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Start Your Dream Job Now!Anne Sulzbergerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17091067031029918700noreply@blogger.comBlogger6869125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6744683886539852356.post-6625353657461449842024-03-28T01:56:00.000-07:002024-03-28T01:56:41.957-07:00These are the 10 top-paying U.S. cities where women outearn men<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEifgzAhxe384cPBUUDhWk_LxH1b-xO9QUAIGVOWAHws_pz87VD8OH5wFcS7czsGEyj4li0AbswWLmCnPJpVBSgf_rtXzg5V4qzT8kMIADYT98NbTSR96R2dkX0ZF9W0zJIQtdlq3wtFSHU1wK4g8IlE7mD6M0VoOcE-SmU7_a4Wb-gOAENU5yN6BH__tb4/s3296/i-use-midjourney-for-mock-ups-for-social-media-posts-for-my-v0-j4csk9dpiyqc1.webp" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1440" data-original-width="3296" height="280" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEifgzAhxe384cPBUUDhWk_LxH1b-xO9QUAIGVOWAHws_pz87VD8OH5wFcS7czsGEyj4li0AbswWLmCnPJpVBSgf_rtXzg5V4qzT8kMIADYT98NbTSR96R2dkX0ZF9W0zJIQtdlq3wtFSHU1wK4g8IlE7mD6M0VoOcE-SmU7_a4Wb-gOAENU5yN6BH__tb4/w640-h280/i-use-midjourney-for-mock-ups-for-social-media-posts-for-my-v0-j4csk9dpiyqc1.webp" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p><p><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;">Gender Pay Disparity Analysis</span></p><p><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;">1. Out of approximately 1,800 cities analyzed, women outearn men in just 42 U.S. cities, according to a new GoBankingRates report using Census Bureau data.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;">2. The report considers the median annual earnings for men and women in cities with a population of at least 20,000 people.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;">3. Across the U.S., women are paid just 84 cents for every $1 paid to a man, on average.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;">#### Top-Paying Cities Where Women Outearn Men</span></p><p><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;">- **Bowie, Md.**: Women earn a median of $81,011 a year</span></p><p><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;">- **Clinton, Md.**: Women earn a median of $71,123 a year</span></p><p><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;">- **Fort Washington, Md.**: Women earn a median of $69,983 a year</span></p><p><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;">- **Oakland, Calif.**: Women earn a median of $68,260 a year</span></p><p><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;">- **Goleta, Calif.**: Women earn a median of $65,030 a year</span></p><p><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;">- **Laurel, Md.**: Women earn a median of $65,008 a year</span></p><p><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;">- **Monrovia, Calif.**: Women earn a median of $62,016 a year</span></p><p><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;">- **Hackensack, N.J.**: Women earn a median of $60,237 a year</span></p><p><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;">- **Newark, Del.**: Women earn a median of $58,769 a year</span></p><p><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;">- **Chamblee, Ga.**: Women earn a median of $58,590 a year</span></p><p><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;"> - In each of these cities, women outearn men by a share of 0.14% to 18.95% of what men earn.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;">#### Insights and Implications</span></p><p><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;">1. Many of the top cities with gender parity and higher earning power for women are near Washington D.C., where government jobs have more transparent pay practices, contributing to greater gender pay parity.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;">2. The lack of a gender pay gap in these cities isn’t necessarily indicative of higher earning power for women as some cities have median earnings for women around $30,000 to $40,000.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;">3. Women, especially women of color, are overrepresented in minimum wage jobs, pointing towards an existing disparity.</span></p><p><br /></p><p><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;">- Jacksonville, N.C.: Women earn roughly 20% more than men, at $33,000 a year compared with men who earn roughly $27,000 a year. However, this is lower than the national median salary.</span></p><p><br /></p><p><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;">1. Despite the overall high earning rates for women in some cities, men outearn women by a substantial rate in the top-earning cities.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;">2. The impact of gender pay disparity is evident, particularly concerning the overrepresentation of women in low-wage jobs, emphasizing the need for measures to address this issue at both local and national levels. </span></p>Anne Sulzbergerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17091067031029918700noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6744683886539852356.post-73682224186572995822024-03-28T01:05:00.000-07:002024-03-28T01:05:59.189-07:00Hidden costs, public burden: The real toll of Walmart's "always low prices" Instead of paying a living wage to their employees, taxpayers are footing the bill<p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 20px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPrOmwvbK4O5582xWze04YEmdLhHYZbr1twTsdXF5H6LDp8aZOWkAeRhuGwDqnx7hWQ1OF_gxcvx9ihNYuh8atU0_ztM8lAusfVO4N3nfOoO-lLKZNwPPRwjsh3mjaWKcsZgjINjZCI8F8LkurrCq0HQeF5hVwxgLJDsDqZIgxLxg4IOaMLdtO8AD4Z-4/s3360/Arale%20Reartes.webp" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3360" data-original-width="2240" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPrOmwvbK4O5582xWze04YEmdLhHYZbr1twTsdXF5H6LDp8aZOWkAeRhuGwDqnx7hWQ1OF_gxcvx9ihNYuh8atU0_ztM8lAusfVO4N3nfOoO-lLKZNwPPRwjsh3mjaWKcsZgjINjZCI8F8LkurrCq0HQeF5hVwxgLJDsDqZIgxLxg4IOaMLdtO8AD4Z-4/w426-h640/Arale%20Reartes.webp" width="426" /></a></span></div><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;"><br /> Walmart, headquartered in Bentonville, Arkansas, is expanding by constructing a new corporate campus on the east side of town. While the company's current building seems unassuming, the new campus, designed like a college campus, consists of twelve buildings spread over 350 acres and is estimated to cost $1 billion. Bentonville, often referred to as Vendorville, has a close-knit relationship with Walmart and its vendors. The town, with a population of over fifty thousand, has experienced exceptional growth, closely tied to the expansion of Walmart. However, this growth has brought about significant wealth disparity.</span><p></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 20px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;">The Walton family, the richest family globally, with an estimated net worth of $225 billion, has been instrumental in shaping Bentonville. Their extensive contributions include the construction of the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art and a new medical school, both bearing the Walton name. Additionally, Sam's grandchildren have invested in the city, funding an art and music festival and promoting Bentonville as the "mountain biking capital of the world."</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 20px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 20px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;">Despite these contributions, there's an underlying disparity within Bentonville. Statistics reveal that nearly half of the children in Northwest Arkansas are growing up in families with low incomes, while the top 1% of households in the region earn an average of $2 million annually, making it one of the most unequal regions in America. This stark wealth contrast is exacerbated by Walmart's business practices.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 20px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;">Walmart's expansion strategy, including the construction of new buildings and, at times, the abandonment of older stores, has led to economic challenges in the communities it operates in. The company's actions, such as implementing restrictive covenants in old buildings and exploiting tax loopholes, have further fueled inequality and deprived local communities of essential tax revenue.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 20px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;">Moreover, Walmart's employment practices, historically marked by low wages and resistance to unionization, have had a profound impact on workers. The company's influence on the labor market has been so significant that it has driven down wages in the areas where it establishes its Supercenters. Furthermore, many Walmart workers are reliant on government public assistance programs, effectively shifting the burden onto taxpayers.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 20px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;">While Walmart's dominance in the grocery sector has resulted in a substantial portion of SNAP dollars running through its cash registers, the exact amount the company receives from SNAP remains undisclosed due to a Supreme Court ruling. Walmart's exploitation of these programs underscores the complexities of its impact on local communities and the broader national economy.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 20px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;">The Waltons, through their extensive wealth and influence, have shaped Bentonville's landscape. Their contributions, however, are juxtaposed with the underbelly of wealth disparity, labor exploitation, and the leveraging of government programs. The dynamics of power and influence within Bentonville raise critical considerations about the societal and economic impact of corporate giants like Walmart and the responsibilities they hold towards the communities they operate in. </span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 20px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"></p><div class="sim-module-wrapper lazyloaded" data-cy="sim-module" data-expand="1000" data-ref="sim-module-src-wrapper" data-script="https://www.thesun.co.uk/simwidgets/v1/simwidget.js?article_id=10906322&t=1711610383625&page_section=Money&page_section_2=Money:News Money&tags=Drones,Money US,Walmart" id="sim-module" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222526; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; order: 4; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; width: 619.991px; word-spacing: 0px;"><div id="sim-module-src-wrapper" style="box-sizing: border-box;"></div></div><p></p><div class="article__content" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222526; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 2.4rem; order: 3; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; width: 619.991px; word-spacing: 0px;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px 0px 16px; word-break: break-word;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;">WALMART, Chick-fil-A, and 7-11 are rolling out new technology that aims to deliver items to customers in a matter of minutes.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 16px; word-break: break-word;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;">The three mega-brands will be the first companies to launch a new drone delivery service with the<span> </span>Virginia<span> </span>startup DroneUp.</span></p><figure class="article__media" style="border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(173, 175, 176); box-sizing: border-box; display: block; margin: 3px 0px 16px; padding: 0px; width: 619.991px;"><div class="article__media-img-container open-gallery" data-index="332597" style="box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; margin: 0px; position: relative;"><a href="https://www.the-sun.com/money/10906322/walmart-drone-delivery-7-11-chick-fil-a/#" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #222526; text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;"><img alt="Huge brands are partnering with a Virginia startup to launch a new delivery-by-drone service" class=" lazyloaded" data-credit="DroneUp" data-img="https://www.the-sun.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/2024/03/7-11-chick-fil-a-890000470.jpg?strip=all&w=960" data-sizes="(max-width: 375px) 335px, (max-width: 520px) 480px, 620px" data-src="https://www.the-sun.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/2024/03/7-11-chick-fil-a-890000470.jpg" data-srcset="https://www.the-sun.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/2024/03/7-11-chick-fil-a-890000470.jpg?w=335 335w, https://www.the-sun.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/2024/03/7-11-chick-fil-a-890000470.jpg?w=480 480w, https://www.the-sun.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/2024/03/7-11-chick-fil-a-890000470.jpg?w=620 620w, https://www.the-sun.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/2024/03/7-11-chick-fil-a-890000470.jpg?w=670 670w, https://www.the-sun.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/2024/03/7-11-chick-fil-a-890000470.jpg?w=960 960w, https://www.the-sun.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/2024/03/7-11-chick-fil-a-890000470.jpg?w=1240 1240w, https://www.the-sun.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/2024/03/7-11-chick-fil-a-890000470.jpg?w=1005 1005w, https://www.the-sun.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/2024/03/7-11-chick-fil-a-890000470.jpg?w=1440 1440w, https://www.the-sun.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/2024/03/7-11-chick-fil-a-890000470.jpg?w=1860 1860w, https://www.the-sun.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/2024/03/7-11-chick-fil-a-890000470.jpg?w=1340 1340w, https://www.the-sun.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/2024/03/7-11-chick-fil-a-890000470.jpg?w=1920 1920w, https://www.the-sun.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/2024/03/7-11-chick-fil-a-890000470.jpg?w=2480 2480w" height="640" role="img" sizes="(max-width: 375px) 335px, (max-width: 520px) 480px, 620px" src="https://www.the-sun.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/2024/03/7-11-chick-fil-a-890000470.jpg" srcset="https://www.the-sun.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/2024/03/7-11-chick-fil-a-890000470.jpg?w=335 335w, https://www.the-sun.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/2024/03/7-11-chick-fil-a-890000470.jpg?w=480 480w, https://www.the-sun.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/2024/03/7-11-chick-fil-a-890000470.jpg?w=620 620w, https://www.the-sun.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/2024/03/7-11-chick-fil-a-890000470.jpg?w=670 670w, https://www.the-sun.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/2024/03/7-11-chick-fil-a-890000470.jpg?w=960 960w, https://www.the-sun.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/2024/03/7-11-chick-fil-a-890000470.jpg?w=1240 1240w, https://www.the-sun.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/2024/03/7-11-chick-fil-a-890000470.jpg?w=1005 1005w, https://www.the-sun.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/2024/03/7-11-chick-fil-a-890000470.jpg?w=1440 1440w, https://www.the-sun.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/2024/03/7-11-chick-fil-a-890000470.jpg?w=1860 1860w, https://www.the-sun.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/2024/03/7-11-chick-fil-a-890000470.jpg?w=1340 1340w, https://www.the-sun.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/2024/03/7-11-chick-fil-a-890000470.jpg?w=1920 1920w, https://www.the-sun.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/2024/03/7-11-chick-fil-a-890000470.jpg?w=2480 2480w" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: block; height: auto; max-width: 100%; width: 619.991px;" width="960" /></span></a><div class="article__gallery-count" style="background-color: rgba(57, 62, 63, 0.8); background-image: url("/assets/thesun/images/gallery_icon.svg"); background-position: 13px center; background-repeat: no-repeat; background-size: 23px; bottom: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; height: 32px; pointer-events: none; position: absolute; right: 0px;"><span class="article__gallery-count-value" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: white; display: block; line-height: 2.4rem; padding: 5px 14px 0px 45px; width: 69.4705px;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;">6</span></span></div></div><figcaption class="article__media-caption" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700; line-height: 2.2rem; padding: 8px 0px;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;"><span class="article__media-span" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-right: 4px;">Huge brands are partnering with a Virginia startup to launch a new delivery-by-drone service</span><span class="article__credit" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #6e7070; display: inline-block; font-weight: 500; line-height: 2.2rem;">Credit: DroneUp</span></span></figcaption></figure><figure class="article__media" style="border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(173, 175, 176); box-sizing: border-box; display: block; margin: 3px 0px 16px; padding: 0px; width: 619.991px;"><div class="article__media-img-container open-gallery" data-index="332598" style="box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; margin: 0px; position: relative;"><a href="https://www.the-sun.com/money/10906322/walmart-drone-delivery-7-11-chick-fil-a/#" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #222526; text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;"><img alt="DroneUp says it is working with Walmart, 7-11, and Chick-fil-A" class=" lazyloaded" data-credit="Alamy" data-img="https://www.the-sun.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/2024/03/walmart-store-facade-displaying-companys-888039145_ab89cf.jpg?strip=all&w=960" data-sizes="(max-width: 375px) 335px, (max-width: 520px) 480px, 620px" data-src="https://www.the-sun.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/2024/03/walmart-store-facade-displaying-companys-888039145_ab89cf.jpg" data-srcset="https://www.the-sun.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/2024/03/walmart-store-facade-displaying-companys-888039145_ab89cf.jpg?w=335 335w, https://www.the-sun.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/2024/03/walmart-store-facade-displaying-companys-888039145_ab89cf.jpg?w=480 480w, https://www.the-sun.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/2024/03/walmart-store-facade-displaying-companys-888039145_ab89cf.jpg?w=620 620w, https://www.the-sun.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/2024/03/walmart-store-facade-displaying-companys-888039145_ab89cf.jpg?w=670 670w, https://www.the-sun.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/2024/03/walmart-store-facade-displaying-companys-888039145_ab89cf.jpg?w=960 960w, https://www.the-sun.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/2024/03/walmart-store-facade-displaying-companys-888039145_ab89cf.jpg?w=1240 1240w, https://www.the-sun.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/2024/03/walmart-store-facade-displaying-companys-888039145_ab89cf.jpg?w=1005 1005w, https://www.the-sun.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/2024/03/walmart-store-facade-displaying-companys-888039145_ab89cf.jpg?w=1440 1440w, https://www.the-sun.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/2024/03/walmart-store-facade-displaying-companys-888039145_ab89cf.jpg?w=1860 1860w, https://www.the-sun.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/2024/03/walmart-store-facade-displaying-companys-888039145_ab89cf.jpg?w=1340 1340w, https://www.the-sun.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/2024/03/walmart-store-facade-displaying-companys-888039145_ab89cf.jpg?w=1920 1920w, https://www.the-sun.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/2024/03/walmart-store-facade-displaying-companys-888039145_ab89cf.jpg?w=2480 2480w" height="640" role="img" sizes="(max-width: 375px) 335px, (max-width: 520px) 480px, 620px" src="https://www.the-sun.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/2024/03/walmart-store-facade-displaying-companys-888039145_ab89cf.jpg" srcset="https://www.the-sun.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/2024/03/walmart-store-facade-displaying-companys-888039145_ab89cf.jpg?w=335 335w, https://www.the-sun.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/2024/03/walmart-store-facade-displaying-companys-888039145_ab89cf.jpg?w=480 480w, https://www.the-sun.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/2024/03/walmart-store-facade-displaying-companys-888039145_ab89cf.jpg?w=620 620w, https://www.the-sun.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/2024/03/walmart-store-facade-displaying-companys-888039145_ab89cf.jpg?w=670 670w, https://www.the-sun.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/2024/03/walmart-store-facade-displaying-companys-888039145_ab89cf.jpg?w=960 960w, https://www.the-sun.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/2024/03/walmart-store-facade-displaying-companys-888039145_ab89cf.jpg?w=1240 1240w, https://www.the-sun.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/2024/03/walmart-store-facade-displaying-companys-888039145_ab89cf.jpg?w=1005 1005w, https://www.the-sun.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/2024/03/walmart-store-facade-displaying-companys-888039145_ab89cf.jpg?w=1440 1440w, https://www.the-sun.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/2024/03/walmart-store-facade-displaying-companys-888039145_ab89cf.jpg?w=1860 1860w, https://www.the-sun.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/2024/03/walmart-store-facade-displaying-companys-888039145_ab89cf.jpg?w=1340 1340w, https://www.the-sun.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/2024/03/walmart-store-facade-displaying-companys-888039145_ab89cf.jpg?w=1920 1920w, https://www.the-sun.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/2024/03/walmart-store-facade-displaying-companys-888039145_ab89cf.jpg?w=2480 2480w" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: block; height: auto; max-width: 100%; width: 619.991px;" width="960" /></span></a><div class="article__gallery-count" style="background-color: rgba(57, 62, 63, 0.8); background-image: url("/assets/thesun/images/gallery_icon.svg"); background-position: 13px center; background-repeat: no-repeat; background-size: 23px; bottom: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; height: 32px; pointer-events: none; position: absolute; right: 0px;"><span class="article__gallery-count-value" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: white; display: block; line-height: 2.4rem; padding: 5px 14px 0px 45px; width: 69.4705px;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;">6</span></span></div></div><figcaption class="article__media-caption" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700; line-height: 2.2rem; padding: 8px 0px;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;"><span class="article__media-span" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-right: 4px;">DroneUp says it is working with Walmart, 7-11, and Chick-fil-A</span><span class="article__credit" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #6e7070; display: inline-block; font-weight: 500; line-height: 2.2rem;">Credit: Alamy</span></span></figcaption></figure><figure class="article__media" style="border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(173, 175, 176); box-sizing: border-box; display: block; margin: 3px 0px 16px; padding: 0px; width: 619.991px;"><div class="article__media-img-container open-gallery" data-index="332599" style="box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; margin: 0px; position: relative;"><a href="https://www.the-sun.com/money/10906322/walmart-drone-delivery-7-11-chick-fil-a/#" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #222526; text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;"><img alt="The process involves a climate-controlled locker, referred to as DBX, where drones pick up packages" class=" lazyloaded" data-credit="DroneUp" data-img="https://www.the-sun.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/2024/03/wont-even-need-go-store-890000458.jpg?strip=all&w=960" data-sizes="(max-width: 375px) 335px, (max-width: 520px) 480px, 620px" data-src="https://www.the-sun.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/2024/03/wont-even-need-go-store-890000458.jpg" data-srcset="https://www.the-sun.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/2024/03/wont-even-need-go-store-890000458.jpg?w=335 335w, https://www.the-sun.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/2024/03/wont-even-need-go-store-890000458.jpg?w=480 480w, https://www.the-sun.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/2024/03/wont-even-need-go-store-890000458.jpg?w=620 620w, https://www.the-sun.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/2024/03/wont-even-need-go-store-890000458.jpg?w=670 670w, https://www.the-sun.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/2024/03/wont-even-need-go-store-890000458.jpg?w=960 960w, https://www.the-sun.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/2024/03/wont-even-need-go-store-890000458.jpg?w=1240 1240w, https://www.the-sun.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/2024/03/wont-even-need-go-store-890000458.jpg?w=1005 1005w, https://www.the-sun.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/2024/03/wont-even-need-go-store-890000458.jpg?w=1440 1440w, https://www.the-sun.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/2024/03/wont-even-need-go-store-890000458.jpg?w=1860 1860w, https://www.the-sun.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/2024/03/wont-even-need-go-store-890000458.jpg?w=1340 1340w, https://www.the-sun.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/2024/03/wont-even-need-go-store-890000458.jpg?w=1920 1920w, https://www.the-sun.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/2024/03/wont-even-need-go-store-890000458.jpg?w=2480 2480w" height="948" role="img" sizes="(max-width: 375px) 335px, (max-width: 520px) 480px, 620px" src="https://www.the-sun.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/2024/03/wont-even-need-go-store-890000458.jpg" srcset="https://www.the-sun.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/2024/03/wont-even-need-go-store-890000458.jpg?w=335 335w, https://www.the-sun.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/2024/03/wont-even-need-go-store-890000458.jpg?w=480 480w, https://www.the-sun.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/2024/03/wont-even-need-go-store-890000458.jpg?w=620 620w, https://www.the-sun.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/2024/03/wont-even-need-go-store-890000458.jpg?w=670 670w, https://www.the-sun.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/2024/03/wont-even-need-go-store-890000458.jpg?w=960 960w, https://www.the-sun.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/2024/03/wont-even-need-go-store-890000458.jpg?w=1240 1240w, https://www.the-sun.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/2024/03/wont-even-need-go-store-890000458.jpg?w=1005 1005w, https://www.the-sun.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/2024/03/wont-even-need-go-store-890000458.jpg?w=1440 1440w, https://www.the-sun.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/2024/03/wont-even-need-go-store-890000458.jpg?w=1860 1860w, https://www.the-sun.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/2024/03/wont-even-need-go-store-890000458.jpg?w=1340 1340w, https://www.the-sun.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/2024/03/wont-even-need-go-store-890000458.jpg?w=1920 1920w, https://www.the-sun.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/2024/03/wont-even-need-go-store-890000458.jpg?w=2480 2480w" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: block; height: auto; max-width: 100%; width: 619.991px;" width="960" /></span></a><div class="article__gallery-count" style="background-color: rgba(57, 62, 63, 0.8); background-image: url("/assets/thesun/images/gallery_icon.svg"); background-position: 13px center; background-repeat: no-repeat; background-size: 23px; bottom: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; height: 32px; pointer-events: none; position: absolute; right: 0px;"><span class="article__gallery-count-value" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: white; display: block; line-height: 2.4rem; padding: 5px 14px 0px 45px; width: 69.4705px;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;">6</span></span></div></div><figcaption class="article__media-caption" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700; line-height: 2.2rem; padding: 8px 0px;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;"><span class="article__media-span" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-right: 4px;">The process involves a climate-controlled locker, referred to as DBX, where drones pick up packages</span><span class="article__credit" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #6e7070; display: inline-block; font-weight: 500; line-height: 2.2rem;">Credit: DroneUp</span></span></figcaption></figure><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 16px; word-break: break-word;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;">DroneUp CEO Tom Walker introduced the company's proprietary autonomous drone "ecosystem" on Tuesday, saying it could revolutionize last-mile logistics.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 16px; word-break: break-word;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;">The system differs from existing drone delivery because it includes a climate-controlled locker, referred to as DBX, where drones pick up packages.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 16px; word-break: break-word;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;">The DBX is said to be smaller than a single parking space, allowing smaller<span> </span>retailers<span> </span>to use the new technology too.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 16px; word-break: break-word;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;">The lockers can serve as delivery hubs on college campuses and in cities, giving more people access to drone delivery.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 16px; word-break: break-word;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;">The company says the secure lockers will help ward off porch pirates and can be used by customers seeking to make returns as well.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 16px; word-break: break-word;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;">When making deliveries, the drones automatically know where to go in the sky, and have the power to avoid any aircraft along the way.</span></p><blockquote class="article__quote" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; font-weight: 700; line-height: 3.2rem; margin: 3px 0px 13px; overflow: hidden; position: relative; width: 619.991px;"><div class="article__quote-copy" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 20px 0px 65px; padding: 18px 0px 20px; position: relative;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;"><div class="article__quote-copy__icon" style="background-color: transparent !important; background-repeat: no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; content: ""; height: 55px; left: -65px; position: absolute; top: 22px; width: 55px;"><svg viewbox="73.5 9.3 488.3 400.3" x="0px" y="0px"><path class="t-p-fill" d="M226,152c14.2-55.5,51.9-77.2,95-90.1c4.4-1.3,3.6-5.8,3.6-5.8l-6.2-44c0,0-0.9-3.6-6.2-2.7 C159.9,25.4,57.8,141.3,75.5,282c18.6,98.1,95,135.8,164.7,125.6c70.1-11.5,118.5-76.8,107.4-146.9C338.4,198.1,286.4,154.2,226,152 z" fill="#EB1701"></path><path class="t-p-fill" d="M560.3,260.7C551,199,498.6,155.1,438.7,152c15.1-55.5,51.1-77.2,95-90.1c4.4-1.3,3.6-5.8,3.6-5.8l-7.1-44 c0,0-0.9-3.6-6.2-2.7C372.1,26.3,269.1,142.2,288.2,282.9c17.8,97.2,93.7,135,164.3,125.2C522.6,396.1,571,330.9,560.3,260.7 L560.3,260.7z" fill="#EB1701"></path><path class="t-s-fill" d="M347.2,260.7c-5.3-35.1-24-64.4-49.7-83.9c-10.7,32.4-14.7,68.4-9.3,105.7c5.8,32,17.8,57.3,33.7,76.8 C343.2,332.2,353.5,297.1,347.2,260.7z" fill="#A5171C"></path></svg></div><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px;">Throughout the last few years, our work with leading retailers and quick-service restaurants has provided us with valuable insights into the speed and convenience that end customers desire from drone delivery."</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px;"></p><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px;"></p><cite class="article__quote-credit t-p-color" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: RGBA(var(--primary),1); display: block; font-style: normal; line-height: 1.7rem; padding: 10px 0px 0px; text-transform: capitalize;"><span class="quote-credit" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700; padding-right: 4px;">DroneUp CEO Tom Walker</span></cite></span></div></blockquote><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 16px; word-break: break-word;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;">They travel 60 miles per hour within a 30-mile range and pick up packages using a claw-like grabber that can carry up to 10 pounds safely.</span></p><h2 class="wp-block-heading" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700; line-height: 2.8rem; margin: 0px 0px 16px;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;">HOW IT WORKS</span></h2><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 16px; word-break: break-word;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;">The first step in the drove delivery is a customer placing an order online.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 16px; word-break: break-word;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;">Retail or restaurant staff will then box up the customer's order and attach a specific barcode to the package.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 16px; word-break: break-word;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;">Once the box is scanned into the system, an employee will place it into the DBX locker, where it is weighed and shelved for pickup.</span></p><div class="brightcove" id="bc-video-6345362133112" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><div class="brightcove__holder lazyloaded" style="box-sizing: border-box; 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font-size: medium;">'Sounds like a swarm of bees,' customers react to Walmart's new drone service that delivers in just 30 minutes</span></span></div><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 16px; word-break: break-word;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;">The locker is climate-controlled, meaning the items are kept at the right temperature.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 16px; word-break: break-word;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;">When the item is ready, a drone is dispatched to the landing pad on top of the DBX.</span></p><div class="advert-wrapper advert-wrapper--advert-inarticle-mpu" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><div class="dfp-ad advert--in-article-mpu nuk-ad-placeholder" data-ad-label="inArticleMPU" id="advert-inarticle-mpu" style="box-sizing: border-box;"></div></div><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 16px; word-break: break-word;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;">The drone lands on top of the locker and the item is loaded onto the drone via a platform that raises from the top of the DBX.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 16px; word-break: break-word;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;">The company says that the drones are remotely piloted for speed and efficiency as the item heads to its dropoff location.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 16px; word-break: break-word;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;">The entire process is shown in a video on DroneUp's<span> </span><a aria-label="website (opens in a new tab)" href="https://www.droneup.com/sites/default/files/2024-03/droneup_dbx_white_box%20%28720p%29.mp4" previewlistener="true" rel="nofollow noreferrer noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #0072ee; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank">website</a>, which notes that each drone can make 50 deliveries per hour.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 16px; word-break: break-word;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;">"Order goes from store to customer in a matter of minutes," the company said.</span></p><div class="advert-wrapper advert-wrapper--advert-inarticle-mpu-1" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><div class="dfp-ad advert--in-article-mpu nuk-ad-placeholder" data-ad-label="inArticleMPU" id="advert-inarticle-mpu-1" style="box-sizing: border-box;"></div></div><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 16px; word-break: break-word;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;">The customer then grabs the box from the dropoff point, whether it be their front step or another convenient location.</span></p><h2 class="wp-block-heading" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700; line-height: 2.8rem; margin: 0px 0px 16px;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;">'DEMOCRATIZING AIRSPACE'</span></h2><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 16px; word-break: break-word;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;">DroneUp has been working with retailers and quick-service restaurants for years, gaining valuable insight into the speed and convenience that customers want from drone delivery, the CEO said.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 16px; word-break: break-word;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;">Walker believes that combining "flying robots" with ground-based automation will allow retailers to lower the cost of delivery.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 16px; word-break: break-word;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;">The average cost of drone delivery is $38 per trip, but 80% of that cost is due to labor, according to Walker.</span></p><div class="advert-wrapper advert-wrapper--advert-inarticle-mpu-2" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><div class="dfp-ad advert--in-article-mpu nuk-ad-placeholder" data-ad-label="inArticleMPU" id="advert-inarticle-mpu-2" style="box-sizing: border-box;"></div></div><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 16px; word-break: break-word;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;">"When we put in a DBX, all that labor cost comes out. So overnight, my delivery cost goes from $38 to sub-$10," the CEO told<span> </span><a aria-label=" (opens in a new tab)" href="https://www.axios.com/2024/03/26/walmart-7-11-chick-fil-a-drone-delivery-pilot-droneup" previewlistener="true" rel="nofollow noreferrer noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #0072ee; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank">Axios</a>.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 16px; word-break: break-word;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;">"I'm now competitive with every other last-mile provider, but I'm faster and more reliable."</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 16px; word-break: break-word;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;">Walker believes that this solves many common problems involved in the delivery process.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 16px; word-break: break-word;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;">"We're going to democratize the airspace," he said.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 16px; word-break: break-word;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;">"You could be Joe's Tailor Shop and you can have access to this for the same price that a Walmart has access to it.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 16px; word-break: break-word;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;">"All you have to do is print out the barcode and put the barcode on the package."</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 16px; word-break: break-word;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;">DroneUp has already rolled out the DBX in Virginia Beach and Dallas and plans to expand to other markets in late 2024.</span></p><figure class="article__media" style="border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(173, 175, 176); box-sizing: border-box; display: block; margin: 3px 0px 16px; padding: 0px; width: 619.991px;"><div class="article__media-img-container open-gallery" data-index="332600" style="box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; margin: 0px; position: relative;"><a href="https://www.the-sun.com/money/10906322/walmart-drone-delivery-7-11-chick-fil-a/#" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #222526; text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;"><img alt="The locker keeps packages at the right temperature inside until the drone arrives" class=" lazyloaded" data-credit="DroneUp" data-img="https://www.the-sun.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/2024/03/wont-even-need-go-store-890048291.jpg?strip=all&w=960" data-sizes="(max-width: 375px) 335px, (max-width: 520px) 480px, 620px" data-src="https://www.the-sun.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/2024/03/wont-even-need-go-store-890048291.jpg" data-srcset="https://www.the-sun.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/2024/03/wont-even-need-go-store-890048291.jpg?w=335 335w, https://www.the-sun.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/2024/03/wont-even-need-go-store-890048291.jpg?w=480 480w, https://www.the-sun.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/2024/03/wont-even-need-go-store-890048291.jpg?w=620 620w, https://www.the-sun.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/2024/03/wont-even-need-go-store-890048291.jpg?w=670 670w, https://www.the-sun.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/2024/03/wont-even-need-go-store-890048291.jpg?w=960 960w, https://www.the-sun.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/2024/03/wont-even-need-go-store-890048291.jpg?w=1240 1240w, https://www.the-sun.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/2024/03/wont-even-need-go-store-890048291.jpg?w=1005 1005w, https://www.the-sun.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/2024/03/wont-even-need-go-store-890048291.jpg?w=1440 1440w, https://www.the-sun.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/2024/03/wont-even-need-go-store-890048291.jpg?w=1860 1860w, https://www.the-sun.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/2024/03/wont-even-need-go-store-890048291.jpg?w=1340 1340w, https://www.the-sun.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/2024/03/wont-even-need-go-store-890048291.jpg?w=1920 1920w, https://www.the-sun.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/2024/03/wont-even-need-go-store-890048291.jpg?w=2480 2480w" height="505" role="img" sizes="(max-width: 375px) 335px, (max-width: 520px) 480px, 620px" src="https://www.the-sun.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/2024/03/wont-even-need-go-store-890048291.jpg" srcset="https://www.the-sun.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/2024/03/wont-even-need-go-store-890048291.jpg?w=335 335w, https://www.the-sun.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/2024/03/wont-even-need-go-store-890048291.jpg?w=480 480w, https://www.the-sun.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/2024/03/wont-even-need-go-store-890048291.jpg?w=620 620w, https://www.the-sun.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/2024/03/wont-even-need-go-store-890048291.jpg?w=670 670w, https://www.the-sun.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/2024/03/wont-even-need-go-store-890048291.jpg?w=960 960w, https://www.the-sun.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/2024/03/wont-even-need-go-store-890048291.jpg?w=1240 1240w, https://www.the-sun.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/2024/03/wont-even-need-go-store-890048291.jpg?w=1005 1005w, https://www.the-sun.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/2024/03/wont-even-need-go-store-890048291.jpg?w=1440 1440w, https://www.the-sun.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/2024/03/wont-even-need-go-store-890048291.jpg?w=1860 1860w, https://www.the-sun.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/2024/03/wont-even-need-go-store-890048291.jpg?w=1340 1340w, https://www.the-sun.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/2024/03/wont-even-need-go-store-890048291.jpg?w=1920 1920w, https://www.the-sun.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/2024/03/wont-even-need-go-store-890048291.jpg?w=2480 2480w" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: block; height: auto; max-width: 100%; width: 619.991px;" width="960" /></span></a><div class="article__gallery-count" style="background-color: rgba(57, 62, 63, 0.8); background-image: url("/assets/thesun/images/gallery_icon.svg"); background-position: 13px center; background-repeat: no-repeat; background-size: 23px; bottom: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; height: 32px; pointer-events: none; position: absolute; right: 0px;"><span class="article__gallery-count-value" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: white; display: block; line-height: 2.4rem; padding: 5px 14px 0px 45px; width: 69.4705px;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;">6</span></span></div></div><figcaption class="article__media-caption" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700; line-height: 2.2rem; padding: 8px 0px;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;"><span class="article__media-span" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-right: 4px;">The locker keeps packages at the right temperature inside until the drone arrives</span><span class="article__credit" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #6e7070; display: inline-block; font-weight: 500; line-height: 2.2rem;">Credit: DroneUp</span></span></figcaption></figure><figure class="article__media" style="border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(173, 175, 176); box-sizing: border-box; display: block; margin: 3px 0px 16px; padding: 0px; width: 619.991px;"><div class="article__media-img-container open-gallery" data-index="332601" style="box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; margin: 0px; position: relative;"><a href="https://www.the-sun.com/money/10906322/walmart-drone-delivery-7-11-chick-fil-a/#" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #222526; text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;"><img alt="The drone lands on top of the locker and the customer's boxed-up items are grabbed by a claw-like arm that lowers from the drone" class=" lazyloaded" data-credit="DroneUp" data-img="https://www.the-sun.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/2024/03/wont-even-need-go-store-890048252.jpg?strip=all&w=960" data-sizes="(max-width: 375px) 335px, (max-width: 520px) 480px, 620px" data-src="https://www.the-sun.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/2024/03/wont-even-need-go-store-890048252.jpg" data-srcset="https://www.the-sun.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/2024/03/wont-even-need-go-store-890048252.jpg?w=335 335w, https://www.the-sun.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/2024/03/wont-even-need-go-store-890048252.jpg?w=480 480w, https://www.the-sun.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/2024/03/wont-even-need-go-store-890048252.jpg?w=620 620w, https://www.the-sun.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/2024/03/wont-even-need-go-store-890048252.jpg?w=670 670w, https://www.the-sun.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/2024/03/wont-even-need-go-store-890048252.jpg?w=960 960w, https://www.the-sun.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/2024/03/wont-even-need-go-store-890048252.jpg?w=1240 1240w, https://www.the-sun.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/2024/03/wont-even-need-go-store-890048252.jpg?w=1005 1005w, https://www.the-sun.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/2024/03/wont-even-need-go-store-890048252.jpg?w=1440 1440w, https://www.the-sun.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/2024/03/wont-even-need-go-store-890048252.jpg?w=1860 1860w, https://www.the-sun.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/2024/03/wont-even-need-go-store-890048252.jpg?w=1340 1340w, https://www.the-sun.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/2024/03/wont-even-need-go-store-890048252.jpg?w=1920 1920w, https://www.the-sun.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/2024/03/wont-even-need-go-store-890048252.jpg?w=2480 2480w" height="523" role="img" sizes="(max-width: 375px) 335px, (max-width: 520px) 480px, 620px" src="https://www.the-sun.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/2024/03/wont-even-need-go-store-890048252.jpg" srcset="https://www.the-sun.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/2024/03/wont-even-need-go-store-890048252.jpg?w=335 335w, https://www.the-sun.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/2024/03/wont-even-need-go-store-890048252.jpg?w=480 480w, https://www.the-sun.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/2024/03/wont-even-need-go-store-890048252.jpg?w=620 620w, https://www.the-sun.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/2024/03/wont-even-need-go-store-890048252.jpg?w=670 670w, https://www.the-sun.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/2024/03/wont-even-need-go-store-890048252.jpg?w=960 960w, https://www.the-sun.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/2024/03/wont-even-need-go-store-890048252.jpg?w=1240 1240w, https://www.the-sun.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/2024/03/wont-even-need-go-store-890048252.jpg?w=1005 1005w, https://www.the-sun.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/2024/03/wont-even-need-go-store-890048252.jpg?w=1440 1440w, https://www.the-sun.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/2024/03/wont-even-need-go-store-890048252.jpg?w=1860 1860w, https://www.the-sun.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/2024/03/wont-even-need-go-store-890048252.jpg?w=1340 1340w, https://www.the-sun.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/2024/03/wont-even-need-go-store-890048252.jpg?w=1920 1920w, https://www.the-sun.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/2024/03/wont-even-need-go-store-890048252.jpg?w=2480 2480w" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: block; height: auto; max-width: 100%; width: 619.991px;" width="960" /></span></a><div class="article__gallery-count" style="background-color: rgba(57, 62, 63, 0.8); background-image: url("/assets/thesun/images/gallery_icon.svg"); background-position: 13px center; background-repeat: no-repeat; background-size: 23px; bottom: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; height: 32px; pointer-events: none; position: absolute; right: 0px;"><span class="article__gallery-count-value" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: white; display: block; line-height: 2.4rem; padding: 5px 14px 0px 45px; width: 69.4705px;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;">6</span></span></div></div><figcaption class="article__media-caption" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700; line-height: 2.2rem; padding: 8px 0px;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;"><span class="article__media-span" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-right: 4px;">The drone lands on top of the locker and the customer's boxed-up items are grabbed by a claw-like arm that lowers from the drone</span><span class="article__credit" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #6e7070; display: inline-block; font-weight: 500; line-height: 2.2rem;">Credit: DroneUp</span></span></figcaption></figure><figure class="article__media" style="border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(173, 175, 176); box-sizing: border-box; display: block; margin: 3px 0px 16px; padding: 0px; width: 619.991px;"><div class="article__media-img-container open-gallery" data-index="332602" style="box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; margin: 0px; position: relative;"><a href="https://www.the-sun.com/money/10906322/walmart-drone-delivery-7-11-chick-fil-a/#" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #222526; text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;"><img alt="The drone then whizzes the item through the air to the customer's dropoff location" class=" lazyloaded" data-credit="DroneUp" data-img="https://www.the-sun.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/2024/03/wont-even-need-go-store-890048289.jpg?strip=all&w=960" data-sizes="(max-width: 375px) 335px, (max-width: 520px) 480px, 620px" data-src="https://www.the-sun.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/2024/03/wont-even-need-go-store-890048289.jpg" data-srcset="https://www.the-sun.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/2024/03/wont-even-need-go-store-890048289.jpg?w=335 335w, https://www.the-sun.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/2024/03/wont-even-need-go-store-890048289.jpg?w=480 480w, https://www.the-sun.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/2024/03/wont-even-need-go-store-890048289.jpg?w=620 620w, https://www.the-sun.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/2024/03/wont-even-need-go-store-890048289.jpg?w=670 670w, https://www.the-sun.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/2024/03/wont-even-need-go-store-890048289.jpg?w=960 960w, https://www.the-sun.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/2024/03/wont-even-need-go-store-890048289.jpg?w=1240 1240w, https://www.the-sun.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/2024/03/wont-even-need-go-store-890048289.jpg?w=1005 1005w, https://www.the-sun.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/2024/03/wont-even-need-go-store-890048289.jpg?w=1440 1440w, https://www.the-sun.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/2024/03/wont-even-need-go-store-890048289.jpg?w=1860 1860w, https://www.the-sun.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/2024/03/wont-even-need-go-store-890048289.jpg?w=1340 1340w, https://www.the-sun.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/2024/03/wont-even-need-go-store-890048289.jpg?w=1920 1920w, https://www.the-sun.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/2024/03/wont-even-need-go-store-890048289.jpg?w=2480 2480w" height="522" role="img" sizes="(max-width: 375px) 335px, (max-width: 520px) 480px, 620px" src="https://www.the-sun.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/2024/03/wont-even-need-go-store-890048289.jpg" srcset="https://www.the-sun.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/2024/03/wont-even-need-go-store-890048289.jpg?w=335 335w, https://www.the-sun.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/2024/03/wont-even-need-go-store-890048289.jpg?w=480 480w, https://www.the-sun.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/2024/03/wont-even-need-go-store-890048289.jpg?w=620 620w, https://www.the-sun.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/2024/03/wont-even-need-go-store-890048289.jpg?w=670 670w, https://www.the-sun.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/2024/03/wont-even-need-go-store-890048289.jpg?w=960 960w, https://www.the-sun.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/2024/03/wont-even-need-go-store-890048289.jpg?w=1240 1240w, https://www.the-sun.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/2024/03/wont-even-need-go-store-890048289.jpg?w=1005 1005w, https://www.the-sun.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/2024/03/wont-even-need-go-store-890048289.jpg?w=1440 1440w, https://www.the-sun.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/2024/03/wont-even-need-go-store-890048289.jpg?w=1860 1860w, https://www.the-sun.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/2024/03/wont-even-need-go-store-890048289.jpg?w=1340 1340w, https://www.the-sun.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/2024/03/wont-even-need-go-store-890048289.jpg?w=1920 1920w, https://www.the-sun.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/2024/03/wont-even-need-go-store-890048289.jpg?w=2480 2480w" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: block; height: auto; max-width: 100%; width: 619.991px;" width="960" /></span></a><div class="article__gallery-count" style="background-color: rgba(57, 62, 63, 0.8); background-image: url("/assets/thesun/images/gallery_icon.svg"); background-position: 13px center; background-repeat: no-repeat; background-size: 23px; bottom: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; height: 32px; pointer-events: none; position: absolute; right: 0px;"><span class="article__gallery-count-value" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: white; display: block; line-height: 2.4rem; padding: 5px 14px 0px 45px; width: 69.4705px;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;">6</span></span></div></div><figcaption class="article__media-caption" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700; line-height: 2.2rem; padding: 8px 0px;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;"><span class="article__media-span" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-right: 4px;">The drone then whizzes the item through the air to the customer's dropoff location</span><span class="article__credit" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #6e7070; display: inline-block; font-weight: 500; line-height: 2.2rem;">Credit: DroneUp</span></span></figcaption></figure></div>Anne Sulzbergerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17091067031029918700noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6744683886539852356.post-3555664718188504712024-03-28T00:20:00.000-07:002024-03-28T00:20:06.696-07:00AI could eliminate nearly 8 million jobs in UK, study shows The technology could herald a "job apocalypse," the study said.