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July 27, 2023
Time to Do Something About the NILFs
…of the latter devoted to looking at screens: phones, computers, and television. If our blistering hot labor market, rapid wage increases, and growth in traditionally male-dominated occupations are not enough to coax men back into…
June 13, 2023
Is There an AI Gender Gap?
…going away. Its influence on our lives and jobs is growing rapidly with a flood of new tools entering the market on a daily basis. Some of these innovations will…
March 31, 2023
AI and the Future of Work: Preparing the Workforce for an AI-Driven Economy
…the continued integration of AI tools across our economy. To paraphrase Mark Twain, reports of the “end of work” have been greatly exaggerated – more than once. Throughout history, the…
March 27, 2023
Here Are the Kinds of Jobs Chat AI Is Likeliest to Affect
…out last week with a first look at the potential labor market impact of chat technology. If these initial “guesstimates” hold up, we might be looking at an inversion of the recent…
March 6, 2023
The Federal AI Shambles
…that undergirded it. Microsoft promptly announced an additional $10 billion of investment in OpenAI research and suddenly it seemed like the whole computer science industrial complex was racing to market…
February 28, 2023
Workforce Futures Initiative: How Well Does the American Workforce System Work?
…community colleges and their connection to the workforce, and labor market data information. Mr. Orrell concluded the discussion by showing the viewers the home page of the newly launched WFI…
February 14, 2023
Brave New Technology
…20- to 30-year period. The shift from services and information to an integrated global economy (as marked by China’s accession to the World Trade Organization) was 20 years. And we’ve…
February 8, 2023
Where the Tech Layoffs Are Hitting Hardest
…months. The tech sector is reportedly taking a beating after a decade as the darling of the economy and the market. On the ground it looks more like a scolding,…
January 24, 2023
“Gig,” Contract, and Nontraditional Workers
…vast labor market actually operates. This is especially true when we consider the “gig” or contract worker economy, which has grown dramatically in the past 15 years due to internet-based…
January 1, 2023
Perspective: Is your boss on your DOS? How remote work monitoring can work
…to less time spent on commuting. If so, it’s worth asking whether remote work monitoring is, in reality, a solution looking for a problem. Trust and markets Our entire economic…