Amazon to hire 100,000 workers
Published in News
Tuesday, 17 March 2020 11:16

Amazon to hire 100,000 workers


Online orders surge

Amazon.com is hiring 100,000 warehouse and delivery workers in the United States to deal with a surge in online orders, as many consumers have turned to the web to meet their needs during the coronavirus outbreak.

Apple’s treatment of staff was illegal
Published in News
Friday, 14 February 2020 10:24

Apple’s treatment of staff was illegal


We will search your bags and you will pay for it

Fruity cargo cult Apple’s paranoid controlling antics over its staff appeared to have cost it in court.

AI will change all jobs
Published in AI
Thursday, 31 October 2019 13:29

AI will change all jobs


The world will need creativity instead, says Big Blue

AI is likely to change how every job is performed, eliminating work related to repetitive tasks but increasing the need for creative thinkers, according to a new study.

Corporate automation is an invisible job killer
Published in IoT


According to a team of economists

Ominous new research by a team of economists claims that businesses are slowly driving away employees with an invisible move to automation.

Only a quarter of US jobs upgraded to machines
Published in News


To really stuff something up will still require a human

Boffins at the Brookings Institute have been adding up some numbers and think that only a quarter of US occupations are at "high risk" for losing jobs from the advance of automation.

Thursday, 01 December 2011 11:55

Apple disappoints local residents

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Huge data centre did not bring jobs