<p><span style="font-family: Oxygen;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dxqBl9L04Jz8AdIPrYkchu9tP9Xpk5rgD4MMUxUfUUBsZIomzJiHz3uxBY6fKTY-yDtoeuxj4yVs-ipxpH9Bw' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe></span></div><span style="font-family: Oxygen;"><br /> Artificial intelligence<span style="background-color: white; font-size: 18px;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 18px;">could eliminate up to nearly 8 million jobs in the United Kingdom, according to a new</span><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 18px;"> </span><a class="zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE " data-testid="prism-linkbase" href="https://ippr-org.files.svdcdn.com/production/Downloads/Transformed_by_AI_March24_2024-03-27-121003_kxis.pdf" previewlistener="true" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); border-bottom: var(--hyperlink-borderBottom,none); box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; display: var(--hyperlink-display,inline); height: var(--hyperlink-height,auto); outline: 0px; text-decoration: var(--articleBody-p-a-textDecoration,underline); text-underline-offset: var(--hyperlink-textUnderlineOffset,auto); width: var(--hyperlink-width,auto);" target="_blank">study</a><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 18px;">, which cautions that women and early-career employees are most at risk of being put out of work.</span></span><p></p><p class="EkqkG nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 18px; margin-bottom: var(--articleBody-p-marginBottom-regular,32px); margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen;">Government policy, however, could allow the U.K. to avert job losses and harness AI for a breakneck economic surge, according to the left-leaning Institute for Public Policy Research, the think tank that authored the report.</span></p><p class="EkqkG nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 18px; margin-bottom: var(--articleBody-p-marginBottom-regular,32px); margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen;">“The world of knowledge work will be transformed by generative AI,” the report said, referring to a type of AI that can create content, such as text or images. “We need to start preparing for this now.”</span></p><div class="oLzSq QrHMO QBoFd pvsTF EhJPu vPlOC zNYgW OsTsW AkFWX daRVX ISNQ sKyCY eRftA acPPc BZygj nFwaT MCnQE mEeeY SmBjI xegrY VvTxJ iulOd NIuqO zzscu lzDCc aHUBM hbvnu OjMNy eQqcx SVqKB GQmdz jaoD iShaE ONJdw vrZxD OnRTz gbbfF roDbV kRoBe oMlSS gfNzt oJhud eXZcf zhVlX " style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; font-size: 18px; margin-bottom: var(--inlineWrapper-InlineWrapperRegular-marginBottom,32px); margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: var(--inlineWrapper-InlineWrapperRegular-marginTop,32px); width: 475.191px;"><div class="zzkIM UtCfs Ufjyt XQpSH " data-testid="prism-divider" style="--divider-bordercolor: var(--inlineWrapper-dividerColor); --divider-borderwidth: var(--inlineWrapper-borderWidth,1px); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); border-bottom: var(--divider-borderWidth,1px) solid var(--divider-borderColor); box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: var(--inlineWrapper-DividerBottom-marginTop,24px);"></div></div><p class="EkqkG nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 18px; margin-bottom: var(--articleBody-p-marginBottom-regular,32px); margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen;">Researchers analyzed 22,000 tasks carried out by workers across the U.K. economy, finding that 11% are currently exposed to the threat of displacement by AI, the study said. The jobs at greatest risk include entry-level, part-time and administrative roles -- a set of positions disproportionately held by women, the study added.</span></p><p class="EkqkG nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 18px; margin-bottom: var(--articleBody-p-marginBottom-regular,32px); margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen;">The report describes a soon-to-begin phase of AI adoption during which some of these “low-hanging fruit” jobs will be replaced by the technology. The overall workforce impact over the period could be limited, the study said, but some roles will experience massive effects, such as the elimination of one-third of administrative jobs.</span></p><div class="oLzSq QrHMO QBoFd pvsTF EhJPu vPlOC zNYgW OsTsW AkFWX daRVX ISNQ sKyCY eRftA acPPc BZygj nFwaT MCnQE mEeeY SmBjI xegrY VvTxJ iulOd NIuqO zzscu lzDCc aHUBM hbvnu OjMNy eQqcx SVqKB GQmdz jaoD iShaE ONJdw vrZxD OnRTz gbbfF roDbV kRoBe oMlSS gfNzt oJhud eXZcf zhVlX " style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; font-size: 18px; margin-bottom: var(--inlineWrapper-InlineWrapperRegular-marginBottom,32px); margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: var(--inlineWrapper-InlineWrapperRegular-marginTop,32px); width: 475.191px;"></div><p class="EkqkG nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 18px; margin-bottom: var(--articleBody-p-marginBottom-regular,32px); margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen;">A second phase could bring much deeper integration of AI that will threaten up to 59% of tasks, the report said. If companies allow AI to access proprietary information and execute key tasks, the study said, the resulting disruption may slash a wider swathe of jobs, including a larger share of high-paying positions.</span></p><p class="EkqkG nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 18px; margin-bottom: var(--articleBody-p-marginBottom-regular,32px); margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen;">While offering up potential outcomes, the study acknowledged that a wide range of job-displacement scenarios remains possible, including the potential for job losses to be avoided entirely.</span></p><p class="EkqkG nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 18px; margin-bottom: var(--articleBody-p-marginBottom-regular,32px); margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen;">Experts who <a class="zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE " data-testid="prism-linkbase" href="https://abcnews.go.com/Business/ai-coming-job-chatgpt-renews-fears/story?id=97079982" previewlistener="true" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: var(--hyperlink-backgroundColor); border-bottom: var(--hyperlink-borderBottom,none); box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; display: var(--hyperlink-display,inline); height: var(--hyperlink-height,auto); outline: 0px; text-decoration: var(--articleBody-p-a-textDecoration,underline); text-underline-offset: var(--hyperlink-textUnderlineOffset,auto); width: var(--hyperlink-width,auto);" target="_blank">spoke to ABC News</a> last year noted the absence of job losses during a surge of AI adoption over the course of the COVID-19 pandemic.</span></p><div class="oLzSq QrHMO fnRUo pvsTF EhJPu vPlOC zNYgW OsTsW RMeqy daRVX ISNQ sKyCY eRftA acPPc MENS nFwaT MCnQE mEeeY SmBjI xegrY rPLsU iulOd NIuqO zzscu lzDCc aHUBM IEgzD OjMNy eQqcx SVqKB GQmdz jaoD VWDdR ONJdw vrZxD OnRTz gbbfF roDbV GPGwb oMlSS gfNzt oJhud eXZcf zhVlX " style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); 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background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; font-size: 18px; margin-bottom: var(--inlineWrapper-InlineWrapperRegular-marginBottom,32px); margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: var(--inlineWrapper-InlineWrapperRegular-marginTop,32px); width: 475.191px;"><div style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); box-sizing: border-box;"></div></div><p class="EkqkG nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 18px; margin-bottom: var(--articleBody-p-marginBottom-regular,32px); margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen;">The increased sophistication and use of AI is expected to displace jobs over the coming years, the experts added. AI will enhance productivity and increase compensation for some jobs but it risks leaving out workers who fail to keep up, they said.</span></p><div class="oLzSq QrHMO QBoFd pvsTF EhJPu vPlOC zNYgW OsTsW AkFWX daRVX ISNQ sKyCY eRftA acPPc BZygj nFwaT MCnQE mEeeY SmBjI xegrY VvTxJ iulOd NIuqO zzscu lzDCc aHUBM hbvnu OjMNy eQqcx SVqKB GQmdz jaoD iShaE ONJdw vrZxD OnRTz gbbfF roDbV kRoBe oMlSS gfNzt oJhud eXZcf zhVlX " style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; font-size: 18px; margin-bottom: var(--inlineWrapper-InlineWrapperRegular-marginBottom,32px); margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: var(--inlineWrapper-InlineWrapperRegular-marginTop,32px); width: 475.191px;"></div><p class="EkqkG nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 18px; margin-bottom: var(--articleBody-p-marginBottom-regular,32px); margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen;">Artificial intelligence could displace roughly 15% of workers, or 400 million people, worldwide between 2016 and 2030, according to a McKinsey <a class="zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE " data-testid="prism-linkbase" href="https://www.mckinsey.com/featured-insights/future-of-work/ai-automation-and-the-future-of-work-ten-things-to-solve-for" previewlistener="true" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: var(--hyperlink-backgroundColor); border-bottom: var(--hyperlink-borderBottom,none); box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; display: var(--hyperlink-display,inline); height: var(--hyperlink-height,auto); outline: 0px; text-decoration: var(--articleBody-p-a-textDecoration,underline); text-underline-offset: var(--hyperlink-textUnderlineOffset,auto); width: var(--hyperlink-width,auto);" target="_blank">study</a> released in 2018. In a scenario of wide AI adoption, the share of jobs displaced could rise to as much as 30%, the firm found.</span></p><div class="oLzSq QrHMO QBoFd pvsTF EhJPu vPlOC zNYgW OsTsW AkFWX daRVX ISNQ sKyCY eRftA acPPc BZygj nFwaT MCnQE mEeeY SmBjI xegrY VvTxJ iulOd NIuqO zzscu lzDCc aHUBM hbvnu OjMNy eQqcx SVqKB GQmdz jaoD iShaE ONJdw vrZxD OnRTz gbbfF roDbV kRoBe oMlSS gfNzt oJhud eXZcf zhVlX " style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; font-size: 18px; margin-bottom: var(--inlineWrapper-InlineWrapperRegular-marginBottom,32px); margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: var(--inlineWrapper-InlineWrapperRegular-marginTop,32px); width: 475.191px;"><div class="zzkIM UtCfs Ufjyt XQpSH " data-testid="prism-divider" style="--divider-bordercolor: var(--inlineWrapper-dividerColor); --divider-borderwidth: var(--inlineWrapper-borderWidth,1px); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); border-bottom: var(--divider-borderWidth,1px) solid var(--divider-borderColor); box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: var(--inlineWrapper-DividerBottom-marginTop,24px);"></div></div><p class="EkqkG nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 18px; margin-bottom: var(--articleBody-p-marginBottom-regular,32px); margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen;">The report out on Tuesday presented policy proposals that the authors believe could reduce the likelihood of job losses and heighten the possibility of an AI-induced economic boom.</span></p><p class="EkqkG nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 18px; margin-bottom: var(--articleBody-p-marginBottom-regular,32px); margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen;">A policy described by the report as “ringfencing,” for example, would mandate the continued use of human involvement for certain tasks, such as medical diagnoses. A combination of government incentives and public-private partnerships could help achieve the measure.</span></p><p class="EkqkG nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 18px; margin-bottom: var(--articleBody-p-marginBottom-regular,32px); margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen;">In its most optimistic potential scenario, the report outlines a future of AI adoption in which no jobs are lost and gross domestic product increases by 13%.</span></p><p class="EkqkG nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 18px; margin-bottom: var(--articleBody-p-marginBottom-regular,32px); margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen;">“There is no one predetermined path for how AI implementation will play out,” the report's authors said.</span></p>Anne Sulzbergerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17091067031029918700noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6744683886539852356.post-8583684605618993832024-03-27T23:33:00.000-07:002024-03-27T23:33:44.813-07:00Smaller Businesses Looking to Human Workers, Not AI, to Boost ProductivityFor all the talk of AI increasing productivity, most company leaders in a new survey from Deloitte aren't yet reaping the rewards. Instead, they're turning to talent to do the work.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3TNJSJPUkgq5IENwLdztlNgpAssgFjUm_ufaZMhKC52QGZj6PXKHuAKV-hFp4HZ8g_v8zM_AdyjNtTLo4FtQWVJuUXgGp2DjaRLgBhrmlDPpHjo-lmq3o_omvKMpfqedq5BwO46eHp9d7TCjUm5cNu-Qwxf05X-6ySkrZQ14EsZiQkIrZfaRWbaFMirU/s1024/in-spectacles-fine-gaze-they-bought-to-view-your-shine-v0-w68im06dqvqc1.webp" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1024" data-original-width="1024" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3TNJSJPUkgq5IENwLdztlNgpAssgFjUm_ufaZMhKC52QGZj6PXKHuAKV-hFp4HZ8g_v8zM_AdyjNtTLo4FtQWVJuUXgGp2DjaRLgBhrmlDPpHjo-lmq3o_omvKMpfqedq5BwO46eHp9d7TCjUm5cNu-Qwxf05X-6ySkrZQ14EsZiQkIrZfaRWbaFMirU/w640-h640/in-spectacles-fine-gaze-they-bought-to-view-your-shine-v0-w68im06dqvqc1.webp" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p><p><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;">In a recent Deloitte survey, it was found that only 8% of U.S. private company leaders believe that A.I. is currently increasing their organization's productivity. The survey also revealed that smaller companies, with annual revenues under $500 million, are even less likely to prioritize investments in advanced technology like A.I., with only 16% planning to do so, compared to 44% of companies with higher revenues.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;">### Emphasis on Skilled Talent</span></p><p><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;">Interestingly, smaller companies are focusing on using their talent more effectively. Their top priority for driving increased results is to reskill and upskill existing employees. Similarly, larger companies, although more interested in prioritizing A.I., still consider hiring qualified or skilled talent as their main productivity strategy.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;">### Growing Focus on Skilled Talent</span></p><p><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;">The focus on skilled talent is on the rise, with the percentage of jobs requiring a college degree decreasing from 51% in 2017 to 44% in 2022. Additionally, employers anticipate approximately 44% of workers' skills to be disrupted in the next five years, emphasizing the increasing importance of hiring for skills and training existing team members on new skills.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;">### Future Potential of A.I. for Productivity</span></p><p><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;">Although A.I. adoption for productivity enhancement is currently low, 87% of survey respondents anticipate A.I.-driven productivity improvements within the next three years. Therefore, while skilled talent remains the current priority for company leaders, they recognize the potential of A.I. as a powerful booster in the future. </span></p>Anne Sulzbergerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17091067031029918700noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6744683886539852356.post-81570646771224365052024-03-27T23:30:00.000-07:002024-03-27T23:30:04.247-07:00The 20 Most Creative Companies in the World<p><br /></p><div class="GridWrapper-cAzTTK eRggVV grid grid-margins grid-items-0 ArticlePageChunksGrid-hfxaau bDFJoo" style="--grid-gap: 2rem; --grid-margin: 3rem; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; display: grid; gap: var(--grid-gap); grid-template-columns: repeat(12, 1fr); margin: 0px auto; max-width: 1600px; padding-left: calc(1 * var(--grid-margin)); padding-right: calc(1 * var(--grid-margin)); width: 1183.33px;"><div class="GridItem-buujkM kHPPIF grid--item" style="box-sizing: border-box; grid-column: 3 / span 8; margin-bottom: 1rem;"><div class="BodyWrapper-kufPGa cNkiAg body body__container article__body" data-journey-hook="client-content" data-testid="BodyWrapper" style="--type-token: consumptionEditorial.body-core; box-sizing: border-box; font-feature-settings: normal; grid-column: 3 / span 8; line-break: auto; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 1rem; max-width: 1600px; overflow-wrap: normal; padding: 0px; width: 714.227px;"><div class="body__inner-container" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="color: #2e302f;"><span style="font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: 0.05px;"> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjL7QT9fXXxjHn9upkg3BhjM0rskhuaMpW1ZxnVqKkUlkCqyrhDc8erwwmo29cyOIIZXjm_uaVoDRXE5GC7xL2icj_cmgG7eM6pJJFGSSIO6WSdzzJsVjo0vqv7nPPRtoAe-_-ATl4OvqZr_XsszQGEyMaxEmXhrrOh88zpp31MQgcibCP9_dI2GPo7S1Q/s1024/OIG3.6m4RZxHDNYPC0.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1024" data-original-width="1024" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjL7QT9fXXxjHn9upkg3BhjM0rskhuaMpW1ZxnVqKkUlkCqyrhDc8erwwmo29cyOIIZXjm_uaVoDRXE5GC7xL2icj_cmgG7eM6pJJFGSSIO6WSdzzJsVjo0vqv7nPPRtoAe-_-ATl4OvqZr_XsszQGEyMaxEmXhrrOh88zpp31MQgcibCP9_dI2GPo7S1Q/w640-h640/OIG3.6m4RZxHDNYPC0.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><br />This year, GQ's Global Creativity Awards are focused on recognizing companies that are harnessing creativity to drive business growth and make a positive impact on the world. When we talk about creativity, we mean ingenuity, innovation, originality, and fearlessness. We've surveyed businesses across various industries that impact GQ readers, and we've spoken to the leaders and innovators who are spearheading new projects, developing fresh products, and leading bold initiatives to address significant challenges and revolutionize traditional norms. Throughout our research, we've found that creativity is the prevailing cultural force of our era. </span></span><hr style="background: rgb(18, 18, 18); border: 0px; box-sizing: content-box; clear: both; color: #2e302f; font-size: 20px; height: 2px; letter-spacing: 0.0025em; margin: 40px auto;" /><figure class="AssetEmbedWrapper-eVDQiB byBkf asset-embed" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #2e302f; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: 0.0025em; margin: 0px auto 40px; padding: 0px; width: 714.227px;"><div class="AssetEmbedAssetContainer-eJxoAx dBHGoQ asset-embed__asset-container" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span class="SpanWrapper-umhxW jvZaPI responsive-asset AssetEmbedResponsiveAsset-cXBNxi eCxVQK asset-embed__responsive-asset" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: block; opacity: 1; overflow: hidden; transition: opacity 1s ease 0s;"><picture class="ResponsiveImagePicture-cWuUZO dUOtEa AssetEmbedResponsiveAsset-cXBNxi eCxVQK asset-embed__responsive-asset responsive-image" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; height: auto; position: relative; width: 714.227px;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen;"><img alt="Image may contain Kendrick Lamar Accessories Bag Handbag Child Person Purse Clothing Footwear Shoe Hat and Adult" class="ResponsiveImageContainer-eybHBd fptoWY responsive-image__image" sizes="100vw" src="https://media.gq.com/photos/6601d7b9a5ad8d155fc25755/master/w_1600%2Cc_limit/CC-COLLAGE-1-REARRANGE.jpg" srcset="https://media.gq.com/photos/6601d7b9a5ad8d155fc25755/master/w_120,c_limit/CC-COLLAGE-1-REARRANGE.jpg 120w, https://media.gq.com/photos/6601d7b9a5ad8d155fc25755/master/w_240,c_limit/CC-COLLAGE-1-REARRANGE.jpg 240w, https://media.gq.com/photos/6601d7b9a5ad8d155fc25755/master/w_320,c_limit/CC-COLLAGE-1-REARRANGE.jpg 320w, https://media.gq.com/photos/6601d7b9a5ad8d155fc25755/master/w_640,c_limit/CC-COLLAGE-1-REARRANGE.jpg 640w, https://media.gq.com/photos/6601d7b9a5ad8d155fc25755/master/w_960,c_limit/CC-COLLAGE-1-REARRANGE.jpg 960w, https://media.gq.com/photos/6601d7b9a5ad8d155fc25755/master/w_1280,c_limit/CC-COLLAGE-1-REARRANGE.jpg 1280w, https://media.gq.com/photos/6601d7b9a5ad8d155fc25755/master/w_1600,c_limit/CC-COLLAGE-1-REARRANGE.jpg 1600w" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; height: auto; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: bottom; width: 714.227px;" /></span></picture></span></div><div class="CaptionWrapper-jSZdqE dVZQpq caption AssetEmbedCaption-fNQBPI cugSjO asset-embed__caption" data-event-boundary="click" data-event-click="{"pattern":"Caption"}" data-in-view="{"pattern":"Caption"}" data-include-experiments="true" style="--type-token: globalEditorial.context-secondary; box-sizing: border-box; font-feature-settings: normal; font-size: 14px; letter-spacing: normal; line-break: auto; line-height: 1.42857em; margin-top: 0.5rem; overflow-wrap: normal;"><span class="BaseWrap-sc-gjQpdd BaseText-ewhhUZ CaptionCredit-ejegDm iUEiRd cdsJgg fNaHcW caption__credit" style="--type-token: globalEditorial.context-tertiary; box-sizing: border-box; color: #757776; font-feature-settings: normal; line-break: auto; line-height: 1.25em; margin: 8px 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: normal;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen;">Photo Illustrations by Keir Novesky; Photographs: see additional credits at the bottom of the page.</span></span></div></figure><h2 style="--type-token: consumptionEditorial.subhed-break-primary; box-sizing: border-box; color: black; font-feature-settings: normal; font-size: 26px; letter-spacing: normal; line-break: auto; line-height: 1.15385em; margin: 40px 0px 16px; overflow-wrap: normal;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen;">Microsoft</span></strong></h2><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #2e302f; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: 0.0025em;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen;">The enormous turnaround at Microsoft—today the world’s most valuable company—has been powered by shrewd investments in AI. But to hear Ashley Llorens, a managing director at Microsoft Research, tell it, the company is just getting started. Llorens oversees creative partnerships with outside researchers and is especially excited by a group called AI4Science at Microsoft. “Imagine large AI models that can speak the language of <em style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit;">nature,</em>” he says. Using AI to decipher those languages opens the door to discoveries galore—medicines, sustainable materials, you name it. “There's a real chance,” he says, “that in a decade, when we look back, we'll see AI for science as the real killer app for artificial intelligence.”</span></p><hr style="background: rgb(18, 18, 18); border: 0px; box-sizing: content-box; clear: both; color: #2e302f; font-size: 20px; height: 2px; letter-spacing: 0.0025em; margin: 40px auto;" /><h2 style="--type-token: consumptionEditorial.subhed-break-primary; box-sizing: border-box; color: black; font-feature-settings: normal; font-size: 26px; letter-spacing: normal; line-break: auto; line-height: 1.15385em; margin: 40px 0px 16px; overflow-wrap: normal;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen;">The New York Times Company</span></strong></h2><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #2e302f; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: 0.0025em;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen;">Imagination isn’t merely the watchword of startups. The venerable <em style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit;">New York Times</em>—172 years young—is rethinking its role in readers’ lives, and thus the pool of customers it can reach. “We think the <em style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit;">Times</em> should be the essential subscription for every curious English-speaking person around the world,” says chief product officer Alex Hardiman, explaining that the <em style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit;">Times</em> wants to build creative new “on-ramps”—things such as recipes; podcasts; games like Wordle, Connections, and the crosswords, which last year were played more than 8 billion times. It’s working. The <em style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit;">Times</em> now earns more than $2 billion a year from its 10 million subscribers.</span></p><hr style="background: rgb(18, 18, 18); border: 0px; box-sizing: content-box; clear: both; color: #2e302f; font-size: 20px; height: 2px; letter-spacing: 0.0025em; margin: 40px auto;" /><h2 style="--type-token: consumptionEditorial.subhed-break-primary; box-sizing: border-box; color: black; font-feature-settings: normal; font-size: 26px; letter-spacing: normal; line-break: auto; line-height: 1.15385em; margin: 40px 0px 16px; overflow-wrap: normal;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen;">Hermès</span></strong></h2><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #2e302f; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: 0.0025em;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen;">The most radical thing about Hermès is also the most old-school: Since its founding in 1837, each object—every saddle, Birkin bag, and silk scarf—has been made by hand. That means even celebrities and the über-wealthy often have to wait months for a handbag, and Hermès’s ability to keep its hero products just out of reach is driving outsize sales, even at a bumpy time for the once-invincible luxury market. Just look at its stock price: Hermès is trading at an all-time high and up nearly tenfold from a decade ago.</span></p><hr style="background: rgb(18, 18, 18); border: 0px; box-sizing: content-box; clear: both; color: #2e302f; font-size: 20px; height: 2px; letter-spacing: 0.0025em; margin: 40px auto;" /><h2 style="--type-token: consumptionEditorial.subhed-break-primary; box-sizing: border-box; color: black; font-feature-settings: normal; font-size: 26px; letter-spacing: normal; line-break: auto; line-height: 1.15385em; margin: 40px 0px 16px; overflow-wrap: normal;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen;">Silent House Group</span></strong></h2><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #2e302f; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: 0.0025em;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen;">A couple decades ago, Baz Halpin, a classical musician, went on tour for the first time. “That opened my eyes,” he says. Soon, he built Silent House Group to consolidate the creative chores a touring act must manage—choreography, set design, wardrobe, and so on. Now, in this golden age of the mega-concert, Silent House is staging some of the grandest events on earth, including tours by Harry Styles, Pink, and, yes, Taylor Swift. “Touring has gotten so intense and complicated that the risk of failure is much higher,” says Halpin. But when it works, it’s magic. “The live experience is one of the last bastions of human community.”</span></p><hr style="background: rgb(18, 18, 18); border: 0px; box-sizing: content-box; clear: both; color: #2e302f; font-size: 20px; height: 2px; letter-spacing: 0.0025em; margin: 40px auto;" /><h2 style="--type-token: consumptionEditorial.subhed-break-primary; box-sizing: border-box; color: black; font-feature-settings: normal; font-size: 26px; letter-spacing: normal; line-break: auto; line-height: 1.15385em; margin: 40px 0px 16px; overflow-wrap: normal;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen;">Hoka</span></strong></h2><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #2e302f; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: 0.0025em;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen;">The founders of Hoka—runners Nico Mermoud and Jean-Luc Diard—wanted a shoe that could tackle the rugged French Alps. This was 2009, when superminimalist footwear was hitting big. Hoka went the other direction, embracing an oversized midsole that was almost cartoonish. “There's just something incredible in terms of how they feel,” says Erika Gabrielli, vice president of global marketing at Hoka. It’s “something that people feel the need to tell their friends and family about.” Now, in addition to winning over athletes (Hoka is the official shoe of Ironman Triathlons), the brand is hot with the fashion set—they’re doling out buzzy collabs with streetwear darlings Brain Dead and lining the shelves of boutiques like Nepenthes in New York and The Broken Arm in Paris. Oh, and they’re selling about a billion and a half dollars in shoes every year.</span></p></div></div></div></div><div class="GridWrapper-cAzTTK eRggVV grid grid-margins grid-items-0 ArticlePageChunksGrid-hfxaau bDFJoo" style="--grid-gap: 2rem; --grid-margin: 3rem; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; display: grid; font-size: 20px; gap: var(--grid-gap); grid-template-columns: repeat(12, 1fr); letter-spacing: 0.05px; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 1600px; padding-left: calc(1 * var(--grid-margin)); padding-right: calc(1 * var(--grid-margin)); width: 1183.33px;"><div class="GridItem-buujkM kHPPIF grid--item" style="box-sizing: border-box; grid-column: 3 / span 8; margin-bottom: 1rem;"><div class="BodyWrapper-kufPGa cNkiAg body body__container article__body" data-journey-hook="client-content" data-testid="BodyWrapper" style="--type-token: consumptionEditorial.body-core; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2e302f; font-feature-settings: normal; grid-column: 3 / span 8; letter-spacing: 0.0025em; line-break: auto; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 1rem; max-width: 1600px; overflow-wrap: normal; padding: 0px; width: 714.227px;"><div class="body__inner-container" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><hr style="background: rgb(18, 18, 18); border: 0px; box-sizing: content-box; clear: both; height: 2px; margin: 40px auto;" /><figure class="AssetEmbedWrapper-eVDQiB byBkf asset-embed" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px auto 40px; padding: 0px; width: 714.227px;"><div class="AssetEmbedAssetContainer-eJxoAx dBHGoQ asset-embed__asset-container" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span class="SpanWrapper-umhxW jvZaPI responsive-asset AssetEmbedResponsiveAsset-cXBNxi eCxVQK asset-embed__responsive-asset" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: block; opacity: 1; overflow: hidden; transition: opacity 1s ease 0s;"><picture class="ResponsiveImagePicture-cWuUZO dUOtEa AssetEmbedResponsiveAsset-cXBNxi eCxVQK asset-embed__responsive-asset responsive-image" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; height: auto; position: relative; width: 714.227px;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen;"><img alt="Image may contain Rich Paul Bernard Arnault Dejounte Murray Adult Person Ball Basketball Basketball and Sport" class="ResponsiveImageContainer-eybHBd fptoWY responsive-image__image" sizes="100vw" src="https://media.gq.com/photos/6601e380c081abc36b271498/master/w_1600%2Cc_limit/CC-COLLAGE-1-REARRANGE3.jpg" srcset="https://media.gq.com/photos/6601e380c081abc36b271498/master/w_120,c_limit/CC-COLLAGE-1-REARRANGE3.jpg 120w, https://media.gq.com/photos/6601e380c081abc36b271498/master/w_240,c_limit/CC-COLLAGE-1-REARRANGE3.jpg 240w, https://media.gq.com/photos/6601e380c081abc36b271498/master/w_320,c_limit/CC-COLLAGE-1-REARRANGE3.jpg 320w, https://media.gq.com/photos/6601e380c081abc36b271498/master/w_640,c_limit/CC-COLLAGE-1-REARRANGE3.jpg 640w, https://media.gq.com/photos/6601e380c081abc36b271498/master/w_960,c_limit/CC-COLLAGE-1-REARRANGE3.jpg 960w, https://media.gq.com/photos/6601e380c081abc36b271498/master/w_1280,c_limit/CC-COLLAGE-1-REARRANGE3.jpg 1280w, https://media.gq.com/photos/6601e380c081abc36b271498/master/w_1600,c_limit/CC-COLLAGE-1-REARRANGE3.jpg 1600w" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; height: auto; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: bottom; width: 714.227px;" /></span></picture></span></div><div class="CaptionWrapper-jSZdqE dVZQpq caption AssetEmbedCaption-fNQBPI cugSjO asset-embed__caption" data-event-boundary="click" data-event-click="{"pattern":"Caption"}" data-in-view="{"pattern":"Caption"}" data-include-experiments="true" style="--type-token: globalEditorial.context-secondary; box-sizing: border-box; font-feature-settings: normal; font-size: 14px; letter-spacing: normal; line-break: auto; line-height: 1.42857em; margin-top: 0.5rem; overflow-wrap: normal;"><span class="BaseWrap-sc-gjQpdd BaseText-ewhhUZ CaptionCredit-ejegDm iUEiRd cdsJgg fNaHcW caption__credit" style="--type-token: globalEditorial.context-tertiary; box-sizing: border-box; color: #757776; font-feature-settings: normal; line-break: auto; line-height: 1.25em; margin: 8px 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: normal;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen;">Photo Illustrations by Keir Novesky; Photographs: see additional credits at the bottom of the page.</span></span></div></figure><h2 style="--type-token: consumptionEditorial.subhed-break-primary; box-sizing: border-box; color: black; font-feature-settings: normal; font-size: 26px; letter-spacing: normal; line-break: auto; line-height: 1.15385em; margin: 40px 0px 16px; overflow-wrap: normal;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen;">Apple</span></strong></h2><p style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen;">Every so often, Apple delivers a product that remakes our world. The tech giant’s latest creation, the Vision Pro augmented-reality headset, has been heralded by early adopters as utterly transformative; director James Cameron called it “a religious experience.” The graphics, rendered in 23 million pixels, approximate what it would be like to have a 4K TV in each of your eyeballs. The Vision Pro has already changed the parameters for what’s possible with devices like this—and demonstrated that whatever future we’re hurtling toward, it’s being dreamed up in Cupertino.</span></p><hr style="background: rgb(18, 18, 18); border: 0px; box-sizing: content-box; clear: both; height: 2px; margin: 40px auto;" /><h2 style="--type-token: consumptionEditorial.subhed-break-primary; box-sizing: border-box; color: black; font-feature-settings: normal; font-size: 26px; letter-spacing: normal; line-break: auto; line-height: 1.15385em; margin: 40px 0px 16px; overflow-wrap: normal;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen;">Boom Supersonic</span></strong></h2><p style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen;">Commercial airline travel that’s faster than the speed of sound is possible—the Concorde proved that before being grounded in 2003—it just has never been all that practical, profitable, or sustainable. Boom wants to change all that, by modernizing how planes get built and pledging to achieve carbon neutrality through the use of sustainable jet fuels and carbon offsets. So far, Boom has secured more than 130 orders for jets that could be aloft within six years. “The goal,” says founder Blake Scholl, “is to build something that people want to fly over and over again, where they’ll almost wish the flight were longer.”</span></p><hr style="background: rgb(18, 18, 18); border: 0px; box-sizing: content-box; clear: both; height: 2px; margin: 40px auto;" /><h2 style="--type-token: consumptionEditorial.subhed-break-primary; box-sizing: border-box; color: black; font-feature-settings: normal; font-size: 26px; letter-spacing: normal; line-break: auto; line-height: 1.15385em; margin: 40px 0px 16px; overflow-wrap: normal;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen;">LVMH</span></strong></h2><p style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen;">From Loro Piana cashmere to Tiffany silver, Dior suits to Dom Pérignon Champagne, luxury juggernaut LVMH manufactures finery of practically every form. And, in recent years, the company has expanded to the realm of experiences, acquiring dozens of hotels and resorts and a bevy of restaurants, all potentially useful in achieving a grandly cohesive objective: to envelop the discerning customer in a world of pure luxury.</span></p><hr style="background: rgb(18, 18, 18); border: 0px; box-sizing: content-box; clear: both; height: 2px; margin: 40px auto;" /><h2 style="--type-token: consumptionEditorial.subhed-break-primary; box-sizing: border-box; color: black; font-feature-settings: normal; font-size: 26px; letter-spacing: normal; line-break: auto; line-height: 1.15385em; margin: 40px 0px 16px; overflow-wrap: normal;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen;">Klutch Sports Group</span></strong></h2><p style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen;">When the sports agent Rich Paul left CAA to found his own firm, in 2012, he brought with him one particularly high-profile client—LeBron James—and a plan to shake things up. In the years since, he’s built Klutch Sports Group into the ultimate embodiment of the player empowerment era, as well as a company that elevates a different set of values. “We’re probably the most diverse agency as it pertains to gender and race and balance across the board,” Paul says. “There’s some people that have gone to University of Michigan and Penn, and there’s some kids that pretty much came in off the street.” One of Klutch’s newest focuses is on NCAA NIL opportunities—deals that the agency hopes to broker for college players that can extend into their subsequent pro career. Of course, Paul likes to think he’s not only offering clients endorsements, but also the savvy to spend the money well.</span></p><hr style="background: rgb(18, 18, 18); border: 0px; box-sizing: content-box; clear: both; height: 2px; margin: 40px auto;" /><h2 style="--type-token: consumptionEditorial.subhed-break-primary; box-sizing: border-box; color: black; font-feature-settings: normal; font-size: 26px; letter-spacing: normal; line-break: auto; line-height: 1.15385em; margin: 40px 0px 16px; overflow-wrap: normal;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen;">Major Food Group</span></strong></h2><p style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen;">MFG always goes BIG. Big flavors, big dishes, huge menus, ridiculously big prices, and unmatched ambition. They built the hottest restaurant in the world at a tiny space in Greenwich Village and used the momentum like rocket fuel. Now with 40 restaurants around the globe, they’ve launched another hit in NYC (Torrisi) and an obscenely opulent private club. The mood is somehow both old-world and red-hot. “We’re nostalgic at heart,” says Mario Carbone, “but still young enough to connect with the current generation.” Their next grand hospitality play? Real estate development. All that world-building, launched off the back of a really tasty plate of rigatoni.</span></p></div></div></div></div><div class="GridWrapper-cAzTTK eRggVV grid grid-margins grid-items-0 ArticlePageChunksGrid-hfxaau bDFJoo" style="--grid-gap: 2rem; --grid-margin: 3rem; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; display: grid; font-size: 20px; gap: var(--grid-gap); grid-template-columns: repeat(12, 1fr); letter-spacing: 0.05px; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 1600px; padding-left: calc(1 * var(--grid-margin)); padding-right: calc(1 * var(--grid-margin)); width: 1183.33px;"><div class="GridItem-buujkM kHPPIF grid--item" style="box-sizing: border-box; grid-column: 3 / span 8; margin-bottom: 1rem;"><div class="BodyWrapper-kufPGa cNkiAg body body__container article__body" data-journey-hook="client-content" data-testid="BodyWrapper" style="--type-token: consumptionEditorial.body-core; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2e302f; font-feature-settings: normal; grid-column: 3 / span 8; letter-spacing: 0.0025em; line-break: auto; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 1rem; max-width: 1600px; overflow-wrap: normal; padding: 0px; width: 714.227px;"><div class="body__inner-container" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><hr style="background: rgb(18, 18, 18); border: 0px; box-sizing: content-box; clear: both; height: 2px; margin: 40px auto;" /><figure class="AssetEmbedWrapper-eVDQiB byBkf asset-embed" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px auto 40px; padding: 0px; width: 714.227px;"><div class="AssetEmbedAssetContainer-eJxoAx dBHGoQ asset-embed__asset-container" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span class="SpanWrapper-umhxW jvZaPI responsive-asset AssetEmbedResponsiveAsset-cXBNxi eCxVQK asset-embed__responsive-asset" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: block; opacity: 1; overflow: hidden; transition: opacity 1s ease 0s;"><picture class="ResponsiveImagePicture-cWuUZO dUOtEa AssetEmbedResponsiveAsset-cXBNxi eCxVQK asset-embed__responsive-asset responsive-image" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; height: auto; position: relative; width: 714.227px;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen;"><img alt="Image may contain Adult Person Baby Photography Clothing Hat Face Head Portrait Computer Electronics and Chair" class="ResponsiveImageContainer-eybHBd fptoWY responsive-image__image" sizes="100vw" src="https://media.gq.com/photos/6601e37fe7c2a76012a87ae9/master/w_1600%2Cc_limit/CC-COLLAGE-1-REARRANGE-2.jpg" srcset="https://media.gq.com/photos/6601e37fe7c2a76012a87ae9/master/w_120,c_limit/CC-COLLAGE-1-REARRANGE-2.jpg 120w, https://media.gq.com/photos/6601e37fe7c2a76012a87ae9/master/w_240,c_limit/CC-COLLAGE-1-REARRANGE-2.jpg 240w, https://media.gq.com/photos/6601e37fe7c2a76012a87ae9/master/w_320,c_limit/CC-COLLAGE-1-REARRANGE-2.jpg 320w, https://media.gq.com/photos/6601e37fe7c2a76012a87ae9/master/w_640,c_limit/CC-COLLAGE-1-REARRANGE-2.jpg 640w, https://media.gq.com/photos/6601e37fe7c2a76012a87ae9/master/w_960,c_limit/CC-COLLAGE-1-REARRANGE-2.jpg 960w, https://media.gq.com/photos/6601e37fe7c2a76012a87ae9/master/w_1280,c_limit/CC-COLLAGE-1-REARRANGE-2.jpg 1280w, https://media.gq.com/photos/6601e37fe7c2a76012a87ae9/master/w_1600,c_limit/CC-COLLAGE-1-REARRANGE-2.jpg 1600w" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; height: auto; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: bottom; width: 714.227px;" /></span></picture></span></div><div class="CaptionWrapper-jSZdqE dVZQpq caption AssetEmbedCaption-fNQBPI cugSjO asset-embed__caption" data-event-boundary="click" data-event-click="{"pattern":"Caption"}" data-in-view="{"pattern":"Caption"}" data-include-experiments="true" style="--type-token: globalEditorial.context-secondary; box-sizing: border-box; font-feature-settings: normal; font-size: 14px; letter-spacing: normal; line-break: auto; line-height: 1.42857em; margin-top: 0.5rem; overflow-wrap: normal;"><span class="BaseWrap-sc-gjQpdd BaseText-ewhhUZ CaptionCredit-ejegDm iUEiRd cdsJgg fNaHcW caption__credit" style="--type-token: globalEditorial.context-tertiary; box-sizing: border-box; color: #757776; font-feature-settings: normal; line-break: auto; line-height: 1.25em; margin: 8px 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: normal;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen;">Photo Illustrations by Keir Novesky; Photographs: see additional credits at the bottom of the page.</span></span></div></figure><h2 style="--type-token: consumptionEditorial.subhed-break-primary; box-sizing: border-box; color: black; font-feature-settings: normal; font-size: 26px; letter-spacing: normal; line-break: auto; line-height: 1.15385em; margin: 40px 0px 16px; overflow-wrap: normal;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen;">Our Habitas</span></strong></h2><p style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen;">Aman and Mandarin Oriental have a nimble new competitor in the luxury hotel space. Our Habitas is betting that wanderlust-y millennials care way more about experiences than about simply getting access to yet another marble bathroom. Using low-impact modular construction, Habitas is able to build properties swiftly and put them in places you’d never expect: a Moroccan lagoon, an encampment in Chile’s Atacama Desert, a forthcoming getaway in the mountains of Bhutan. At the center of each one are communal spaces: fire pits, long dining-room tables. The goal, says CEO Oliver Ripley: “A space that brings people together.”</span></p><hr style="background: rgb(18, 18, 18); border: 0px; box-sizing: content-box; clear: both; height: 2px; margin: 40px auto;" /><h2 style="--type-token: consumptionEditorial.subhed-break-primary; box-sizing: border-box; color: black; font-feature-settings: normal; font-size: 26px; letter-spacing: normal; line-break: auto; line-height: 1.15385em; margin: 40px 0px 16px; overflow-wrap: normal;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen;">Paulin, Paulin, Paulin</span></strong></h2><p style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen;">Pierre Paulin, the great French furniture designer, was known for his range: grand interiors for presidents, funky lounge chairs. But at the time of his death, in 2009, he was haunted by one unfinished project: a utopian system of furniture for Herman Miller that could shift to outfit any home. “I grew up on the rejected pieces,” says Paulin’s son, Benjamin, who partnered with his wife and mother to create Paulin, Paulin, Paulin, and bring the designer’s unrealized visions to life. It’s been a huge hit: Now Instagram is flooded with the likes of Hailey Bieber and Rich the Kid lounging on Pierre Paulin sofas. For Benjamin, bringing the Herman Miller set to life was especially gratifying. “It was a very avant-garde and crazy idea,” Benjamin says. Now it’s also real.</span></p><hr style="background: rgb(18, 18, 18); border: 0px; box-sizing: content-box; clear: both; height: 2px; margin: 40px auto;" /><h2 style="--type-token: consumptionEditorial.subhed-break-primary; box-sizing: border-box; color: black; font-feature-settings: normal; font-size: 26px; letter-spacing: normal; line-break: auto; line-height: 1.15385em; margin: 40px 0px 16px; overflow-wrap: normal;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen;">A24</span></strong></h2><p style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen;">The film studio has established itself as an imprimatur of cool—a producer of the buzziest movies on the planet. Now, its TV shows (HBO’s <em style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit;">Euphoria</em>, Netflix’s <em style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit;">Beef</em>) have caught fire as well. From the start, the company’s focus has been to champion the offbeat story. Be a home for fresh voices. And think expansively about what a studio ought to do. Innovations include consumer products like a makeup brand (Half Magic), killer merch, a membership program—they’ve even purchased the off-Broadway Cherry Lane Theatre in New York. The most creative film studio on the planet won’t settle for simply being a film studio.</span></p><hr style="background: rgb(18, 18, 18); border: 0px; box-sizing: content-box; clear: both; height: 2px; margin: 40px auto;" /><h2 style="--type-token: consumptionEditorial.subhed-break-primary; box-sizing: border-box; color: black; font-feature-settings: normal; font-size: 26px; letter-spacing: normal; line-break: auto; line-height: 1.15385em; margin: 40px 0px 16px; overflow-wrap: normal;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen;">Nintendo</span></strong></h2><p style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen;">Since its days as a playing card company founded way back in 1889, Nintendo has reinvented itself continually, building on what works, chasing the next new thing. Last year it turned fresh takes on classic franchises—Zelda, Super Mario Bros.—into new games and movies that generated more than a billion dollars in sales. It also opened Super Nintendo World, a Hollywood theme park. The push into new terrain proves it’s not content to let the game end anytime soon.</span></p><hr style="background: rgb(18, 18, 18); border: 0px; box-sizing: content-box; clear: both; height: 2px; margin: 40px auto;" /><h2 style="--type-token: consumptionEditorial.subhed-break-primary; box-sizing: border-box; color: black; font-feature-settings: normal; font-size: 26px; letter-spacing: normal; line-break: auto; line-height: 1.15385em; margin: 40px 0px 16px; overflow-wrap: normal;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen;">Mischief @ No Fixed Address</span></strong></h2><p style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen;">When Mischief cofounder Greg Hahn helped form the company in 2020, his goal, he says, was to create a “safe place for dangerous ideas.” The agency got to work helping brands redefine themselves. For video-streaming service Tubi, a Super Bowl ad made it seem as if someone had taken over the remote and began scrolling through Tubi’s interface. For Tinder, a series of cinematic spots showed the potential of a one-night stand. With every client—whether its Capri Sun or Coors Light—Mischief starts with two questions: “What are we trying to say? What's the most unignorable way to say that?”</span></p></div></div></div></div><div class="GridWrapper-cAzTTK eRggVV grid grid-margins grid-items-0 ArticlePageChunksGrid-hfxaau bDFJoo" style="--grid-gap: 2rem; --grid-margin: 3rem; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; display: grid; font-size: 20px; gap: var(--grid-gap); grid-template-columns: repeat(12, 1fr); letter-spacing: 0.05px; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 1600px; padding-left: calc(1 * var(--grid-margin)); padding-right: calc(1 * var(--grid-margin)); width: 1183.33px;"><div class="GridItem-buujkM kHPPIF grid--item" style="box-sizing: border-box; grid-column: 3 / span 8; margin-bottom: 1rem;"><div class="BodyWrapper-kufPGa cNkiAg body body__container article__body" data-journey-hook="client-content" data-testid="BodyWrapper" style="--type-token: consumptionEditorial.body-core; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2e302f; font-feature-settings: normal; grid-column: 3 / span 8; letter-spacing: 0.0025em; line-break: auto; line-height: 1.5em; 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width: 714.227px;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen;"><img alt="Image may contain Advertisement Adult Person Clothing Hat Car Transportation Vehicle Cup Poster Cream and Dessert" class="ResponsiveImageContainer-eybHBd fptoWY responsive-image__image" sizes="100vw" src="https://media.gq.com/photos/6601e380c081abc36b271497/master/w_1600%2Cc_limit/CC-COLLAGE-1-REARRANGE4.jpg" srcset="https://media.gq.com/photos/6601e380c081abc36b271497/master/w_120,c_limit/CC-COLLAGE-1-REARRANGE4.jpg 120w, https://media.gq.com/photos/6601e380c081abc36b271497/master/w_240,c_limit/CC-COLLAGE-1-REARRANGE4.jpg 240w, https://media.gq.com/photos/6601e380c081abc36b271497/master/w_320,c_limit/CC-COLLAGE-1-REARRANGE4.jpg 320w, https://media.gq.com/photos/6601e380c081abc36b271497/master/w_640,c_limit/CC-COLLAGE-1-REARRANGE4.jpg 640w, https://media.gq.com/photos/6601e380c081abc36b271497/master/w_960,c_limit/CC-COLLAGE-1-REARRANGE4.jpg 960w, https://media.gq.com/photos/6601e380c081abc36b271497/master/w_1280,c_limit/CC-COLLAGE-1-REARRANGE4.jpg 1280w, https://media.gq.com/photos/6601e380c081abc36b271497/master/w_1600,c_limit/CC-COLLAGE-1-REARRANGE4.jpg 1600w" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; height: auto; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: bottom; width: 714.227px;" /></span></picture></span></div><div class="CaptionWrapper-jSZdqE dVZQpq caption AssetEmbedCaption-fNQBPI cugSjO asset-embed__caption" data-event-boundary="click" data-event-click="{"pattern":"Caption"}" data-in-view="{"pattern":"Caption"}" data-include-experiments="true" style="--type-token: globalEditorial.context-secondary; box-sizing: border-box; font-feature-settings: normal; font-size: 14px; letter-spacing: normal; line-break: auto; line-height: 1.42857em; margin-top: 0.5rem; overflow-wrap: normal;"><span class="BaseWrap-sc-gjQpdd BaseText-ewhhUZ CaptionCredit-ejegDm iUEiRd cdsJgg fNaHcW caption__credit" style="--type-token: globalEditorial.context-tertiary; box-sizing: border-box; color: #757776; font-feature-settings: normal; line-break: auto; line-height: 1.25em; margin: 8px 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: normal;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen;">Photo Illustrations by Keir Novesky; Photographs: see additional credits at the bottom of the page.</span></span></div></figure><h2 style="--type-token: consumptionEditorial.subhed-break-primary; box-sizing: border-box; color: black; font-feature-settings: normal; font-size: 26px; letter-spacing: normal; line-break: auto; line-height: 1.15385em; margin: 40px 0px 16px; overflow-wrap: normal;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen;">Teenage Engineering</span></strong></h2><p style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen;">Jesper Kouthoofd, cofounder of the Swedish consumer-electronics company, says its much-adored retro aesthetic owes to simple rules: Adhere to basic geometry (circles, squares, triangles), use a few classic colors, and stick to one font. “When you’re efficient and restricted you get more creative,” Kouthoofd says. His company makes everything from synthesizers and drum machines to speakers and audio recorders, a range of products that have attracted high-wattage admirers like Travis Scott, Skrillex, and Trent Reznor. Now Teenage Engineering imagines even bigger things: Later this year a handheld AI device that it helped build with Rabbit will begin shipping.</span></p><hr style="background: rgb(18, 18, 18); border: 0px; box-sizing: content-box; clear: both; height: 2px; margin: 40px auto;" /><h2 style="--type-token: consumptionEditorial.subhed-break-primary; box-sizing: border-box; color: black; font-feature-settings: normal; font-size: 26px; letter-spacing: normal; line-break: auto; line-height: 1.15385em; margin: 40px 0px 16px; overflow-wrap: normal;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen;">Prada</span></strong></h2><p style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen;">Four years ago, Miuccia Prada shocked the fashion world when she announced that the designer Raf Simons would be joining her as the luxury house’s co–creative director—a highly unusual sharing of power. But Mrs. Prada, known for her beguiling jolie laide aesthetic, has never been one to abide by convention. And the unorthodox appointment seemed to reflect the creative spirit of Prada itself, a brand that has commissioned architect Rem Koolhaas to design its show space and stores and that bankrolls the arts through the Prada Foundation. As CEO Gianfranco D’Attis puts it, “Prada is more than a lifestyle. It is a vehicle to communicate our unique perspective on the world.” The company has posted booming earnings of late—and per the influential Lyst Index, Prada is also once again the world’s hottest fashion brand—impressive for a house that’s defined by its elegance of mind.</span></p><hr style="background: rgb(18, 18, 18); border: 0px; box-sizing: content-box; clear: both; height: 2px; margin: 40px auto;" /><h2 style="--type-token: consumptionEditorial.subhed-break-primary; box-sizing: border-box; color: black; font-feature-settings: normal; font-size: 26px; letter-spacing: normal; line-break: auto; line-height: 1.15385em; margin: 40px 0px 16px; overflow-wrap: normal;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen;">Kéré Architecture</span></strong></h2><p style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen;">At a time when big-name architects are consumed with skyscrapers for plutocrats, Francis Kéré dreams of something different: a building that “embraces a totally human being,” he says. That humanistic approach has made him a star, celebrated for marrying modern techniques with traditional forms and local materials. One recent project, for an arts center in Fishtail, Montana, features a canopy of heavy logs made to appear weightless; another, for the new National Assembly building in the Republic of Benin, was made to look like a palaver tree, a traditional gathering spot in West Africa. “Sometimes,” Kéré says, “I'm coming out with ideas, if you heard about it, you think, ‘It's impossible.’ But then I turn it to reality.”</span></p><hr style="background: rgb(18, 18, 18); border: 0px; box-sizing: content-box; clear: both; height: 2px; margin: 40px auto;" /><h2 style="--type-token: consumptionEditorial.subhed-break-primary; box-sizing: border-box; color: black; font-feature-settings: normal; font-size: 26px; letter-spacing: normal; line-break: auto; line-height: 1.15385em; margin: 40px 0px 16px; overflow-wrap: normal;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen;">Tesla</span></strong></h2><p style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen;">Tesla’s cars are energy efficient and fun to drive, but a big part of the appeal is the automaker’s rotating suite of clever, creative, and pragmatic features. There’s “Caraoke” or gaming to pass the time while you charge; “Dog” mode, which maintains a comfortable temperature for your pet when you step out for an errand. These ideas can come from within Tesla or without; many have originated from customers via whatever we’re supposed to call tweets now. But whatever these innovations are, they reflect a culture of unfettered creativity that the big carmakers can’t seem to touch. As head engineer Lars Moravy has put it, “You don’t get to say, well, we’ve done that for 50 years, so that’s the way we’re gonna do it for the next 50.”</span></p><hr style="background: rgb(18, 18, 18); border: 0px; box-sizing: content-box; clear: both; height: 2px; margin: 40px auto;" /><h2 style="--type-token: consumptionEditorial.subhed-break-primary; box-sizing: border-box; color: black; font-feature-settings: normal; font-size: 26px; letter-spacing: normal; line-break: auto; line-height: 1.15385em; margin: 40px 0px 16px; overflow-wrap: normal;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen;">Athletic Brewing Company</span></strong></h2><p style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen;">Since the dawn of the craft beer revolution, there was no challenge so outrageous that craft brewers wouldn’t at least try it, but one proved almost impossible: brewing a nonalcoholic beer that wasn’t sad and disgusting. “The adult beverage world, if you're not drinking, was brutal,” says Bill Shufelt. So he quit his job on Wall Street, teamed with John Walker, a brewer he’d met online, and in 2018 launched Athletic to reimagine the fundamentals of beer drinking. Today, Athletic controls 20 percent of the NA beer market. Maybe more impressively, the brewer is beating out craft beers that contain alcohol for awards. Sometimes an idea is so simple, smart, and well executed that it doesn’t just launch a great company—it opens up a whole new category.</span></p><div style="box-sizing: border-box;"></div><hr style="background: rgb(18, 18, 18); border: 0px; box-sizing: content-box; clear: both; height: 2px; margin: 40px auto;" /><p style="box-sizing: border-box;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen;">A version of this story originally appeared in the April/May 2024 issue of GQ with the title “The World’s Most Creative Companies 2024”</span></em></p></div></div></div></div><div class="GridWrapper-cAzTTK eRggVV grid grid-margins grid-items-0 ArticlePageChunksGrid-hfxaau bDFJoo" style="--grid-gap: 2rem; --grid-margin: 3rem; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; display: grid; gap: var(--grid-gap); grid-template-columns: repeat(12, 1fr); letter-spacing: 0.05px; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 1600px; padding-left: calc(1 * var(--grid-margin)); padding-right: calc(1 * var(--grid-margin)); width: 1183.33px;"><div class="GridItem-buujkM kHPPIF grid--item" style="box-sizing: border-box; grid-column: 3 / span 8; margin-bottom: 1rem;"><div class="BodyWrapper-kufPGa cNkiAg body body__container article__body" data-journey-hook="client-content" data-testid="BodyWrapper" style="--type-token: consumptionEditorial.body-core; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2e302f; font-feature-settings: normal; grid-column: 3 / span 8; letter-spacing: 0.0025em; line-break: auto; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 1rem; max-width: 1600px; overflow-wrap: normal; padding: 0px; width: 714.227px;"><div class="body__inner-container" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><hr style="background: rgb(18, 18, 18); border: 0px; box-sizing: content-box; clear: both; font-size: 20px; height: 2px; margin: 40px auto;" /><p style="box-sizing: border-box;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: x-small;">ADDITIONAL CREDITS:</span></strong></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: x-small;">Opening photo illustration: Mischief rocket, Nintendo’s Yoshi, Boom Supersonic, Prada runway model, Athletic Brewing, Tesla, and Teenage Engineering Frekvens: courtesy of the brands. 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All logos: courtesy of the brands.</span></em></p></div></div></div></div>Anne Sulzbergerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17091067031029918700noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6744683886539852356.post-16586932137732190002024-03-27T22:56:00.000-07:002024-03-27T22:56:14.687-07:00Political Candidate Arrested For Allegedly Punching TikToker In Face, Police Say<iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="399" referrerpolicy="strict-origin-when-cross-origin" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/1haSu8tMiIo" title="Multiple NYC women speak out on TikTok saying they were punched on streets" width="709"></iframe>
