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Green jobs are booming, but too few employees have sustainability skills to fill them – here are 4 ways to close the gap

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To meet today’s global sustainability challenges, the corporate world needs more than a few chief sustainability officers – it needs an army of employees, in all areas of business, thinking about sustainability in their decisions every […]

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Atlanta’s Best Neighborhoods For Young Professionals

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Atlanta, Georgia, is one of the best cities for young professionals to live and work in the United States. It has a strong job market with many Fortune 500 companies, is known as a top […]

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How to Improve Your Chances of Getting That Business Bank Loan

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Businesses often require bank loans to get their feet off the ground. Not everyone has the initial investment that can help you become operational or scale properly to improve productivity. But because of the influx […]

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Do you answer emails outside work hours? Do you send them? New research shows how dangerous this can be

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What could be so bad about answering a few emails in the evening? Perhaps something urgent pops up, we are tidying up an issue from the day, or trying to get ahead for tomorrow. Always […]

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Why women need male allies in the workplace – and why fighting everyday sexism enriches men too

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Women and groups advocating for gender equality are increasingly urging men to become allies in the fight. Research has shown that in the absence of male support, women have to shoulder the burden of battling routine workplace sexism such as misogynist […]

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Telecommuting can reduce congestion, but might create other traffic problems

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Telecommuting has the potential to reduce traffic congestion, but other factors, such as increasing the distance between home and work or adding new trips, can contribute to producing more congestion. Studies conducted prior to the […]

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Factories of the future: we’re spending heavily to give workers skills they won’t need by 2030

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“This government is obsessed with skilling up our population,” said Boris Johnson in his recent speech on “levelling up”. There is still a fair amount of uncertainty about exactly what the UK prime minister’s plan to level up the […]

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Top football recruits bring in big money for colleges – COVID-19 could threaten revenue

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Colleges and universities are spending more than ever to land the nation’s top football recruits, with some schools having boosted their recruiting budgets by more than 300% in the last five years. These budgets can surpass US$2 million […]

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6 ways recent college graduates can enhance their online job search

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When recent or soon-to-be college graduates begin to seek employment, many inevitably turn to job-search and networking platforms on the internet. The platforms include some that are college-based – such as Handshake, Symplicity GradLeaders and 12twenty – as well as networking […]

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At what age are people usually happiest? New research offers surprising clues

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If you could be one age for the rest of your life, what would it be? Would you choose to be nine years old, absolved of life’s most tedious responsibilities, and instead able to spend […]

Top Stories

  • ‘Weights of gold in bullion’: How the ancients invested in precious metals

    “All I want is an income of 20,000 sesterces from secure investments,” proclaims a character in a poem by Juvenal (1st–2nd century CE), the Roman poet.This post was originally published on this site
  • Treasure the emotional connections to the clothes you have and style could be a whole lot more sustainable

    With January sales around the corner, another flood of unwanted clothes risks drowning our wardrobes and the planet.This post was originally published on this site
  • Can you ‘live long and prosper’ by learning economics from Star Trek? Or is that ‘highly illogical?’

    It might seem worlds away from the Earth we know. But can “Star Trek” teach us anything about the economics of our own society?This post was originally published on this site

Highlights

  • Why central bankers look to the ‘stars’ when setting interest rates
  • AI model uses social media posts to predict unemployment rates ahead of official data
  • ‘Weights of gold in bullion’: How the ancients invested in precious metals
WHAT’S NEW
  • Why shoppers buy fast fashion even if they disagree with it
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  • ‘Lifting and shifting’ workers is not always the best answer
  • Early motherhood carries wage penalty, while delaying pays off
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  • Report challenges climate change as sole trigger of Syrian Civil War, exposing governance failures in drought response
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