wages create a barrier to entering hourly labor market for people with no experience
Women in Blue-Collar Jobs Age Faster Than Peers – Study
Working men age slower in all age groups
Best Time to Exercise Discovered
Daily timing a critical variable for metabolic benefits
Work Won’t Be Scarce–It’s Paid Work That Will Be Scarce
All the media chatter about work disappearing due to automation fails to draw the critical distinction between useful but unpaid work and profitable work.Since value (and profits/wages) flow to what’s scarce, what matters is not the decline of useful work–there’s…
How Can Older Workers Compete in an Economy That Values Youth?
Workers of all ages are caught in a vise. Older workers need to keep working longer in an economy which values younger workers (and their cheaper healthcare premiums). Younger workers are caught in the vice of “you don’t have enough…
How to Escape the Purgatory of Minimum Wage/Part-Time Jobs
Readers responded positively to my recent essay on the emerging economy and jobs: A Teachable Moment: to the Young Person Who Complained About Her Job/Pay at Yelp and Was Promptly Fired Many young people are stuck in the purgatory of…
Three Signs Corporate Work Culture Has Become Toxic to the Human Spirit
‘Feeling trapped on the corporate ladder? You’re not alone… our work culture has become uncaring, toxic and rather dangerous to our well-being. Everybody seems to be working harder and harder these days, but genuinely happy people are hard to come by, even amongst those who actually have decent jobs. The truth is, very few people […]
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Work till you drop under new plans to delay state pension into 70s
The government has hinted that millions of people would be forced to work until they were 75 before they were allowed the state pension under a retirement age review headed by Sir John Cridland.
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The World of Work Has Changed, and It’s Never Going Back to the “Good Old Days”
The world of work has changed, and the rate of change is increasing. Despite the hopes of those who want to turn back the clock to the golden era of high-paying, low-skilled manufacturing jobs and an abundance of secure service-sector…
Benefit Sanctions Can’t Possibly ‘Incentivise’ People To Work – And Here’s Why
‘The Conservative-led welfare “reforms” had the stated aim of ensuring that benefit claimants, who have been stigmatised and inaccurately redefined as economic free-riders, are entitled to a minimum income provided that they uphold responsibilities which entail being pushed into any available work. Conditionality for social security has been around as long as the welfare […]
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The Flaws in Basic Income for Everyone
Finland made the news recently by proposing a pilot program of guaranteed income for all, also known as Universal Basic Income: Desperate Finland Set To Unleash Helicopter Money Drop To All Citizens. The goal is two-fold: by providing every household…
Conservatives Want Primary Schoolchildren to Be Taught To Work Not Live on Benefits
‘This is how desperate the Tories are to try to stop people claiming unemployment benefit. According to a couple of pieces in today’s I, the Tories want children in primary schools to be taught about work and careers in order to stop them claiming benefits. It says in the article on page two, Primary Children […]
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Automation Doesn’t Just Destroy Jobs–It Destroys Profits, Too
The idea that taxing the owners of robots and software will fund guaranteed incomes for all is not anchored in reality. Automation is upending the global order by eliminating human labor on an unprecedented scale–and the status quo has no…
Revealed: Social Experiments To ‘Nudge’ Sick And Disabled Into Work
‘The Government’s ‘Nudge Unit’ team is currently working with the Department for Work and Pensions and the Department of Health, to trial social experiments aimed at finding ways of keeping or pushing sick and disabled people into work. “These include GPs prescribing a work coach, and a health and work passport to collate employment and […]
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