<p><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;"> <span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; letter-spacing: -0.56px;">A political candidate who ran for office multiple times in New York was arrested Wednesday for allegedly punching a TikToker in the face, police said.</span></span></p><p style="--tw-ring-color: rgba(59, 130, 246, 0.5); --tw-ring-inset: var(--tw-empty,/*!*/ /*!*/); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; background-color: white; border-color: currentcolor; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; letter-spacing: -0.56px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5rem;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;">Skiboky Stora has ran for mayor, governor and city council as a down-ballot candidate over a three=year span, according to the <a href="https://nypost.com/2024/03/27/us-news/skiboky-stora-arrested-for-sucker-punching-tiktokker/?utm_campaign=nypost&utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social" previewlistener="true" style="--tw-ring-color: rgba(59, 130, 246, 0.5); --tw-ring-inset: var(--tw-empty,/*!*/ /*!*/); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-text-opacity: 1; border-color: currentcolor; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;">New York Post</a>. He was reportedly charged with assault after allegedly punching Halley Kate, a random woman, in the face Monday, the New York City Police Department (NYPD) said.</span></p><p style="--tw-ring-color: rgba(59, 130, 246, 0.5); --tw-ring-inset: var(--tw-empty,/*!*/ /*!*/); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; background-color: white; border-color: currentcolor; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; letter-spacing: -0.56px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5rem;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiY3QxZtPyVRuKRf-xPJoBAyIMX_rH_YzFeic4-WKnDyUHdvI35NLug7zx3BhYjmfAjlUMJQv_eIu6CGaV9TPmdEb3F9tdwzVY6kinIynrYTjOm01nSYfQgXyTERQAuMmR1fSSjqsQffFVGQCB_CfpPCvlQPUcNwefTpQSmKO_tPrb2XfxhdIRRva36XmQ/s1080/GJtUTJXWcAEfpQf.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="1080" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiY3QxZtPyVRuKRf-xPJoBAyIMX_rH_YzFeic4-WKnDyUHdvI35NLug7zx3BhYjmfAjlUMJQv_eIu6CGaV9TPmdEb3F9tdwzVY6kinIynrYTjOm01nSYfQgXyTERQAuMmR1fSSjqsQffFVGQCB_CfpPCvlQPUcNwefTpQSmKO_tPrb2XfxhdIRRva36XmQ/w640-h640/GJtUTJXWcAEfpQf.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;"><br /></span><p></p><div align="center" id="dailycaller_incontent_dynamic" style="--tw-ring-color: rgba(59, 130, 246, 0.5); --tw-ring-inset: var(--tw-empty,/*!*/ /*!*/); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; background-color: white; border-color: currentcolor; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; letter-spacing: -0.56px; min-width: 340px; overflow: visible;"></div><p style="--tw-ring-color: rgba(59, 130, 246, 0.5); --tw-ring-inset: var(--tw-empty,/*!*/ /*!*/); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; background-color: white; border-color: currentcolor; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; letter-spacing: -0.56px; margin: 24px 0px 1.5rem;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;">Kate posted a viral video following the alleged attack as she walked down the streets of Chelsea, the outlet reported. In the video, the victim was seen with a red face. “You guys, I was literally just walking, and a man came up and punched me in the face. Oh my god, it hurts so bad. I can’t even talk,” she alleged.</span></p><p style="--tw-ring-color: rgba(59, 130, 246, 0.5); --tw-ring-inset: var(--tw-empty,/*!*/ /*!*/); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; background-color: white; border-color: currentcolor; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; letter-spacing: -0.56px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5rem;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;">“Literally, I fell to the ground,” she continued. “And now this giant goose egg is forming and I’m like — oh my god. It’s so crazy!”</span></p><blockquote class="twitter-tweet" style="--tw-ring-color: rgba(59, 130, 246, 0.5); --tw-ring-inset: var(--tw-empty,/*!*/ /*!*/); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; background-color: white; border-color: currentcolor; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-style: italic; letter-spacing: -0.56px; margin: 0px; padding: 2rem;"><p dir="ltr" lang="en" style="--tw-ring-color: rgba(59, 130, 246, 0.5); --tw-ring-inset: var(--tw-empty,/*!*/ /*!*/); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; border-color: currentcolor; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5rem;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;">A slew of TikTokkers have come forward to reveal they’ve been punched on the streets of New York City</span></p><p style="--tw-ring-color: rgba(59, 130, 246, 0.5); --tw-ring-inset: var(--tw-empty,/*!*/ /*!*/); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; border-color: currentcolor; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5rem;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;">Social media influencer Halley Kate posted a video claiming she was punched in the face in broad daylight while walking the streets of NYC <a href="https://t.co/rpNdxE2tkY" previewlistener="true" style="--tw-ring-color: rgba(59, 130, 246, 0.5); --tw-ring-inset: var(--tw-empty,/*!*/ /*!*/); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-text-opacity: 1; border-color: currentcolor; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;">pic.twitter.com/rpNdxE2tkY</a></span></p><p style="--tw-ring-color: rgba(59, 130, 246, 0.5); --tw-ring-inset: var(--tw-empty,/*!*/ /*!*/); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; border-color: currentcolor; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;">— Ronald Kelly (@RonK3l) <a href="https://twitter.com/RonK3l/status/1772965190847418605?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" previewlistener="true" style="--tw-ring-color: rgba(59, 130, 246, 0.5); --tw-ring-inset: var(--tw-empty,/*!*/ /*!*/); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-text-opacity: 1; border-color: currentcolor; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;">March 27, 2024</a></span></p></blockquote><p style="--tw-ring-color: rgba(59, 130, 246, 0.5); --tw-ring-inset: var(--tw-empty,/*!*/ /*!*/); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; background-color: white; border-color: currentcolor; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; letter-spacing: -0.56px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5rem;"></p><div align="center" id="dailycaller_incontent_2" style="--tw-ring-color: rgba(59, 130, 246, 0.5); --tw-ring-inset: var(--tw-empty,/*!*/ /*!*/); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; background-color: white; border-color: currentcolor; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; letter-spacing: -0.56px; overflow: visible;"></div><div id="outbrainPlaceholder" style="--tw-ring-color: rgba(59, 130, 246, 0.5); --tw-ring-inset: var(--tw-empty,/*!*/ /*!*/); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; 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box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; letter-spacing: -0.56px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5rem;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;">Stora was scheduled to appear in Manhattan court on Wednesday morning, <a href="https://iapps.courts.state.ny.us/webcrim_attorney/Detail?which=case&docketNumber=B76/LB6TfJ31KGUQIJwmXQ==&courtType=U&countyId=rONpdR1_PLUS_SJ0uG_PLUS_d_PLUS_N1gblw==&docketId=tMcnURrAfo/3wflOuwKZUw==&docketDseq=T/O1YN_PLUS_BG65HkOeqEnpAkw==&defendantName=Stora,+Skiboky&county=&court=New+York+Criminal+Court&recordType=U&recordNum=" previewlistener="true" style="--tw-ring-color: rgba(59, 130, 246, 0.5); --tw-ring-inset: var(--tw-empty,/*!*/ /*!*/); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-text-opacity: 1; border-color: currentcolor; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;">court documents</a> showed.</span></p><p style="--tw-ring-color: rgba(59, 130, 246, 0.5); --tw-ring-inset: var(--tw-empty,/*!*/ /*!*/); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; background-color: white; border-color: currentcolor; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; letter-spacing: -0.56px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5rem;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;">Along with running for office as a down-ballot candidate, Stora also released rap music under the alias Designer Attitude, according to the New York Post. A music video on <a href="https://m.facebook.com/skiboky.stora" previewlistener="true" style="--tw-ring-color: rgba(59, 130, 246, 0.5); --tw-ring-inset: var(--tw-empty,/*!*/ /*!*/); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-text-opacity: 1; border-color: currentcolor; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;">Facebook</a> showed the 40-year-old suspect punching the air as he bragged about his wealth and status, the outlet reported. Stora’s Facebook account also lists a SoundCloud account. </span></p><p style="--tw-ring-color: rgba(59, 130, 246, 0.5); --tw-ring-inset: var(--tw-empty,/*!*/ /*!*/); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; background-color: white; border-color: currentcolor; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; letter-spacing: -0.56px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5rem;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;">After Kate posted her video, other women on TikTok shared videos about similar experiences of being attacked in the city, <a href="https://nypost.com/2024/03/26/us-news/tiktokkers-report-being-punched-by-strangers-in-nyc/amp/" previewlistener="true" style="--tw-ring-color: rgba(59, 130, 246, 0.5); --tw-ring-inset: var(--tw-empty,/*!*/ /*!*/); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-text-opacity: 1; border-color: currentcolor; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;">according</a> to the New York Post. However, Kate reportedly insisted that New York gave her “everything [she’s] grateful for,” saying that her experience was an isolated case.</span></p><p style="--tw-ring-color: rgba(59, 130, 246, 0.5); --tw-ring-inset: var(--tw-empty,/*!*/ /*!*/); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; background-color: white; border-color: currentcolor; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; letter-spacing: -0.56px; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;">“I am not hear to argue that New York City can be really scary at times, but I have lived here for six years, and I have not had anything even remotely similar happen,” Kate stated, the outlet reported.</span></p><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="399" referrerpolicy="strict-origin-when-cross-origin" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/04hqat8LdH8" title="New York Woman Gets PUNCHED By Man And Men REFUSE To Help" width="709"></iframe><blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-media-max-width="560"><p dir="ltr" lang="en">Another New York City woman gets punched in the face at random <a href="https://t.co/OiFshDP4WC">pic.twitter.com/OiFshDP4WC</a></p>— TRACKER DEEP (@tracker_deep) <a href="https://twitter.com/tracker_deep/status/1773206511008838144?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 28, 2024</a></blockquote> <script async="" charset="utf-8" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js"></script>Anne Sulzbergerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17091067031029918700noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6744683886539852356.post-72863584174323101722024-03-27T22:15:00.000-07:002024-03-27T22:15:16.526-07:00Office redesigns should focus on enabling hybrid work arrangements, AI: study Employers are looking to invest in AI-powered collaboration tools to enable hybrid work arrangements, a Cisco study finds<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVUx4yAu2lVnWI8Z2fYtEPnPd0pIWCJV8gLhwxES0dgup1dZ2oVy6tVNFxJJOMYrALGq7xezi6M8S1dRj8cHvUpdyCNncbhPa4SNTSArn4hJFpR1F9BCNShgeek_N7SyYp222Zz7AglPS7qmtXygna2s7bCR5zZSntFrbB3CgmCl23rXQoFmEfPTxOMyo/s2048/7xm.xyz979179.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1365" data-original-width="2048" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVUx4yAu2lVnWI8Z2fYtEPnPd0pIWCJV8gLhwxES0dgup1dZ2oVy6tVNFxJJOMYrALGq7xezi6M8S1dRj8cHvUpdyCNncbhPa4SNTSArn4hJFpR1F9BCNShgeek_N7SyYp222Zz7AglPS7qmtXygna2s7bCR5zZSntFrbB3CgmCl23rXQoFmEfPTxOMyo/w640-h426/7xm.xyz979179.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: Oxygen;"><br /></span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: Oxygen;"> <span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 18px;">Employees have positive views about returning to the office but expect it to look and feel differently than it did before the pandemic to accommodate hybrid arrangements as well as facilitating new</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 18px;"> </span><u style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">artificial intelligence (AI)</u><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 18px;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 18px;">technologies, according to a new study by Cisco.</span></span></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 32px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen;">The Cisco Hybrid Work study – which surveyed 14,050 full-time employees and 3,800 employers from around the world in December 2023 and January 2024 – found that 72% of employees have positive feelings about returning to the office. However, only 47% of employees believe their work environments are equipped for the <u style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">hybrid work era</u>, pointing to a need for office spaces to be redesigned to better support the ways that employees want to work together.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 32px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen;">"Right now, I feel like the role of the office has to fundamentally change compared to the way that it used to be," Jeetu Patel, Cisco EVP and general manager of security and collaboration, told FOX Business in an interview. </span></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 32px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen;">"A third of the people that we surveyed had more than 75% of the office space that was still for personal working spaces. And I actually feel like that defeats the purpose because people want to come in not just so they can work in their cubicle. They want to come in so they can engage with each other and collaborate," Patel said.</span></p><div class="inline image-ct" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: auto;"><div class="m" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;"><picture style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen;"><source media="(max-width: 767px)" srcset="https://a57.foxnews.com/static.foxbusiness.com/foxbusiness.com/content/uploads/2024/03/343/192/Hybrid-Work-Return-to-Office.jpg?ve=1&tl=1, https://a57.foxnews.com/static.foxbusiness.com/foxbusiness.com/content/uploads/2024/03/686/384/Hybrid-Work-Return-to-Office.jpg?ve=1&tl=1 2x" style="box-sizing: border-box;"></source><source media="(min-width: 768px) and (max-width: 1023px)" srcset="https://a57.foxnews.com/static.foxbusiness.com/foxbusiness.com/content/uploads/2024/03/672/378/Hybrid-Work-Return-to-Office.jpg?ve=1&tl=1, https://a57.foxnews.com/static.foxbusiness.com/foxbusiness.com/content/uploads/2024/03/1344/756/Hybrid-Work-Return-to-Office.jpg?ve=1&tl=1 2x" style="box-sizing: border-box;"></source><source media="(min-width: 1024px) and (max-width: 1279px)" srcset="https://a57.foxnews.com/static.foxbusiness.com/foxbusiness.com/content/uploads/2024/03/931/523/Hybrid-Work-Return-to-Office.jpg?ve=1&tl=1, https://a57.foxnews.com/static.foxbusiness.com/foxbusiness.com/content/uploads/2024/03/1862/1046/Hybrid-Work-Return-to-Office.jpg?ve=1&tl=1 2x" style="box-sizing: border-box;"></source><source media="(min-width: 1280px)" srcset="https://a57.foxnews.com/static.foxbusiness.com/foxbusiness.com/content/uploads/2024/03/720/405/Hybrid-Work-Return-to-Office.jpg?ve=1&tl=1, https://a57.foxnews.com/static.foxbusiness.com/foxbusiness.com/content/uploads/2024/03/1440/810/Hybrid-Work-Return-to-Office.jpg?ve=1&tl=1 2x" style="box-sizing: border-box;"></source><img alt="Hybrid Work Return to Office" src="https://a57.foxnews.com/static.foxbusiness.com/foxbusiness.com/content/uploads/2024/03/931/523/Hybrid-Work-Return-to-Office.jpg?ve=1&tl=1" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 835.33px;" /></span></picture></div><div class="caption" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-bottom-style: solid; border-image: initial; border-left-color: initial; border-left-style: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-top-style: initial; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; box-sizing: border-box; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 8px 0px 0px; padding: 0px 0px 16px; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen;"><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Workers are largely optimistic about returning to the office in hybrid arrangements, but don't think their offices are properly equipped for it.</span><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> (Amir Hamja/Bloomberg via / Getty Images)</span></span></p></div></div><div class="credible" data-in-article="true" data-unit-credible=",," style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: -16px 0px 16px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 32px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen;">The study found that both employers and employees think the leading factors driving a return to the office as part of a hybrid work arrangement are optimizing productivity (61%), preserving workplace culture (60%) and maintaining team communication (56%). </span></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 32px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen;">In terms of the reasons that both employers and employees have positive feelings about returning to the office, the survey found that interacting and socializing with others (74%), collaborating with others (71%), ideating and brainstorming (53%), and developing a sense of belonging (46%) were the leading factors cited by respondents.</span></p><table class="stock-fundamentals" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border-bottom-color: initial; border-bottom-style: initial; border-collapse: collapse; border-image: initial; border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-left-style: solid; border-right-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-right-style: solid; border-spacing: 0px; border-top-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-top-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 0px; color: #222222; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 36px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 835.33px;"><thead style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><tr style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: solid; border-image: initial; border-left-color: initial; border-left-style: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-top-style: initial; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; box-sizing: border-box; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><th class="ticker" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 12px 14px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen;">Ticker</span></th><th class="security" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 12px 14px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen;">Security</span></th><th class="last" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 12px 14px; text-align: right; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen;">Last</span></th><th class="change" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 12px 14px; text-align: right; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen;">Change</span></th><th class="percent" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 12px 14px; text-align: right; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen;">Change %</span></th></tr></thead><tbody style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><tr style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><td class="ticker" style="background: 0px 0px; border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: solid; border-image: initial; border-left-color: initial; border-left-style: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-top-style: initial; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; box-sizing: border-box; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: 900; letter-spacing: -0.22px; line-height: 22px; margin: 0px; padding: 14px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="https://www.foxbusiness.com/quote?stockTicker=CSCO" previewlistener="true" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: background 0s ease 0s, all 0.25s ease 0s, all 0s ease-in-out 0s; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen;">CSCO</span></a></td><td class="security" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: solid; border-image: initial; border-left-color: initial; border-left-style: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-top-style: initial; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; box-sizing: border-box; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; letter-spacing: -0.22px; line-height: 22px; margin: 0px; padding: 14px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen;">CISCO SYSTEMS INC.</span></td><td class="last" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: solid; border-image: initial; border-left-color: initial; border-left-style: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-top-style: initial; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; box-sizing: border-box; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; letter-spacing: -0.22px; line-height: 22px; margin: 0px; padding: 14px; position: relative; text-align: right; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen;">49.77</span></td><td class="change pos" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: solid; border-image: initial; border-left-color: initial; border-left-style: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-top-style: initial; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #307608; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; letter-spacing: -0.22px; line-height: 22px; margin: 0px; padding: 14px; position: relative; text-align: right; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen;">+0.22</span></td><td class="percent pos" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: solid; border-image: initial; border-left-color: initial; border-left-style: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-top-style: initial; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #307608; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; letter-spacing: -0.22px; line-height: 22px; margin: 0px; padding: 14px; position: relative; text-align: right; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen;">+0.44%</span></td></tr><tr style="background: rgb(246, 248, 250); border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><td class="sponsored-by-td" colspan="5" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; letter-spacing: -0.22px; line-height: 22px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;"></td></tr></tbody></table><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 32px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen;">The study also found that employers are making a commitment to investing in AI technologies to help enable the hybrid work era, with 73% of U.S. employers saying they'll invest in AI-powered collaboration software and 68% planning to enhance workspaces with AI tech by 2025. </span></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 32px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen;">While 43% of employees have access to AI technologies, less than half feel proficient in using them – which highlights the need for training workers on AI tools and for businesses to select AI tools that meet the needs of both the organization and individual teams.</span></p><div class="inline image-ct" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: auto;"><div class="m" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;"><picture style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen;"><source media="(max-width: 767px)" srcset="https://a57.foxnews.com/static.foxbusiness.com/foxbusiness.com/content/uploads/2024/03/343/192/Cisco-Jeetu-Patel-1.jpg?ve=1&tl=1, https://a57.foxnews.com/static.foxbusiness.com/foxbusiness.com/content/uploads/2024/03/686/384/Cisco-Jeetu-Patel-1.jpg?ve=1&tl=1 2x" style="box-sizing: border-box;"></source><source media="(min-width: 768px) and (max-width: 1023px)" srcset="https://a57.foxnews.com/static.foxbusiness.com/foxbusiness.com/content/uploads/2024/03/672/378/Cisco-Jeetu-Patel-1.jpg?ve=1&tl=1, https://a57.foxnews.com/static.foxbusiness.com/foxbusiness.com/content/uploads/2024/03/1344/756/Cisco-Jeetu-Patel-1.jpg?ve=1&tl=1 2x" style="box-sizing: border-box;"></source><source media="(min-width: 1024px) and (max-width: 1279px)" srcset="https://a57.foxnews.com/static.foxbusiness.com/foxbusiness.com/content/uploads/2024/03/931/523/Cisco-Jeetu-Patel-1.jpg?ve=1&tl=1, https://a57.foxnews.com/static.foxbusiness.com/foxbusiness.com/content/uploads/2024/03/1862/1046/Cisco-Jeetu-Patel-1.jpg?ve=1&tl=1 2x" style="box-sizing: border-box;"></source><source media="(min-width: 1280px)" srcset="https://a57.foxnews.com/static.foxbusiness.com/foxbusiness.com/content/uploads/2024/03/720/405/Cisco-Jeetu-Patel-1.jpg?ve=1&tl=1, https://a57.foxnews.com/static.foxbusiness.com/foxbusiness.com/content/uploads/2024/03/1440/810/Cisco-Jeetu-Patel-1.jpg?ve=1&tl=1 2x" style="box-sizing: border-box;"></source><img alt="Cisco Jeetu Patel" src="https://a57.foxnews.com/static.foxbusiness.com/foxbusiness.com/content/uploads/2024/03/931/523/Cisco-Jeetu-Patel-1.jpg?ve=1&tl=1" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 835.33px;" /></span></picture></div><div class="caption" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-bottom-style: solid; border-image: initial; border-left-color: initial; border-left-style: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-top-style: initial; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; box-sizing: border-box; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 8px 0px 0px; padding: 0px 0px 16px; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen;"><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Cisco's Jeetu Patel told FOX Business that hybrid work arrangements should ensure younger workers have the opportunity to be mentored by more experienced peers.</span><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> (Al Drago/Bloomberg via / Getty Images)</span></span></p></div></div><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 32px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen;">Patel said there is something of a mismatch between older and younger workers in terms of the benefits they get from remote or fully in-office <u style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">work arrangements</u>. </span></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 32px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen;">He explained that younger workers who want to be mentored may find that their more experienced potential mentors are opting to use the flexibility of remote work arrangements to accommodate other aspects of their life. That's one area he said employers with hybrid offices should take into account as they think through redesigns and policy changes.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 32px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen;">"I think what's tricky that we haven't figured out as a society is the early career people need to be mentored by people who have had some experience, and if those people don't show up to the office for the earlier career people, then you've actually lost something in them," he said. </span></p><div class="inline image-ct" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: auto;"><div class="m" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;"><picture style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen;"><source media="(max-width: 767px)" srcset="https://a57.foxnews.com/static.foxbusiness.com/foxbusiness.com/content/uploads/2024/02/343/192/Cisco.jpg?ve=1&tl=1, https://a57.foxnews.com/static.foxbusiness.com/foxbusiness.com/content/uploads/2024/02/686/384/Cisco.jpg?ve=1&tl=1 2x" style="box-sizing: border-box;"></source><source media="(min-width: 768px) and (max-width: 1023px)" srcset="https://a57.foxnews.com/static.foxbusiness.com/foxbusiness.com/content/uploads/2024/02/672/378/Cisco.jpg?ve=1&tl=1, https://a57.foxnews.com/static.foxbusiness.com/foxbusiness.com/content/uploads/2024/02/1344/756/Cisco.jpg?ve=1&tl=1 2x" style="box-sizing: border-box;"></source><source media="(min-width: 1024px) and (max-width: 1279px)" srcset="https://a57.foxnews.com/static.foxbusiness.com/foxbusiness.com/content/uploads/2024/02/931/523/Cisco.jpg?ve=1&tl=1, https://a57.foxnews.com/static.foxbusiness.com/foxbusiness.com/content/uploads/2024/02/1862/1046/Cisco.jpg?ve=1&tl=1 2x" style="box-sizing: border-box;"></source><source media="(min-width: 1280px)" srcset="https://a57.foxnews.com/static.foxbusiness.com/foxbusiness.com/content/uploads/2024/02/720/405/Cisco.jpg?ve=1&tl=1, https://a57.foxnews.com/static.foxbusiness.com/foxbusiness.com/content/uploads/2024/02/1440/810/Cisco.jpg?ve=1&tl=1 2x" style="box-sizing: border-box;"></source><img alt="Cisco Systems Headquarters Ahead Of Earning Figures" src="https://a57.foxnews.com/static.foxbusiness.com/foxbusiness.com/content/uploads/2024/02/931/523/Cisco.jpg?ve=1&tl=1" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 835.33px;" /></span></picture></div><div class="caption" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-bottom-style: solid; border-image: initial; border-left-color: initial; border-left-style: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-top-style: initial; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; box-sizing: border-box; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 8px 0px 0px; padding: 0px 0px 16px; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen;"><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Cisco's study found that employers plan to ramp up spending on AI-powered collaboration tools for offices over the next year.</span><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> (David Paul Morris/Bloomberg via / Getty Images)</span></span></p></div></div><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 32px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen;">Patel went on to say that if the world were to go back to the period right before the <u style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">COVID pandemic</u> where most workers were in the office most of the time, the benefits of the expansion of economic opportunity around the world through the proliferation of remote work would be diminished.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 32px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen;">"I think you've lost something special that happened during this time period, which is you opened up the economy to every demographic in the world and every geography in the world, more importantly, to participate in the global economy. Because now, a person in a village in Bangladesh has the same opportunity to participate in the global economy as someone in the heart of Silicon Valley or <u style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">New York City</u>," he explained.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 32px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen;">"On the other hand, I do think it's probably not feasible to say we're never going to meet and we're always going to be virtual," Patel added. "And in my mind, the thing that is the X factor that has to change is you have to acknowledge that there's value to meeting in person, but you have to curate those experiences carefully. But then, on the other hand, I think it would be super valuable to say, 'If I am a next generation leader, what does a next generation leader need to look like?'"</span></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 32px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen;">"I think a next generation leader who would be successful needs to not require that they've met someone to be able to establish trust in them," he explained. "And if we can make that happen where the speed at which you can establish trust with someone is compressed, and you can do it without meeting someone in person, I think you would unlock so much potential in humanity."</span></p>Anne Sulzbergerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17091067031029918700noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6744683886539852356.post-7256810207664878782024-03-27T22:09:00.000-07:002024-03-27T22:09:06.466-07:00AI TO FORCE EVALUATION OF SKILLS AND HR<p><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;"> </span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjkMCLXK_i-qUQQ8uodkK1Esybn_wzaRG6PhQNWtVZj16rtdgB7REMrS8IXuwpqb-aCzxcpe3MdrUf9YOwvTkZV0VkvNOfWmoQP9YBLWJExkVvW_Loz6wzF6Sbc9BVk4lTtDcb9cnBkJ74L3u3RpTpk3HmFXTbsXTF1LeZX27aKVyRYpe0IkSJeZLMd4sM/s1080/mtv-real-world-2024-v0-44n5612auyqc1.webp" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="1080" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjkMCLXK_i-qUQQ8uodkK1Esybn_wzaRG6PhQNWtVZj16rtdgB7REMrS8IXuwpqb-aCzxcpe3MdrUf9YOwvTkZV0VkvNOfWmoQP9YBLWJExkVvW_Loz6wzF6Sbc9BVk4lTtDcb9cnBkJ74L3u3RpTpk3HmFXTbsXTF1LeZX27aKVyRYpe0IkSJeZLMd4sM/w640-h640/mtv-real-world-2024-v0-44n5612auyqc1.webp" width="640" /></a></span></div><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;"><br /><span style="color: #4e4e4e;">The majority of business leaders globally, 81%, believe AI and other tech disruptions will force organizations to radically rethink skills and human resources across large areas of their workforce, according to</span><span style="color: #4e4e4e;"> </span><a href="https://insights.wecglobal.org/the-work-we-want/home/" previewlistener="true" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: none; color: #015186; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">a survey</a><span style="color: #4e4e4e;"> </span><span style="color: #4e4e4e;">conducted by the World Employment Confederation. </span></span><p></p><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: none; color: #4e4e4e; line-height: 24px; margin: 20px 8px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;">The survey polled hundreds of senior executives from Fortune 2000 companies. </span></p><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: none; color: #4e4e4e; line-height: 24px; margin: 20px 8px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;">Meanwhile, 78% of those same executives are concerned that they cannot train employees fast enough to keep pace with technology developments in the next three years. The WEC stated that one of the solutions to bridging unexpected resourcing gaps is an agile workforce. </span></p><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: none; color: #4e4e4e; line-height: 24px; margin: 20px 8px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;">Most senior executives, 92%, reported they’ll need a more flexible workforce in the next two years. Employing agency workers becomes increasingly attractive not just as an extra pair of hands but also as a way to access hard-to-find digital skills and access higher-caliber candidates, the WEC stated. </span></p><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: none; color: #4e4e4e; line-height: 24px; margin: 20px 8px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;">At the same time, 79% of senior executives also highlight that employing agency workers with knowledge of a new technology is an effective way to spread understanding to permanent employees. Most (88%) plan to increase their use of agency workers in response to market dynamics. </span></p><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: none; color: #4e4e4e; line-height: 24px; margin: 20px 8px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;">“AI has made agility non-negotiable, and the HR services industry is crucial in helping to fill the labor and skills gaps brought on by digitalization,” said WEC Managing Director Denis Pennel. </span></p><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: none; color: #4e4e4e; line-height: 24px; margin: 20px 8px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;">Other key findings from the research found that 80% of senior executives say talent planning has never been more difficult than it is today; 82% say that the approaches used to find and retain talent in the past are no longer fit for purpose; and 83% say that employees now value flexibility around where and when they work as much as other factors such as compensation. </span></p><p class="sc-77igqf-0 fnnahv" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #222222; line-height: 29px; margin: 0px auto 1.25rem; max-width: 636px; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;">Amazon completed its largest investment in an outside company ever, as it steps up its efforts in the AI race to compete with rivals including Microsoft.</span></p><p class="sc-77igqf-0 fnnahv" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #222222; line-height: 29px; margin: 0px auto 1.25rem; max-width: 636px; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;">The tech giant made an <span style="box-sizing: inherit; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"><a class="sc-1out364-0 dPMosf sc-145m8ut-0 kuiiXm js_link" data-ga="[["Embedded Url","External link","https://www.aboutamazon.com/news/company-news/amazon-anthropic-ai-investment",{"metric25":1}]]" href="https://www.aboutamazon.com/news/company-news/amazon-anthropic-ai-investment" previewlistener="true" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="box-shadow: rgb(22, 141, 217) 0px -2px 0px inset; box-sizing: inherit; color: black; line-height: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.1s ease-out 0s;" target="_blank">additional $2.75 billion investment in AI startup Anthropic</a></span>, it said Wednesday, adding to the <span style="box-sizing: inherit; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;">initial $1.25 billion</span> it piled into the company in September.</span></p><p class="sc-77igqf-0 fnnahv" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #222222; line-height: 29px; margin: 0px auto 1.25rem; max-width: 636px; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;">“We have a notable history with Anthropic, together helping organizations of all sizes around the world to deploy advanced generative artificial intelligence applications across their organizations,” Swami Sivasubramanian, vice president of data and AI at Amazon Web Services (AWS), said <span style="box-sizing: inherit; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"><a class="sc-1out364-0 dPMosf sc-145m8ut-0 kuiiXm js_link" data-ga="[["Embedded Url","External link","https://www.aboutamazon.com/news/company-news/amazon-anthropic-ai-investment",{"metric25":1}]]" href="https://www.aboutamazon.com/news/company-news/amazon-anthropic-ai-investment" previewlistener="true" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="box-shadow: rgb(22, 141, 217) 0px -2px 0px inset; box-sizing: inherit; color: black; line-height: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.1s ease-out 0s;" target="_blank">in a statement</a></span>. “Generative AI is poised to be the most transformational technology of our time, and we believe our strategic collaboration with Anthropic will further improve our customers’ experiences, and look forward to what’s next.”</span></p><p class="sc-77igqf-0 fnnahv" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #222222; line-height: 29px; margin: 0px auto 1.25rem; max-width: 636px; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;">Anthropic uses AWS as its primary cloud provider for AI safety research and model development. Amazon has also<strong style="box-sizing: inherit; line-height: inherit;"> </strong>said Anthropic will use AWS’s AI<strong style="box-sizing: inherit; line-height: inherit;"> </strong>chips, <span style="box-sizing: inherit; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"><a class="sc-1out364-0 dPMosf sc-145m8ut-0 kuiiXm js_link" data-ga="[["Embedded Url","External link","https://www.aboutamazon.com/news/aws/what-you-need-to-know-about-the-aws-ai-chips-powering-amazons-partnership-with-anthropic",{"metric25":1}]]" href="https://www.aboutamazon.com/news/aws/what-you-need-to-know-about-the-aws-ai-chips-powering-amazons-partnership-with-anthropic" previewlistener="true" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="box-shadow: rgb(22, 141, 217) 0px -2px 0px inset; box-sizing: inherit; color: black; line-height: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.1s ease-out 0s;" target="_blank">Trainium and Inferentia</a></span>, “to build, train, and deploy its future models.” Anthropic also has a long-term commitment to give AWS customers access to its future models through Amazon Bedrock, its service that allows companies <span style="box-sizing: inherit; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"><a class="sc-1out364-0 dPMosf sc-145m8ut-0 kuiiXm js_link" data-ga="[["Embedded Url","External link","https://www.aboutamazon.com/news/aws/aws-amazon-bedrock-general-availability-generative-ai-innovations",{"metric25":1}]]" href="https://www.aboutamazon.com/news/aws/aws-amazon-bedrock-general-availability-generative-ai-innovations" previewlistener="true" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="box-shadow: rgb(22, 141, 217) 0px -2px 0px inset; box-sizing: inherit; color: black; line-height: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.1s ease-out 0s;" target="_blank">like Delta Air Lines and Pfizer</a></span> build their generative AI products, Amazon said.</span></p><p class="sc-77igqf-0 fnnahv" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #222222; line-height: 29px; margin: 0px auto 1.25rem; max-width: 636px; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;">Earlier this month, Anthropic announced its <span style="box-sizing: inherit; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;">new family of AI models, Claude 3</span>, which is accessible on Amazon Bedrock. Claude 3 includes Opus, branded as its “most intelligent model,” which Anthropic said outperformed Microsoft-backed OpenAI’s GPT-4 in a range of tasks. In a series of evaluations of industry benchmarks for AI models, including undergraduate- and graduate-level reasoning and common knowledge, <span style="box-sizing: inherit; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"><a class="sc-1out364-0 dPMosf sc-145m8ut-0 kuiiXm js_link" data-ga="[["Embedded Url","External link","https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-3-family",{"metric25":1}]]" href="https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-3-family" previewlistener="true" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="box-shadow: rgb(22, 141, 217) 0px -2px 0px inset; box-sizing: inherit; color: black; line-height: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.1s ease-out 0s;" target="_blank">Opus outperformed</a></span> the most advanced version of both<strong style="box-sizing: inherit; line-height: inherit;"> </strong>ChatGPT and Google’s Gemini.</span></p><p class="sc-77igqf-0 fnnahv" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #222222; line-height: 29px; margin: 0px auto 1.25rem; max-width: 636px; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;">Amazon will keep a minority ownership position in Anthropic, it said.</span></p><p class="sc-77igqf-0 fnnahv" style="box-sizing: inherit; line-height: 29px; margin: 0px auto 1.25rem; max-width: 636px; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;"> ### Talent Shortage and Intense Recruitment in the Tech Industry</span></p><p class="sc-77igqf-0 fnnahv" style="box-sizing: inherit; line-height: 29px; margin: 0px auto 1.25rem; max-width: 636px; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;">#### Industry Shifts and Recruitment Battles</span></p><p class="sc-77igqf-0 fnnahv" style="box-sizing: inherit; line-height: 29px; margin: 0px auto 1.25rem; max-width: 636px; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;">1. **Industry Layoffs and Talent Scarcity**: Despite widespread layoffs in the tech industry, a specific sector is facing challenges in finding suitable talent, sparking fierce competition for skilled professionals. The scarcity of qualified candidates has led to a surge in offers, with reports of salaries reaching up to $1 million.</span></p><p class="sc-77igqf-0 fnnahv" style="box-sizing: inherit; line-height: 29px; margin: 0px auto 1.25rem; max-width: 636px; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;">2. **Generous Compensation and Incentives**: Companies, including both small startups and industry giants like OpenAI and Meta, are offering substantial compensation packages and additional perks. These incentives include accelerated stock-vesting schedules and efforts to attract entire teams from rival companies.</span></p><p class="sc-77igqf-0 fnnahv" style="box-sizing: inherit; line-height: 29px; margin: 0px auto 1.25rem; max-width: 636px; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;">3. **Shift in Talent Priorities**: Naveen Rao, head of Generative AI at Databricks, noted a significant shift in the sought-after skills, highlighting the imbalance between the surplus of certain talents and the scarcity of others.</span></p><p class="sc-77igqf-0 fnnahv" style="box-sizing: inherit; line-height: 29px; margin: 0px auto 1.25rem; max-width: 636px; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;">#### Compensation and Offer Details</span></p><p class="sc-77igqf-0 fnnahv" style="box-sizing: inherit; line-height: 29px; margin: 0px auto 1.25rem; max-width: 636px; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;">4. **OpenAI's Median Salary**: OpenAI reportedly offered a median salary, including bonuses and equity, of $925,000, underscoring the extraordinary compensation being offered in this competitive talent landscape.</span></p><p class="sc-77igqf-0 fnnahv" style="box-sizing: inherit; line-height: 29px; margin: 0px auto 1.25rem; max-width: 636px; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;">5. **Meta's Compensation Statistics**: Meta, formerly known as Facebook, disclosed that the median compensation, encompassing bonuses and equity, for its 344 machine learning and AI engineers, was approximately $400,000, as reported to Levels.fyi.</span></p><p class="sc-77igqf-0 fnnahv" style="box-sizing: inherit; line-height: 29px; margin: 0px auto 1.25rem; max-width: 636px; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;">6. **Recruitment Tactics**: Meta's CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, has gone to the extent of personally reaching out to AI researchers at Google's DeepMind in a bid to entice them to join Meta. The company has also adjusted its hiring policies, reportedly offering roles without conventional interviews and reconsidering its stance on offering higher salaries to candidates with competitive job offers.</span></p><p class="sc-77igqf-0 fnnahv" style="box-sizing: inherit; line-height: 29px; margin: 0px auto 1.25rem; max-width: 636px; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;">#### Industry Dynamics and Business Adjustments</span></p><p class="sc-77igqf-0 fnnahv" style="box-sizing: inherit; line-height: 29px; margin: 0px auto 1.25rem; max-width: 636px; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;">7. **Industry-Wide Layoffs and AI Focus**: Major tech giants like Microsoft, Apple, Amazon, and Meta have announced layoffs, partly in an effort to realign their focus on AI development. This strategic shift is influenced by the business's response to over-hiring during a significant market boom in 2021, alongside the subsequent need for restructuring due to economic conditions.</span></p><p class="sc-77igqf-0 fnnahv" style="box-sizing: inherit; line-height: 29px; margin: 0px auto 1.25rem; max-width: 636px; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;">8. **Business Transformation and Talent Requirements**: Andrew Challenger, an expert in labor and workplace dynamics, emphasized the aggressive cost-cutting measures and the embrace of technological innovations, both of which are reshaping the staffing needs of businesses in the current landscape.</span></p><p class="sc-77igqf-0 fnnahv" style="box-sizing: inherit; line-height: 29px; margin: 0px auto 1.25rem; max-width: 636px; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;">Through the intense competition for talent and the pronounced impacts on industry dynamics, the tech sector presents an intriguing study of how talent scarcity has prompted organizations to reassess their recruitment strategies and reconsider their compensation norms, culminating in a highly competitive and fluid talent market. </span></p>Anne Sulzbergerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17091067031029918700noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6744683886539852356.post-58899959464423032122024-03-27T22:02:00.000-07:002024-03-27T23:09:44.027-07:00Supermarkets supersized their profits during the pandemic Operating incomes at major grocery chains grew in 2021 — and are still climbing<p><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUGLQvxlRrUrIPXZT_baTjTxogSxEWG7OFon8AC5OjBgjObWdERhSvOOjrrWl7DPXvTTzwOSVPk921kn3fRDnF-dp_URGKg59p9kQX3Al2rU8ANd9fo0f2AKFxzCOPQMqihSoDDM6SwBOlN-7Qo35EEXBkWmJzs5bdmQ2ifXeYohWqqpj3LpdPqhdaYSs/s2448/7xm.xyz158979.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1572" data-original-width="2448" height="410" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUGLQvxlRrUrIPXZT_baTjTxogSxEWG7OFon8AC5OjBgjObWdERhSvOOjrrWl7DPXvTTzwOSVPk921kn3fRDnF-dp_URGKg59p9kQX3Al2rU8ANd9fo0f2AKFxzCOPQMqihSoDDM6SwBOlN-7Qo35EEXBkWmJzs5bdmQ2ifXeYohWqqpj3LpdPqhdaYSs/w640-h410/7xm.xyz158979.jpg" width="640" /></a></span></div><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;"><br /> <span style="color: #222222;">The supply chain shock of the covid-19 pandemic in 2020 meant higher prices at supermarkets everywhere. But while shoppers forked up more money for their necessities, plenty of supermarkets pocketed the change.</span></span><p></p><p class="sc-77igqf-0 fnnahv" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #222222; line-height: 29px; margin: 0px auto 1.25rem; max-width: 636px; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;">A <span style="box-sizing: inherit; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"><a class="sc-1out364-0 dPMosf sc-145m8ut-0 kuiiXm js_link" data-ga="[["Embedded Url","External link","https://www.ftc.gov/system/files/ftc_gov/pdf/p162318supplychainreport2024.pdf",{"metric25":1}]]" href="https://www.ftc.gov/system/files/ftc_gov/pdf/p162318supplychainreport2024.pdf" previewlistener="true" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="box-shadow: rgb(22, 141, 217) 0px -2px 0px inset; box-sizing: inherit; color: black; line-height: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.1s ease-out 0s;" target="_blank">new report</a></span> by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) reveals how three of the largest grocery retailers in the United States — Kroger, Walmart and Amazon — saw their profits climb amid the pandemic, and how they’ve kept these margins elevated in the years that followed.</span></p><p class="sc-77igqf-0 fnnahv" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #222222; line-height: 29px; margin: 0px auto 1.25rem; max-width: 636px; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;">The FTC found that in 2021, food and beverage retailer revenues rose to more than 6% over total costs. Those profits are still pushing upwards: in the first nine months of 2023, those profits increased to 7%. In 2022, Kroger reported an operating profit of over $4 billion, Walmart had an operating profit of $21 billion, and Amazon saw a total operating income of $12 billion.</span></p><p class="sc-77igqf-0 fnnahv" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #222222; line-height: 29px; margin: 0px auto 1.25rem; max-width: 636px; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;">The agency said this “casts doubt on assertions that rising prices at the grocery store are simply moving in lockstep with retailers’ own rising costs.” After all, covid-era lockdowns forced most people to eat at home for months at a time — which meant they had to swallow climbing grocery prices, whether they liked it or not. And the agency said still-high profits warrant further inquiry from the commission and policymakers.</span></p><p class="sc-77igqf-0 fnnahv" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #222222; line-height: 29px; margin: 0px auto 1.25rem; max-width: 636px; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;">“Some firms seem to have used rising costs as an opportunity to further hike prices to increase their profits, and profits remain elevated even as supply chain pressures have eased,” the FTC wrote in its report.</span></p><p class="sc-77igqf-0 fnnahv" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #222222; line-height: 29px; margin: 0px auto 1.25rem; max-width: 636px; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;">Food-at-home prices in the U.S., which capture grocery and supermarket foods, <span style="box-sizing: inherit; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"><a class="sc-1out364-0 dPMosf sc-145m8ut-0 kuiiXm js_link" data-ga="[["Embedded Url","External link","https://www.ers.usda.gov/data-products/food-price-outlook/summary-findings/",{"metric25":1}]]" href="https://www.ers.usda.gov/data-products/food-price-outlook/summary-findings/" previewlistener="true" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="box-shadow: rgb(22, 141, 217) 0px -2px 0px inset; box-sizing: inherit; color: black; line-height: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.1s ease-out 0s;" target="_blank">increased by 5%</a></span> in 2023, moderating somewhat after an 11.4% increase a year earlier. The Department of Agriculture forecasts that food prices will continue to decelerate in 2024, growing by an estimated 1.6% this year.</span></p><p class="sc-77igqf-0 fnnahv" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #222222; line-height: 29px; margin: 0px auto 1.25rem; max-width: 636px; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;">And some retailers tout that they’re lowering prices — or some prices. Walmart president and CEO Doug McMillon suggested in a <span style="box-sizing: inherit; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;">recent call with analysts</span> that prices for some staple goods at the company have been dropped.</span></p><div class="js_ymal-below-post" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #222222; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></div><p class="sc-77igqf-0 fnnahv" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #222222; line-height: 29px; margin: 0px auto 1.25rem; max-width: 636px; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;">“Our general merchandise prices are lower than a year ago and even two years ago in some categories, which means our customers are finding value in areas like apparel and hard lines,” McMillon said, pointing to eggs, apples, and deli snacks as being among the food items with smaller prices on their stickers.</span></p><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="399" referrerpolicy="strict-origin-when-cross-origin" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/JWHzs4YG1sM" title="How a consumer pullback is hitting restaurant stocks" width="709"></iframe><iframe width="709" height="399" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/EsNRIe-ABYQ" title="Fast-food companies see fewer low-income diners | REUTERS" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" referrerpolicy="strict-origin-when-cross-origin" allowfullscreen></iframe>Anne Sulzbergerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17091067031029918700noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6744683886539852356.post-47363954881089897242024-03-27T07:34:00.000-07:002024-03-27T07:34:20.592-07:00Racial tensions cost Germany Inc. skilled foreign labour<p><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDuXg-kfvkDj9kaqWdAEM9aqrwTY097Pm7sDqooYO3GqAbOh3kE8AeWEYyRbW7kYWbUEV8GZeVsnYDChowsn1wba_Yi7CzLfp5DAHcYt7aH47VBy38uGcWy_8bK7cSizurkTPOD5H-irQcNXG9AIn8byYbuOFgwXge1LjfwtTtDPelNA30FF2N4IVJZ0A/s2304/7xm.xyz_972901.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2304" data-original-width="1664" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDuXg-kfvkDj9kaqWdAEM9aqrwTY097Pm7sDqooYO3GqAbOh3kE8AeWEYyRbW7kYWbUEV8GZeVsnYDChowsn1wba_Yi7CzLfp5DAHcYt7aH47VBy38uGcWy_8bK7cSizurkTPOD5H-irQcNXG9AIn8byYbuOFgwXge1LjfwtTtDPelNA30FF2N4IVJZ0A/w462-h640/7xm.xyz_972901.jpg" width="462" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;"><br /> <span style="color: #404040;">(Reuters) - Manager Joerg Engelmann says he has pulled out all the stops to attract skilled foreign workers to his chemical engineering company in Chemnitz, east Germany. But once they arrived, the racial slurs and exclusion they experienced in the town drove some of them away.</span></span><p></p><div class="text__text__1FZLe text__dark-grey__3Ml43 text__regular__2N1Xr text__small__1kGq2 body__full_width__ekUdw body__small_body__2vQyf article-body__paragraph__2-BtD" data-testid="paragraph-1" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: #404040; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px 0px 12px; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;">His firm is one of five German medium-sized companies that told Reuters their foreign staff recently moved on or switched locations due to xenophobia, even as Europe's biggest economy suffers a shortage of skilled labour.</span></div><div class="article-body__element__2p5pI" style="margin: 24px 0px; width: 708.663px;"></div><figure class="article-body__element__2p5pI" data-testid="graphic-0" style="margin: 0px 0px 24px; width: 708.663px;"><div class="reuters-graphic__image-container__2YWXt reuters-graphic__with-restricted-dimensions__3iyMG" style="margin: 0px auto; max-height: 600px; max-width: 672px; overflow: auto;"><div data-testid="Image"><div class="styles__image-container__3hkY5 styles__fill__22EeH styles__center_center__1CNY5 styles__apply-ratio__1JYnB" style="--aspect-ratio: 0; --focal-x: 0; --focal-y: 0; aspect-ratio: var(--aspect-ratio); height: inherit; position: relative;"><img alt="Reuters Graphics" src="https://www.reuters.com/graphics/GERMANY-POLITICS/FAR%20RIGHT-COMPANIES/lgpdnxbqypo/chart.png" style="display: block; height: 473.229px; object-fit: fill; object-position: center center; width: 671.997px;" /></div></div></div><figcaption class="text__text__1FZLe text__medium-grey__3A_RT text__regular__2N1Xr text__ultra_small__37j9j body__base__22dCE body__ultra_small_body__1lUQl reuters-graphic__figcaption__1lRLn" data-testid="Body" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: #666666; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 16px; margin: 4px 0px 0px; max-width: 720px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;">Reuters Graphics</span></figcaption></figure><div class="text__text__1FZLe text__dark-grey__3Ml43 text__regular__2N1Xr text__small__1kGq2 body__full_width__ekUdw body__small_body__2vQyf article-body__paragraph__2-BtD" data-testid="paragraph-2" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: #404040; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px 0px 12px; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;">Many large companies in Germany and the Netherlands have expressed <a class="text__text__1FZLe text__inherit-color__3208F text__inherit-font__1Y8w3 text__inherit-size__1DZJi link__link__3Ji6W link__underline_default__2prE_" data-testid="Link" href="https://www.reuters.com/markets/europe/german-ceos-warn-far-right-threat-economy-2024-01-17/" previewlistener="true" referrerpolicy="no-referrer-when-downgrade" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-transform: inherit;">concern</a> about the difficulty of hiring due to anti-immigrant sentiment. Some employers go a step further, saying they are actually losing staff because of it.</span></div><div class="text__text__1FZLe text__dark-grey__3Ml43 text__regular__2N1Xr text__small__1kGq2 body__full_width__ekUdw body__small_body__2vQyf article-body__paragraph__2-BtD" data-testid="paragraph-3" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: #404040; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px 0px 12px; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;">CAC Engineering GmbH, the family-owned company Engelmann runs, has lost around five of its 40 foreign employees over the past 12 months because of discrimination, he told Reuters. The company declined to make its former staff available to Reuters.</span></div><div class="article-body__element__2p5pI" style="margin: 24px 0px; width: 708.663px;"></div><div class="text__text__1FZLe text__dark-grey__3Ml43 text__regular__2N1Xr text__small__1kGq2 body__full_width__ekUdw body__small_body__2vQyf article-body__paragraph__2-BtD" data-testid="paragraph-4" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: #404040; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px 0px 12px; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;">"We do what we can. But we can't become bodyguards," said Engelmann, 57. "There are parts of the population who don't realise that these are foreign skilled workers who want to make a real contribution in Germany."</span></div><div class="text__text__1FZLe text__dark-grey__3Ml43 text__regular__2N1Xr text__small__1kGq2 body__full_width__ekUdw body__small_body__2vQyf article-body__paragraph__2-BtD" data-testid="paragraph-5" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: #404040; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px 0px 12px; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;">CAC did not give details, but xenophobic hate crime cases recorded across Germany by the interior ministry more than tripled between 2013 and 2022 to more than 10,000. Overall, Engelmann said, high energy costs pose a bigger challenge.</span></div><div class="article-body__element__2p5pI" style="margin: 24px 0px; width: 708.663px;"></div><figure class="article-body__element__2p5pI" data-testid="graphic-1" style="margin: 0px 0px 24px; width: 708.663px;"><div class="reuters-graphic__image-container__2YWXt reuters-graphic__with-restricted-dimensions__3iyMG" style="margin: 0px auto; max-height: 600px; max-width: 672px; overflow: auto;"><div data-testid="Image"><div class="styles__image-container__3hkY5 styles__fill__22EeH styles__center_center__1CNY5 styles__apply-ratio__1JYnB" style="--aspect-ratio: 0; --focal-x: 0; --focal-y: 0; aspect-ratio: var(--aspect-ratio); height: inherit; position: relative;"><img alt="Reuters Graphics" src="https://www.reuters.com/graphics/GERMANY-POLITICS/FAR%20RIGHT-COMPANIES/zjpqwadawpx/chart.png" style="display: block; height: 654.505px; object-fit: fill; object-position: center center; width: 655.33px;" /></div></div></div><figcaption class="text__text__1FZLe text__medium-grey__3A_RT text__regular__2N1Xr text__ultra_small__37j9j body__base__22dCE body__ultra_small_body__1lUQl reuters-graphic__figcaption__1lRLn" data-testid="Body" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: #666666; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 16px; margin: 4px 0px 0px; max-width: 720px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;">Reuters Graphics</span></figcaption></figure><div class="text__text__1FZLe text__dark-grey__3Ml43 text__regular__2N1Xr text__small__1kGq2 body__full_width__ekUdw body__small_body__2vQyf article-body__paragraph__2-BtD" data-testid="paragraph-6" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: #404040; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px 0px 12px; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;">Official German estimates suggest the country as a whole will be <a class="text__text__1FZLe text__inherit-color__3208F text__inherit-font__1Y8w3 text__inherit-size__1DZJi link__link__3Ji6W link__underline_default__2prE_" data-testid="Link" href="https://www.reuters.com/markets/europe/germanys-shortage-workers-is-biggest-risk-growth-minister-says-2024-02-21/" previewlistener="true" referrerpolicy="no-referrer-when-downgrade" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-transform: inherit;">short of</a> seven million skilled workers by 2035, compared with a labour force of around 46 million.</span></div><div class="text__text__1FZLe text__dark-grey__3Ml43 text__regular__2N1Xr text__small__1kGq2 body__full_width__ekUdw body__small_body__2vQyf article-body__paragraph__2-BtD" data-testid="paragraph-7" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: #404040; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px 0px 12px; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;">The climate is more hostile in eastern Germany, where after the fall of communism plant closures and layoffs saw an exodus of young people and a lower birth rate.</span></div><div class="text__text__1FZLe text__dark-grey__3Ml43 text__regular__2N1Xr text__small__1kGq2 body__full_width__ekUdw body__small_body__2vQyf article-body__paragraph__2-BtD" data-testid="paragraph-8" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: #404040; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px 0px 12px; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;">Chemnitz, in the state of Saxony near the Czech border, is trying to attract skilled workers -- Engelmann's firm says it helps arrange temporary housing, language and even driving lessons to encourage foreign employees to settle.</span></div><div class="article-body__element__2p5pI" style="margin: 24px 0px; width: 708.663px;"></div><div class="text__text__1FZLe text__dark-grey__3Ml43 text__regular__2N1Xr text__small__1kGq2 body__full_width__ekUdw body__small_body__2vQyf article-body__paragraph__2-BtD" data-testid="paragraph-9" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: #404040; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px 0px 12px; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;">But Chemnitz has become a focus of anti-immigrant feelings since 2018 when anti-migrant protests in the city turned to <a class="text__text__1FZLe text__inherit-color__3208F text__inherit-font__1Y8w3 text__inherit-size__1DZJi link__link__3Ji6W link__underline_default__2prE_" data-testid="Link" href="https://www.reuters.com/article/idUSKCN1LC1D9/" previewlistener="true" referrerpolicy="no-referrer-when-downgrade" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-transform: inherit;">riots</a>.</span></div><div class="text__text__1FZLe text__dark-grey__3Ml43 text__regular__2N1Xr text__small__1kGq2 body__full_width__ekUdw body__small_body__2vQyf article-body__paragraph__2-BtD" data-testid="paragraph-10" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: #404040; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px 0px 12px; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;">Largely destroyed during World War Two and rebuilt under Communism as Karl-Marx-Stadt, it was one of Germany's richest cities at the turn of the 20th century.</span></div><div class="text__text__1FZLe text__dark-grey__3Ml43 text__regular__2N1Xr text__small__1kGq2 body__full_width__ekUdw body__small_body__2vQyf article-body__paragraph__2-BtD" data-testid="paragraph-11" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: #404040; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px 0px 12px; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;">Since reunification in 1990, its population has shrunk by around 20% to just over 250,000. Foreigners have jumped to nearly 14% of inhabitants from just over 2% in 2000, according to data from the Chemnitz-based FOG Institute for Market and Social Research.</span></div><div class="article-body__element__2p5pI" style="margin: 24px 0px; width: 708.663px;"></div><div class="text__text__1FZLe text__dark-grey__3Ml43 text__regular__2N1Xr text__small__1kGq2 body__full_width__ekUdw body__small_body__2vQyf article-body__paragraph__2-BtD" data-testid="paragraph-12" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: #404040; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px 0px 12px; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;">On Monday evenings at around 6 pm, around 250 people march through the town in a regular "Monday demonstration" promoted by one of the far-right parties that make up a quarter of the city council's members. Marchers at a recent event sang nationalist songs, beat drums and waved the flags of Saxony, Germany and Russia.</span></div><div class="text__text__1FZLe text__dark-grey__3Ml43 text__regular__2N1Xr text__small__1kGq2 body__full_width__ekUdw body__small_body__2vQyf article-body__paragraph__2-BtD" data-testid="paragraph-13" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: #404040; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px 0px 12px; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;">Resident Farid Mokbil, 31, an Egyptian who came to Germany to teach German to foreigners, said he is happy in the town overall: He experiences racism often but doesn't take it personally.</span></div><div class="text__text__1FZLe text__dark-grey__3Ml43 text__regular__2N1Xr text__small__1kGq2 body__full_width__ekUdw body__small_body__2vQyf article-body__paragraph__2-BtD" data-testid="paragraph-14" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: #404040; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px 0px 12px; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;">"In the first week here I went shopping at the supermarket and an elderly woman just looked at me – I'm not sure if it was my appearance - but she just started shouting," he said. "Such weird situations happen ... A few days ago in the tram, a boy said loudly, 'Here there are only Afghans who want to steal.'"</span></div><div class="text__text__1FZLe text__dark-grey__3Ml43 text__regular__2N1Xr text__small__1kGq2 body__full_width__ekUdw body__small_body__2vQyf article-body__paragraph__2-BtD" data-testid="paragraph-15" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: #404040; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px 0px 12px; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;">Christine Willauer, 84, a lifelong Chemnitz resident, said she felt asylum-seekers in Germany got financial benefits that the elderly did not.</span></div><div class="text__text__1FZLe text__dark-grey__3Ml43 text__regular__2N1Xr text__small__1kGq2 body__full_width__ekUdw body__small_body__2vQyf article-body__paragraph__2-BtD" data-testid="paragraph-16" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: #404040; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px 0px 12px; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;">"When I am in the city, some days I feel there are not many people speaking my own mother tongue any more," she said. "I also miss the old manners."</span></div><div class="text__text__1FZLe text__dark-grey__3Ml43 text__regular__2N1Xr text__small__1kGq2 body__full_width__ekUdw body__small_body__2vQyf article-body__paragraph__2-BtD" data-testid="paragraph-17" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: #404040; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px 0px 12px; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;">City spokesman Matthias Nowak said the majority of people in Chemnitz are against extremism, adding that Chemnitz would "fall apart" without immigrants - for instance, 40% of staff at the hospital are foreigners.</span></div><h2 class="text__text__1FZLe text__dark-grey__3Ml43 text__medium__1kbOh text__heading_6__1qUJ5 heading__base__2T28j heading__heading_6__RtD9P article-body__heading__33EIm" data-testid="Heading" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: #404040; font-weight: 500; line-height: 24px; margin: 24px 0px 12px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;">'REMIGRATION'</span></h2><div class="text__text__1FZLe text__dark-grey__3Ml43 text__regular__2N1Xr text__small__1kGq2 body__full_width__ekUdw body__small_body__2vQyf article-body__paragraph__2-BtD" data-testid="paragraph-18" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: #404040; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px 0px 12px; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;">Channelling the anti-immigrant mood are political parties including Alternative fuer Deutschland (AfD), which is on track to win three regional state elections in September this year including in Saxony.</span></div><div class="text__text__1FZLe text__dark-grey__3Ml43 text__regular__2N1Xr text__small__1kGq2 body__full_width__ekUdw body__small_body__2vQyf article-body__paragraph__2-BtD" data-testid="paragraph-19" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: #404040; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px 0px 12px; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;">The AfD has said it wants to reverse the mass migration that occurred in 2015, create asylum centres outside the European Union, introduce strict controls on German borders, sanction migrants who do not integrate fully and create incentives for economic migrants to return home.</span></div><div class="text__text__1FZLe text__dark-grey__3Ml43 text__regular__2N1Xr text__small__1kGq2 body__full_width__ekUdw body__small_body__2vQyf article-body__paragraph__2-BtD" data-testid="paragraph-20" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: #404040; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px 0px 12px; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;">Germany's domestic intelligence agency, which has said it is <a class="text__text__1FZLe text__inherit-color__3208F text__inherit-font__1Y8w3 text__inherit-size__1DZJi link__link__3Ji6W link__underline_default__2prE_" data-testid="Link" href="https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/german-court-rule-extremist-label-afd-2024-03-11/" previewlistener="true" referrerpolicy="no-referrer-when-downgrade" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-transform: inherit;">monitor</a>ing the AfD on suspicion of extremism, says AfD party officials propagate racist theories such as the "Great Replacement," which holds that political elites are deliberately engineering the replacement of Europe's white population with non-white immigrants.</span></div><div class="text__text__1FZLe text__dark-grey__3Ml43 text__regular__2N1Xr text__small__1kGq2 body__full_width__ekUdw body__small_body__2vQyf article-body__paragraph__2-BtD" data-testid="paragraph-21" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: #404040; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px 0px 12px; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;">The party's Chemnitz chapter this month shared an article on its Facebook page about an alleged rape by migrants entitled "Population replacement makes girls and women fair game."</span></div><div class="text__text__1FZLe text__dark-grey__3Ml43 text__regular__2N1Xr text__small__1kGq2 body__full_width__ekUdw body__small_body__2vQyf article-body__paragraph__2-BtD" data-testid="paragraph-22" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: #404040; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px 0px 12px; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;">In one post, Ulrich Oehme, deputy leader of AfD Chemnitz, comments that "life for our women and girls has become much harder in public spaces and worries about group rape and knife attacks are on the rise."</span></div><div class="text__text__1FZLe text__dark-grey__3Ml43 text__regular__2N1Xr text__small__1kGq2 body__full_width__ekUdw body__small_body__2vQyf article-body__paragraph__2-BtD" data-testid="paragraph-23" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: #404040; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px 0px 12px; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;">Oehme told Reuters his post was not xenophobic but was addressing "issues felt massively by the local population." The AfD said it agreed with his observations, adding: "Immigration-related crime is very difficult to combat because it is often embedded in family or clan structures and because of cultural and language barriers."</span></div><div class="text__text__1FZLe text__dark-grey__3Ml43 text__regular__2N1Xr text__small__1kGq2 body__full_width__ekUdw body__small_body__2vQyf article-body__paragraph__2-BtD" data-testid="paragraph-24" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: #404040; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px 0px 12px; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;">Facebook owner Meta did not respond to a request for comment.</span></div><div class="text__text__1FZLe text__dark-grey__3Ml43 text__regular__2N1Xr text__small__1kGq2 body__full_width__ekUdw body__small_body__2vQyf article-body__paragraph__2-BtD" data-testid="paragraph-25" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: #404040; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px 0px 12px; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;">The AfD says its policies would not damage the economy.</span></div><div class="text__text__1FZLe text__dark-grey__3Ml43 text__regular__2N1Xr text__small__1kGq2 body__full_width__ekUdw body__small_body__2vQyf article-body__paragraph__2-BtD" data-testid="paragraph-26" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: #404040; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px 0px 12px; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;">"Here the government and state-owned companies are clearly and obviously distracting from the home-made problems and using the AfD as a scapegoat," it said in a statement to Reuters, citing the high energy prices worsened by Germany's nuclear exit and renewables drive.</span></div><div class="text__text__1FZLe text__dark-grey__3Ml43 text__regular__2N1Xr text__small__1kGq2 body__full_width__ekUdw body__small_body__2vQyf article-body__paragraph__2-BtD" data-testid="paragraph-27" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; 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He could not be reached for comment.</span></div><div class="text__text__1FZLe text__dark-grey__3Ml43 text__regular__2N1Xr text__small__1kGq2 body__full_width__ekUdw body__small_body__2vQyf article-body__paragraph__2-BtD" data-testid="paragraph-30" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: #404040; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px 0px 12px; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;">Martin Sellner, an Austrian leader of the Identitarian Movement, which says it wants to preserve European identity and opposes immigration from outside the continent, told Reuters he had spoken at the meeting.</span></div><div class="text__text__1FZLe text__dark-grey__3Ml43 text__regular__2N1Xr text__small__1kGq2 body__full_width__ekUdw body__small_body__2vQyf article-body__paragraph__2-BtD" data-testid="paragraph-31" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: #404040; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px 0px 12px; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;">"Unassimilated citizens like Islamists, gangsters and welfare cheats should be pushed to adapt through a policy of standards and assimilation," he said, saying that could include incentives for voluntary return.</span></div><div class="text__text__1FZLe text__dark-grey__3Ml43 text__regular__2N1Xr text__small__1kGq2 body__full_width__ekUdw body__small_body__2vQyf article-body__paragraph__2-BtD" data-testid="paragraph-32" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: #404040; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px 0px 12px; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;">"In the long-term, a German remigration policy sets the course for ... Germany to become more German every day and not the opposite."</span></div><h2 class="text__text__1FZLe text__dark-grey__3Ml43 text__medium__1kbOh text__heading_6__1qUJ5 heading__base__2T28j heading__heading_6__RtD9P article-body__heading__33EIm" data-testid="Heading" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: #404040; font-weight: 500; line-height: 24px; margin: 24px 0px 12px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;">'CAPITAL OF CULTURE'</span></h2><div class="text__text__1FZLe text__dark-grey__3Ml43 text__regular__2N1Xr text__small__1kGq2 body__full_width__ekUdw body__small_body__2vQyf article-body__paragraph__2-BtD" data-testid="paragraph-33" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: #404040; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px 0px 12px; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;">The hardening climate extends beyond Chemnitz and does not only target people from outside Europe.</span></div><div class="text__text__1FZLe text__dark-grey__3Ml43 text__regular__2N1Xr text__small__1kGq2 body__full_width__ekUdw body__small_body__2vQyf article-body__paragraph__2-BtD" data-testid="paragraph-34" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: #404040; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px 0px 12px; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;">"Two of our foreign employees have left Germany because they said that they no longer feel comfortable and safe here," said Detlef Neuhaus, CEO of solar firm SolarWatt, based in the east German city of Dresden. He said one had moved back to England.</span></div><div class="text__text__1FZLe text__dark-grey__3Ml43 text__regular__2N1Xr text__small__1kGq2 body__full_width__ekUdw body__small_body__2vQyf article-body__paragraph__2-BtD" data-testid="paragraph-35" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: #404040; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px 0px 12px; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;">"These are direct consequences of the changing mood in the country."</span></div><div class="text__text__1FZLe text__dark-grey__3Ml43 text__regular__2N1Xr text__small__1kGq2 body__full_width__ekUdw body__small_body__2vQyf article-body__paragraph__2-BtD" data-testid="paragraph-36" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: #404040; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px 0px 12px; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;">The company declined to make its former staff available to Reuters.</span></div><div class="text__text__1FZLe text__dark-grey__3Ml43 text__regular__2N1Xr text__small__1kGq2 body__full_width__ekUdw body__small_body__2vQyf article-body__paragraph__2-BtD" data-testid="paragraph-37" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; 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clip-path: inset(50%); clip: rect(0px, 0px, 0px, 0px); height: 1px; margin: -1px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; position: absolute; width: 1px;">, opens new tab</span></a>, said it has had employees move away because they no longer feel welcome.</span></div><div class="text__text__1FZLe text__dark-grey__3Ml43 text__regular__2N1Xr text__small__1kGq2 body__full_width__ekUdw body__small_body__2vQyf article-body__paragraph__2-BtD" data-testid="paragraph-38" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: #404040; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px 0px 12px; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;">Its Chief Operating Officer Lavinio Cerquetti, an Italian, moved northwest to Leipzig in 2021, saying the atmosphere was more cosmopolitan there.</span></div><div class="text__text__1FZLe text__dark-grey__3Ml43 text__regular__2N1Xr text__small__1kGq2 body__full_width__ekUdw body__small_body__2vQyf article-body__paragraph__2-BtD" data-testid="paragraph-39" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: #404040; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px 0px 12px; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;">"In Chemnitz, I sometimes had the feeling that the fact that I had to be careful was also related to the fact that I was a foreigner," he said.</span></div><div class="text__text__1FZLe text__dark-grey__3Ml43 text__regular__2N1Xr text__small__1kGq2 body__full_width__ekUdw body__small_body__2vQyf article-body__paragraph__2-BtD" data-testid="paragraph-40" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: #404040; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px 0px 12px; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;">Autonomous driving software maker FDTech, also based in Chemnitz, has also lost workers over xenophobia, its managing director Karsten Schulze said.</span></div><div class="text__text__1FZLe text__dark-grey__3Ml43 text__regular__2N1Xr text__small__1kGq2 body__full_width__ekUdw body__small_body__2vQyf article-body__paragraph__2-BtD" data-testid="paragraph-41" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: #404040; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px 0px 12px; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;">"Yes, we do have a problem with xenophobia here. But it's not limited to Saxony, to Chemnitz, we have it all across Germany. And by the way, all across Europe, too," he said.</span></div><div class="text__text__1FZLe text__dark-grey__3Ml43 text__regular__2N1Xr text__small__1kGq2 body__full_width__ekUdw body__small_body__2vQyf article-body__paragraph__2-BtD" data-testid="paragraph-42" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: #404040; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px 0px 12px; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;">Germany's economy shrank by 0.3% in 2023, the weakest performance globally among large countries.</span></div><div class="text__text__1FZLe text__dark-grey__3Ml43 text__regular__2N1Xr text__small__1kGq2 body__full_width__ekUdw body__small_body__2vQyf article-body__paragraph__2-BtD" data-testid="paragraph-43" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: #404040; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px 0px 12px; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;">A survey carried out over 2022 and 2023 by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) <a class="text__text__1FZLe text__inherit-color__3208F text__inherit-font__1Y8w3 text__inherit-size__1DZJi link__link__3Ji6W link__underline_default__2prE_" data-testid="Link" href="https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/germany-attractive-skilled-workers-despite-discrimination-oecd-2024-01-31/" previewlistener="true" referrerpolicy="no-referrer-when-downgrade" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-transform: inherit;">has highlighted</a> that while Germany remains very attractive to foreign workers, discrimination is a problem.</span></div><div class="text__text__1FZLe text__dark-grey__3Ml43 text__regular__2N1Xr text__small__1kGq2 body__full_width__ekUdw body__small_body__2vQyf article-body__paragraph__2-BtD" data-testid="paragraph-44" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: #404040; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px 0px 12px; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;">Tracking the careers of 30,000 highly qualified people who wanted to come to Germany as migrant workers since August 2022, the survey found that people who had already moved to Germany experienced more discrimination compared to the expectations of those still abroad.</span></div><div class="text__text__1FZLe text__dark-grey__3Ml43 text__regular__2N1Xr text__small__1kGq2 body__full_width__ekUdw body__small_body__2vQyf article-body__paragraph__2-BtD" data-testid="paragraph-45" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: #404040; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px 0px 12px; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;">Essen-based Deniz Ates, 30, who runs recruitment agency Who Moves that focuses on foreign IT workers, said he first noticed at an event in India late last year that people were worried about the political mood in Germany, with some saying the country was no longer an option for them.</span></div><div class="text__text__1FZLe text__dark-grey__3Ml43 text__regular__2N1Xr text__small__1kGq2 body__full_width__ekUdw body__small_body__2vQyf article-body__paragraph__2-BtD" data-testid="paragraph-46" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: #404040; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px 0px 12px; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;">"The most important factor in deciding where to apply for a job is: Do I feel safe? Do I feel welcome?" Ates said.</span></div><div class="text__text__1FZLe text__dark-grey__3Ml43 text__regular__2N1Xr text__small__1kGq2 body__full_width__ekUdw body__small_body__2vQyf article-body__paragraph__2-BtD" data-testid="paragraph-47" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: #404040; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px 0px 12px; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;">New Delhi-based lawyer Romy Kumar said he has put on hold efforts to relocate to Europe, where he spends several months a year, citing a rise in xenophobia.</span></div><div class="text__text__1FZLe text__dark-grey__3Ml43 text__regular__2N1Xr text__small__1kGq2 body__full_width__ekUdw body__small_body__2vQyf article-body__paragraph__2-BtD" data-testid="paragraph-48" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: #404040; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px 0px 12px; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;">"This limits your risk-taking abilities to jump on the next plane and go there and set up something," he said. "So that is why I'm taking it slow and trying to assess where is it going."</span></div><div class="text__text__1FZLe text__dark-grey__3Ml43 text__regular__2N1Xr text__small__1kGq2 body__full_width__ekUdw body__small_body__2vQyf article-body__paragraph__2-BtD" data-testid="paragraph-49" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: #404040; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px 0px 12px; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;">Chemnitz city spokesman Nowak said it had increased funds for anti-racism and pro-democracy projects since 2018 and wants to use plans for its coming role as a European Capital of Culture in 2025 to activate the "silent middle," addressing the issue of racism head-on.</span></div><div class="text__text__1FZLe text__dark-grey__3Ml43 text__regular__2N1Xr text__small__1kGq2 body__full_width__ekUdw body__small_body__2vQyf article-body__paragraph__2-BtD" data-testid="paragraph-50" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: #404040; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px 0px 12px; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;">Far-right parties have said they will protest this. One, Pro Chemnitz, has suggested the city should instead be the "capital of remigration."</span></div><div class="text__text__1FZLe text__dark-grey__3Ml43 text__regular__2N1Xr text__small__1kGq2 body__full_width__ekUdw body__small_body__2vQyf article-body__paragraph__2-BtD" data-testid="paragraph-51" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: #404040; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px 0px 12px; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;">"We have had enough of the kind of culture that has flooded Germany since 2015 - all you need to do is check the city centre," the party said in a post on Telegram. The party did not respond to a request for comment from Reuters.</span></div>Anne Sulzbergerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17091067031029918700noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6744683886539852356.post-62649642216323970402024-03-27T07:05:00.000-07:002024-03-27T07:05:38.298-07:00Why most workplace wellness benefits don’t actually work<p><span style="font-family: Oxygen;"> </span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjM-wax3yUn3kJCbWviwNHYnlxXy5UpA0IxUmZQA25NyrMc1Yu3yc7Kf2J8GFxIKd7QZjMESCBClmxVaYWvICxajLONbPa5KaOi68jc9vyvlRqzmXdVqB9V34gSnK6J0Q9HWmn7tfxnTg7n7BQW-knZAPgPVw6Dp6FM-guDHGKLdVxYzVN1ZuISSDBbpcc/s1024/OIG3.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1024" data-original-width="1024" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjM-wax3yUn3kJCbWviwNHYnlxXy5UpA0IxUmZQA25NyrMc1Yu3yc7Kf2J8GFxIKd7QZjMESCBClmxVaYWvICxajLONbPa5KaOi68jc9vyvlRqzmXdVqB9V34gSnK6J0Q9HWmn7tfxnTg7n7BQW-knZAPgPVw6Dp6FM-guDHGKLdVxYzVN1ZuISSDBbpcc/w640-h640/OIG3.jpeg" width="640" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: Oxygen;"><br /><span style="font-size: 1.1875rem; letter-spacing: 0.2px;">Once, at a previous job, just after our annual insurance re-enrollment presentation, I noticed that mental health deductibles were no longer offered in my insurance renewal options. I contacted my HR rep to see if my therapy would no longer be covered. It wouldn’t—a session that previously cost me $35 out of pocket would now cost $175. </span></span><p></p><div class="content-chunk" data-testid="content-chunk" style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgba(59,130,246,.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; border: 0px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 18px; letter-spacing: 0.2px; overflow: hidden;"><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgba(59,130,246,.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; border: 0px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1.1875rem; line-height: 2rem; margin: 0px 0px 1.5rem;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen;">I asked to meet with her and explained how detrimental I felt this would be for myself and my colleagues. She put on her best-concerned face, told me she <em style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgba(59,130,246,.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; border: 0px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); box-sizing: border-box;">really </em>valued my input, and pivoted to a new company benefit she hadn’t touched on in the re-enrollment presentation: Certain plans came with two monthly coaching sessions. I asked whether or not these were personal coaches or certified therapists. She said she’d look into that and get back to me. She never did.</span></p><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgba(59,130,246,.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; border: 0px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1.1875rem; line-height: 2rem; margin: 1.5rem 0px;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen;">A recent <a href="https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/irj.12418" previewlistener="true" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgba(59,130,246,.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; border: 0px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); box-sizing: border-box; color: #ef5b24; text-decoration: inherit;" target="_blank">study </a>by Oxford fellow William J. Fleming in the<em style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgba(59,130,246,.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; border: 0px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); box-sizing: border-box;"> Industrial Relations Journal </em>found that workers who participated in company-sponsored “wellness benefits”—including sleep apps, mindfulness seminars, and even the sort of 1-on-1 coaching sessions this HR rep offered—were no better off than their fellow workers who opted out of these initiatives. </span></p><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgba(59,130,246,.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; border: 0px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1.1875rem; line-height: 2rem; margin: 1.5rem 0px;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen;">The corporate wellness market is a <a href="https://www.kff.org/private-insurance/issue-brief/workplace-wellness-programs-characteristics-and-requirements/" previewlistener="true" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgba(59,130,246,.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; border: 0px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); box-sizing: border-box; color: #ef5b24; text-decoration: inherit;" target="_blank">billion-dollar industry</a>, which makes sense since <a href="https://www.bitc.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/bitc-wellbeing-report-mhawmentalhealthworkfullreport2019-sept2019-2.pdf" previewlistener="true" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgba(59,130,246,.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; border: 0px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); box-sizing: border-box; color: #ef5b24; text-decoration: inherit;" target="_blank">39% of employees</a> report experiencing poor mental health symptoms related to work. <a href="https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/mental-health-digital-solutions-top-list-of-employee-wellness-trends-for-2022-according-to-wellable-labs-report-301453839.html" previewlistener="true" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgba(59,130,246,.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; border: 0px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); box-sizing: border-box; color: #ef5b24; text-decoration: inherit;" target="_blank">Ninety percent of employers</a> report increasing their investment in mental health programs, which are touted as a way for progressive-presenting organizations to help combat employee burnout, low engagement, and the general U.S. grind culture that’s inherently bad for everyone’s mental well-being. </span></p></div><div class="content-chunk" data-testid="content-chunk" style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgba(59,130,246,.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; border: 0px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 18px; letter-spacing: 0.2px; overflow: hidden;"><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgba(59,130,246,.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; border: 0px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1.1875rem; line-height: 2rem; margin: 0px 0px 1.5rem;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen;">However, something about this rush to wellness-if the workplace feels fishy to me. Wellness, in general, is an ambiguous term that can run the gamut from legitimate forms of mental and physical care, like mediation, to pseudoscience-heavy marketing schemes like celery juice as a cure-all. I couldn’t help thinking that there was a bit of a smokescreen going on. We’ve moved past the days of casual Fridays and office foosball tables being used to mask a lack of real office benefits. So, are wellness initiatives the new workplace happy hour? </span></p><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgba(59,130,246,.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; border: 0px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1.1875rem; line-height: 2rem; margin: 1.5rem 0px;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen;">When I reached out to Fleming to ask a bit more about the study’s genesis, he agreed that things didn’t add up. “In the last decade, there’s been a huge increase in manager-led mental health initiatives, but the existing evidence didn’t seem to back up this proliferation,” he said. “There was also growing skepticism among academics as to the effectiveness and reasons for their popularity.” It turns out the skepticism was warranted, as much of the other research on this topic has been done by the <a href="https://www.statnews.com/2016/02/19/workplace-wellness-programs-employee-health/" previewlistener="true" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgba(59,130,246,.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; border: 0px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); box-sizing: border-box; color: #ef5b24; text-decoration: inherit;" target="_blank">wellness vendors</a>. </span></p><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgba(59,130,246,.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; border: 0px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1.1875rem; line-height: 2rem; margin: 1.5rem 0px;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen;">There seems to be a real discrepancy between performative wellness—mindfulness apps, in-office massages, calorie tracking tools—and benefits that, well, <em style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgba(59,130,246,.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; border: 0px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); box-sizing: border-box;">actually</em> benefit employees—the option for remote or hybrid work, increased flexibility, work-life balance, and commitment to DEI. The problem with the latter is that they require systemic changes. </span></p></div><div class="ad-container ad-container--native_mid_article flex flex-col items-center justify-center h-0" data-testid="ad-container" style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgba(59,130,246,.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; align-items: center; border: 0px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); box-sizing: border-box; display: flex; flex-direction: column; font-size: 18px; height: 0px; justify-content: center; letter-spacing: 0.2px;"><div class="camp-native_mid_article" data-ad_slot_type="native_mid_article" data-page="1" data-testid="gam-ad-unit" id="native_mid_article_8648105366" style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgba(59,130,246,.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; border: 0px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); box-sizing: border-box;"></div></div><div data-testid="native_mid_article-sentinel" id="native_mid_article-sentinel" style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgba(59,130,246,.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; border: 0px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 18px; letter-spacing: 0.2px;"></div><div class="content-chunk" data-testid="content-chunk" style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgba(59,130,246,.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; border: 0px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 18px; letter-spacing: 0.2px; overflow: hidden;"><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgba(59,130,246,.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; border: 0px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1.1875rem; line-height: 2rem; margin: 0px 0px 1.5rem;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen;">I feel very fortunate that my current company offers flexible PTO and the ability to design the type of workday and schedule (to a degree) that sets me up for success. I can tell you firsthand how much better for my overall well-being this is than a meditation app, but it requires a leadership team very dedicated to making their organization a people-centric workplace. Finding said meditation app, meanwhile, just requires finding the right vendor.</span></p><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgba(59,130,246,.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; border: 0px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1.1875rem; line-height: 2rem; margin: 1.5rem 0px;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen;">“The main takeaway is that you can’t expect change if you just try and change the worker and not the workplace. Individualized strategies like mindfulness and resilience training don’t get to the root causes of work stress or tackle poor working conditions,” Fleming says. </span></p><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgba(59,130,246,.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; border: 0px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1.1875rem; line-height: 2rem; margin: 1.5rem 0px;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen;">It’s not all cynicism on the workplace wellness front, though. Fleming’s study found a notable exception to the rule—workers who were allowed to do charity or volunteer work did seem to have improved well-being. An older study on the subject from the<a href="https://journals.lww.com/joem/Abstract/2014/09000/Do_Workplace_Health_Promotion__Wellness__Programs.6.aspx" previewlistener="true" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgba(59,130,246,.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; border: 0px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); box-sizing: border-box; color: #ef5b24; text-decoration: inherit;" target="_blank"> Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine</a> makes a very astute point when answering, “Do Workplace Health Promotion (Wellness) Programs Work?” It depends. The 20-plus authors of the article conclude that while some wellness programs are empty failures, some make the workplace better. Per usual, the answer lies somewhere between black and white. </span></p></div><div class="content-chunk" data-testid="content-chunk" style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgba(59,130,246,.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; border: 0px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 18px; letter-spacing: 0.2px; overflow: hidden;"><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgba(59,130,246,.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; border: 0px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1.1875rem; line-height: 2rem; margin: 0px 0px 1.5rem;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen;">I ended up being let go from that job that offered me those coaching sessions, ironically, just a couple of days after presenting the same HR rep with some evidence I’d documented of what I felt was unethical behavior by upper management. When the HR rep emailed me later that day to tie up paperwork loose ends, she reminded me I could take advantage of my generous benefits for the remainder of the month. </span></p><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgba(59,130,246,.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; border: 0px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1.1875rem; line-height: 2rem; margin: 1.5rem 0px;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen;">I never ended up consulting any of those personal coaches, but I happened to run into her just a week later while playing tennis in the middle of the day (I was unemployed…Not sure of her excuse.) She made a point to come over, assure me she wished things ended differently… and check on my mental wellbeing.</span></p></div>Anne Sulzbergerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17091067031029918700noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6744683886539852356.post-3305303432117420692024-03-27T06:36:00.000-07:002024-03-27T06:36:54.253-07:00Fast-food companies seeing low-income diners pare orders<div class="text__text__1FZLe text__dark-grey__3Ml43 text__regular__2N1Xr text__small__1kGq2 body__full_width__ekUdw body__small_body__2vQyf article-body__paragraph__2-BtD" data-testid="paragraph-0" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: #404040; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px 0px 12px; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3LQSCDg7Al7BamwkPvQgTouc3iPGMTeoLq7yD5yjbxo5sTiFzytd3f1mQ_su2zdBg5EoP2hJSkzxJkgd9MVkTdEAwNfGvWepcqaXpDcoYPlouOD2voa925DQzEVvPOkZQbLqQqPpQpXqzV4GjduXCaUVmfpSfjAe6WP8QIuwGJK7Y7-sP95fVbkVz7Cs/s1024/Default_Create_an_image_of_a_busy_fastfood_worker_at_a_bustlin_0.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; 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color: #404040; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px 0px 12px; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen;">Roughly a quarter of low-income consumers, defined as those making less than $50,000 a year, said they were eating less fast food and about half said they were making fewer trips to fast-casual and full-service dining establishments, according to polling in February by Revenue Management Solutions, a consulting firm.</span></div><div class="article-body__element__2p5pI" style="margin: 24px 0px; width: 708.663px;"></div><div class="text__text__1FZLe text__dark-grey__3Ml43 text__regular__2N1Xr text__small__1kGq2 body__full_width__ekUdw body__small_body__2vQyf article-body__paragraph__2-BtD" data-testid="paragraph-2" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: #404040; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px 0px 12px; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen;">The rising price of food is contributing to budget-conscious diners cutting back.</span></div><div class="text__text__1FZLe text__dark-grey__3Ml43 text__regular__2N1Xr text__small__1kGq2 body__full_width__ekUdw body__small_body__2vQyf article-body__paragraph__2-BtD" data-testid="paragraph-3" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: #404040; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px 0px 12px; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen;">Whether consumed at home or in a restaurant, food prices rose 20% from Jan. 2021 to Jan. 2024, the fastest jump on record. A recent census Household Pulse Survey showed half of people earning less than $35,000 a year had difficulty paying everyday expenses, and nearly 80% were moderately or “very” stressed by recent price increases.</span></div><div class="article-body__element__2p5pI" style="margin: 24px 0px; width: 708.663px;"></div><div class="text__text__1FZLe text__dark-grey__3Ml43 text__regular__2N1Xr text__small__1kGq2 body__full_width__ekUdw body__small_body__2vQyf article-body__paragraph__2-BtD" data-testid="paragraph-4" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: #404040; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px 0px 12px; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen;">Lauren Oxford, a musician who works part time at a bed-and-breakfast in Tennessee, said she used to stop by McDonald's after running errands, treating herself to two double hamburgers, fries and a drink, for less than $5. As prices rose, she switched to smaller hamburgers and stopped getting the drink.</span></div><div class="text__text__1FZLe text__dark-grey__3Ml43 text__regular__2N1Xr text__small__1kGq2 body__full_width__ekUdw body__small_body__2vQyf article-body__paragraph__2-BtD" data-testid="paragraph-5" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: #404040; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px 0px 12px; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen;">But after a year in which McDonald's franchisees drove prices up about 10% according to the company's executives, she’s going to McDonald's less in general. “Now I don’t know if I can justify that.”</span></div><div class="article-body__element__2p5pI" style="margin: 24px 0px; width: 708.663px;"></div><div class="text__text__1FZLe text__dark-grey__3Ml43 text__regular__2N1Xr text__small__1kGq2 body__full_width__ekUdw body__small_body__2vQyf article-body__paragraph__2-BtD" data-testid="paragraph-6" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: #404040; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px 0px 12px; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen;">In the Fed’s most recent Beige Book compendium of anecdotal reports gathered from business and community contacts around the country, 7 of 12 regional Fed districts reported low-income consumers were changing spending habits in search of bargains, seeking more help from community groups, or struggling to access credit.</span></div><div class="text__text__1FZLe text__dark-grey__3Ml43 text__regular__2N1Xr text__small__1kGq2 body__full_width__ekUdw body__small_body__2vQyf article-body__paragraph__2-BtD" data-testid="paragraph-7" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: #404040; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px 0px 12px; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen;">About one-third of Black American households, and 21% of white American households, earned less than $35,000 in 2022, according to the latest available U.S. census data.</span></div><div class="article-body__element__2p5pI" style="margin: 24px 0px; width: 708.663px;"></div><figure class="article-body__element__2p5pI" data-testid="graphic-0" style="margin: 0px 0px 24px; width: 708.663px;"><div class="reuters-graphic__image-container__2YWXt reuters-graphic__with-restricted-dimensions__3iyMG" style="margin: 0px auto; max-height: 600px; max-width: 672px; overflow: auto;"><div data-testid="Image"><div class="styles__image-container__3hkY5 styles__fill__22EeH styles__center_center__1CNY5 styles__apply-ratio__1JYnB" style="--aspect-ratio: 0; --focal-x: 0; --focal-y: 0; aspect-ratio: var(--aspect-ratio); height: inherit; position: relative;"><img alt="Bar chart with data from Revenue Management Solutions show the share of people in the US that have visited restaurants less in the past month than previous months, according to income level." src="https://www.reuters.com/graphics/FASTFOOD-LOWINCOME/gdpzdabrgpw/graphic.jpg" style="display: block; height: 506.788px; object-fit: fill; object-position: center center; width: 671.997px;" /></div></div></div><figcaption class="text__text__1FZLe text__medium-grey__3A_RT text__regular__2N1Xr text__ultra_small__37j9j body__base__22dCE body__ultra_small_body__1lUQl reuters-graphic__figcaption__1lRLn" data-testid="Body" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: #666666; font-size: 12px; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 16px; margin: 4px 0px 0px; max-width: 720px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen;">Bar chart with data from Revenue Management Solutions show the share of people in the US that have visited restaurants less in the past month than previous months, according to income level.</span></figcaption></figure><div class="text__text__1FZLe text__dark-grey__3Ml43 text__regular__2N1Xr text__small__1kGq2 body__full_width__ekUdw body__small_body__2vQyf article-body__paragraph__2-BtD" data-testid="paragraph-8" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: #404040; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px 0px 12px; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen;">For fast-food companies that often promote an image of affordability, low-income consumers are a significant portion of the customer base and a bellwether for longer-term trends. But they are typically the first to cut back spending and the last to come back.</span></div><div class="text__text__1FZLe text__dark-grey__3Ml43 text__regular__2N1Xr text__small__1kGq2 body__full_width__ekUdw body__small_body__2vQyf article-body__paragraph__2-BtD" data-testid="paragraph-9" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: #404040; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px 0px 12px; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen;">But now, chains may be less likely to chase customers as hard as they have in the past because even with a drop in traffic, sales have remained consistent supported by increased prices.</span></div><div class="article-body__element__2p5pI" style="margin: 24px 0px; width: 708.663px;"></div><div class="text__text__1FZLe text__dark-grey__3Ml43 text__regular__2N1Xr text__small__1kGq2 body__full_width__ekUdw body__small_body__2vQyf article-body__paragraph__2-BtD" data-testid="paragraph-10" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: #404040; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px 0px 12px; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen;">Fast food companies aren't "in a hurry to take traffic over profit the way they were a decade ago,” said Mike Lukianoff, CEO of SignalFlare.ai and a veteran consultant in the fast food industry.</span></div><div class="text__text__1FZLe text__dark-grey__3Ml43 text__regular__2N1Xr text__small__1kGq2 body__full_width__ekUdw body__small_body__2vQyf article-body__paragraph__2-BtD" data-testid="paragraph-11" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: #404040; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px 0px 12px; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen;">For example back in 2008, Subway introduced its nationwide $5 footlong, which became the poster sandwich for the Great Recession. That spurred rivals to introduce extreme value deals for budget-conscious customers, such as “$5 Fill-Up Boxes" at Yum! Brands <a class="text__text__1FZLe text__inherit-color__3208F text__inherit-font__1Y8w3 text__inherit-size__1DZJi link__link__3Ji6W link__underline_default__2prE_ link__with-icon__3x3oD" data-testid="Link" href="https://www.reuters.com/markets/companies/YUM.N" previewlistener="true" referrerpolicy="no-referrer-when-downgrade" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-transform: inherit; text-wrap: nowrap;" target="_blank">(YUM.N)<svg aria-hidden="true" class="link__new-tab-symbol__3T19s" data-testid="SvgNewTab" focusable="false" role="presentation" viewbox="0 0 32 32" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><path d="M15 6c.6 0 1 .4 1 1s-.4 1-1 1H9c-.6 0-1 .4-1 1v14a1.1 1.1 0 0 0 .2.6c.1.2.4.4.8.4h14c.6 0 1-.4 1-1v-6c0-.6.4-1 1-1s1 .4 1 1v6a3 3 0 0 1-3 3H9a3 3 0 0 1-2.2-.9A3 3 0 0 1 6 23V9a3 3 0 0 1 3-3Zm10 0 .4.1.5.5.1.4v6c0 .6-.4 1-1 1s-1-.4-1-1V9.4l-5.3 5.3a1 1 0 0 1-.7.3 1 1 0 0 1-.7-.3 1 1 0 0 1 0-1.4L22.6 8H19c-.6 0-1-.4-1-1s.4-1 1-1Z" fill="#666"></path></svg><span style="border: 0px; clip-path: inset(50%); clip: rect(0px, 0px, 0px, 0px); height: 1px; margin: -1px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; position: absolute; width: 1px;">, opens new tab</span></a> KFC.</span></div><div class="text__text__1FZLe text__dark-grey__3Ml43 text__regular__2N1Xr text__small__1kGq2 body__full_width__ekUdw body__small_body__2vQyf article-body__paragraph__2-BtD" data-testid="paragraph-12" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: #404040; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px 0px 12px; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen;">In 2016, McDonald’s, after a prolonged slump in sales, introduced a bundle deal it called “McPick 2”, allowing customers to choose 2 items, like a McDouble, for $2. Within months, Wendy’s offered a four for $4 deal. Burger King offered five for $4. Pizza Hut had a $5 “flavor menu.”</span></div><div class="text__text__1FZLe text__dark-grey__3Ml43 text__regular__2N1Xr text__small__1kGq2 body__full_width__ekUdw body__small_body__2vQyf article-body__paragraph__2-BtD" data-testid="paragraph-13" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: #404040; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px 0px 12px; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen;">APP-DRIVEN DISCOUNTS</span></div><div class="text__text__1FZLe text__dark-grey__3Ml43 text__regular__2N1Xr text__small__1kGq2 body__full_width__ekUdw body__small_body__2vQyf article-body__paragraph__2-BtD" data-testid="paragraph-14" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: #404040; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px 0px 12px; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen;">Now, instead of across-the-board menu slashes and broad discounts, industry analysts say chains are being more selective, aiming them at specific demographics or limiting them to specific meal times or channels, such as its app or only through delivery.</span></div><div class="text__text__1FZLe text__dark-grey__3Ml43 text__regular__2N1Xr text__small__1kGq2 body__full_width__ekUdw body__small_body__2vQyf article-body__paragraph__2-BtD" data-testid="paragraph-15" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: #404040; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px 0px 12px; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen;">McDonald's executives told investors in February that it would rely on its existing "value menu" to appeal to low-income consumers who might be tempted to eat packaged food at home instead. CFO Ian Borden said affordability is core to the brand, and the company would continue "evolving" its value offerings.</span></div><div class="text__text__1FZLe text__dark-grey__3Ml43 text__regular__2N1Xr text__small__1kGq2 body__full_width__ekUdw body__small_body__2vQyf article-body__paragraph__2-BtD" data-testid="paragraph-16" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: #404040; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px 0px 12px; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen;">“The battleground is certainly with that low-income consumer,” McDonald’s CEO Chris Kempczinski told investors, referring to people making less than $45,000.</span></div><div class="text__text__1FZLe text__dark-grey__3Ml43 text__regular__2N1Xr text__small__1kGq2 body__full_width__ekUdw body__small_body__2vQyf article-body__paragraph__2-BtD" data-testid="paragraph-17" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: #404040; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px 0px 12px; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen;">Wendy’s recently introduced a limited-time $1 burger — available only through its app. Its CFO Gunther Plosch told investors in February that among lower-income customers, their traffic is down but their share with the general market is unchanged.</span></div><div class="text__text__1FZLe text__dark-grey__3Ml43 text__regular__2N1Xr text__small__1kGq2 body__full_width__ekUdw body__small_body__2vQyf article-body__paragraph__2-BtD" data-testid="paragraph-18" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: #404040; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px 0px 12px; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen;">For major fast-food companies, loyalty apps are the go-to strategy among major brands to increase retention and the average amount of money spent. The upside for chains, David Henkes, senior principal with Technomic said, is that they capture more transaction data and demographic data for the consumer, “which is a trade-off many are happy to do.”</span></div><div class="text__text__1FZLe text__dark-grey__3Ml43 text__regular__2N1Xr text__small__1kGq2 body__full_width__ekUdw body__small_body__2vQyf article-body__paragraph__2-BtD" data-testid="paragraph-19" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: #404040; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px 0px 12px; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen;">For example, McDonald's frequently offers in-app discounts, such as 20% off an order or free delivery with a large enough order.</span></div><div class="text__text__1FZLe text__dark-grey__3Ml43 text__regular__2N1Xr text__small__1kGq2 body__full_width__ekUdw body__small_body__2vQyf article-body__paragraph__2-BtD" data-testid="paragraph-20" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: #404040; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px 0px 12px; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen;">Domino’s <a class="text__text__1FZLe text__inherit-color__3208F text__inherit-font__1Y8w3 text__inherit-size__1DZJi link__link__3Ji6W link__underline_default__2prE_ link__with-icon__3x3oD" data-testid="Link" href="https://www.reuters.com/markets/companies/DPZ.N" previewlistener="true" referrerpolicy="no-referrer-when-downgrade" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-transform: inherit; text-wrap: nowrap;" target="_blank">(DPZ.N)<svg aria-hidden="true" class="link__new-tab-symbol__3T19s" data-testid="SvgNewTab" focusable="false" role="presentation" viewbox="0 0 32 32" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><path d="M15 6c.6 0 1 .4 1 1s-.4 1-1 1H9c-.6 0-1 .4-1 1v14a1.1 1.1 0 0 0 .2.6c.1.2.4.4.8.4h14c.6 0 1-.4 1-1v-6c0-.6.4-1 1-1s1 .4 1 1v6a3 3 0 0 1-3 3H9a3 3 0 0 1-2.2-.9A3 3 0 0 1 6 23V9a3 3 0 0 1 3-3Zm10 0 .4.1.5.5.1.4v6c0 .6-.4 1-1 1s-1-.4-1-1V9.4l-5.3 5.3a1 1 0 0 1-.7.3 1 1 0 0 1-.7-.3 1 1 0 0 1 0-1.4L22.6 8H19c-.6 0-1-.4-1-1s.4-1 1-1Z" fill="#666"></path></svg><span style="border: 0px; clip-path: inset(50%); clip: rect(0px, 0px, 0px, 0px); height: 1px; margin: -1px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; position: absolute; width: 1px;">, opens new tab</span></a> halved the minimum purchase price to get points in its loyalty program, to $5 from $10, its CEO told investors at a conference in January. It also reduced the number of purchases needed to get a free pizza to as few as two from six. “And so essentially, for this lower-income consumer, we’ve made the brand more accessible,” CEO Russell Weiner said.</span></div><div class="text__text__1FZLe text__dark-grey__3Ml43 text__regular__2N1Xr text__small__1kGq2 body__full_width__ekUdw body__small_body__2vQyf article-body__paragraph__2-BtD" data-testid="paragraph-21" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: #404040; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px 0px 12px; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen;">To be sure, not every chain is seeing weakness among low-income customers. At Taco Bell, which sells a single taco for $1.40 at many of its stores in San Antonio, locations in low-income markets did better than other locations, Yum! CEO David Gibbs told investors in February.</span></div><div class="text__text__1FZLe text__dark-grey__3Ml43 text__regular__2N1Xr text__small__1kGq2 body__full_width__ekUdw body__small_body__2vQyf article-body__paragraph__2-BtD" data-testid="paragraph-22" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: #404040; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px 0px 12px; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen;">McDonald's still holds its appeal for Andreas Garay, a retail worker eating at a McDonald's in westside San Antonio. He said he plans to keep his coffee-and-Big-Mac habit-- even if prices continue going up.</span></div>Anne Sulzbergerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17091067031029918700noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6744683886539852356.post-5544625400819241762024-03-27T06:06:00.000-07:002024-03-27T06:06:37.989-07:00Hourly labour costs ranged from €9 to €54 in the EU<div id="fragment-15308127-ubvm" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #272833;"><div class="publication-web-content ecl-row" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: grid; flex-wrap: wrap; justify-items: center; margin-inline: -1rem;"><div class="ecl-col-12 ecl-col-l-8" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: grid; flex: 0 0 66.6667%; justify-items: center; max-width: 66.6667%; min-height: 1px; padding-inline: 1rem; position: relative; width: 738.663px;"><div style="box-sizing: border-box;"><p class="ecl-u-type-paragraph" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #515560; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: 1.5rem; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 1rem; max-width: 80ch;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjdMtbCH9oeoMTB7A4F_rB2oqP_8eWPmlFhWNrU-brapb_lfi_c1J2sqNVQla6JKA2h_bKPZdN588rdMVZqcAoqvifZNhvzEVQdF0FRQeMc1BHbMi_O9JgGcriG0vW8f-F7K3qvJR8bsfPmyZeQebogRxPwKWj191CwJ-xlekNhL6iygaB5nzzIiPKWl9c/s2048/7xm.xyz590269.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1365" data-original-width="2048" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjdMtbCH9oeoMTB7A4F_rB2oqP_8eWPmlFhWNrU-brapb_lfi_c1J2sqNVQla6JKA2h_bKPZdN588rdMVZqcAoqvifZNhvzEVQdF0FRQeMc1BHbMi_O9JgGcriG0vW8f-F7K3qvJR8bsfPmyZeQebogRxPwKWj191CwJ-xlekNhL6iygaB5nzzIiPKWl9c/w640-h426/7xm.xyz590269.jpg" width="640" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;"><br />In 2023, the average hourly labour costs in the whole economy (see methodological note) were estimated to be €31.8 in the EU and €35.6 in the euro area, up compared with €30.2 and €34.0, respectively, in 2022. </span><p></p><p class="ecl-u-type-paragraph" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #515560; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: 1.5rem; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 1rem; max-width: 80ch;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;">These estimates come from data on labour cost levels published by Eurostat today. This article presents only a handful of findings from the more detailed <a class="ecl-link" href="https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php?title=Hourly_labour_costs" previewlistener="true" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0e47cb; margin: 0px;">Statistics Explained article</a>.</span></p><h3 class="ecl-u-type-heading-3" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #262b38; font-feature-settings: normal !important; font-kerning: auto !important; font-optical-sizing: auto !important; font-stretch: normal !important; font-variant-alternates: normal !important; font-variant-east-asian: normal !important; font-variant-numeric: normal !important; font-variant-position: normal !important; font-variation-settings: normal !important; font-weight: 400 !important; line-height: 2.5rem !important; margin-bottom: 0.89rem; margin-top: 1.78rem;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;">Lowest hourly labour costs in Bulgaria, highest in Luxembourg </span></h3><p class="ecl-u-type-paragraph" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #515560; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: 1.5rem; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 1rem; max-width: 80ch;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;">The average hourly labour costs mask significant gaps between EU countries, with the lowest hourly labour costs recorded in Bulgaria (€9.3), Romania (€11.0) and Hungary (€12.8) while the highest in Luxembourg (€53.9), Denmark (€48.1) and Belgium (€47.1). </span></p><p class="ecl-u-type-paragraph" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #515560; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: 1.5rem; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 1rem; max-width: 80ch;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;">Hourly labour costs in industry were €32.2 in the EU and €38.0 in the euro area. In construction, they were €28.5 and €31.9, respectively. In services, hourly labour costs varied between €31.8 in the EU and €34.8 in the euro area. In the mainly non-business economy (excluding public administration), they were €32.4 and €35.7, respectively.</span></p><p class="ecl-u-type-paragraph" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #515560; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: 1.5rem; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 1rem; max-width: 80ch;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;">The two main components of labour costs are wages and salaries and non-wage costs (e.g. employers' social contributions). The share of non-wage costs in total labour costs for the whole economy was 24.7% in the EU and 25.5% in the euro area. The lowest shares of non-wage costs were recorded in Malta (1.4%), Romania (5.0%) and Lithuania (5.4%) and the highest in Sweden (32.2%) and France (31.9%).</span></p><p class="ecl-u-type-paragraph" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #515560; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: 1.5rem; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 1rem; max-width: 80ch; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;"><iframe frameborder="0" height="700px" scrolling="no" src="https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/cache/news/maps/hourly-labour-costs-2023.html" style="box-sizing: border-box;" title="Hourly labour costs, 2023." width="700px"></iframe><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Source dataset: <a class="ecl-link" href="https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/databrowser/bookmark/74fd337f-a672-4b31-af29-cc723faaee29?lang=en" previewlistener="true" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0e47cb; margin: 0px;">lc_lci_lev</a></span></p><h3 class="ecl-u-type-heading-3" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #262b38; font-feature-settings: normal !important; font-kerning: auto !important; font-optical-sizing: auto !important; font-stretch: normal !important; font-variant-alternates: normal !important; font-variant-east-asian: normal !important; font-variant-numeric: normal !important; font-variant-position: normal !important; font-variation-settings: normal !important; font-weight: 400 !important; line-height: 2.5rem !important; margin-bottom: 0.89rem; margin-top: 1.78rem;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;">Hourly labour costs increased by 5.3% in the EU between 2022 and 2023</span></h3><p class="ecl-u-type-paragraph" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #515560; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: 1.5rem; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 1rem; max-width: 80ch;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;">In 2023 compared with 2022, hourly labour costs at the whole economy level expressed in € rose by 5.3% in the EU and by 4.8% in the euro area.</span></p><p class="ecl-u-type-paragraph" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #515560; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: 1.5rem; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 1rem; max-width: 80ch;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;">Within the euro area, hourly labour costs increased in all countries. The largest increases were recorded in Croatia (+14.2%), Lithuania (+12.4%) and Estonia (+11.7%).</span></p><p class="ecl-u-type-paragraph" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #515560; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: 1.5rem; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 1rem; max-width: 80ch;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;">For EU countries outside the euro area, the hourly labour costs expressed in national currency increased in 2023 in all countries, with the largest increases recorded in Hungary (+17.0%), Romania (+16.5%), Bulgaria (+14.0%) and Poland (+12.4%). They increased the least in Denmark (+2.7%).</span></p></div></div></div></div>Anne Sulzbergerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17091067031029918700noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6744683886539852356.post-75635986951415525052024-03-27T05:56:00.000-07:002024-03-27T05:56:40.791-07:00Ski town struggles to fill 6-figure job because candidates can't afford housing<p><span style="font-family: Oxygen;"> </span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTi1qky9XRn8K3TPNc7IQ5MByicqR059Y-yHyIRF2gJnnHDlDTyimprdhum6IQInZSsDN34FqH9FgjXIpi7UqrkIdMKJS9d2-vS6IS-VpuAy0H1-stbTkIQkD8_pJjtalRnmOYrKNr5f5h6veIWpyb6ZewGk7pEeDAPPGNm9HNae4xFBvMVzhOSxQx0Qw/s1536/first-time-using-mj-new-ski-collection-is-out-now-v0-xg0q7fz1z1ga1.webp" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="1024" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTi1qky9XRn8K3TPNc7IQ5MByicqR059Y-yHyIRF2gJnnHDlDTyimprdhum6IQInZSsDN34FqH9FgjXIpi7UqrkIdMKJS9d2-vS6IS-VpuAy0H1-stbTkIQkD8_pJjtalRnmOYrKNr5f5h6veIWpyb6ZewGk7pEeDAPPGNm9HNae4xFBvMVzhOSxQx0Qw/w426-h640/first-time-using-mj-new-ski-collection-is-out-now-v0-xg0q7fz1z1ga1.webp" width="426" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: Oxygen;"><br /></span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: Oxygen;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #101010; font-size: 21.12px;">Steamboat Springs, Colorado, has a problem that's prevalent among all resort communities where housing costs far exceed local incomes: recruiting staff. That's because job candidates say they can't afford to live there. </span></span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #101010; font-size: 21.12px; margin-top: 25px;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen;">While <span class="link" style="box-sizing: border-box;">home prices and rents have soared</span> across the country over the past year, rent and real estate prices in uber-wealthy enclaves are in a league of their own. The median listing price for homes currently available in Steamboat Springs, for example, is $2 million, <a href="https://www.realtor.com/realestateandhomes-search/Steamboat-Springs_CO/overview" previewlistener="true" rel="nofollow noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #101010;" target="_blank">according</a> to Realtor.com. Median rent is roughly $4,000 a month <a href="https://www.zillow.com/rental-manager/market-trends/steamboat-springs-co/" previewlistener="true" rel="nofollow noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #101010;" target="_blank">according</a> to Zillow.com. The high prices put area housing out of reach, even for those earning above-average salaries. </span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #101010; font-size: 21.12px; margin-top: 25px;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen;">Steamboat Springs city manager Gary Suiter told CBS MoneyWatch that the city government has struggled to recruit a human resources director, a management-level position with a six-figure salary to match, <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/economics/cowboy-ski-town-high-earners-cant-afford-home-faces-housing-battle-rcna140429" previewlistener="true" rel="nofollow noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #101010;" target="_blank">NBC</a> first reported. </span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #101010; font-size: 21.12px; margin-top: 25px;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen;">"That's the case for one position. In these higher-end resort communities, multiple positions at all layers of the organization can be difficult to fill," Suiter added. </span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #101010; font-size: 21.12px; margin-top: 25px;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen;">The city, with a population of 13,000, previously made job offers to two candidates, both of whom declined.</span><iframe allow="attribution-reporting" aria-label="Advertisement" data-google-container-id="4" data-is-safeframe="true" data-load-complete="true" frameborder="0" height="90" id="google_ads_iframe_/8264/aw-cbsnews/moneywatch_3" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" name="" sandbox="allow-forms allow-popups allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox allow-same-origin allow-scripts allow-top-navigation-by-user-activation" scrolling="no" src="https://9f7df9c106fba7b6a24cd6b5073f025c.safeframe.googlesyndication.com/safeframe/1-0-40/html/container.html" style="border-style: initial; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Oxygen; font-size: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: bottom;" tabindex="0" title="3rd party ad content" width="728"></iframe></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #101010; font-size: 21.12px; margin-top: 40px;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen;">"We had two recruitments previously and in both cases, they couldn't afford to live here," Suiter said. The position's salary? $167,000 per year.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #101010; font-size: 21.12px; margin-top: 25px;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen;">Other local job openings pay far less, including a posting for a rodeo maintenance worker, which <a href="https://www.governmentjobs.com/careers/steamboatsprings?page=1" previewlistener="true" rel="nofollow noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #101010;" target="_blank">pays</a> up to $29.62 an hour. </span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #101010; font-size: 21.12px; margin-top: 25px;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen;">Suiter said he's all too familiar with the rising housing costs in communities like Steamboat Springs and how challenging they make it for local businesses to staff up. Wealthy individuals shell out millions for second homes in such areas and drive up housing costs, a trend that was exacerbated by the pandemic.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #101010; font-size: 21.12px; margin-top: 25px;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen;">The particular difficulty the city has had filling the HR director role "tells the story of what's happening in resort communities, and it's been happening for a long time," he explained. "The same thing is repeating itself in higher-end areas."</span></p><div class="ad-leader-plus-inc ad-wrapper " data-ad-unit="["leader-plus-inc",3]" data-ad="leader-plus-inc" data-google-query-id="COXdk8q-lIUDFfA6VQgdZTkKPA" id="leader-plus-inc3" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; color: #101010; flex: 1 1 auto; font-size: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 40px; min-height: 90px; text-align: center;"><div id="google_ads_iframe_/8264/aw-cbsnews/moneywatch_4__container__" style="border: 0pt none; box-sizing: content-box; display: inline-block; height: 90px; width: 728px;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen;"><iframe allow="attribution-reporting" aria-label="Advertisement" data-google-container-id="5" data-is-safeframe="true" data-load-complete="true" frameborder="0" height="90" id="google_ads_iframe_/8264/aw-cbsnews/moneywatch_4" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" name="" sandbox="allow-forms allow-popups allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox allow-same-origin allow-scripts allow-top-navigation-by-user-activation" scrolling="no" src="https://9f7df9c106fba7b6a24cd6b5073f025c.safeframe.googlesyndication.com/safeframe/1-0-40/html/container.html" style="border-style: initial; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; vertical-align: bottom;" tabindex="0" title="3rd party ad content" width="728"></iframe></span></div></div><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #101010; font-size: 21.12px; margin-top: 40px;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen;">Home prices in the country's 20 biggest metro areas went up an average of 6.7% in 2023, according to the latest S&P CoreLogic Case-Shiller data. Across the nation as a whole, housing prices rose more than 5% over the last year, pushing home ownership out of reach <span class="link" style="box-sizing: border-box;">even for high-income earners.</span> </span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #101010; font-size: 21.12px; margin-top: 25px;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen;">To make the six-figure offer more palatable, Suiter said the city has added a signing bonus that — for the right candidate — is negotiable. </span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #101010; font-size: 21.12px; margin-top: 25px;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen;">"We will provide a signing bonus within reason if it's necessary to recruit the most qualified person," he said. </span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #101010; font-size: 21.12px; margin-top: 25px;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen;">It is harder to house members of the city's roughly 300-person government staff, many of whom earn far less than six figures annually, Suiter said. The city is in the process of building dormitory-style housing to accommodate some of them. </span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #101010; font-size: 21.12px; margin-top: 25px;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen;">Housing challenges "permeate every level of the organization," Suiter said.<strong style="box-sizing: border-box;"> </strong>"It's not only with management positions, it's boots-on-the-ground jobs. Bus drivers have been difficult to recruit, especially during the pandemic with the mask mandate."</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #101010; font-size: 21.12px; margin-top: 25px;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen;">The town's world-class ski resort provides up to 800 beds for staff "at below market rate," according to a resort spokesperson.</span></p>Anne Sulzbergerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17091067031029918700noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6744683886539852356.post-57712341734949115062024-03-27T05:54:00.000-07:002024-03-27T05:54:29.471-07:00A handwritten thank-you note helped me land a job working for Oprah<p><span style="font-family: Oxygen;"> </span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihbiRPSp-OzcjIsK5KPM25dMpPTSsB1KJ-KHkOAEVEH5ougqGWm6zfGuhwAj8gFRsMVZq7LftxgtJvdB7QOBvmBW4fLXFJW-gM-HmwJ6aNX9E73CRDX1OTosECUJtnO37KyxYdBLfh2WJQTucJhZ3O2FV0IZC9bK5hyphenhyphendhmB-afJl4P6S0aGM_cY0nv0Jw/s2048/v2.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1322" data-original-width="2048" height="414" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihbiRPSp-OzcjIsK5KPM25dMpPTSsB1KJ-KHkOAEVEH5ougqGWm6zfGuhwAj8gFRsMVZq7LftxgtJvdB7QOBvmBW4fLXFJW-gM-HmwJ6aNX9E73CRDX1OTosECUJtnO37KyxYdBLfh2WJQTucJhZ3O2FV0IZC9bK5hyphenhyphendhmB-afJl4P6S0aGM_cY0nv0Jw/w640-h414/v2.jpeg" width="640" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: Oxygen;"><br /><span style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-size: 20px;">After a job interview, never underestimate</span> the power of a thank-you note.<span style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-size: 20px;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-size: 20px;">I worked as a business coordinator for The Oprah Magazine for three years, and it was actually a thank-you note that helped me get the job and set me up for an incredible career journey.</span></span><p></p><p class="preview" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #111111; font-size: 20px; line-height: 32px; margin: 2.15rem 0px;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen;">My journey began in my junior year of college, studying Biology but yearning for something different. That summer I took an internship at Hearst Corporation. Interning at Hearst opened doors to a world previously beyond my reach. It was through these connections that I unearthed an opportunity to work alongside Oprah Winfrey's then-business manager, Nancy Denholtz, in 2007.</span></p><div class="premium-content" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #111111; font-size: 20px;"><p class="premium" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1.25rem; line-height: 32px; margin: 2.15rem 0px;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen;">During the interview with Nancy, I absorbed every word she said. She asked me about my life plans for the future; why did I want to work there; and if I could give her at least three years if I were hired.</span></p><figure class="figure image-figure-image premium" data-e2e-name="image-figure-image" data-media-container="image" data-type="img" itemscope="" itemtype="https://schema.org/ImageObject" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; width: 555px;"><div class="lazy-holder" style="background: rgb(248, 248, 248); box-sizing: border-box; height: 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 370px; position: relative; width: 555px;"><img alt="Boodie posing with Oprah." class="lazy-image js-rendered" data-content-type="image/jpeg" data-srcs="{"https://i.insider.com/6603601f1caec1275a69c1a1":{"contentType":"image/jpeg","aspectRatioW":1404,"aspectRatioH":936}}" src="https://i.insider.com/6603601f1caec1275a69c1a1?width=1000&format=jpeg&auto=webp" style="background: none; box-sizing: border-box; height: auto; left: 277.5px; max-width: none; opacity: 1; position: absolute; top: 185px; transform: translate3d(-50%, -50%, 0px); transition: opacity 0.3s linear 0s; vertical-align: middle; width: 560.547px; z-index: 1;" /></div><span class="image-source-caption " style="box-sizing: border-box; display: block; font-size: 0.875rem; line-height: 18.9px; margin: 11px 0px 20px; padding: 0px;"><figcaption class="image-caption headline-bold" data-e2e-name="image-caption" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 900; margin-right: 6px;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen;">Boodie and Oprah at a magazine event in 2010. <span class="image-source headline-regular" data-e2e-name="image-source" itemprop="creditText" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #6d787a; display: inline; font-size: 0.875rem; font-weight: 400; line-height: 18.9px; word-break: break-word;">Courtesy of Boodie</span></span></figcaption></span></figure><p class="premium" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1.25rem; line-height: 32px; margin: 2.15rem 0px;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen;">She showed me the magazine and how we charged advertising based on region and size of the stock print requested. We discussed budgets and how trust and privacy were imperative for this job. Following the interview, I went to the lobby and wrote a thank-you note while the specifics of our discussion were still fresh in my mind. Then I placed the note in the building's internal mail drop.</span></p><p class="premium" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1.25rem; line-height: 32px; margin: 2.15rem 0px;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen;">By sending it from the office, the letter reached the destination quicker and left an immediate impression.</span></p><p class="premium" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1.25rem; line-height: 32px; margin: 2.15rem 0px;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen;">The thank-you note played a pivotal role in the job offer. Nancy mentioned it two years later when I was finally comfortable enough to ask for the reason I was hired. Also, while working for the company, I saw firsthand how candidates who wrote thank-you cards or notes stood out from those who didn't.</span></p><h2 class="premium" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--bs-heading-color); font-size: 1.875rem; line-height: 37.5px; margin: 1.875rem 0px 10px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen;">I wrote a thank-you note infused with authenticity and purpose</span></span></h2><p class="premium" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1.25rem; line-height: 32px; margin: 2.15rem 0px;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen;">I always looked at interviews like dating. Am I speaking with someone I can spend each day building something greater with? I wrote the thank-you note to include specifics about the job description we discussed and expressed how and why I was prepared for the job.</span></p><p class="premium" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1.25rem; line-height: 32px; margin: 2.15rem 0px;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen;">I included the <a data-analytics-post-depth="40" data-analytics-product-module="body_link" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/how-get-job-this-year-network-resume-skills-certificates-unemployment-2024-1" previewlistener="true" rel="" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #111111; text-decoration-color: rgb(17, 17, 17); text-decoration-thickness: 1px; text-underline-offset: 2px; transition: all 0.2s ease 0s;" target="_blank">values I knew I could bring</a> to the position and wrote about my excitement to learn from someone seasoned in their career. I included details we discussed about Nancy's family and my understanding of what it's like to work hard and build success for those you love.</span></p><p class="premium" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1.25rem; line-height: 32px; margin: 2.15rem 0px;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen;">Just thanking someone for their time is important, so I ended the note by thanking Nancy for the opportunity to sit and talk and I wished everyone good luck.</span></p><h2 class="premium" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--bs-heading-color); font-size: 1.875rem; line-height: 37.5px; margin: 1.875rem 0px 10px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen;">Not being a fan played a big role in me securing the position as well</span></span></h2><p class="premium" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1.25rem; line-height: 32px; margin: 2.15rem 0px;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen;">I may not have been a "fan" of Oprah then, but I recognized the unparalleled potential for growth and learning in such an environment. Years later, I realized that not being a fan also played a big role in securing the position. We were there to work on business, not praise.</span></p><p class="premium" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1.25rem; line-height: 32px; margin: 2.15rem 0px;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen;">Celebrities want people around them who can add value in an area of expertise, and offer a solution to their problem. If you only ask for a photo to put on Instagram, you become a fan — not a future business partner.</span></p><section class="content-recommendations-component in-content-recirc three-related-posts premium" data-component-location="" data-component-type="content-recommendations" data-container-name="content-recommendations-three-related-posts" data-delay-third-party-scripts="true" data-excluded-verticals="bi-video" data-premium-state="" data-provider="dad" data-recommendations-placement="" data-renderer="three-related-posts" data-root-margin="250px 0px" data-size="3" data-theme-class="" data-track-view="{"event": "engagement", "eventCategory": "in_content_recirc", "eventAction": "module_in_view", "eventLabel": "module_in_view", "element_name": "in_content_recirc", "lts_segment": "bi_value_unassigned", "product_field": "bi_value_unassigned"}" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: -30px;"><div class="content-recommendations-title-container" style="border-top: 1px solid rgb(232, 233, 234); box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 2rem; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><p class="content-recommendations-title headline-bold ignore-typography " style="border-top-width: 1px; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1.125rem; font-weight: 900; line-height: 1.4; margin: 8px 0px;"><br /></p></div></section><p class="premium" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1.25rem; line-height: 32px; margin: 2.15rem 0px;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen;">During the interview, I wasn't nervous. I was just curious. I had no idea what three years would look like but I knew I wanted to learn from someone successful in business. I was intrigued to learn that beyond this person, "Oprah" was a whole business model and strategy.</span></p><h2 class="premium" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--bs-heading-color); font-size: 1.875rem; line-height: 37.5px; margin: 1.875rem 0px 10px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen;">This job was career-defining and life-changing</span></span></h2><p class="premium" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1.25rem; line-height: 32px; margin: 2.15rem 0px;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen;">My role was a gateway to understanding the intricacies of media, finance, and influence. I attended and worked at our O You! events nationwide. O You! events were designed to make the magazine come to life and celebrate our readers in a meaningful and enlightening way.</span></p><p class="premium" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1.25rem; line-height: 32px; margin: 2.15rem 0px;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen;">I helped ensure all our VIP guests felt welcomed and their immediate needs were handled. Besides events, I navigated budgetary constraints, liaised with various stakeholders, and witnessed firsthand the power of information and leverage.</span></p><p class="premium" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1.25rem; line-height: 32px; margin: 2.15rem 0px;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen;">My tenure with Oprah wasn't just a chapter but a catalyst. I was able to quickly understand how we made revenue and how important keeping track of it was. This job was career-defining. It allowed me to be a trusted source to a brand and an individual who's very private and protective of those who work for her.</span></p><p class="premium" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1.25rem; line-height: 32px; margin: 2.15rem 0px;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen;">To this day, I'm asked how I have access to so many people with influence and wealth. I'll forever give Oprah Winfrey credit for giving me opportunities because I was vetted by someone so many people respect.</span></p><h2 class="premium" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--bs-heading-color); font-size: 1.875rem; line-height: 37.5px; margin: 1.875rem 0px 10px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen;">I forged my identity, in a competitive landscape</span></span></h2><p class="premium" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1.25rem; line-height: 32px; margin: 2.15rem 0px;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen;">I'll never forget when I asked for a meeting with Gayle King, O's editor at large after Oprah had given us a Christmas bonus. Instead of signing a card (something we did every year since and before I'd been there), I brainstormed with Gayle to do something that would be more meaningful. I came up with the idea to create a video where staff could say "thank you" and share how they used the extra cash over the holidays. It was a success.</span></p><p class="premium" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1.25rem; line-height: 32px; margin: 2.15rem 0px;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen;">I stepped up without realizing that's what I was doing. I just wanted to show that our team could be more grateful, and we could use video to express our gratitude to Oprah.</span></p><figure class="figure image-figure-image premium" data-e2e-name="image-figure-image" data-media-container="image" data-type="img" itemscope="" itemtype="https://schema.org/ImageObject" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; width: 555px;"><div class="lazy-holder" style="background: rgb(248, 248, 248); box-sizing: border-box; height: 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 370px; position: relative; width: 555px;"><img alt="Boodie with O You! colleagues holding a giant $10,000 check" class="lazy-image js-rendered" data-content-type="image/jpeg" data-srcs="{"https://i.insider.com/660361613f923f7dab018a45":{"contentType":"image/jpeg","aspectRatioW":1404,"aspectRatioH":936}}" src="https://i.insider.com/660361613f923f7dab018a45?width=1000&format=jpeg&auto=webp" style="background: none; box-sizing: border-box; height: auto; left: 277.5px; max-width: none; opacity: 1; position: absolute; top: 185px; transform: translate3d(-50%, -50%, 0px); transition: opacity 0.3s linear 0s; vertical-align: middle; width: 560.547px; z-index: 1;" /></div><span class="image-source-caption " style="box-sizing: border-box; display: block; font-size: 0.875rem; line-height: 18.9px; margin: 11px 0px 20px; padding: 0px;"><figcaption class="image-caption headline-bold" data-e2e-name="image-caption" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 900; margin-right: 6px;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen;">2010 photo of Oprah gifting all of her staff $10,000 checks each for the success of Oprah Magazine celebrating 10 years. <span class="image-source headline-regular" data-e2e-name="image-source" itemprop="creditText" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #6d787a; display: inline; font-size: 0.875rem; font-weight: 400; line-height: 18.9px; word-break: break-word;">Courtesy of Boodie</span></span></figcaption></span></figure><p class="premium" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1.25rem; line-height: 32px; margin: 2.15rem 0px;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen;">After three years, I wanted to find my own path, so I left The Oprah Magazine. People thought I was crazy, but I realized I was attached to a brand that gave me influence, and I wanted to forge my own way.</span></p><p class="premium" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1.25rem; line-height: 32px; margin: 2.15rem 0px;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen;">Now, as the founder of <a data-analytics-post-depth="100" data-analytics-product-module="body_link" href="https://www.connectup.media/" previewlistener="true" rel=" nofollow" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #111111; text-decoration-color: rgb(17, 17, 17); text-decoration-thickness: 1px; text-underline-offset: 2px; transition: all 0.2s ease 0s;" target="_blank">ConnectUp Media</a>, a brand and influencer social impact company, I'm committed to bridging gaps and fostering relationships and business partnerships at the highest echelons. Think of us as high-level partnerships focusing on social impact. I work with celebrities, major brands, and billionaires. And it all started with a thank-you note.</span></p><h2 class="premium" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--bs-heading-color); font-size: 1.875rem; line-height: 37.5px; margin: 1.875rem 0px 10px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen;">A thank you note could be stronger now than ever before</span></span></h2><p class="premium" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1.25rem; line-height: 32px; margin: 2.15rem 0px;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen;">With emails being skipped and accidentally deleted, a handwritten note is possibly more powerful now than ever. The note should be sincere and specific about the conversation and the takeaways from what was discussed. It should also include the added value you'd bring to the role you're applying for. Be as specific as possible.</span></p><p class="premium" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1.25rem; line-height: 32px; margin: 2.15rem 0px;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen;">The biggest takeaway from my entire experience interviewing and working for Oprah is that you're more likely to stand out when you position yourself as someone who can add value to the team. No matter how famous someone is, they all need support and a team they trust.</span></p><p class="premium" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1.25rem; line-height: 32px; margin: 2.15rem 0px;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen;">Boodie leads ConnectUp Media Agency, where he advises and manages influencers, royals, wealthy families, nonprofits, and brands on systemic impact, business strategy, events, and partnerships. </span></em></p></div>Anne Sulzbergerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17091067031029918700noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6744683886539852356.post-177777057107340282024-03-27T05:47:00.000-07:002024-03-27T05:47:35.635-07:00Can AI Help You Do Your Taxes?<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhpgOuHn5uz9KabkoSFTpwBp3sw3QnI7YizApFpT1VPf2mKQeT5DN04Ro7aVJin-oJ32bgBimr7puWodzN1PjKSkMtNPPpM6RrPVSkAs3lRtYrp_lrwOfAChVfxJiucGiykWjFqjH1yGPmHHKfoMVT872i56ZVDNrzgJgHHTXn1zJ2tFwYE3V2nPeUxn_k/s2172/HR_2024.02.02_VOGUE_X_NINA_Shot_1_032.webp" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2172" data-original-width="1600" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhpgOuHn5uz9KabkoSFTpwBp3sw3QnI7YizApFpT1VPf2mKQeT5DN04Ro7aVJin-oJ32bgBimr7puWodzN1PjKSkMtNPPpM6RrPVSkAs3lRtYrp_lrwOfAChVfxJiucGiykWjFqjH1yGPmHHKfoMVT872i56ZVDNrzgJgHHTXn1zJ2tFwYE3V2nPeUxn_k/w472-h640/HR_2024.02.02_VOGUE_X_NINA_Shot_1_032.webp" width="472" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p><p><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;">Leaders in the AI industry often argue that AI products can handle mundane tasks, thus allowing people to be more productive and creative. Tax preparation, a tedious and time-consuming task, has become a target for AI-powered tools to simplify the process. However, the current state of AI-powered tax tools presents challenges that outweigh the promises they hold. This analysis delves into the existing AI tools, their limitations, and the potential future impact of AI on the tax industry.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;">1. Current Scenario of AI-Powered Tax Tools</span></p><p><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;"> - American taxpayers spend an average of 13 hours and $240 on out-of-pocket costs to prepare and file their annual tax return.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;"> - AI-powered tax software aims to automate repetitive tasks such as data entry, identify tax breaks, detect compliance risks, and address complex questions from filers.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;"> - However, reports have surfaced of AI chatbots providing incorrect tax information, raising concerns about their reliability and accuracy.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;">2. The IRS's Use of AI</span></p><p><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;"> - The IRS is exploring the use of AI, including voicebots and chatbots, to address taxpayer queries and streamline the process.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;"> - The deployment of AI in auditing aims to enhance fairness and target high earners, but concerns about potential biases in generative AI systems exist.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;">3. Rollout of Chatbots by Major Financial Software Companies</span></p><p><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;"> - Major tax software providers such as TurboTax and H&R Block have integrated AI into their products to assist filers.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;"> - Despite advancements in generative AI, reported instances of incorrect answers from AI chatbots highlight their limited reliability.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;">4. AI Startups Disrupting the Tax Industry</span></p><p><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;"> - Startups like April have entered the market, utilizing AI to offer tax estimation and information through existing financial platforms, reducing the burden of tax preparation for users.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;"> - The use of AI tools has enabled startups to navigate the complex and evolving tax laws more efficiently, potentially shaping the future of tax filing services.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;">5. Potential of AI to Aid Disadvantaged Filers</span></p><p><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;"> - Nonprofits like Code for America are exploring how AI can assist low-to-moderate-income taxpayers in the tax filing process, potentially streamlining document verification and offering more personalized assistance.</span></p><p><br /></p><p><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;">The current state of AI in tax preparation reflects a mix of promise and challenges. While AI holds the potential to revolutionize the tax industry by automating and streamlining processes, concerns about accuracy, biases, and user trust remain. As the technology continues to advance, the future of tax filing and the role of AI in facilitating the process remain open to innovation and improvement.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;"> </span></p>Anne Sulzbergerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17091067031029918700noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6744683886539852356.post-18675430187877809792024-03-27T04:54:00.000-07:002024-03-27T04:54:07.051-07:00What is the new etiquette for tipping?<p><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhE5T0nbO5gNgs7hfUDZh6hlhLDZGKvYFKEK4uVlh64Sq7r4Tdj4APB76-nq1b5UAdHIR1a9vj8QybNgy6FrLWiwo4HQ9wqLxuWqwa0cyx1pntK2BZK9_xTnvUOEZNzPaB2v-Vo4sgB2ZlnlApdKsfxPqr87vR59GXOJVpIXxPAfukAJVOSx_qezsopZyc/s3360/pepa.webp" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3360" data-original-width="2240" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhE5T0nbO5gNgs7hfUDZh6hlhLDZGKvYFKEK4uVlh64Sq7r4Tdj4APB76-nq1b5UAdHIR1a9vj8QybNgy6FrLWiwo4HQ9wqLxuWqwa0cyx1pntK2BZK9_xTnvUOEZNzPaB2v-Vo4sgB2ZlnlApdKsfxPqr87vR59GXOJVpIXxPAfukAJVOSx_qezsopZyc/w426-h640/pepa.webp" width="426" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;"><br /> <span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; letter-spacing: 0.36px;">What are the new rules for tipping?</span></span><p></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; float: none; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; letter-spacing: 0.36px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px auto 1.17647em; max-width: 680px; padding: 0px 15px; position: static; vertical-align: baseline; width: auto;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;">Businesses that never seemed to ask for a tip before — like grocery stores, self-checkout machines, and fast food restaurants — are now asking for one these days.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; float: none; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; letter-spacing: 0.36px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px auto 1.17647em; max-width: 680px; padding: 0px 15px; position: static; vertical-align: baseline; width: auto;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;">To answer this question, it helps to understand the purpose of tipping and why requests have increased over the past few years. It's a tricky topic, says <a href="https://cepr.net/staff-member/sylvia-allegretto/" previewlistener="true" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #5076b8; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Sylvia Allegretto</a>, a senior economist at the Center for Economic and Policy Research who has done extensive research on wages and tipping. "It's confusing, people don't get it — but it's really quite important" to how some workers get paid.</span></p><aside aria-label="advertisement" id="ad-backstage-wrap" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; letter-spacing: 0.36px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></aside><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; float: none; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; letter-spacing: 0.36px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px auto 1.17647em; max-width: 680px; padding: 0px 15px; position: static; vertical-align: baseline; width: auto;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;">While some of our experts say much of the etiquette remains the same (for example, if you're not sure about who or how much to tip, don't be afraid to ask), there are a few new variables to keep in mind.</span></p><h3 class="edTag" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; float: none; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 1.25; margin: 35px auto 10px; max-width: 680px; padding: 0px 15px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; width: auto;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;">A change in tipping culture</span></h3><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; float: none; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; letter-spacing: 0.36px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px auto 1.17647em; max-width: 680px; padding: 0px 15px; position: static; vertical-align: baseline; width: auto;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;">Tipping expectations have grown over the past few years. According to <a href="https://www.pewresearch.org/2023/11/09/tipping-culture-in-america-public-sees-a-changed-landscape/#:~:text=A%20broad%20majority%20of%20Americans,even%20been%20dubbed%20%E2%80%9Ctipflation.%E2%80%9D" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #5076b8; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;">a 2023 Pew Research survey</a> of nearly 12,000 adults in the U.S., about 72% say they are being asked to tip service workers more frequently than in the past. And only about a third say it's "extremely or very easy" to know when and how much to tip.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; float: none; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; letter-spacing: 0.36px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px auto 1.17647em; max-width: 680px; padding: 0px 15px; position: static; vertical-align: baseline; width: auto;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;">One of the reasons is the pandemic. We started tipping people we didn't use to tip and tipping more than usual as a way to support essential workers at a time of crisis, says <a href="https://carey.jhu.edu/faculty/faculty-directory/shubhranshu-singh-phd" previewlistener="true" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #5076b8; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Shubhranshu Singh</a>, a marketing professor at Johns Hopkins University, who focuses on business strategy and management.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; float: none; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; letter-spacing: 0.36px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px auto 1.17647em; max-width: 680px; padding: 0px 15px; position: static; vertical-align: baseline; width: auto;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;">At the same time, the technology around how we pay has changed, says Singh. Square, the company behind many electronic payment screens gets a cut of each transaction, <a href="https://squareup.com/help/us/en/article/5068-what-are-square-s-fees" previewlistener="true" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #5076b8; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;">including the tip</a>. So creating software that encourages tipping (and encourages big tips) means more money for companies like Square.</span></p><aside aria-label="advertisement" id="ad-secondary-wrap" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; letter-spacing: 0.36px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></aside><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; float: none; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; letter-spacing: 0.36px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px auto 1.17647em; max-width: 680px; padding: 0px 15px; position: static; vertical-align: baseline; width: auto;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;">Tipping is also a way to pay workers more without actually raising their wages. It allows restaurants to get more money to workers while still keeping their prices low, says <a href="https://www.bu.edu/hospitality/profile/sean-jung/" previewlistener="true" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #5076b8; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Sean Jung</a>, a professor at Boston University's School of Hospitality Administration.</span></p><h3 class="edTag" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; float: none; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 1.25; margin: 35px auto 10px; max-width: 680px; padding: 0px 15px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; width: auto;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;">Why we tip in America</span></h3><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; float: none; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; letter-spacing: 0.36px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px auto 1.17647em; max-width: 680px; padding: 0px 15px; position: static; vertical-align: baseline; width: auto;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;">In the U.S., we have a two-tier wage system, says Allegretto. "We have minimum wages and then we have subminimum or cash wages paid to workers who are tipped."</span></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; float: none; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; letter-spacing: 0.36px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px auto 1.17647em; max-width: 680px; padding: 0px 15px; position: static; vertical-align: baseline; width: auto;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;">There's the federal minimum wage of $7.25 an hour, but every state can set its own minimum wage. Some states have minimum wages that are more than twice that.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; float: none; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; letter-spacing: 0.36px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px auto 1.17647em; max-width: 680px; padding: 0px 15px; position: static; vertical-align: baseline; width: auto;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;">There's also a subminimum wage. That is a wage some service workers get paid that is below minimum wage. The idea is that workers earn a subminimum wage and then customer tips make up the difference to get workers up to minimum wage.</span></p><h3 class="edTag" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; float: none; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 1.25; margin: 35px auto 10px; max-width: 680px; padding: 0px 15px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; width: auto;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;">Location matters</span></h3><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; float: none; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; letter-spacing: 0.36px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px auto 1.17647em; max-width: 680px; padding: 0px 15px; position: static; vertical-align: baseline; width: auto;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;">When deciding how much to tip, it can be helpful to look up the minimum and subminimum wages of your state, says Allegretto. The think tank Economic Policy Institute has <a href="https://www.epi.org/minimum-wage-tracker/" previewlistener="true" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #5076b8; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;">a wage tracker</a> that can help you find this information.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; float: none; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; letter-spacing: 0.36px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px auto 1.17647em; max-width: 680px; padding: 0px 15px; position: static; vertical-align: baseline; width: auto;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;">The tip you leave for a server in one state might mean something different to a server in another. In Washington state, for example, the minimum wage is more than $16 an hour and there is no subminimum wage for workers like servers. Meanwhile, in Tennessee, the subminimum wage is $2.13 — so your server is probably counting on the extra change you leave for your pie and coffee.</span></p><h3 class="edTag" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; float: none; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 1.25; margin: 35px auto 10px; max-width: 680px; padding: 0px 15px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; width: auto;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;">When in doubt, ask</span></h3><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; float: none; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; letter-spacing: 0.36px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px auto 1.17647em; max-width: 680px; padding: 0px 15px; position: static; vertical-align: baseline; width: auto;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;">It's not always clear which types of workers earn a minimum and subminimum wage. Often, a subminimum wage will get paid to bartenders, servers, and people who work at car washes, but it's hard to know.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; float: none; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; letter-spacing: 0.36px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px auto 1.17647em; max-width: 680px; padding: 0px 15px; position: static; vertical-align: baseline; width: auto;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;">Allegretto acknowledges that the system is complicated. It "puts way too much on the customer [to know] what people are getting paid in different jobs in different states."</span></p><aside aria-label="advertisement" id="ad-third-wrap" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; letter-spacing: 0.36px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></aside><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; float: none; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; letter-spacing: 0.36px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px auto 1.17647em; max-width: 680px; padding: 0px 15px; position: static; vertical-align: baseline; width: auto;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;">So if you're not sure whether you should tip or how much, simply ask the person who is serving you, says Singh. He shares some helpful questions:</span></p><ul class="edTag" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; float: none; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; letter-spacing: 0.36px; line-height: inherit; list-style: square; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 680px; padding: 0px 15px 0px 60px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; width: auto;"><li style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; letter-spacing: 0.02em; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1.17647em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;"><strong style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">What is the minimum and subminimum wage in your state? </strong>If the minimum wage is low, your tip will help the employee make a livable wage. If there is no subminimum wage, tips are actually gratuity. </span></li><li style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; letter-spacing: 0.02em; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1.17647em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;"><strong style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Do you keep your whole tip?</strong> Some payment systems like Square take a portion of the tip, so that may be a factor in how much you decide to leave behind. </span></li><li style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; letter-spacing: 0.02em; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1.17647em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;"><strong style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">How can I make sure you're getting my tip? </strong>Some businesses might not be tipping the person you think your money's going to. </span></li></ul><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; float: none; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; letter-spacing: 0.36px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px auto 1.17647em; max-width: 680px; padding: 0px 15px; position: static; vertical-align: baseline; width: auto;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;">If you don't feel comfortable asking these questions, Singh says you can always tip in cash. "Then you know you are giving that person money right there."</span></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; float: none; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; letter-spacing: 0.36px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px auto 1.17647em; max-width: 680px; padding: 0px 15px; position: static; vertical-align: baseline; width: auto;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;">Don't forget to tip people who you might not have a direct interaction with, like hotel housekeepers, says Singh.</span></p><h3 class="edTag" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; float: none; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 1.25; margin: 35px auto 10px; max-width: 680px; padding: 0px 15px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; width: auto;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;">How to deal with unexpected tip requests</span></h3><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; float: none; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; letter-spacing: 0.36px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px auto 1.17647em; max-width: 680px; padding: 0px 15px; position: static; vertical-align: baseline; width: auto;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;">If a business you don't expect to ask for a tip is suddenly asking you for a tip, what should you do?</span></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; float: none; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; letter-spacing: 0.36px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px auto 1.17647em; max-width: 680px; padding: 0px 15px; position: static; vertical-align: baseline; width: auto;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;">It's up to you to decide whether or not to tip and how much, but Singh likes to leave a 10% tip. If an establishment is asking for a tip, it's often an indication that the workers there are not getting paid a minimum wage. So it's good to err on the side of leaving something.</span></p><h3 class="edTag" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; float: none; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 1.25; margin: 35px auto 10px; max-width: 680px; padding: 0px 15px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; width: auto;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;">Beware of 'screen pressure'</span></h3><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; float: none; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; letter-spacing: 0.36px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px auto 1.17647em; max-width: 680px; padding: 0px 15px; position: static; vertical-align: baseline; width: auto;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;">One last thing to watch out for? Screen pressure, says Singh. Some businesses load their payment systems with default minimum tip options of more than 20%. If you don't want to give that much, don't worry about holding up the line to take an extra moment to select the "custom tip" option.</span></p>Anne Sulzbergerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17091067031029918700noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6744683886539852356.post-22497349679040469422024-03-27T04:10:00.000-07:002024-03-27T04:10:54.867-07:00China’s anxious jobseekers face reality as career aspirations vanish, youth unemployment pressure remains<p><span style="font-family: Oxygen;"> <span style="background-color: white; color: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-weight: inherit;">Despite Beijing’s repeated push, young jobseekers in China are being forced to shed career aspirations and yield to lower-paid positions amid shrinking opportunities, mirroring the overall mounting employment woes.</span></span></p><section class="e1oct4f97 css-19sk4h4 e1n4d2ln0" data-qa="ContentBody-ContentBodyContainer" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;"><p class="e15kmbpe0 css-1c6uqr6 e1346ty31" data-qa="Component-Component" datatype="p" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin-block: 0px 20px; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEilJHvJlVadHLQdks7OUbc5gGHDkujvbIMG4PaorPde9zCC7GYnKhprgeBvyTJ_HpUN37DYLCPnYoJLIahHbEUG__MsRj9P1shpUfCaNDOVg4_4TBN2ulojDqZS95wCbkxpDCCzkbpVnL9UDyFaTGBcEpjNvTepXrQbvKufhO_03TwEqD0AX-sEdkkwVlU/s1560/7xm.xyz340504.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1000" data-original-width="1560" height="256" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEilJHvJlVadHLQdks7OUbc5gGHDkujvbIMG4PaorPde9zCC7GYnKhprgeBvyTJ_HpUN37DYLCPnYoJLIahHbEUG__MsRj9P1shpUfCaNDOVg4_4TBN2ulojDqZS95wCbkxpDCCzkbpVnL9UDyFaTGBcEpjNvTepXrQbvKufhO_03TwEqD0AX-sEdkkwVlU/w400-h256/7xm.xyz340504.jpg" width="400" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: Oxygen;"><br />Stella Zhang, who graduated from one of China’s most prestigious universities in Beijing last year, said her long-held belief that “good education leads to a bright future” had been shattered by the reality of the job market.</span><p></p><p class="e15kmbpe0 css-1c6uqr6 e1346ty31" data-qa="Component-Component" datatype="p" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin-block: 0px 20px; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen;">“Now I’ve shed all idealistic expectations for work, such as being a platform for self-fulfillment. A job is simply a way for me to lead a stable life,” said the 24-year-old, who was unemployed for over six months after graduating.</span></p></section><section class=" e1oct4f96 css-1myfomw e1n4d2ln0" data-qa="ContentBody-ContentBodyContainer" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="e15kmbpe0 css-1xdhyk6 e1346ty30" data-qa="Component-Component" datatype="p" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin-block-end: 20px; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: anywhere; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen;">Zhang is among the countless young Chinese jobseekers grappling with disillusionment within the grim employment market, where the adjusted youth unemployment rate for the 16-24 age group excluding students reached 15.3 percent in February, up from <span class="css-0 e1qbu6wp0" data-qa="Component-Text" style="border-block-end: 1px solid rgb(27, 142, 248); border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word;">14.6 percent in January.</span></span></div><div class="scmp-code-block methode-html-wrapper e1kkz63z0 css-1llrc1m ecv2zmr0" data-qa="Component-renderMap-StyledDiv" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin-block: 12px 32px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word;"><div class="css-11e67hp e1xwtlg81" data-qa="Component-Container" style="aspect-ratio: 1.5 / 1; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;"><iframe aria-label="Interactive line chart" class="egjo8d0 ewvphk0 css-126ir1i e1xwtlg80" data-external="1" data-qa="Component-StyledIframe" height="400" id="datawrapper-chart-HTVaQ" name="datawrapper-chart-HTVaQ" scrolling="no" src="https://datawrapper.dwcdn.net/HTVaQ/28/" style="border-style: initial; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: absolute; transform-origin: left top; transform: scale(1.09891); vertical-align: baseline;" title="China's youth unemployment rate (16-24)" width="600"></iframe></div></div><p class="e15kmbpe0 css-1c6uqr6 e1346ty31" data-qa="Component-Component" datatype="p" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin-block: 0px 20px; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen;">While the government has been rolling out rounds of supportive measures to bolster the employment that is deemed key to maintaining social stability and boosting consumption confidence, China is still faced with growing unemployment pressure amid a set of economic headwinds.</span></p><div class="js-reading-20-percent-completion-tracker css-19icq8a e1gsc5vp0" data-qa="useTrackViewedPercentageRender-trackViewedPercentageRenders-TrackPercentageBlock" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding-block-start: 1px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><div class="e15kmbpe0 css-1xdhyk6 e1346ty30" data-qa="Component-Component" datatype="p" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin-block-end: 20px; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: anywhere; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen;">The ongoing downturn in the property market, slumping investment, and the chronic <span class="css-0 e1qbu6wp0" data-qa="Component-Text" style="border-block-end: 1px solid rgb(27, 142, 248); border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word;">payment arrears plaguing the private firms</span> that have driven the biggest creator of jobs to downsize their workforce are all weighing on the world’s second-largest economy.</span></div><p class="e15kmbpe0 css-1c6uqr6 e1346ty31" data-qa="Component-Component" datatype="p" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin-block: 0px 20px; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen;">“There are weaknesses in ensuring people’s livelihoods, with great pressure to stabilize employment,” the National Development and Reform Commission said in this year’s work plan released during the “two sessions” parliamentary meetings earlier this month.</span></p><p class="e15kmbpe0 css-1c6uqr6 e1346ty31" data-qa="Component-Component" datatype="p" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin-block: 0px 20px; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen;">“While some people are struggling to find jobs, some positions are also facing increased difficulty in recruitment.”</span></p><figure class="css-1yuz473 exv1azg4" data-qa="Component-StyledFigure" style="-webkit-box-pack: start; align-items: flex-start; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: flex; flex-flow: column; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: 900; justify-content: flex-start; line-height: 31px; margin-block: 12px 32px; margin-inline: auto; margin: 0px; max-inline-size: 576px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><svg class="css-0 exv1azg5" data-qa="Component-StyledQuoteIcon" height="45" viewbox="0 0 68 45" width="68" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"></svg><span style="font-family: Oxygen;"><path d="M30 30l-7.5 7.5L15 45V30H0V0h30v30zm38 0l-7.5 7.5L53 45V30H38V0h30v30z" fill-rule="evenodd" fill="#001246"></path></span><blockquote class="css-ehz5s0 exv1azg3" data-qa="Component-StyledBlockquote" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; 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font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin-block: 0px 20px; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen;">The top economic planner also highlighted a notable growth in the workforce and some structural adjustments, such as rural labor migration, were leading to an even larger demand for job creation.</span></p><p class="e15kmbpe0 css-1c6uqr6 e1346ty31" data-qa="Component-Component" datatype="p" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin-block: 0px 20px; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen;">This pushed the government to raise its target to create more than 12 million new jobs in urban areas this year, having said it created 12.44 million last year.</span></p><div class="js-reading-50-percent-completion-tracker css-19icq8a e1gsc5vp0" data-qa="useTrackViewedPercentageRender-trackViewedPercentageRenders-TrackPercentageBlock" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding-block-start: 1px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><div class="e15kmbpe0 css-1xdhyk6 e1346ty30" data-qa="Component-Component" datatype="p" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin-block-end: 20px; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: anywhere; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen;">But a record <span class="css-0 e1qbu6wp0" data-qa="Component-Text" style="border-block-end: 1px solid rgb(27, 142, 248); border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word;">11.79 million university students</span> are set to graduate this year, which is expected to compound the employment woes.</span></div><p class="e15kmbpe0 css-1c6uqr6 e1346ty31" data-qa="Component-Component" datatype="p" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin-block: 0px 20px; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen;">“Employers are looking for fresh graduates with both good academic background and sufficient work experience,” said Zhang, who admitted she regretted focusing too much on academics instead of making time for internships.</span></p><p class="e15kmbpe0 css-1c6uqr6 e1346ty31" data-qa="Component-Component" datatype="p" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin-block: 0px 20px; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen;">“But why should those who have just started university be pressured to have a clear career path already? Why should we bear the burden from the macro environment?”</span></p><figure class="css-1yuz473 exv1azg4" data-qa="Component-StyledFigure" style="-webkit-box-pack: start; align-items: flex-start; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: flex; flex-flow: column; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: 900; justify-content: flex-start; line-height: 31px; margin-block: 12px 32px; margin-inline: auto; margin: 0px; max-inline-size: 576px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><svg class="css-0 exv1azg5" data-qa="Component-StyledQuoteIcon" height="45" viewbox="0 0 68 45" width="68" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"></svg><span style="font-family: Oxygen;"><path d="M30 30l-7.5 7.5L15 45V30H0V0h30v30zm38 0l-7.5 7.5L53 45V30H38V0h30v30z" fill-rule="evenodd" fill="#001246"></path></span><blockquote class="css-ehz5s0 exv1azg3" data-qa="Component-StyledBlockquote" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin-block-start: 12px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; quotes: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen;">Between idealism and reality, the priority for us is to survive</span></blockquote><figcaption class="css-118so8m exv1azg2" data-qa="Component-StyledFigcaption" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #999999; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen;">Ding Lin, jobseeker</span></figcaption><footer class="css-chhyau exv1azg1" data-qa="Component-StyledFooter" style="border-block-start: 4px solid rgb(0, 18, 70); border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin-block-start: 12px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="exv1azg0 css-le0xz7 eizhbml1" data-qa="ContentShareWidget-Container" style="-webkit-box-align: center; -webkit-box-pack: start; align-items: center; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: flex; flex-flow: row; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; justify-content: flex-start; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div></footer></figure><p class="e15kmbpe0 css-1c6uqr6 e1346ty31" data-qa="Component-Component" datatype="p" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin-block: 0px 20px; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen;">As fresh graduates like Zhang are undergoing the pains of rejection due to lack of experience, seasoned jobseekers have also found the worsening job market is failing to meet their expectations.</span></p><p class="e15kmbpe0 css-1c6uqr6 e1346ty31" data-qa="Component-Component" datatype="p" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin-block: 0px 20px; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen;">“My bachelor’s degree no longer cuts [it in the job market]. Most large platforms now require candidates with a master’s degree from a reputable university,” said 29-year-old jobseeker Ding Lin from Hunan province, who lost her previous job in the real estate sector nine months ago during a large-scale round of lay-offs.</span></p><p class="e15kmbpe0 css-1c6uqr6 e1346ty31" data-qa="Component-Component" datatype="p" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin-block: 0px 20px; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen;">Ding said she had only received five responses from over 500 job applications, among which two rejected her at the final stage because of her age.</span></p><p class="e15kmbpe0 css-1c6uqr6 e1346ty31" data-qa="Component-Component" datatype="p" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin-block: 0px 20px; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen;">“The job offer I’ve got at the moment even pays less than my first job, but I still want to find a job as soon as possible,” she said.</span></p><p class="e15kmbpe0 css-1c6uqr6 e1346ty31" data-qa="Component-Component" datatype="p" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin-block: 0px 20px; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen;">“My gap without work is so long that it’s causing huge anxiety for me. Many people of my age are facing mortgage pressure, so between idealism and reality, the priority for us is to survive.”</span></p><p class="e15kmbpe0 css-1c6uqr6 e1346ty31" data-qa="Component-Component" datatype="p" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin-block: 0px 20px; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen;">The jobless rate for the 25-29 age group stood at 6.4 percent in February, up slightly from 6.2 percent in January.</span></p><div class="methode-html-wrapper oembed-wrapper e1kkz63z0 css-1llrc1m ecv2zmr0" data-qa="Component-renderMap-StyledDiv" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; 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font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen;">China’s young abandon consumerism in favour of fulfilling experiences</span></div></div></div></div><p class="e15kmbpe0 css-1c6uqr6 e1346ty31" data-qa="Component-Component" datatype="p" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin-block: 0px 20px; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen;">Vice-minister Liao Min said last week that the Ministry of Finance would lead government-backed financing institutions to favor labor-intensive enterprises to address the employment challenges.</span></p><p class="e15kmbpe0 css-1c6uqr6 e1346ty31" data-qa="Component-Component" datatype="p" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin-block: 0px 20px; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen;">“We anticipate leveraging an additional 1.3 trillion yuan (US$180 billion) in loans by 2024, stabilizing over 12 million positions and driving the creation of over 600,000 new jobs,” Liao said.</span></p><p class="e15kmbpe0 css-1c6uqr6 e1346ty31" data-qa="Component-Component" datatype="p" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin-block: 0px 20px; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen;">He added the government would provide entrepreneurship subsidies to university graduates or those with employment difficulties who first start small businesses to unleash entrepreneurship-driven employment.</span></p><p class="e15kmbpe0 css-1c6uqr6 e1346ty31" data-qa="Component-Component" datatype="p" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin-block: 0px 20px; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen;">But while the government is trying to ease the pressure on employment, young jobseekers are also struggling to find their way out.</span></p><p class="e15kmbpe0 css-1c6uqr6 e1346ty31" data-qa="Component-Component" datatype="p" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin-block: 0px 20px; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen;">Maxie Wu, a 28-year-old programmer in Shenzhen, resigned from his job last month due to its grueling work schedule, only to find fewer job opportunities available and a pay cut of around 30 percent</span></p><figure class="css-1yuz473 exv1azg4" data-qa="Component-StyledFigure" style="-webkit-box-pack: start; align-items: flex-start; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: flex; flex-flow: column; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: 900; justify-content: flex-start; line-height: 31px; margin-block: 12px 32px; margin-inline: auto; margin: 0px; max-inline-size: 576px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><svg class="css-0 exv1azg5" data-qa="Component-StyledQuoteIcon" height="45" viewbox="0 0 68 45" width="68" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"></svg><span style="font-family: Oxygen;"><path d="M30 30l-7.5 7.5L15 45V30H0V0h30v30zm38 0l-7.5 7.5L53 45V30H38V0h30v30z" fill-rule="evenodd" fill="#001246"></path></span><blockquote class="css-ehz5s0 exv1azg3" data-qa="Component-StyledBlockquote" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin-block-start: 12px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; quotes: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen;">This kind of disappointment with the job market is a blow to people at any stage</span></blockquote><figcaption class="css-118so8m exv1azg2" data-qa="Component-StyledFigcaption" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #999999; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen;">Maxie Wu, an unemployed programmer</span></figcaption><footer class="css-chhyau exv1azg1" data-qa="Component-StyledFooter" style="border-block-start: 4px solid rgb(0, 18, 70); border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin-block-start: 12px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="exv1azg0 css-le0xz7 eizhbml1" data-qa="ContentShareWidget-Container" style="-webkit-box-align: center; -webkit-box-pack: start; 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Some feel the affirmative action ruling leaves them no choice<p><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;"> <span style="background-color: white;"> </span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjspJHno43Ks5kT94TNwUcJi5KccMMvrdB0Pgn1FM7D0tjhmxSJ4cSqIeN-hvFEDxEwnp4aVvbooUFTj4TvVD2VfhyphenhyphenuyokGHlVPYYLq69wjMJcvrTVYPgKVZNShORIGpcMXP2IRnEcGfSHGlKh5nx2BEdbS1mmj2WdW-lirWK0WwAxpxFIQxjmzSAYRlZc/s2880/download%20(11).webp" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2880" data-original-width="2304" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjspJHno43Ks5kT94TNwUcJi5KccMMvrdB0Pgn1FM7D0tjhmxSJ4cSqIeN-hvFEDxEwnp4aVvbooUFTj4TvVD2VfhyphenhyphenuyokGHlVPYYLq69wjMJcvrTVYPgKVZNShORIGpcMXP2IRnEcGfSHGlKh5nx2BEdbS1mmj2WdW-lirWK0WwAxpxFIQxjmzSAYRlZc/w512-h640/download%20(11).webp" width="512" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;"><br /><span style="background-color: white;">(AP) — When she started writing her college essay, Hillary Amofa told the story she thought admissions offices wanted to hear. About being the daughter of immigrants from Ghana and growing up in a small apartment in Chicago. About hardship and struggle.</span></span><p></p><p style="background-color: white; background-repeat: no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 1.55; margin: 20px 0px;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;">Then she deleted it all.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; background-repeat: no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 1.55; margin: 20px 0px;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;">“I would just find myself kind of trauma-dumping,” said the 18-year-old senior at Lincoln Park High School in Chicago. “And I’m just like, this doesn’t really say anything about me as a person.”</span></p><p style="background-color: white; background-repeat: no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 1.55; margin: 20px 0px;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;">When the Supreme Court <span class="LinkEnhancement" style="background-repeat: no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: calc(1em + 4px);"><a class="Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement" data-gtm-enhancement-style="LinkEnhancementA" href="https://apnews.com/article/supreme-court-affirmative-action-diversity-5551cdb2b7206cd9112433e858be4d59" previewlistener="true" style="background-color: transparent; background-repeat: no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: calc(1em + 4px); touch-action: manipulation;">ended affirmative action</a></span> in higher education, it left the college essay as one of few places where race can play a role in admissions decisions. For many students of color, instantly more was riding on the already high-stakes writing assignment. Some say they felt pressure to exploit their hardships as they competed for a spot on campus.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; background-repeat: no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 1.55; margin: 20px 0px;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;">Amofa was just starting to think about her essay when the court issued its decision, and it left her with a wave of questions. Could she still write about her race? Could she be penalized for it? 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The Supreme Court upheld the practice in decisions going back to the 1970s, but this court’s conservative supermajority <span class="LinkEnhancement" style="background-repeat: no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: calc(1em + 4px);"><a class="Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement" data-gtm-enhancement-style="LinkEnhancementA" href="https://apnews.com/article/supreme-court-affirmative-action-college-race-f83d6318017ec9b9029b12ee2256e744" previewlistener="true" style="background-color: transparent; background-repeat: no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: calc(1em + 4px); touch-action: manipulation;">found it is unconstitutional</a></span> for colleges to give students extra weight because of their race alone.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; background-repeat: no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 1.55; margin: 20px 0px;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;">Still, the decision left room for race to play an indirect role: Chief Justice John Roberts wrote universities can still consider how an applicant’s life was shaped by their race, “so long as that discussion is concretely tied to a quality of character or unique ability.”</span></p><p style="background-color: white; background-repeat: no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 1.55; margin: 20px 0px;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;">“A benefit to a student who overcame racial discrimination, for example, must be tied to that student’s courage and determination,” he wrote.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; background-repeat: no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 1.55; margin: 20px 0px;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;">Scores of colleges responded with new essay prompts asking about students’ backgrounds. 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His first instinct was to write about events that led to him going to live with his grandmother as a child.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; background-repeat: no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 1.55; margin: 20px 0px;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;">Those were painful memories, but he thought they might play well at schools like Yale, Stanford and Vanderbilt.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; background-repeat: no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 1.55; margin: 20px 0px;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;">“I feel like the admissions committee might expect a sob story or a tragic story,” said Merritt, a senior in Cleveland. “And if you don’t provide that, then maybe they’re not going to feel like you went through enough to deserve having a spot at the university. I wrestled with that a lot.”</span></p><p style="background-color: white; background-repeat: no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 1.55; margin: 20px 0px;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;">He wrote drafts focusing on his childhood, but it never amounted to more than a collection of memories. Eventually, he abandoned the idea and aimed for an essay that would stand out for its positivity.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; background-repeat: no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 1.55; margin: 20px 0px;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;">Merritt wrote about a summer camp where he started to feel more comfortable in his own skin. He described embracing his personality and defying his tendency to please others. The essay had humor — it centered on a water gun fight where he had victory in sight but, in a comedic twist, slipped and fell. But the essay also reflects on his feelings of not being “Black enough” and getting made fun of for listening to “white people's music.”</span></p><p style="background-color: white; background-repeat: no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 1.55; margin: 20px 0px;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;">“I was like, ‘OK, I’m going to write this for me, and we’re just going to see how it goes,’” he said. “It just felt real, and it felt like an honest story.”</span></p><p style="background-color: white; background-repeat: no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 1.55; margin: 20px 0px;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;">The essay describes a breakthrough as he learned “to take ownership of myself and my future by sharing my true personality with the people I encounter. ... I realized that the first chapter of my own story had just been written.”</span></p><div class="Enhancement" data-align-fullwidth="" style="align-items: center; background-color: white; background-repeat: no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; display: flex; flex-direction: column; justify-content: center; line-height: calc(1em + 4px); margin: 40px 0px; width: 720px;"><div class="Enhancement-item" style="background-repeat: no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; display: flex; justify-content: center; line-height: calc(1em + 4px); width: 720px;"><div class="ImageEnhancement" style="background-repeat: no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: calc(1em + 4px); min-width: calc(-80px + 100vw);"><figure class="Figure" style="background-repeat: no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: calc(1em + 4px); margin: 0px;"><a class="AnchorLink" id="image-ed0000" name="image-ed0000" style="background-color: transparent; background-repeat: no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--color-link-text); 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(AP Photo/Amanda Loman)</span></p></figcaption></bsp-read-more></div></div></figure></div></div></div><h2 style="background-color: white; background-repeat: no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; font-stretch: normal; line-height: calc(1em + 4px); margin: 0px; padding-top: 25px;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;">A RULING PROMPTS PIVOTS ON ESSAY TOPICS</span></h2><p style="background-color: white; background-repeat: no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 1.55; margin: 20px 0px;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;">Like many students, Max Decker of Portland, Oregon, had drafted a college essay on one topic, only to change direction after the Supreme Court ruling in June.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; background-repeat: no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 1.55; margin: 20px 0px;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;">Decker initially wrote about his love for video games. In a childhood surrounded by constant change, navigating his parents’ divorce, the games he took from place to place on his Nintendo DS were a source of comfort.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; background-repeat: no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 1.55; margin: 20px 0px;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;">But the essay he submitted to colleges focused on the community he found through Word is Bond, a leadership group for young Black men in Portland.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; background-repeat: no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 1.55; margin: 20px 0px;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;">As the only <span class="LinkEnhancement" style="background-repeat: no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: calc(1em + 4px);"><a class="Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement" data-gtm-enhancement-style="LinkEnhancementA" href="https://apnews.com/article/jewish-summer-camp-diversity-race-black-125bf76a5584890e981aa6ecb9d01e80" previewlistener="true" style="background-color: transparent; background-repeat: no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: calc(1em + 4px); touch-action: manipulation;">biracial, Jewish kid</a></span> with divorced parents in a predominantly white, Christian community, Decker wrote he constantly felt like the odd one out. On a trip with Word is Bond to Capitol Hill, he and friends who looked just like him shook hands with lawmakers. The experience, he wrote, changed how he saw himself.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; background-repeat: no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 1.55; margin: 20px 0px;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;">“It’s because I’m different that I provide something precious to the world, not the other way around,” he wrote.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; background-repeat: no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 1.55; margin: 20px 0px;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;">As a first-generation college student, Decker thought about the subtle ways his peers seemed to know more about <span class="LinkEnhancement" style="background-repeat: no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: calc(1em + 4px);"><a class="Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement" data-gtm-enhancement-style="LinkEnhancementA" href="https://apnews.com/article/supreme-court-affirmative-action-legacy-college-admissions-5d6f34a13045752c6a37db67c66c7d63" previewlistener="true" style="background-color: transparent; background-repeat: no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: calc(1em + 4px); touch-action: manipulation;">navigating the admissions process</a></span>. They made sure to get into advanced classes at the start of high school, and they knew how to secure glowing letters of recommendation.</span></p><div class="HTMLModuleEnhancement" data-align-center="" style="--marginforextraspace: -20px; align-items: center; background-color: white; background-repeat: no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; display: flex; flex-direction: column; justify-content: center; line-height: calc(1em + 4px); margin: 40px 0px;"><div class="HTMLModuleEnhancement-item" style="background-repeat: no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; display: flex; justify-content: center; line-height: calc(1em + 4px); width: 720px;"><div class="HTMLModuleEnhancement-embed" style="--color-video-bg: #fff; background-repeat: no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: calc(1em + 4px); min-width: calc(100% + 80px);"><div class="HtmlModule" data-gtm-topic="No Value" data-main-module-number="2" data-module-number="2" data-module-tracksubscribe="" style="background-repeat: no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: calc(1em + 4px);"><a class="AnchorLink" id="html-embed-module-0c0000" name="html-embed-module-0c0000" style="background-color: transparent; background-repeat: no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--color-link-text); display: block; height: 0px; line-height: calc(1em + 4px); pointer-events: none; position: absolute; scroll-margin-top: calc(var(--headerHeight) + var(--hatHeight) + 20px); touch-action: manipulation; visibility: hidden;"></a><div style="background-repeat: no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: calc(1em + 4px); overflow: hidden; padding-bottom: 450px; position: relative;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="100%" scrolling="auto" src="https://cdn.jwplayer.com/players/vS6difLy-z20Lgbcs.html" style="background-repeat: no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: calc(1em + 4px); position: absolute; vertical-align: middle; width: 800px;" title="Max Essay - Produced" width="100%"></iframe></div><p class="embed-caption" style="background-repeat: no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--color-primary-text); font-stretch: semi-condensed; line-height: calc(1em + 4px);"><i style="background-repeat: no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: calc(1em + 4px);"><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;">Max Decker reads his college essay on his experience with a leadership group for young Black men. (AP Video/Noreen Nasir)</span></i></p></div></div></div></div><p style="background-color: white; background-repeat: no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 1.55; margin: 20px 0px;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;">If writing about race would give him a slight edge and show admissions officers a fuller picture of his achievements, he wanted to take that small advantage.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; background-repeat: no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 1.55; margin: 20px 0px;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;">His first memory about race, Decker said, was when he went to get a haircut in elementary school and the barber made rude comments about his curly hair. Until recently, the insecurity that moment created led him to keep his hair buzzed short.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; background-repeat: no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 1.55; margin: 20px 0px;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;">Through Word is Bond, Decker said he found a space to explore his identity as a Black man. It was one of the first times he was surrounded by Black peers and saw Black role models. It filled him with a sense of pride in his identity. No more buzzcut.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; background-repeat: no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 1.55; margin: 20px 0px;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;">The pressure to write about race involved a tradeoff with other important things in his life, Decker said. That included his passion for journalism, like the piece he wrote on efforts to revive a once-thriving Black neighborhood in Portland. In the end, he squeezed in 100 characters about his journalism under the application’s activities section.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; background-repeat: no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 1.55; margin: 20px 0px;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;">“My final essay, it felt true to myself. But the difference between that and my other essay was the fact that it wasn’t the truth that I necessarily wanted to share,” said Decker, whose top college choice is Tulane, in New Orleans, because of the region’s diversity. “It felt like I just had to limit the truth I was sharing to what I feel like the world is expecting of me.”</span></p><div class="Enhancement" data-align-fullwidth="" style="align-items: center; background-color: white; background-repeat: no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; display: flex; flex-direction: column; justify-content: center; line-height: calc(1em + 4px); margin: 40px 0px; width: 720px;"><div class="Enhancement-item" style="background-repeat: no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; display: flex; justify-content: center; line-height: calc(1em + 4px); width: 720px;"><div class="ImageEnhancement" style="background-repeat: no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: calc(1em + 4px); min-width: calc(-80px + 100vw);"><figure class="Figure" style="background-repeat: no-repeat; 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(AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)</span></p></figcaption></bsp-read-more></div></div></figure></div></div></div><h2 style="background-color: white; background-repeat: no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; font-stretch: normal; line-height: calc(1em + 4px); margin: 0px; padding-top: 25px;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;">SPELLING OUT THE IMPACT OF RACE</span></h2><p style="background-color: white; background-repeat: no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 1.55; margin: 20px 0px;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;">Before the Supreme Court ruling, it seemed a given to Imani Laird that colleges would consider the ways that race had touched her life. But now, she felt like she had to spell it out.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; background-repeat: no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 1.55; margin: 20px 0px;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;">As she started her essay, she reflected on how she had <span class="LinkEnhancement" style="background-repeat: no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: calc(1em + 4px);"><a class="Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement" data-gtm-enhancement-style="LinkEnhancementA" href="https://apnews.com/article/lgbtq-race-ban-schools-4c4df1728f5265eee3684268035570c2" previewlistener="true" style="background-color: transparent; background-repeat: no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: calc(1em + 4px); touch-action: manipulation;">faced bias</a></span> or felt overlooked as a Black student in predominantly white spaces.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; background-repeat: no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 1.55; margin: 20px 0px;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;">There was a year in math class when the teacher kept calling her by the name of another Black student. There were comments that she’d have an easier time getting into college <span class="LinkEnhancement" style="background-repeat: no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: calc(1em + 4px);"><a class="Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement" data-gtm-enhancement-style="LinkEnhancementA" href="https://apnews.com/article/supreme-court-student-loans-affirmative-action-1d6f123e7a9b6d756bd8235be9522a3b" previewlistener="true" style="background-color: transparent; background-repeat: no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: calc(1em + 4px); touch-action: manipulation;">because she was Black</a></span>.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; background-repeat: no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 1.55; margin: 20px 0px;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;">“I didn’t have it easier because of my race,” said Laird, a senior at Newton South High School in the Boston suburbs who was accepted at Wellesley and Howard University, and is waiting to hear from several Ivy League colleges. “I had stuff I had to overcome.”</span></p><p style="background-color: white; background-repeat: no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 1.55; margin: 20px 0px;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;">In her final essay, she wrote about her grandfather, who served in the military but was denied access to GI Bill benefits because of his race.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; background-repeat: no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 1.55; margin: 20px 0px;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;">She described how discrimination fueled her ambition to excel and pursue a career in public policy.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; background-repeat: no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 1.55; margin: 20px 0px;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;">“So, I never settled for mediocrity,” she wrote. “Regardless of the subject, my goal in class was not just to participate but to excel. 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When she started writing her college essay, Amofa told the story she thought admissions offices wanted to hear. She wrote about being the daughter of immigrants from Ghana, about growing up in a small apartment in Chicago. She described hardship and struggle. Then she deleted it all. "I would just find myself kind of trauma-dumping," said the 18 year-old senior, "And I'm just like, this doesn't really say anything about me as a person." 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(AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)</span></p></figcaption></bsp-read-more></div></div></figure></div></div></div><h2 style="background-color: white; background-repeat: no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; font-stretch: normal; line-height: calc(1em + 4px); margin: 0px; padding-top: 25px;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;">WILL SCHOOLS LOSE RACIAL DIVERSITY?</span></h2><p style="background-color: white; background-repeat: no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 1.55; margin: 20px 0px;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;">Amofa used to think <span class="LinkEnhancement" style="background-repeat: no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: calc(1em + 4px);"><a class="Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement" data-gtm-enhancement-style="LinkEnhancementA" href="https://apnews.com/article/college-admissions-affirmative-action-race-0ec3f355ea77828d9a7aa07fa1b2ebde" previewlistener="true" style="background-color: transparent; background-repeat: no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: calc(1em + 4px); touch-action: manipulation;">affirmative action was only a factor</a></span> at schools like Harvard and Yale. After the court’s ruling, she was surprised to find that race was taken into account even at some public universities she was applying to.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; background-repeat: no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 1.55; margin: 20px 0px;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;">Now, without affirmative action, she wondered if mostly white schools will become even whiter.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; background-repeat: no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 1.55; margin: 20px 0px;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;">It’s been on her mind as she chooses between Indiana University and the University of Dayton, both of which have relatively few Black students. When she was one of the only Black students in her grade school, she could fall back on her family and Ghanaian friends at church. At college, she worries about loneliness.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; background-repeat: no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 1.55; margin: 20px 0px;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;">“That’s what I’m nervous about,” she said. “Going and just feeling so isolated, even though I’m constantly around people.”</span></p><div class="HTMLModuleEnhancement" data-align-center="" style="--marginforextraspace: -20px; align-items: center; background-color: white; background-repeat: no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; display: flex; flex-direction: column; justify-content: center; line-height: calc(1em + 4px); margin: 40px 0px;"><div class="HTMLModuleEnhancement-item" style="background-repeat: no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; display: flex; justify-content: center; line-height: calc(1em + 4px); width: 720px;"><div class="HTMLModuleEnhancement-embed" style="--color-video-bg: #fff; background-repeat: no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: calc(1em + 4px); min-width: calc(100% + 80px);"><div class="HtmlModule" data-gtm-topic="No Value" data-main-module-number="3" data-module-number="3" data-module-tracksubscribe="" style="background-repeat: no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: calc(1em + 4px);"><a class="AnchorLink" id="html-embed-module-5a0000" name="html-embed-module-5a0000" style="background-color: transparent; background-repeat: no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--color-link-text); display: block; height: 0px; line-height: calc(1em + 4px); pointer-events: none; position: absolute; scroll-margin-top: calc(var(--headerHeight) + var(--hatHeight) + 20px); touch-action: manipulation; visibility: hidden;"></a><div style="background-repeat: no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: calc(1em + 4px); overflow: hidden; padding-bottom: 450px; position: relative;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="100%" scrolling="auto" src="https://cdn.jwplayer.com/players/fSpJMs2Q-z20Lgbcs.html" style="background-repeat: no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: calc(1em + 4px); position: absolute; vertical-align: middle; width: 800px;" title="Hillary Essay - Produced (1)" width="100%"></iframe></div><p class="embed-caption" style="background-repeat: no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--color-primary-text); font-stretch: semi-condensed; line-height: calc(1em + 4px);"><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;">Hillary Amofa reads her college essay on embracing her natural hair.(AP Video/Noreen Nasir)</span></p></div></div></div></div><p style="background-color: white; background-repeat: no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 1.55; margin: 20px 0px;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;">The first drafts of her essay focused on growing up in a low-income family, sharing a bedroom with her brother and grandmother. But it didn’t tell colleges about who she is now, she said.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; background-repeat: no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 1.55; margin: 20px 0px;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;">Her final essay tells how she came to embrace her <span class="LinkEnhancement" style="background-repeat: no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: calc(1em + 4px);"><a class="Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement" data-gtm-enhancement-style="LinkEnhancementA" href="https://apnews.com/article/hair-school-dress-codes-c70448fd65670eed79ca902e30834b41" previewlistener="true" style="background-color: transparent; background-repeat: no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: calc(1em + 4px); touch-action: manipulation;">natural hair</a></span>. She wrote about going to a mostly white grade school where classmates made jokes about her afro. When her grandmother sent her back with braids or cornrows, they made fun of those too.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; background-repeat: no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 1.55; margin: 20px 0px;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;">Over time, she ignored their insults and found beauty in the styles worn by women in her life. She now runs a business doing braids and other hairstyles in her neighborhood.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; background-repeat: no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 1.55; margin: 20px 0px;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;">“I stopped seeing myself through the lens of the European traditional beauty standards and started seeing myself through the lens that I created,” Amofa wrote.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; background-repeat: no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 1.55; margin: 20px 0px;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;">“Criticism will persist, but it loses its power when you know there’s a crown on your head!”</span></p><h2 style="background-color: white; background-repeat: no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; font-stretch: normal; line-height: calc(1em + 4px); margin: 0px; padding-top: 25px;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;">___</span></h2><p style="background-color: white; background-repeat: no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 1.55; margin: 20px 0px;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;">Ma reported from Portland, Oregon.</span></p>Anne Sulzbergerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17091067031029918700noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6744683886539852356.post-85613864640649794962024-03-27T01:27:00.000-07:002024-03-27T01:27:28.056-07:00RFK Jr names wealthy lawyer, 'warrior mom' Shanahan as running mate<iframe width="709" height="399" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/Hb_J7ZiTc0k" title="Robert F. 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<p><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;"> </span></p><p><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #404040;">Independent U.S. presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on Tuesday picked wealthy lawyer Nicole Shanahan as his running mate, offering him the prospect of financial firepower and sought-after connections in the tech industry.</span></span></p><div class="text__text__1FZLe text__dark-grey__3Ml43 text__regular__2N1Xr text__small__1kGq2 body__full_width__ekUdw body__small_body__2vQyf article-body__paragraph__2-BtD" data-testid="paragraph-1" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: #404040; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px 0px 12px; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;">Kennedy, a prominent anti-vaccine activist who is hoping to draw voters frustrated that the <a class="text__text__1FZLe text__inherit-color__3208F text__inherit-font__1Y8w3 text__inherit-size__1DZJi link__link__3Ji6W link__underline_default__2prE_" data-testid="Link" href="https://www.reuters.com/topic/event/us-elections/" previewlistener="true" referrerpolicy="no-referrer-when-downgrade" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-transform: inherit;">Nov. 5 election</a> features a rematch between President Joe Biden and his Republican rival Donald Trump, named Shanahan at a campaign event that included attacks on the pharmaceutical industry and COVID lockdowns.</span></div><div class="article-body__element__2p5pI" style="margin: 24px 0px; width: 708.663px;"></div><div class="text__text__1FZLe text__dark-grey__3Ml43 text__regular__2N1Xr text__small__1kGq2 body__full_width__ekUdw body__small_body__2vQyf article-body__paragraph__2-BtD" data-testid="paragraph-2" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: #404040; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px 0px 12px; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;">With the choice, Kennedy bypassed better-known potential candidates including National Football League star Aaron Rodgers. He told hundreds of supporters that he wanted a running mate who was "athletic," battle-tested, skeptical of regulated industries, and who had empathy with the plight of average Americans.</span></div><div class="text__text__1FZLe text__dark-grey__3Ml43 text__regular__2N1Xr text__small__1kGq2 body__full_width__ekUdw body__small_body__2vQyf article-body__paragraph__2-BtD" data-testid="paragraph-3" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: #404040; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px 0px 12px; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;">"I'm so proud to introduce to you the next vice president of the United States, my fellow lawyer, a brilliant scientist, technologist, a fierce warrior mom, Nicole Shanahan," Kennedy, 70, said at the event in Oakland.</span></div><div class="article-body__element__2p5pI" style="margin: 24px 0px; width: 708.663px;"></div><div class="text__text__1FZLe text__dark-grey__3Ml43 text__regular__2N1Xr text__small__1kGq2 body__full_width__ekUdw body__small_body__2vQyf article-body__paragraph__2-BtD" data-testid="paragraph-4" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: #404040; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px 0px 12px; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;">Shanahan, the ex-wife of Google co-founder Sergey Brin, was introduced via a video that touched on her tough upbringing in Oakland, her father's substance abuse, her success at Stanford University, and the moment when she discovered her young child suffered from autism.</span></div><div class="text__text__1FZLe text__dark-grey__3Ml43 text__regular__2N1Xr text__small__1kGq2 body__full_width__ekUdw body__small_body__2vQyf article-body__paragraph__2-BtD" data-testid="paragraph-5" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: #404040; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px 0px 12px; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;">Shanahan said she was drawn to Kennedy in part because of their shared commitments to health. "There is no other candidate for president who takes the chronic disease epidemic as seriously as Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and I will be his ally in making our nation healthy again," she said.</span></div><div class="article-body__element__2p5pI" style="margin: 24px 0px; width: 708.663px;"></div><div class="text__text__1FZLe text__dark-grey__3Ml43 text__regular__2N1Xr text__small__1kGq2 body__full_width__ekUdw body__small_body__2vQyf article-body__paragraph__2-BtD" data-testid="paragraph-6" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: #404040; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px 0px 12px; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;">She said she blames environmental causes for America's poor health, citing pollution in waterways, electromagnetic waves in cell phones, and "poisons" in America's food supply chain and medicines.</span></div><div class="text__text__1FZLe text__dark-grey__3Ml43 text__regular__2N1Xr text__small__1kGq2 body__full_width__ekUdw body__small_body__2vQyf article-body__paragraph__2-BtD" data-testid="paragraph-7" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: #404040; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px 0px 12px; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;">Kennedy is backed by 15% of registered voters, versus 39% for Biden and 38% for Trump, according to a recent Reuters/Ipsos poll. The Democratic National Committee and many political strategists say Kennedy's campaign could be a "spoiler" in the 2024 election that would help elect Trump.</span></div><div class="article-body__element__2p5pI" style="margin: 24px 0px; width: 708.663px;"></div><div class="text__text__1FZLe text__dark-grey__3Ml43 text__regular__2N1Xr text__small__1kGq2 body__full_width__ekUdw body__small_body__2vQyf article-body__paragraph__2-BtD" data-testid="paragraph-8" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: #404040; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px 0px 12px; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;">"Our campaign is a spoiler. I agree with that," Kennedy said Tuesday. "It's a spoiler for President Biden and for President Trump. It's a spoiler for the war machine," Kennedy said.</span></div><h2 class="text__text__1FZLe text__dark-grey__3Ml43 text__medium__1kbOh text__heading_6__1qUJ5 heading__base__2T28j heading__heading_6__RtD9P article-body__heading__33EIm" data-testid="Heading" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: #404040; font-weight: 500; line-height: 24px; margin: 24px 0px 12px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;">SUPER BOWL AD</span></h2><div class="text__text__1FZLe text__dark-grey__3Ml43 text__regular__2N1Xr text__small__1kGq2 body__full_width__ekUdw body__small_body__2vQyf article-body__paragraph__2-BtD" data-testid="paragraph-9" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: #404040; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px 0px 12px; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;">Shanahan brings little Main Street name recognition to Kennedy's ticket but her deep pockets and activism on reproductive rights could help his campaign build its coffers and generate momentum.</span></div><div class="text__text__1FZLe text__dark-grey__3Ml43 text__regular__2N1Xr text__small__1kGq2 body__full_width__ekUdw body__small_body__2vQyf article-body__paragraph__2-BtD" data-testid="paragraph-10" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: #404040; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px 0px 12px; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;">She is president of the private Bia-Echo Foundation, which invests in reproductive health, including helping women bear children at older ages, criminal justice reform, and environmental issues.</span></div><div class="article-body__element__2p5pI" style="margin: 24px 0px; width: 708.663px;"></div><div class="text__text__1FZLe text__dark-grey__3Ml43 text__regular__2N1Xr text__small__1kGq2 body__full_width__ekUdw body__small_body__2vQyf article-body__paragraph__2-BtD" data-testid="paragraph-11" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: #404040; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px 0px 12px; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;">Shanahan, 38, told the New York Times she was a creative force and financial backer of an ad in this year's Super Bowl, for which Kennedy ended up apologizing to members of his family as it heavily featured his connection to his uncle, former President John F. Kennedy.</span></div><div class="text__text__1FZLe text__dark-grey__3Ml43 text__regular__2N1Xr text__small__1kGq2 body__full_width__ekUdw body__small_body__2vQyf article-body__paragraph__2-BtD" data-testid="paragraph-12" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: #404040; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px 0px 12px; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;">The ad was criticized by Kennedy's cousin, Bobby Shriver, who said the late president and Shriver's mother would be "appalled by his deadly health care views" on vaccines.</span></div><div class="text__text__1FZLe text__dark-grey__3Ml43 text__regular__2N1Xr text__small__1kGq2 body__full_width__ekUdw body__small_body__2vQyf article-body__paragraph__2-BtD" data-testid="paragraph-13" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: #404040; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px 0px 12px; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;">In an indication of her wealth, Shanahan donated $4 million to a pro-RFK Jr super PAC, an outside spending group that has no contribution limits, to help fund that ad, she told the New York Times.</span></div><div class="text__text__1FZLe text__dark-grey__3Ml43 text__regular__2N1Xr text__small__1kGq2 body__full_width__ekUdw body__small_body__2vQyf article-body__paragraph__2-BtD" data-testid="paragraph-14" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: #404040; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px 0px 12px; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;">Shanahan has previously registered as a Democrat and federal campaign finance records show she has been a frequent donor in past election cycles to Democratic candidates, including Hillary Clinton and Pete Buttigieg.</span></div><div class="text__text__1FZLe text__dark-grey__3Ml43 text__regular__2N1Xr text__small__1kGq2 body__full_width__ekUdw body__small_body__2vQyf article-body__paragraph__2-BtD" data-testid="paragraph-15" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: #404040; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px 0px 12px; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;">Groups that supported Biden increased efforts to discredit Kennedy around his Tuesday announcement. Clear Choice PAC Inc., a super PAC, launched a website that highlighted Kennedy shares a donor with Trump in billionaire Timothy Mellon, who has given to both candidates.</span></div><div class="text__text__1FZLe text__dark-grey__3Ml43 text__regular__2N1Xr text__small__1kGq2 body__full_width__ekUdw body__small_body__2vQyf article-body__paragraph__2-BtD" data-testid="paragraph-16" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: #404040; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px 0px 12px; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;">Julian Salas, a 28-year-old guitar repairman who lives in Oakland, was wearing a T-shirt emblazoned with a hand-written Free Palestine slogan. He voted for Jill Stein in 2020 but is keen on Kennedy this year.</span></div><div class="text__text__1FZLe text__dark-grey__3Ml43 text__regular__2N1Xr text__small__1kGq2 body__full_width__ekUdw body__small_body__2vQyf article-body__paragraph__2-BtD" data-testid="paragraph-17" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: #404040; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px 0px 12px; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;">"When I hear him speak he's the only candidate I feel has real authenticity and a desire to serve," said Salas. "I typically vote more Democrat but so much of the party is for things I don't agree with, like vaccine mandates or surveillance."</span></div><h2 class="text__text__1FZLe text__dark-grey__3Ml43 text__medium__1kbOh text__heading_6__1qUJ5 heading__base__2T28j heading__heading_6__RtD9P article-body__heading__33EIm" data-testid="Heading" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: #404040; font-weight: 500; line-height: 24px; margin: 24px 0px 12px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;">KENNEDY'S COUNTDOWN TO THE ELECTION</span></h2><div class="text__text__1FZLe text__dark-grey__3Ml43 text__regular__2N1Xr text__small__1kGq2 body__full_width__ekUdw body__small_body__2vQyf article-body__paragraph__2-BtD" data-testid="paragraph-18" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: #404040; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px 0px 12px; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;">Kennedy's announcement comes as many U.S. states require independent candidates to name their vice presidential nominees before they start the expensive, time-consuming and varied process of getting on state ballots.</span></div><div class="text__text__1FZLe text__dark-grey__3Ml43 text__regular__2N1Xr text__small__1kGq2 body__full_width__ekUdw body__small_body__2vQyf article-body__paragraph__2-BtD" data-testid="paragraph-19" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: #404040; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px 0px 12px; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;">Kennedy has collected the required amount of signatures to get on the ballot in four states, but a petition in Nevada is being contested. No Labels, another independent group this election cycle, is on the ballot in 18 states, though it has not yet announced its ticket.</span></div><div class="text__text__1FZLe text__dark-grey__3Ml43 text__regular__2N1Xr text__small__1kGq2 body__full_width__ekUdw body__small_body__2vQyf article-body__paragraph__2-BtD" data-testid="paragraph-20" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: #404040; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px 0px 12px; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;">Kennedy's campaign has raised over $27 million this election cycle, and American Values 2024, a super PAC that supports Kennedy's candidacy, has raised over $42 million, according to Federal Election Commission data.</span></div><div class="text__text__1FZLe text__dark-grey__3Ml43 text__regular__2N1Xr text__small__1kGq2 body__full_width__ekUdw body__small_body__2vQyf article-body__paragraph__2-BtD" data-testid="paragraph-21" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: #404040; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px 0px 12px; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;">Kennedy's policy proposals include a pledge to make home ownership easier and a crackdown on corporate subsidies, which have helped him gain some traction among voters.</span></div><div><p class="EkqkG nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: var(--articleBody-p-marginBottom-regular,32px); margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: var(--articleBody-body-firstChild-marginTop,auto);"><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;">Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has named Nicole Shanahan as his running mate.</span></p><p class="EkqkG nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: var(--articleBody-p-marginBottom-regular,32px); margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;">Shanahan is a 38-year-old lawyer and tech entrepreneur in the Bay Area.</span></p><div class="oLzSq QrHMO QBoFd pvsTF EhJPu vPlOC zNYgW OsTsW AkFWX daRVX ISNQ sKyCY eRftA acPPc BZygj nFwaT MCnQE mEeeY SmBjI xegrY VvTxJ iulOd NIuqO zzscu lzDCc aHUBM hbvnu OjMNy eQqcx SVqKB GQmdz jaoD iShaE ONJdw vrZxD OnRTz gbbfF roDbV kRoBe oMlSS gfNzt oJhud eXZcf zhVlX " style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; margin-bottom: var(--inlineWrapper-InlineWrapperRegular-marginBottom,32px); margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: var(--inlineWrapper-InlineWrapperRegular-marginTop,32px); width: 475.191px;"><div class="zzkIM UtCfs Ufjyt XQpSH " data-testid="prism-divider" style="--divider-bordercolor: var(--inlineWrapper-dividerColor); --divider-borderwidth: var(--inlineWrapper-borderWidth,1px); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); border-bottom: var(--divider-borderWidth,1px) solid var(--divider-borderColor); box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: var(--inlineWrapper-DividerBottom-marginTop,24px);"></div></div><p class="EkqkG nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: var(--articleBody-p-marginBottom-regular,32px); margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="vtkaO" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: var(--articleBody-strong-fontWeight,600);"><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;">A career focused on public health</span></span></p><p class="EkqkG nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: var(--articleBody-p-marginBottom-regular,32px); margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;">Shanahan, who earned a law degree from Stanford in California, has helped found multiple organizations focused on the health of humans and the planet -- a focus that first drew her to Kennedy last year.</span></p><p class="EkqkG nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: var(--articleBody-p-marginBottom-regular,32px); margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;">"A lot of the work I do with my foundation [Bia-Echo] and my venture fund is around human and planetary health," she recently told ABC News. "If you look at our portfolio, it's kind of all like, how do we fund women's healthy fertility? How do we not just go to these maximalist public health policies that really forget the importance of the individual? So, personalized medicine requires us to understand the nuances of how each individual reacts in its environment."</span></p><div class="oLzSq QrHMO QBoFd pvsTF EhJPu vPlOC zNYgW OsTsW AkFWX daRVX ISNQ sKyCY eRftA acPPc BZygj nFwaT MCnQE mEeeY SmBjI xegrY VvTxJ iulOd NIuqO zzscu lzDCc aHUBM hbvnu OjMNy eQqcx SVqKB GQmdz jaoD iShaE ONJdw vrZxD OnRTz gbbfF roDbV kRoBe oMlSS gfNzt oJhud eXZcf zhVlX " style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; margin-bottom: var(--inlineWrapper-InlineWrapperRegular-marginBottom,32px); margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: var(--inlineWrapper-InlineWrapperRegular-marginTop,32px); width: 475.191px;"></div><p class="EkqkG nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: var(--articleBody-p-marginBottom-regular,32px); margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;">"And I think that no candidate has talked about that more than RFK has," she said. </span></p><p class="EkqkG nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: var(--articleBody-p-marginBottom-regular,32px); margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;">Shanahan married Google co-founder Sergey Brin in 2018. They divorced last summer.</span></p><div class="oLzSq QrHMO fnRUo pvsTF EhJPu vPlOC zNYgW OsTsW RMeqy daRVX ISNQ sKyCY eRftA acPPc MENS nFwaT MCnQE mEeeY SmBjI xegrY rPLsU iulOd NIuqO zzscu lzDCc aHUBM IEgzD OjMNy eQqcx SVqKB GQmdz jaoD VWDdR ONJdw vrZxD OnRTz gbbfF roDbV GPGwb oMlSS gfNzt oJhud eXZcf zhVlX " style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; margin-bottom: var(--inlineWrapper-InlineWrapperRegular-marginBottom,32px); margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: var(--inlineWrapper-InlineWrapperRegular-marginTop,32px); width: 593.993px;"><div style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); box-sizing: border-box;"><div class="InlineImage GpQCA lZur asrEW " data-testid="prism-inline-image" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); box-sizing: border-box; overflow: hidden; position: relative;"><figure class="kzIjN GNmeK pYrtp dSqFO " data-testid="prism-figure" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); 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box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: var(--articleBody-strong-fontWeight,600);">A 'lifelong Democrat'</span> </span></p><p class="EkqkG nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: var(--articleBody-p-marginBottom-regular,32px); margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;">Shanahan told ABC she considers herself a "lifelong Democrat" who was initially disappointed when Kennedy removed himself from the party's primary last fall to run as an independent.</span></p><p class="EkqkG nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: var(--articleBody-p-marginBottom-regular,32px); margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;">"I don't [know] how to support an independent candidate. I've never done it," she recalled thinking.</span></p><div class="oLzSq QrHMO QBoFd pvsTF EhJPu vPlOC zNYgW OsTsW AkFWX daRVX ISNQ sKyCY eRftA acPPc BZygj nFwaT MCnQE mEeeY SmBjI xegrY VvTxJ iulOd NIuqO zzscu lzDCc aHUBM hbvnu OjMNy eQqcx SVqKB GQmdz jaoD iShaE ONJdw vrZxD OnRTz gbbfF roDbV kRoBe oMlSS gfNzt oJhud eXZcf zhVlX " style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; margin-bottom: var(--inlineWrapper-InlineWrapperRegular-marginBottom,32px); margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: var(--inlineWrapper-InlineWrapperRegular-marginTop,32px); width: 475.191px;"></div><p class="EkqkG nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: var(--articleBody-p-marginBottom-regular,32px); margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;">She said she was "concerned for the [Democratic National Committee]," claiming the group has not "been doing a good job" of "fostering their core values" but added she hopes the organization "can turn it around."</span></p><div class="oLzSq QrHMO QBoFd pvsTF EhJPu vPlOC zNYgW OsTsW AkFWX daRVX ISNQ sKyCY eRftA acPPc BZygj nFwaT MCnQE mEeeY SmBjI xegrY VvTxJ iulOd NIuqO zzscu lzDCc aHUBM hbvnu OjMNy eQqcx SVqKB GQmdz jaoD iShaE ONJdw vrZxD OnRTz gbbfF roDbV kRoBe oMlSS gfNzt oJhud eXZcf zhVlX " style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; margin-bottom: var(--inlineWrapper-InlineWrapperRegular-marginBottom,32px); margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: var(--inlineWrapper-InlineWrapperRegular-marginTop,32px); width: 475.191px;"><div style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); box-sizing: border-box;"></div></div><p class="EkqkG nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: var(--articleBody-p-marginBottom-regular,32px); margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;">Shanahan is considering donating to down-ballot Democrats this cycle, she said, singling out Illinois Rep. Lauren Underwood and California Rep. Ro Khanna.</span></p><p class="EkqkG nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: var(--articleBody-p-marginBottom-regular,32px); margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="vtkaO" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: var(--articleBody-strong-fontWeight,600);"><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;">She funded the pro-RFK Jr. Super Bowl ad</span></span></p><p class="EkqkG nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: var(--articleBody-p-marginBottom-regular,32px); margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;">Shanahan bankrolled more than half of the $7 million used to create the ad that ran during this year's Super Bowl -- and angered several members of the Kennedy family, she told ABC News.</span></p><p class="EkqkG nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: var(--articleBody-p-marginBottom-regular,32px); margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;">She said she did so to help prove whether "the campaign was unviable" or "the opposite, that it is very viable."</span></p><div class="oLzSq QrHMO QBoFd pvsTF EhJPu vPlOC zNYgW OsTsW AkFWX daRVX ISNQ sKyCY eRftA acPPc BZygj nFwaT MCnQE mEeeY SmBjI xegrY VvTxJ iulOd NIuqO zzscu lzDCc aHUBM hbvnu OjMNy eQqcx SVqKB GQmdz jaoD iShaE ONJdw vrZxD OnRTz gbbfF roDbV kRoBe oMlSS gfNzt oJhud eXZcf zhVlX " style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; margin-bottom: var(--inlineWrapper-InlineWrapperRegular-marginBottom,32px); margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: var(--inlineWrapper-InlineWrapperRegular-marginTop,32px); width: 475.191px;"></div><p class="EkqkG nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: var(--articleBody-p-marginBottom-regular,32px); margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;">"I think there was a significant shift [in support for Kennedy's campaign] after" the Super Bowl, she said.</span></p><p class="EkqkG nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: var(--articleBody-p-marginBottom-regular,32px); margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="vtkaO" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: var(--articleBody-strong-fontWeight,600);"><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;">Predicted a Kennedy VP would come from someone with a background in health</span></span></p><p class="EkqkG nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: var(--articleBody-p-marginBottom-regular,32px); margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;">In her conversation with ABC News, which took place before any running mate contenders had been reported, Shanahan said she had "no idea" who Kennedy might pick.</span></p><p class="EkqkG nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: var(--articleBody-p-marginBottom-regular,32px); margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;">"I trust his instinct," she said. "I know he cares deeply about health and physically healing people through good public policies. And so, I believe that whoever he picks for VP will come from that background, is my guess."</span></p><p class="EkqkG nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: var(--articleBody-p-marginBottom-regular,32px); margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="vtkaO" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: var(--articleBody-strong-fontWeight,600);"><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;">Kennedy: Would 'absolutely' consider Shanahan if she weren’t wealthy</span></span></p><div class="oLzSq QrHMO QBoFd pvsTF EhJPu vPlOC zNYgW OsTsW AkFWX daRVX ISNQ sKyCY eRftA acPPc BZygj nFwaT MCnQE mEeeY SmBjI xegrY VvTxJ iulOd NIuqO zzscu lzDCc aHUBM hbvnu OjMNy eQqcx SVqKB GQmdz jaoD iShaE ONJdw vrZxD OnRTz gbbfF roDbV kRoBe oMlSS gfNzt oJhud eXZcf zhVlX " style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; margin-bottom: var(--inlineWrapper-InlineWrapperRegular-marginBottom,32px); margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: var(--inlineWrapper-InlineWrapperRegular-marginTop,32px); width: 475.191px;"></div><p class="EkqkG nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: var(--articleBody-p-marginBottom-regular,32px); margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;">Kennedy's consideration of Shanahan as his running mate prompted speculation that he simply wanted to tap her financial resources to help him cover the high cost of ballot access in each state.</span></p><p class="EkqkG nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: var(--articleBody-body-lastChild-marginBottom,0); margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;">In a <a class="zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE " data-testid="prism-linkbase" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4pjRr7CAI8s" previewlistener="true" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: var(--hyperlink-backgroundColor); border-bottom: var(--hyperlink-borderBottom,none); box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; display: var(--hyperlink-display,inline); height: var(--hyperlink-height,auto); outline: 0px; text-decoration: var(--articleBody-p-a-textDecoration,underline); text-underline-offset: var(--hyperlink-textUnderlineOffset,auto); width: var(--hyperlink-width,auto);" target="_blank">March 18 interview</a> with NewsNation's Chris Cuomo, Kennedy rejected the premise, saying: "I would never choose a vice presidential candidate based on how much money that they have."</span></p></div><p class="text__text__1FZLe text__dark-grey__3Ml43 text__regular__2N1Xr text__small__1kGq2 body__base__22dCE body__small_body__2vQyf article-body__promo-box__3bCm_" data-testid="promo-box" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border-left: 2px solid; color: #404040; display: inline-block; font-family: var(--tr-font-regular); line-height: 24px; margin: 12px 0px 24px; max-width: 720px; padding: 0px 12px;"></p><iframe width="709" height="399" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/il1RxIVR4k0" title="Robert F. Kennedy Jr. picks Nicole Shanahan as his running mate for his independent White House bid" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" referrerpolicy="strict-origin-when-cross-origin" allowfullscreen></iframe>Anne Sulzbergerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17091067031029918700noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6744683886539852356.post-28987767466973478722024-03-27T01:04:00.000-07:002024-03-27T01:04:04.372-07:00Report: 40 Percent of Managers Hope to Replace Some Workers With AI This Year'Alexa, does my manager think they can replace me with an AI?' 'Yes. In fact, please pack your desk now. And have a nice day.'<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2Ij6WyKWAT6qakNyXzhKRoT9TqHfRwO3ZTiXGzYK5p4L49oTZV6cdYLyVpssi7jAi6EnZjP7O1-5t1Fzeo2ZeABM9UaTRJapeXUY8Xa3-qeKgbxcYMYzm435GrpD4ARg_kyZDZDBGL3oAYqkEWMThNZrCUnxUFJr5fcLOFXkmgHLW0s2n9VG7osXVvXA/s1280/7xm.xyz119804.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1280" data-original-width="853" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2Ij6WyKWAT6qakNyXzhKRoT9TqHfRwO3ZTiXGzYK5p4L49oTZV6cdYLyVpssi7jAi6EnZjP7O1-5t1Fzeo2ZeABM9UaTRJapeXUY8Xa3-qeKgbxcYMYzm435GrpD4ARg_kyZDZDBGL3oAYqkEWMThNZrCUnxUFJr5fcLOFXkmgHLW0s2n9VG7osXVvXA/w426-h640/7xm.xyz119804.jpg" width="426" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;"><br /></span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;"> <span style="background-color: white; color: #474747;">It's becoming clear why Gen Z staff are</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #474747;"> </span><a href="https://www.inc.com/ben-sherry/why-your-gen-z-workers-are-stressed-about-using-ai-tools-at-work.html" previewlistener="true" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; border-bottom: 1px solid currentcolor; box-sizing: inherit; color: #333333; scroll-behavior: smooth; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 150ms ease-out 0s;">wary about using AI</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #474747;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #474747;">in the workplace. From the</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #474747;"> </span><a href="https://www.inc.com/sarah-lynch-/these-us-workers-face-greater-ai-exposure.html" previewlistener="true" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; border-bottom: 1px solid currentcolor; box-sizing: inherit; color: #333333; scroll-behavior: smooth; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 150ms ease-out 0s;">White House</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #474747;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #474747;">to the</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #474747;"> </span><a href="https://www.inc.com/jennifer-conrad/ai-will-eliminate-some-jobs-imf-says.html" previewlistener="true" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; border-bottom: 1px solid currentcolor; box-sizing: inherit; color: #333333; scroll-behavior: smooth; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 150ms ease-out 0s;">International Monetary Fund</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #474747;">, everyone is concerned that AI is a threat to workers, particularly those with "low-performance requirements."</span></span></p><div class="d-md-none mobile_insert mobile_insert_2" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #474747; margin-bottom: 25px; scroll-behavior: smooth;"></div><div class="standardText" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #474747; margin-bottom: 25px; scroll-behavior: smooth;"><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: inherit; line-height: 2; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; scroll-behavior: smooth;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;">The evidence is stacking up. AI is playing a part in the current flood of tech industry layoffs. And though some researchers recently suggested that AI will take a longer time than many think to have a deep impact on the workplace, that's not something the 3,000 U.S. managers AI company Beautiful.ai <a href="https://www.techspot.com/news/102385-survey-reveals-almost-half-all-managers-aim-replace.html" previewlistener="true" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border-bottom: 1px solid currentcolor; box-sizing: inherit; color: #333333; scroll-behavior: smooth; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 150ms ease-out 0s;" target="_blank">surveyed</a> believe. Plenty of them actually seem like they'd be happy to hand out pink slips and replace pesky human workers with AI this year.</span></p></div><div class="standardText" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #474747; margin-bottom: 25px; scroll-behavior: smooth;"><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: inherit; line-height: 2; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; scroll-behavior: smooth;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;">Beautiful.ai, which labels itself as "the best AI-powered presentation software for teams," wanted to get a "better understanding of how AI is changing the way we work," according to the <a href="https://www.beautiful.ai/blog/2024-ai-workplace-impact-report" previewlistener="true" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border-bottom: 1px solid currentcolor; box-sizing: inherit; color: #333333; scroll-behavior: smooth; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 150ms ease-out 0s;" target="_blank">company blog</a>. It surveyed 3,000 people in "management positions" to "learn how they're implementing the new technology in their business." With AI tech pervading many aspects of everyday life right now, from social media apps to workplace software like Zoom and Microsoft's business products, the results were always likely to be interesting. But these survey results are startling.</span></p></div><div id="native_mid_article" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #474747; margin-bottom: 25px; scroll-behavior: smooth;"></div><div class="standardText" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #474747; margin-bottom: 25px; scroll-behavior: smooth;"><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: inherit; line-height: 2; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; scroll-behavior: smooth;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;">The headline stat is very plain, and underlines how common AI use in the workplace has already become: 66 percent of the managers who answered Beautiful's survey said they're using AI at work to boost worker productivity. More concerningly, 12 percent said their use of AI was undertaken to downsize and cut labor costs. In fact, 41 percent said they thought they'd be able to replace staff with "cheaper AI tools" this year, and 48 percent were clear that the company could save a lot of cash by replacing a "large number" of staff this year. Four in 10 managers said they thought their teams could lose multiple members, replace them with AI, and operate just as well.</span></p></div><div style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #474747; margin-bottom: 25px; scroll-behavior: smooth;"></div><div class="standardText" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #474747; margin-bottom: 25px; scroll-behavior: smooth;"><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: inherit; line-height: 2; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; scroll-behavior: smooth;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;">Unsettling as these results are to authorities worried about the unemployment rate, they're good news for AI startups like Ema, which is building what it hopes will be a "universal AI employee." The shift in attitudes may also be a shot in the arm for humanoid robot companies like Figure AI, which are busy imbuing their plastic and metal machines with AI tech to get them ready for the workplace. </span></p></div><div class="standardText" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #474747; margin-bottom: 25px; scroll-behavior: smooth;"><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: inherit; line-height: 2; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; scroll-behavior: smooth;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;">As workers absorb this news, it's worth considering who was being surveyed by Beautiful: Managers. Management is central to aspects of running a company but is often the first to go when a company needs to downsize. In 2017 Survey.com's annual "Wasting Time at Work" report even found if you replace managers completely, you "remove 75 percent of the reasons someone will leave your company." And though a flat, management-light structure is still controversial, it's favored by many companies--including Tesla. </span></p></div><div class="standardText lastItem" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #474747; margin-bottom: 25px; scroll-behavior: smooth;"><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: inherit; line-height: 2; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; scroll-behavior: smooth;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;">Any staff worried their boss is thinking of replacing them with a box with blinking lights may find some solace from one part of the Beautiful survey: 64 percent of managers felt AI was at least as capable as expert management staff and possibly even better. If Beautiful had surveyed 3,000 workers employed by those 3,000 managers, how many would say they hoped the company would replace their boss with an AI system instead?</span></p><div class="standardText" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: inherit; margin-bottom: 25px; scroll-behavior: smooth;"><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: inherit; line-height: 2; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; scroll-behavior: smooth;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;">John Deere is bringing a new worker down on the farm: artificial intelligence.</span></p></div><div class="d-md-none mobile_insert mobile_insert_2" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: inherit; margin-bottom: 25px; scroll-behavior: smooth;"></div><div class="standardText" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: inherit; margin-bottom: 25px; scroll-behavior: smooth;"><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: inherit; line-height: 2; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; scroll-behavior: smooth;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;">The agriculture manufacturing company's AI-powered See & Spray product is designed to help farmers conserve their agricultural chemicals, like weed-killing herbicides. These chemicals have been in short supply in recent years, driving up costs for U.S. farmers, whose average spend on herbicides and other chemicals grew from $8,884 in 2021 to $10,680 in 2022, according to the <a href="https://downloads.usda.library.cornell.edu/usda-esmis/files/qz20ss48r/x633gh53m/rn302j09h/fpex0723.pdf" previewlistener="true" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border-bottom: 1px solid currentcolor; box-sizing: inherit; color: #333333; scroll-behavior: smooth; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 150ms ease-out 0s;" target="_blank">USDA</a>. John Deere says that with See & Spray, farmers can conserve their chemicals and effectively protect their crops. It's yet another example of how AI is being used across industries to help workers accomplish more with limited resources.</span></p></div><div class="standardText" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: inherit; margin-bottom: 25px; scroll-behavior: smooth;"><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: inherit; line-height: 2; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; scroll-behavior: smooth;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;">Most farmers today protect their crops from weeds by blanketing them in herbicide using sprayer vehicles. This process, called broadcast spraying, is significantly faster but more resource-intensive than spot spraying, a process in which individuals check crops one by one and only spray the areas that need treatment. In addition to being resource-heavy, broadcast spraying can harm crops if they are overexposed to the herbicide, and can be harmful to animals if any herbicide drifts into the wrong part of the farm. </span></p></div><div id="native_mid_article" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: inherit; margin-bottom: 25px; scroll-behavior: smooth;"></div><div class="standardText" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: inherit; margin-bottom: 25px; scroll-behavior: smooth;"><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: inherit; line-height: 2; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; scroll-behavior: smooth;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;">See & Spray is a device equipped with dozens of cameras that attaches to herbicide sprayers and uses machine vision to scan roughly 2,200 square feet per second. The data from those cameras is analyzed by processors that can identify weeds and is then used to target only areas that need spraying. John Deere says that since See & Spray's 2021 launch, the product has saved farmers more than 8 million gallons of chemicals. The company first started developing the product in 2017 when it acquired the agritech startup Blue River for $300 million. Blue River had built a proprietary program to identify weeds on a head of lettuce and precisely spray herbicide on just the problem areas. </span></p></div><div style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: inherit; margin-bottom: 25px; scroll-behavior: smooth;"></div><div class="standardText" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: inherit; margin-bottom: 25px; scroll-behavior: smooth;"><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: inherit; line-height: 2; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; scroll-behavior: smooth;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;">See & Spray marks an important step in John Deere's plan to transition toward a software-as-a-service business model, says Justin Rose, John Deere's president of lifecycle solutions, supply management, and customer success. See & Spray Premium, the company's mid-level version of the product costs $14,000 for the hardware and $11,000 for installation, but farmers will need to pay an additional $3 for every acre of corn tended to by the tech, and $4 for every acre of cotton and soybeans. </span></p></div><div class="standardText lastItem" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: inherit; margin-bottom: 25px; scroll-behavior: smooth;"><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: inherit; line-height: 2; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; scroll-behavior: smooth;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;">Rose says that See & Spray Ultimate, the highest-tier version of the product, can help farmers eliminate roughly the same amount of weeds as traditional broadcast spraying while reducing their non-residual herbicide use by more than two-thirds. John Deere estimates that the product does the equivalent work of 6,000 people, and has already been used on more than 1 million acres of farmland. "This is the promise of what we can deliver with this technology," says Rose. "Being able to get the job done right."</span></p></div></div>Anne Sulzbergerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17091067031029918700noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6744683886539852356.post-68136422417368298012024-03-27T00:55:00.000-07:002024-03-27T01:15:45.061-07:00Harbor pilots can make $434,000 a year, face high fatality rates, and are responsible for guiding hulking cargo ships into ports<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhA0FKJuV2-LpF9t13kbo1BpPpQuzsE-SN5DJ9Y6u7MGiHSTZRf04VKg8-V2cGQuvN2MOcW6TTLTcMTiHeSptjup_bGFjauOMdS7wLPXmqeVDPmPMTzFw3wP9PivUZ9MgwjtYJuhLVpd7wXyd0pLpoNUy9CBMkP6hYZ097U8_j4lWi862qJfPwIZGbqQsk/s1080/time-to-choose-v0-8ymeg1be8rqc1.webp" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="716" data-original-width="1080" height="424" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhA0FKJuV2-LpF9t13kbo1BpPpQuzsE-SN5DJ9Y6u7MGiHSTZRf04VKg8-V2cGQuvN2MOcW6TTLTcMTiHeSptjup_bGFjauOMdS7wLPXmqeVDPmPMTzFw3wP9PivUZ9MgwjtYJuhLVpd7wXyd0pLpoNUy9CBMkP6hYZ097U8_j4lWi862qJfPwIZGbqQsk/w640-h424/time-to-choose-v0-8ymeg1be8rqc1.webp" width="640" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;"><br /></span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;"> <span style="background-color: white; color: #111111;">Harbor pilots have one of the highest-paid — but simultaneously riskiest — jobs in the transportation industry.</span></span></p><p class="preview" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #111111; line-height: 32px; margin: 2.15rem 0px;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;">The average harbor pilot at the Port of Los Angeles makes $434,000 a year, but also faces a one in 20 chance of dying on the job, according to a book from The Wall Street Journal's Christopher Mims that was published in 2021. The book, "Arriving Today: From Factory to Front Door — Why Everything Has Changed About How and What We Buy," breaks down the complicated dance that brings a shipment from Asia to US buyers in a matter of days.</span></p><p class="preview" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #111111; line-height: 32px; margin: 2.15rem 0px;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2lgRf-glfXvMNB7-5tv_5V4OQJTx3JSQysRo5LrtakEZWWwNHbuLyU1VCWDCX-0rCVs7_2tiFYimSLYl8EF3Kx_eU1Le8Rg2V5XaWnwzdMXxHDLRrThfoJ5ChOazrkCJnCrrkmGIG2SBNtebwXJ7igZc460Df780D0ES5QpXsLodPEnTp8YemLPJqWOY/s1600/download%20(10).webp" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1066" data-original-width="1600" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2lgRf-glfXvMNB7-5tv_5V4OQJTx3JSQysRo5LrtakEZWWwNHbuLyU1VCWDCX-0rCVs7_2tiFYimSLYl8EF3Kx_eU1Le8Rg2V5XaWnwzdMXxHDLRrThfoJ5ChOazrkCJnCrrkmGIG2SBNtebwXJ7igZc460Df780D0ES5QpXsLodPEnTp8YemLPJqWOY/w640-h426/download%20(10).webp" width="640" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;"><br /></span><p></p><div class="premium-content" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #111111;"><p class="premium" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 32px; margin: 2.15rem 0px;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;">Harbor pilots are some of the highest-paid municipal employees and represent a crucial part of a shipment's journey. The average marine pilot in the US makes between $154,000 to $285,000 in total annual compensation, <a data-analytics-post-depth="40" data-analytics-product-module="body_link" href="https://www.glassdoor.com/Salaries/marine-pilot-salary-SRCH_KO0,12.htm" previewlistener="true" rel="noopener nofollow" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #111111; text-decoration-color: rgb(17, 17, 17); text-decoration-thickness: 1px; text-underline-offset: 2px; transition: all 0.2s ease 0s;" target="_blank">according to GlassDoor.</a></span></p><p class="premium" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 32px; margin: 2.15rem 0px;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;">Any cargo ship looking to come into a port must pay local pilots to safely bring the ship into the dock. The role is highly risky, as the pilots face the dangers of being run over by a massive cargo ship, pitched overboard in rough waters, or slammed between two boats. </span></p><p class="premium" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 32px; margin: 2.15rem 0px;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;">"Despite happening a thousand times a day all across the globe, despite myriad safety precautions, if you're a harbor pilot, doing your job can kill you," Mims writes.</span></p><p class="premium" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 32px; margin: 2.15rem 0px;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;">The job is also incredibly high stakes and requires hyper-specialized skills. The pilot is responsible for vessels that can <a data-analytics-post-depth="60" data-analytics-product-module="body_link" href="https://www.bbc.com/news/business-56559073" previewlistener="true" rel="nofollow" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #111111; text-decoration-color: rgb(17, 17, 17); text-decoration-thickness: 1px; text-underline-offset: 2px; transition: all 0.2s ease 0s;">weigh over 200,000 tonnes</a> and be worth over $100 million. A harbor pilot brings a ship in from miles out at sea to within mere inches of its unloading spot alongside the pier. </span></p><p class="premium" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 32px; margin: 2.15rem 0px;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;">The harbor pilot first approaches the massive skyscraper-sized cargo ship from a 55-foot long speedboat, according to Mims, who described how LA port harbor pilot Captain John Betz maneuvered the Netherlands, a Chinese-owned ship from Cosco Shipping Lines. From the speedboat, the pilot must climb a rope ladder onto the freighter <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">—</em> often while both boats are pitching in opposite directions. The move represents one of the most dangerous moments during the entire process.</span></p><p class="premium" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 32px; margin: 2.15rem 0px;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;">"I've been chased up the ladder by the boat," Craig Flinn, another harbor pilot, tells Mims. "The percentage of survival is minimal if you go in the water in heavy seas, even with a life vest," he said.</span></p><p class="premium" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 32px; margin: 2.15rem 0px;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;">Once aboard the freighter, Mims explains the pilot is given a sheet detailing every little element of the ship and the obstacles it faces on its course into port. Without touching a single control on the ship, Betz directs every movement of the Netherlands via verbal commands to the crew by using his iPad, a combination of GPS and navigational beacons, the ship's onboard automated system, as well as his own judgment. The pilot also directs the crew operating the tugboats that attach to each side of the ship as it comes into the port.</span></p><p class="premium" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 32px; margin: 2.15rem 0px;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;">Once the vessel is close enough, the freighter is maneuvered predominantly using its residual momentum and the slow pull of the tugboats.</span></p><p class="premium" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 32px; margin: 2.15rem 0px;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;">Mims calls the final steps of turning the hulking ship into its spot on the pier "the equivalent of a stunt driver parallel parking a car in a spot that's just long enough for it, after coming in at high speed, throwing over the wheel, and skidding sideways to within an inch of the curb, tires smoking."</span></p><p class="premium" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 32px; margin: 2.15rem 0px;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;">A harbor pilot's job is complete once the ship is safely tucked away in its berth. Ultimately, harbor pilots represent a little-known, but crucial part of the supply chain. Around <a data-analytics-post-depth="100" data-analytics-product-module="body_link" href="https://www.oecd.org/ocean/topics/ocean-shipping/" previewlistener="true" rel="nofollow" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #111111; text-decoration-color: rgb(17, 17, 17); text-decoration-thickness: 1px; text-underline-offset: 2px; transition: all 0.2s ease 0s;">90% of US goods</a> arrive by ship. </span></p></div><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="399" referrerpolicy="strict-origin-when-cross-origin" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/kai298D_0q8" title="Video shows the moment Baltimore's Francis Scott Key Bridge collapses" width="709"></iframe>Anne Sulzbergerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17091067031029918700noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6744683886539852356.post-12303008623518099532024-03-26T22:44:00.000-07:002024-03-26T23:16:40.622-07:00Six workers presumed dead after crippled cargo ship knocks down Baltimore bridge<p><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;"> </span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjH02ix82fisAdmJXVC1dSAnXV2fg7PMy36zflM5dWttsEGgdQ9M-bmuuc65cNx2GE3xoPSOZSr6roIkvnJXQS4qYsLEhqQWvajBOCOqePgiHoycd9jq27J5nqTFvGPJGImFvdwSa0YwCflu-64LWkeD7GZ4RH1n1RAQ3JSdkpv5TruYQhvI0yFCNHTS1s/s1336/GettyImages-2114900610.webp" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="752" data-original-width="1336" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjH02ix82fisAdmJXVC1dSAnXV2fg7PMy36zflM5dWttsEGgdQ9M-bmuuc65cNx2GE3xoPSOZSr6roIkvnJXQS4qYsLEhqQWvajBOCOqePgiHoycd9jq27J5nqTFvGPJGImFvdwSa0YwCflu-64LWkeD7GZ4RH1n1RAQ3JSdkpv5TruYQhvI0yFCNHTS1s/w640-h360/GettyImages-2114900610.webp" width="640" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;"><br /></span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white;">(AP) — A cargo ship lost power and rammed into a major bridge in Baltimore early Tuesday, destroying the span in a matter of seconds and plunging it into the river in a terrifying collapse that could disrupt a vital shipping port for months. Six people were missing and presumed dead, and the search for them was suspended until Wednesday morning.</span></span></p><p style="background-color: white; background-repeat: no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 1.55; margin: 20px 0px;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;">The ship’s crew issued a mayday call moments before the crash took down the <span class="LinkEnhancement" style="background-repeat: no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: calc(1em + 4px);"><a class="Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement" data-gtm-enhancement-style="LinkEnhancementA" href="https://apnews.com/article/maryland-bridge-collapse-francis-scott-key-e9ff2dcc76bae8444f83c15a656a50f1" previewlistener="true" style="background-color: transparent; background-repeat: no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: calc(1em + 4px); touch-action: manipulation;">Francis Scott Key</a></span> Bridge, enabling authorities to limit vehicle traffic on the span, Maryland’s governor said.</span></p><blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-media-max-width="560"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">WATCH: Drone footage shows aftermath of Baltimore bridge collapse <a href="https://t.co/tKark8TArt">pic.twitter.com/tKark8TArt</a></p>— Insider Paper (@TheInsiderPaper) <a href="https://twitter.com/TheInsiderPaper/status/1772816866026872989?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 27, 2024</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
<p style="background-color: white; background-repeat: no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 1.55; margin: 20px 0px;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;">As the vessel neared the bridge, puffs of black smoke could be seen as the lights flickered on and off. It <span class="LinkEnhancement" style="background-repeat: no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: calc(1em + 4px);"><a class="Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement" data-gtm-enhancement-style="LinkEnhancementA" href="https://apnews.com/article/baltimore-key-bridge-collapse-what-to-know-127d6ae38d63561ca4c1f18b3d508ba6" previewlistener="true" style="background-color: transparent; background-repeat: no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: calc(1em + 4px); touch-action: manipulation;">struck one of the bridge’s supports</a></span>, causing the structure to collapse like a toy, and a section of the span came to rest on the bow.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; background-repeat: no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 1.55; margin: 20px 0px;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;">With the ship barreling toward the bridge at “a very, very rapid speed,” authorities had just enough time to stop cars from coming over the bridge, Maryland Gov. Wes Moore said.</span></p><div class="HTMLModuleEnhancement" data-align-center="" style="--marginforextraspace: -20px; align-items: center; background-color: white; background-repeat: no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; display: flex; flex-direction: column; justify-content: center; line-height: calc(1em + 4px); margin: 40px 0px;"><div class="HTMLModuleEnhancement-item" style="background-repeat: no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; display: flex; justify-content: center; line-height: calc(1em + 4px); width: 663.333px;"><div class="HTMLModuleEnhancement-embed" style="--color-video-bg: #fff; background-repeat: no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: calc(1em + 4px); min-width: calc(100% + 80px);"><div class="HtmlModule" data-gtm-topic="No Value" data-main-module-number="2" data-module-number="2" data-module-tracksubscribe="" style="background-repeat: no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: calc(1em + 4px);"><a class="AnchorLink" id="html-embed-module-a20000" name="html-embed-module-a20000" style="background-color: transparent; background-repeat: no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--color-link-text); display: block; height: 0px; line-height: calc(1em + 4px); pointer-events: none; position: absolute; scroll-margin-top: calc(var(--headerHeight) + var(--hatHeight) + 20px); touch-action: manipulation; visibility: hidden;"></a><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;"><iframe aria-label="Locator maps" height="556" id="ap-chart-v2wRZ" scrolling="no" src="https://interactives.ap.org/embeds/v2wRZ/1/" style="background-repeat: no-repeat; border-style: none; border-width: initial; box-sizing: border-box; height: 670px; line-height: calc(1em + 4px); vertical-align: middle; width: 743.333px;" title="Cargo ship hits Baltimore’s Key Bridge, collapsing it" width="100%"></iframe></span><p class="embed-caption" style="background-repeat: no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--color-primary-text); font-stretch: semi-condensed; line-height: calc(1em + 4px);"></p></div></div></div></div><p style="background-color: white; background-repeat: no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 1.55; margin: 20px 0px;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;">“These people are heroes,” Moore said. “They saved lives last night.”</span></p><p style="background-color: white; background-repeat: no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 1.55; margin: 20px 0px;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;">In the evening, Col. Roland L. Butler Jr., superintendent for Maryland State Police, announced that the search and rescue mission was transitioning to one of search and recovery. He also said the search was being put on pause and divers would return to the site at 6 a.m. Wednesday, when challenging overnight conditions were expected to improve. No bodies have been recovered, Butler said.</span></p><div class="HTMLModuleEnhancement" data-align-center="" style="--marginforextraspace: -20px; align-items: center; background-color: white; background-repeat: no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; display: flex; flex-direction: column; justify-content: center; line-height: calc(1em + 4px); margin: var(--marginForExtraSpace) 0;"><div class="HTMLModuleEnhancement-item" style="background-repeat: no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; display: flex; justify-content: center; line-height: calc(1em + 4px); width: 663.333px;"><div class="HTMLModuleEnhancement-embed" style="--color-video-bg: #fff; background-repeat: no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: calc(1em + 4px); min-width: calc(100% + 80px);"><div class="HtmlModule" data-gtm-topic="No Value" data-main-module-number="3" data-module-number="3" data-module-tracksubscribe="" style="background-repeat: no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: calc(1em + 4px);"><a class="AnchorLink" id="html-embed-module-e30000" name="html-embed-module-e30000" style="background-color: transparent; background-repeat: no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--color-link-text); display: block; height: 0px; line-height: calc(1em + 4px); pointer-events: none; position: absolute; scroll-margin-top: calc(var(--headerHeight) + var(--hatHeight) + 20px); touch-action: manipulation; visibility: hidden;"></a><div class="taboola_readmore" style="background-repeat: no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: calc(1em + 4px);"></div><p class="embed-caption" style="background-repeat: no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--color-primary-text); font-stretch: semi-condensed; line-height: calc(1em + 4px);"></p></div></div></div></div><p style="background-color: white; background-repeat: no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 1.55; margin: 20px 0px;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;">The crash happened in the middle of the night, long before the busy morning commute on the bridge that stretches 1.6 miles (2.6 kilometers) and was used by 12 million vehicles last year.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; background-repeat: no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 1.55; margin: 20px 0px;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;">The six missing people were part of a construction crew filling potholes on the bridge, said Paul Wiedefeld, the state’s transportation secretary.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; background-repeat: no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 1.55; margin: 20px 0px;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;">Guatemala’s consulate in Maryland said in a statement that two of the missing were citizens of the Central American nation. It did not provide their names but said consular officials were in contact with authorities and assisting the families.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; background-repeat: no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 1.55; margin: 20px 0px;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;">Honduras’ Deputy Foreign Affairs Minister Antonio García told The Associated Press that a Honduran citizen, Maynor Yassir Suazo Sandoval, was missing. He said he had been in contact with Suazo’s family.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; background-repeat: no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 1.55; margin: 20px 0px;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;">The Washington Consulate of Mexico said via the social media platform X that citizens of that nation were also among the missing. It did not say how many.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; background-repeat: no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 1.55; margin: 20px 0px;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;">A senior executive at the company that employed the workers also said, in the afternoon, that the workers were presumed dead given the water’s depth and how much time had passed.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; background-repeat: no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 1.55; margin: 20px 0px;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;">Jeffrey Pritzker, executive vice president of Brawner Builders, said the crew was working in the middle of the bridge when it came down.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; background-repeat: no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 1.55; margin: 20px 0px;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;">“This was so completely unforeseen,” Pritzker said. “We don’t know what else to say. We take such great pride in safety, and we have cones and signs and lights and barriers and flaggers.”</span></p><p style="background-color: white; background-repeat: no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 1.55; margin: 20px 0px;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;">Jesus Campos, who has worked on the bridge for Brawner Builders and knows members of the crew, said he was told they were on a break and some were sitting in their trucks.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; background-repeat: no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 1.55; margin: 20px 0px;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;">“I know that a month ago, I was there, and I know what it feels like when the trailers pass,” Campos said. “Imagine knowing that is falling. It is so hard. One would not know what to do.”</span></p><p style="background-color: white; background-repeat: no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 1.55; margin: 20px 0px;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;">Father Ako Walker, a Roman Catholic priest at Sacred Heart of Jesus, said he spent time with the families of the missing workers as they waited for news of their loved ones.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; background-repeat: no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 1.55; margin: 20px 0px;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;">“You can see the pain etched on their faces,” Walker said.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; background-repeat: no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 1.55; margin: 20px 0px;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;">Rescuers pulled two people out of the water, one of whom was treated at a hospital and discharged hours later. Multiple vehicles also went into the river, although authorities did not believe anyone was inside.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; background-repeat: no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 1.55; margin: 20px 0px;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;">“It looked like something out of an action movie,” Baltimore Mayor Brandon Scott said, calling it “an unthinkable tragedy.”</span></p><p style="background-color: white; background-repeat: no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 1.55; margin: 20px 0px;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;">A police dispatcher put out a call just before the collapse saying a ship had lost its steering and asked officers to stop all traffic on the bridge, according to Maryland Transportation Authority first responder radio traffic obtained from the <span class="LinkEnhancement" style="background-repeat: no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: calc(1em + 4px);"><a class="Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement" data-gtm-enhancement-style="LinkEnhancementA" href="http://broadcastify.com/" previewlistener="true" rel="noopener" style="background-color: transparent; background-repeat: no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: calc(1em + 4px); touch-action: manipulation;" target="_blank">Broadcastify.com</a></span> archive.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; background-repeat: no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 1.55; margin: 20px 0px;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;">One officer who stopped traffic radioed that he was going to drive onto the bridge to alert the construction crew. But seconds later, a frantic officer said: “The whole bridge just fell down. Start, start whoever, everybody ... the whole bridge just collapsed.”</span></p><p style="background-color: white; background-repeat: no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 1.55; margin: 20px 0px;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;">On a separate radio channel for maintenance and construction workers, someone said officers were stopping traffic because a ship had lost steering. There was no follow-up order to evacuate, and 30 seconds later the bridge fell and the channel went silent.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; background-repeat: no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 1.55; margin: 20px 0px;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;">From 1960 to 2015, there were 35 <span class="LinkEnhancement" style="background-repeat: no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: calc(1em + 4px);"><a class="Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement" data-gtm-enhancement-style="LinkEnhancementA" href="https://apnews.com/article/bridge-collapses-barges-list-1f2d6261d523ddc625aaaf3b32c626bc" previewlistener="true" style="background-color: transparent; background-repeat: no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: calc(1em + 4px); touch-action: manipulation;">major bridge collapses</a></span> worldwide due to ship or barge collisions, according to the World Association for Waterborne Transport Infrastructure.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; background-repeat: no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 1.55; margin: 20px 0px;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;"><span class="LinkEnhancement" style="background-repeat: no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: calc(1em + 4px);"><a class="Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement" data-gtm-enhancement-style="LinkEnhancementA" href="https://apnews.com/article/baltimore-key-bridge-collapse-what-to-know-127d6ae38d63561ca4c1f18b3d508ba6" previewlistener="true" style="background-color: transparent; background-repeat: no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: calc(1em + 4px); touch-action: manipulation;">Tuesday’s collapse</a></span> is sure to create a logistical nightmare along the East Coast for months, if not years, shutting down ship traffic at the Port of Baltimore, a major hub. The loss of the bridge will also snarl cargo and commuter traffic.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; background-repeat: no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 1.55; margin: 20px 0px;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;">“Losing this bridge will devastate the entire area, as well as the entire East Coast,” state Sen. Johnny Ray Salling said.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; background-repeat: no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 1.55; margin: 20px 0px;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;">Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg said at a news conference that it was too soon to estimate how long it will take to clear the channel, which is about 50 feet (15 meters) deep.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; background-repeat: no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 1.55; margin: 20px 0px;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;">“I do not know of a bridge that has been constructed to withstand a direct impact from a vessel of this size,” he said.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; background-repeat: no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 1.55; margin: 20px 0px;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;">The Dali, which was headed from Baltimore to Colombo, Sri Lanka, and flying under a Singapore flag, is about 985 feet (300 meters) long and about 157 feet (48 meters) wide, according to data from Marine Traffic.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; background-repeat: no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 1.55; margin: 20px 0px;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;">Synergy Marine Group, which manages the ship, confirmed that it hit a pillar of the bridge at about 1:30 a.m. while in control of one or more pilots, who are local specialists who help guide vessels safely into and out of ports. 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(AP Photo/Nathan Ellgren)</span></p></figcaption></bsp-read-more></div></div></figure></div></div></div><p style="background-color: white; background-repeat: no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 1.55; margin: 20px 0px;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;">The ship was moving at 8 knots, roughly 9 mph (14.8 kph), the governor said.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; background-repeat: no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 1.55; margin: 20px 0px;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;">Inspectors found a problem with Dali’s machinery in June, but a more recent examination did not identify any deficiencies, according to the shipping information system Equasis.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; background-repeat: no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 1.55; margin: 20px 0px;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;">Danish shipping giant Maersk said it had chartered the vessel.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; background-repeat: no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 1.55; margin: 20px 0px;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;">Jagged remnants of the bridge could be seen jutting up from the water in the aftermath of the collapse. The on-ramp ended abruptly where the span once began.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; background-repeat: no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 1.55; margin: 20px 0px;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;">Donald Heinbuch, a retired chief with Baltimore’s fire department, said he was startled awake by a deep rumbling that shook his house for several seconds and “felt like an earthquake.” He drove to the river’s edge and couldn’t believe what he saw.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; background-repeat: no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 1.55; margin: 20px 0px;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;">“The ship was there, and the bridge was in the water like it was blown up,” he said.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; background-repeat: no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 1.55; margin: 20px 0px;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;">The bridge spans the Patapsco River at the entrance to the busy harbor, which leads to the Chesapeake Bay and Atlantic Ocean. Opened in 1977, the bridge is named for <span class="LinkEnhancement" style="background-repeat: no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: calc(1em + 4px);"><a class="Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement" data-gtm-enhancement-style="LinkEnhancementA" href="https://apnews.com/article/maryland-bridge-collapse-francis-scott-key-e9ff2dcc76bae8444f83c15a656a50f1" previewlistener="true" style="background-color: transparent; background-repeat: no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: calc(1em + 4px); touch-action: manipulation;">the writer of “The Star-Spangled Banner.”</a></span></span></p><p style="background-color: white; background-repeat: no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 1.55; margin: 20px 0px;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;">Wiedefeld said all vessel traffic into and out of the port would be suspended until further notice, though the facility was still open to trucks.</span></p><div class="Enhancement" data-align-center="" style="align-items: center; 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background-repeat: no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 1.55; margin: 20px 0px;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;">The head of a supply chain management company said Americans should expect shortages of goods from the collapse’s effect on ocean container shipping and East Coast trucking.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; background-repeat: no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 1.55; margin: 20px 0px;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;">“It’s not just the port of Baltimore that’s going to be impacted,” said Ryan Petersen, CEO of Flexport.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; background-repeat: no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 1.55; margin: 20px 0px;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;">The collapse, though, is not likely to hurt worldwide trade because Baltimore is not a major port for container vessels. its facilities are more important when it comes to goods such as farm equipment and autos, said Judah Levine, head of research for global freight booking platform Freightos.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; 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margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2160" data-original-width="2880" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1Wk4KsemBLoTcQNBNXMY4KIDIsNYwZmKeUVtdp8ysxCUlRGO5n4uROmqN85z2PuabMCsx_yyGkxmR1P2C00jEycZ_1v0SAqm5ykju52DjvY09T1Uz8xvKyy4TfhMXf3hM1_M_sCi00rIaMJChx65Iw88cOo3jCbvYsTJZrAYlPo_OXe58xMGWMw9cpaA/w640-h480/download%20(4).webp" width="640" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;"><br /> <span style="background-color: white;">The Wisconsin Supreme Court on Tuesday</span><span style="background-color: white;"> </span><span class="LinkEnhancement" style="background-repeat: no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: calc(1em + 4px);"><a class="Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement" data-gtm-enhancement-style="LinkEnhancementA" href="https://apnews.com/article/The%20Wisconsin%20Supreme%20Court%20on%20Tuesday%20let%20stand%20a%20lower%20court%20ruling%20that%20declared%20some%20Amazon.com%20delivery%20drivers%20were%20employees%20as%20the%20state%20argued,%20not%20independent%20contractors%20as%20the%20retail%20giant%20contended." previewlistener="true" rel="noopener" style="background-repeat: no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: calc(1em + 4px); touch-action: manipulation;" target="_blank">let stand</a></span><span style="background-color: white;"> </span><span style="background-color: white;">a lower court ruling that declared some delivery drivers for Amazon were employees as the state argued, not independent contractors as the online retail giant contended.</span></span><p></p><p style="background-color: white; background-repeat: no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 1.55; margin: 20px 0px;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;">The court, in a unanimous decision, said the appeal was “improvidently granted,” meaning the Supreme Court should not have reviewed the case. That decision dismissing the case, issued after the court heard oral arguments, leaves a 2023 Wisconsin appeals court ruling against Amazon in place.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; background-repeat: no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 1.55; margin: 20px 0px;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;">That ruling found that drivers in the Amazon Flex program are a part of the state’s unemployment insurance system and entitled to jobless pay if they are laid off. The decision means an Amazon subsidiary, Amazon Logistics, will likely be hit with a tax bill of more than $200,000.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; background-repeat: no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 1.55; margin: 20px 0px;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;">Justice Ann Walsh Bradley, in a concurring decision, said the reason the court dismissed the case was that further review “would not serve any meaningful purpose” or any “further development of the law.” Justice Rebecca Bradley, in a separate writing, faulted Bradley for trying to explain the court’s decision, saying it “will only sow additional confusion.”</span></p><p style="background-color: white; background-repeat: no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 1.55; margin: 20px 0px;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;">The case was closely watched for what effect a ruling would have on workers in the “gig economy.”</span></p><p style="background-color: white; background-repeat: no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 1.55; margin: 20px 0px;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;">Labor unions, along with the state Department of Workforce Development, pushed for the Wisconsin Supreme Court to recognize the Amazon Flex workers as employees.</span></p><div class="HTMLModuleEnhancement" data-align-center="" style="--marginforextraspace: -20px; align-items: center; background-color: white; background-repeat: no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; display: flex; flex-direction: column; justify-content: center; line-height: calc(1em + 4px); margin: var(--marginForExtraSpace) 0;"><div class="HTMLModuleEnhancement-item" style="background-repeat: no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; display: flex; justify-content: center; line-height: calc(1em + 4px); width: 663.333px;"><div class="HTMLModuleEnhancement-embed" style="--color-video-bg: #fff; background-repeat: no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: calc(1em + 4px); min-width: calc(100% + 80px);"><div class="HtmlModule" data-gtm-topic="No Value" data-main-module-number="2" data-module-number="2" data-module-tracksubscribe="" style="background-repeat: no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: calc(1em + 4px);"><a class="AnchorLink" id="html-embed-module-e30000" name="html-embed-module-e30000" style="background-color: transparent; background-repeat: no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--color-link-text); display: block; height: 0px; line-height: calc(1em + 4px); pointer-events: none; position: absolute; scroll-margin-top: calc(var(--headerHeight) + var(--hatHeight) + 20px); touch-action: manipulation; visibility: hidden;"></a><div class="taboola_readmore" style="background-repeat: no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: calc(1em + 4px);"></div><p class="embed-caption" style="background-repeat: no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--color-primary-text); font-stretch: semi-condensed; line-height: calc(1em + 4px);"></p></div></div></div></div><p style="background-color: white; background-repeat: no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 1.55; margin: 20px 0px;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;">Attorneys for Wisconsin and Amazon did not immediately return messages Tuesday.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; background-repeat: no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 1.55; margin: 20px 0px;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;">Courts across the country have been grappling with similar questions as states struggle with how to treat workers who are hired for a particular job, often at the push of a button through a smartphone app, to deliver food, groceries, packages or perform a variety of tasks.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; background-repeat: no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 1.55; margin: 20px 0px;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;">“The gig economy is clogging up the court with all of this stuff, all the time,” said Samantha Prince, assistant professor of law at Penn State Dickinson College of Law and an expert on worker misclassification and the gig economy. “It’s just nuts. We really need this stuff to be resolved and stay resolved and stop with all the uncertainty for everybody.”</span></p><p style="background-color: white; background-repeat: no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 1.55; margin: 20px 0px;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;">Prince said even though the court declined to issue a ruling in this case, allowing the appeals court ruling to stand that found the Amazon Flex drivers were employees is “one of the many dominoes that are starting to fall.”</span></p><p style="background-color: white; background-repeat: no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 1.55; margin: 20px 0px;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;">“And even though this case only applies to Amazon Flex drivers, it will likely resonate through the other gig company court cases,” she said. “The more cases that find that gig company drivers are employees, the more companies are going to have to pay their rightful share.”</span></p><p style="background-color: white; background-repeat: no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 1.55; margin: 20px 0px;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;">Every state has its own laws determining whether workers are employees or independent contractors, Prince said. Those laws set the rules for what wages and overtime the workers must be paid and, in this case, whether they are subject to unemployment benefits that the employer must contribute toward.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; background-repeat: no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 1.55; margin: 20px 0px;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;">Employees who got approved for the Amazon Flex program could download an app for their personal phones showing blocks when they could deliver packages for the company. Workers would scan packages at the Amazon warehouse in Milwaukee and use their personal vehicles to deliver them, using a route suggested by Amazon.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; background-repeat: no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 1.55; margin: 20px 0px;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;">After one Amazon Flex worker was fired, he filed for unemployment insurance. The Department of Workforce Development conducted an audit of more than 1,000 Amazon Logistics drivers between 2016 and 2018 and concluded the vast majority of drivers were employees, not independent contractors, and therefore eligible for unemployment insurance payments. The state told Amazon in 2018 that it owed more than $205,000 in unemployment insurance premiums.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; background-repeat: no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 1.55; margin: 20px 0px;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;">The Wisconsin Labor and Industry Review Commission upheld the state DWD determination that the drivers were employees. Amazon Logistics sued and a Waukesha County circuit court judge ruled the drivers were independent contractors. Last year, the Wisconsin Court of Appeals <span class="LinkEnhancement" style="background-repeat: no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: calc(1em + 4px);"><a class="Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement" data-gtm-enhancement-style="LinkEnhancementA" href="https://www.wicourts.gov/ca/opinion/DisplayDocument.pdf?content=pdf&seqNo=641594" previewlistener="true" rel="noopener" style="background-color: transparent; background-repeat: no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: calc(1em + 4px); touch-action: manipulation;" target="_blank">overturned that ruling</a></span>, agreeing with the state that the drivers were employees. That set up the appeal to the Wisconsin Supreme Court.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; background-repeat: no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 1.55; margin: 20px 0px;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;">Many other states have looked at the issue.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; background-repeat: no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 1.55; margin: 20px 0px;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;">A Virginia appeals court ruled in 2023 that Amazon Flex drivers were employees, not independent contractors, and ordered Amazon to pay unemployment insurance taxes and penalties.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; background-repeat: no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 1.55; margin: 20px 0px;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;">A California state appeals court <span class="LinkEnhancement" style="background-repeat: no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: calc(1em + 4px);"><a class="Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement" data-gtm-enhancement-style="LinkEnhancementA" href="https://apnews.com/article/california-uber-lyft-ride-hailing-employees-independent-contractors-91a763cdad6ac7f57b10bca58293e47c" previewlistener="true" style="background-color: transparent; background-repeat: no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: calc(1em + 4px); touch-action: manipulation;">last year said</a></span> app-based ride-hailing and delivery companies like Uber and Lyft can continue to treat their California drivers as independent contractors, allowing them to bypass other state laws requiring worker protections and benefits.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; background-repeat: no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 1.55; margin: 20px 0px 0px;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;">The U.S. Department of Labor <span class="LinkEnhancement" style="background-repeat: no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: calc(1em + 4px);"><a class="Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement" data-gtm-enhancement-style="LinkEnhancementA" href="https://apnews.com/article/gig-workers-new-labor-rules-independent-contractors-df8101d6d22d5d3eda6def345fe95106" previewlistener="true" style="background-color: transparent; background-repeat: no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: calc(1em + 4px); touch-action: manipulation;">enacted a new rule</a></span> on March 11 that aims to prevent the misclassification of workers as “independent contractors,” a step that could bolster both legal protections and compensation for millions in the U.S. workforce. That rule applies to wages and overtime, but not unemployment compensation.</span></p><div class="text__text__1FZLe text__dark-grey__3Ml43 text__regular__2N1Xr text__small__1kGq2 body__full_width__ekUdw body__small_body__2vQyf article-body__paragraph__2-BtD" data-testid="paragraph-0" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: #404040; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px 0px 12px; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;">Orders for long-lasting U.S. manufactured goods increased more than expected in February, while business spending on equipment showed tentative signs of recovery, boosting the economy's prospects in the first quarter.</span></div><div class="text__text__1FZLe text__dark-grey__3Ml43 text__regular__2N1Xr text__small__1kGq2 body__full_width__ekUdw body__small_body__2vQyf article-body__paragraph__2-BtD" data-testid="paragraph-1" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: #404040; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px 0px 12px; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;">The rebound in orders reported by the Commerce Department on Tuesday, which was driven by increases in transportation equipment, primary metals and machinery, suggested manufacturing could be regaining its footing after struggling in the aftermath of the Federal Reserve's hefty interest rate hikes.</span></div><div class="article-body__element__2p5pI" style="margin: 24px 0px; width: 708.663px;"></div><div class="text__text__1FZLe text__dark-grey__3Ml43 text__regular__2N1Xr text__small__1kGq2 body__full_width__ekUdw body__small_body__2vQyf article-body__paragraph__2-BtD" data-testid="paragraph-2" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: #404040; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px 0px 12px; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;">"The data suggest that business equipment investment is beginning to recover, and with corporate bond yields likely to fall a little further over the coming months while manufacturing activity appears to be picking up again, we suspect that recovery has further to run," said Andrew Hunter, deputy chief U.S. economist at Capital Economics.</span></div><div class="text__text__1FZLe text__dark-grey__3Ml43 text__regular__2N1Xr text__small__1kGq2 body__full_width__ekUdw body__small_body__2vQyf article-body__paragraph__2-BtD" data-testid="paragraph-3" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: #404040; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px 0px 12px; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;">Orders for durable goods, items ranging from toasters to aircraft meant to last three years or more, rose 1.4% last month, the Commerce Department's Census Bureau said. Data for January was revised lower to show orders falling 6.9% instead of 6.2% as previously reported. Economists polled by Reuters had forecast durable goods orders would rise 1.1%.</span></div><div class="article-body__element__2p5pI" style="margin: 24px 0px; width: 708.663px;"></div><div class="text__text__1FZLe text__dark-grey__3Ml43 text__regular__2N1Xr text__small__1kGq2 body__full_width__ekUdw body__small_body__2vQyf article-body__paragraph__2-BtD" data-testid="paragraph-4" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: #404040; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px 0px 12px; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;">Orders advanced 1.8% on a year-on-year basis in February. The outlook for manufacturing, which accounts for 10.3% of the economy, is steadily improving amid expectations that the U.S. central bank will start cutting rates this year.</span></div><div class="text__text__1FZLe text__dark-grey__3Ml43 text__regular__2N1Xr text__small__1kGq2 body__full_width__ekUdw body__small_body__2vQyf article-body__paragraph__2-BtD" data-testid="paragraph-5" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: #404040; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px 0px 12px; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;">A survey from the Institute for Supply Management this month <a class="text__text__1FZLe text__inherit-color__3208F text__inherit-font__1Y8w3 text__inherit-size__1DZJi link__link__3Ji6W link__underline_default__2prE_" data-testid="Link" href="https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-manufacturing-sector-struggling-recover-ism-2024-03-01/" previewlistener="true" referrerpolicy="no-referrer-when-downgrade" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-transform: inherit;">showed manufacturers</a> were fairly upbeat in March about sales and business conditions. Factory output rebounded in February.</span></div><div class="article-body__element__2p5pI" style="margin: 24px 0px; width: 708.663px;"></div><div class="text__text__1FZLe text__dark-grey__3Ml43 text__regular__2N1Xr text__small__1kGq2 body__full_width__ekUdw body__small_body__2vQyf article-body__paragraph__2-BtD" data-testid="paragraph-6" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: #404040; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px 0px 12px; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;">The Fed has hiked its policy rate by 525 basis points to the current 5.25%-5.50% range since March 2022.</span></div><div class="text__text__1FZLe text__dark-grey__3Ml43 text__regular__2N1Xr text__small__1kGq2 body__full_width__ekUdw body__small_body__2vQyf article-body__paragraph__2-BtD" data-testid="paragraph-7" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: #404040; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px 0px 12px; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;">But the sector is not out of the woods yet.</span></div><h2 class="text__text__1FZLe text__dark-grey__3Ml43 text__medium__1kbOh text__heading_6__1qUJ5 heading__base__2T28j heading__heading_6__RtD9P article-body__heading__33EIm" data-testid="Heading" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: #404040; font-weight: 500; line-height: 24px; margin: 24px 0px 12px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;">AIRCRAFT ORDERS RISE</span></h2><div class="text__text__1FZLe text__dark-grey__3Ml43 text__regular__2N1Xr text__small__1kGq2 body__full_width__ekUdw body__small_body__2vQyf article-body__paragraph__2-BtD" data-testid="paragraph-8" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: #404040; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px 0px 12px; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;">Civilian aircraft orders increased 24.6% last month after plummeting 63.5% in January.</span></div><div class="text__text__1FZLe text__dark-grey__3Ml43 text__regular__2N1Xr text__small__1kGq2 body__full_width__ekUdw body__small_body__2vQyf article-body__paragraph__2-BtD" data-testid="paragraph-9" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: #404040; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px 0px 12px; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;">Boeing <a class="text__text__1FZLe text__inherit-color__3208F text__inherit-font__1Y8w3 text__inherit-size__1DZJi link__link__3Ji6W link__underline_default__2prE_ link__with-icon__3x3oD" data-testid="Link" href="https://www.reuters.com/markets/companies/BA.N" previewlistener="true" referrerpolicy="no-referrer-when-downgrade" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-transform: inherit; text-wrap: nowrap;" target="_blank">(BA.N)<svg aria-hidden="true" class="link__new-tab-symbol__3T19s" data-testid="SvgNewTab" focusable="false" role="presentation" viewbox="0 0 32 32" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><path d="M15 6c.6 0 1 .4 1 1s-.4 1-1 1H9c-.6 0-1 .4-1 1v14a1.1 1.1 0 0 0 .2.6c.1.2.4.4.8.4h14c.6 0 1-.4 1-1v-6c0-.6.4-1 1-1s1 .4 1 1v6a3 3 0 0 1-3 3H9a3 3 0 0 1-2.2-.9A3 3 0 0 1 6 23V9a3 3 0 0 1 3-3Zm10 0 .4.1.5.5.1.4v6c0 .6-.4 1-1 1s-1-.4-1-1V9.4l-5.3 5.3a1 1 0 0 1-.7.3 1 1 0 0 1-.7-.3 1 1 0 0 1 0-1.4L22.6 8H19c-.6 0-1-.4-1-1s.4-1 1-1Z" fill="#666"></path></svg><span style="border: 0px; clip-path: inset(50%); clip: rect(0px, 0px, 0px, 0px); height: 1px; margin: -1px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; position: absolute; width: 1px;">, opens new tab</span></a> reported on its website that it had received 15 orders for commercial aircraft. While that was an improvement from the three orders booked in January, it marked a continued sharp slowdown from the end of 2023.</span></div><div class="article-body__element__2p5pI" style="margin: 24px 0px; width: 708.663px;"></div><div class="text__text__1FZLe text__dark-grey__3Ml43 text__regular__2N1Xr text__small__1kGq2 body__full_width__ekUdw body__small_body__2vQyf article-body__paragraph__2-BtD" data-testid="paragraph-10" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: #404040; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px 0px 12px; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;">The planemaker is under pressure after a cabin panel blew out in mid-air on an Alaska Airlines jet in early January, with the Federal Aviation Administration barring Boeing from expanding production of its best-selling 737 MAX narrow-body planes to improve quality control.</span></div><div class="text__text__1FZLe text__dark-grey__3Ml43 text__regular__2N1Xr text__small__1kGq2 body__full_width__ekUdw body__small_body__2vQyf article-body__paragraph__2-BtD" data-testid="paragraph-11" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: #404040; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px 0px 12px; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;"><a class="text__text__1FZLe text__inherit-color__3208F text__inherit-font__1Y8w3 text__inherit-size__1DZJi link__link__3Ji6W link__underline_default__2prE_" data-testid="Link" href="https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-defense/boeing-ceo-calhoun-step-down-2024-03-25/" previewlistener="true" referrerpolicy="no-referrer-when-downgrade" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-transform: inherit;">Boeing</a> announced on Monday that CEO Dave Calhoun would step down by the end of 2024 as part of a broad management shakeup.</span></div><div class="text__text__1FZLe text__dark-grey__3Ml43 text__regular__2N1Xr text__small__1kGq2 body__full_width__ekUdw body__small_body__2vQyf article-body__paragraph__2-BtD" data-testid="paragraph-12" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: #404040; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px 0px 12px; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;">Overall transportation orders climbed 3.3% in February after dropping 18.3% in January. Orders for motor vehicles and parts accelerated by 1.8%. Orders of primary metals rebounded 1.4% and those of fabricated metals rose 0.8%. Machinery orders increased 1.9%.</span></div><div class="article-body__element__2p5pI" style="margin: 24px 0px; width: 708.663px;"></div><div class="text__text__1FZLe text__dark-grey__3Ml43 text__regular__2N1Xr text__small__1kGq2 body__full_width__ekUdw body__small_body__2vQyf article-body__paragraph__2-BtD" data-testid="paragraph-13" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: #404040; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px 0px 12px; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;">But orders for computers and electronic products fell by 1.4%, while those for electrical equipment, appliances, and components decreased by 1.5%.</span></div><div class="text__text__1FZLe text__dark-grey__3Ml43 text__regular__2N1Xr text__small__1kGq2 body__full_width__ekUdw body__small_body__2vQyf article-body__paragraph__2-BtD" data-testid="paragraph-14" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: #404040; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px 0px 12px; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;">Non-defense capital goods orders excluding aircraft, a closely watched proxy for business spending plans, rose 0.7% in February after falling 0.4% in the prior month.</span></div><div class="text__text__1FZLe text__dark-grey__3Ml43 text__regular__2N1Xr text__small__1kGq2 body__full_width__ekUdw body__small_body__2vQyf article-body__paragraph__2-BtD" data-testid="paragraph-15" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: #404040; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px 0px 12px; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;">These so-called core capital goods orders were previously reported to have been unchanged in January. Core capital goods shipments fell 0.4% after rising 0.8% in January.</span></div><div class="text__text__1FZLe text__dark-grey__3Ml43 text__regular__2N1Xr text__small__1kGq2 body__full_width__ekUdw body__small_body__2vQyf article-body__paragraph__2-BtD" data-testid="paragraph-16" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: #404040; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px 0px 12px; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;">Non-defense capital goods orders advanced 4.4%, while shipments in that category rose 2.7% after declining 3.0% in January. Shipments of these goods go into the calculation of the business spending on equipment components in the gross domestic product report.</span></div><div class="text__text__1FZLe text__dark-grey__3Ml43 text__regular__2N1Xr text__small__1kGq2 body__full_width__ekUdw body__small_body__2vQyf article-body__paragraph__2-BtD" data-testid="paragraph-17" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: #404040; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px 0px 12px; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;">Business spending on equipment contracted in the fourth quarter. It has declined in four of the last five quarters.</span></div><div class="text__text__1FZLe text__dark-grey__3Ml43 text__regular__2N1Xr text__small__1kGq2 body__full_width__ekUdw body__small_body__2vQyf article-body__paragraph__2-BtD" data-testid="paragraph-17" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: #404040; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px 0px 12px; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px;"><div class="text__text__1FZLe text__dark-grey__3Ml43 text__regular__2N1Xr text__small__1kGq2 body__full_width__ekUdw body__small_body__2vQyf article-body__paragraph__2-BtD" data-testid="paragraph-0" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px 0px 12px; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;">U.S. consumer confidence was little changed in March as fading fears of a recession took a backseat to growing concerns about the nation's political environment ahead of November's presidential election, a survey showed on Tuesday.</span></div><div class="text__text__1FZLe text__dark-grey__3Ml43 text__regular__2N1Xr text__small__1kGq2 body__full_width__ekUdw body__small_body__2vQyf article-body__paragraph__2-BtD" data-testid="paragraph-1" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px 0px 12px; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;">The Conference Board said that its consumer confidence index dipped to 104.7 this month, essentially unchanged from a downwardly revised 104.8 in February.</span></div><div class="text__text__1FZLe text__dark-grey__3Ml43 text__regular__2N1Xr text__small__1kGq2 body__full_width__ekUdw body__small_body__2vQyf article-body__paragraph__2-BtD" data-testid="paragraph-2" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px 0px 12px; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;">Economists polled by Reuters had forecast the index nudging up to 107.0 from the previously reported 106.7.</span></div><div class="article-body__element__2p5pI" style="color: black; margin: 24px 0px; width: 708.663px;"></div><div class="text__text__1FZLe text__dark-grey__3Ml43 text__regular__2N1Xr text__small__1kGq2 body__full_width__ekUdw body__small_body__2vQyf article-body__paragraph__2-BtD" data-testid="paragraph-3" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px 0px 12px; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;">"Recession fears continued to trend downward," said Dana Peterson, chief economist at the Conference Board in Washington. "Meanwhile, consumers expressed more concern about the US political environment compared to prior months."</span></div><div class="text__text__1FZLe text__dark-grey__3Ml43 text__regular__2N1Xr text__small__1kGq2 body__full_width__ekUdw body__small_body__2vQyf article-body__paragraph__2-BtD" data-testid="paragraph-4" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px 0px 12px; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;">Consumers' inflation expectations ticked up to 5.3% from 5.2% in February.</span></div><div class="text__text__1FZLe text__dark-grey__3Ml43 text__regular__2N1Xr text__small__1kGq2 body__full_width__ekUdw body__small_body__2vQyf article-body__paragraph__2-BtD" data-testid="paragraph-4" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px 0px 12px; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px;"><div class="text__text__1FZLe text__dark-grey__3Ml43 text__regular__2N1Xr text__small__1kGq2 body__full_width__ekUdw body__small_body__2vQyf article-body__paragraph__2-BtD" data-testid="paragraph-0" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px 0px 12px; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;">Trump Media & Technology Group shares surged more than 4% on Tuesday in their debut on the Nasdaq which comes more than two years since its merger with a blank-check firm was announced.</span></div><div class="text__text__1FZLe text__dark-grey__3Ml43 text__regular__2N1Xr text__small__1kGq2 body__full_width__ekUdw body__small_body__2vQyf article-body__paragraph__2-BtD" data-testid="paragraph-1" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px 0px 12px; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;">At $70.46, the company's market capitalization was $9.55 billion on an undiluted basis. Trading in the shares under the new ticker "DJT" was briefly halted just after the opening bell due to volatility.</span></div><div class="text__text__1FZLe text__dark-grey__3Ml43 text__regular__2N1Xr text__small__1kGq2 body__full_width__ekUdw body__small_body__2vQyf article-body__paragraph__2-BtD" data-testid="paragraph-2" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px 0px 12px; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;">Donald Trump's majority stake in TMTG was last valued at $5.55 billion although lock-up restrictions for six months could prevent him from selling or borrowing against his shareholding.</span></div><div class="article-body__element__2p5pI" style="color: black; margin: 24px 0px; width: 708.663px;"></div><div class="text__text__1FZLe text__dark-grey__3Ml43 text__regular__2N1Xr text__small__1kGq2 body__full_width__ekUdw body__small_body__2vQyf article-body__paragraph__2-BtD" data-testid="paragraph-3" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px 0px 12px; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;">"The valuation of the business is rich relative to its underlying fundamentals, but I would not get in front of it in the near term," said Thomas Hayes, Chairman of Great Hill Capital.</span></div><div class="text__text__1FZLe text__dark-grey__3Ml43 text__regular__2N1Xr text__small__1kGq2 body__full_width__ekUdw body__small_body__2vQyf article-body__paragraph__2-BtD" data-testid="paragraph-4" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px 0px 12px; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;">"This valuation may be more of a proxy on the enthusiasm of supporters for Trump than a reasonable estimate of underlying business prospects."</span></div><div class="text__text__1FZLe text__dark-grey__3Ml43 text__regular__2N1Xr text__small__1kGq2 body__full_width__ekUdw body__small_body__2vQyf article-body__paragraph__2-BtD" data-testid="paragraph-5" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px 0px 12px; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;">TMTG was the second biggest percentage gainer across U.S. exchanges at 10.20 a.m. ET, according to LSEG data. Retail trader-focused social media and trading platform Stocktwits listed it as the most trending stock.</span></div><div class="article-body__element__2p5pI" style="color: black; margin: 24px 0px; width: 708.663px;"></div><div class="text__text__1FZLe text__dark-grey__3Ml43 text__regular__2N1Xr text__small__1kGq2 body__full_width__ekUdw body__small_body__2vQyf article-body__paragraph__2-BtD" data-testid="paragraph-6" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px 0px 12px; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;">Shares of blank-check firm Digital World Acquisition Corp, which is now TMTG, surged more than 35% on Monday after completing its merger.</span></div><h2 class="text__text__1FZLe text__dark-grey__3Ml43 text__medium__1kbOh text__heading_6__1qUJ5 heading__base__2T28j heading__heading_6__RtD9P article-body__heading__33EIm" data-testid="Heading" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; font-weight: 500; line-height: 24px; margin: 24px 0px 12px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;">TRUMP'S FINANCIAL WOES</span></h2><div class="text__text__1FZLe text__dark-grey__3Ml43 text__regular__2N1Xr text__small__1kGq2 body__full_width__ekUdw body__small_body__2vQyf article-body__paragraph__2-BtD" data-testid="paragraph-7" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px 0px 12px; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;">Trump, who is facing four criminal trials in his race for the U.S. presidency, has been struggling to raise money for his campaign and legal expenses.</span></div><div class="text__text__1FZLe text__dark-grey__3Ml43 text__regular__2N1Xr text__small__1kGq2 body__full_width__ekUdw body__small_body__2vQyf article-body__paragraph__2-BtD" data-testid="paragraph-8" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px 0px 12px; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;">Meanwhile, a pause to a ruling that would have blocked New York state authorities from seizing his assets bought Trump some <a class="text__text__1FZLe text__inherit-color__3208F text__inherit-font__1Y8w3 text__inherit-size__1DZJi link__link__3Ji6W link__underline_default__2prE_" data-testid="Link" href="https://www.reuters.com/legal/trump-has-hours-cover-454-million-judgment-or-risk-property-seizure-2024-03-25/" previewlistener="true" referrerpolicy="no-referrer-when-downgrade" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-transform: inherit;">financial breathing room</a> as he tries to build a campaign war chest and keep his real-estate empire intact.</span></div><div class="article-body__element__2p5pI" style="color: black; margin: 24px 0px; width: 708.663px;"><div data-fusion-collection="features" data-fusion-type="article/connatix-player"></div></div><div class="text__text__1FZLe text__dark-grey__3Ml43 text__regular__2N1Xr text__small__1kGq2 body__full_width__ekUdw body__small_body__2vQyf article-body__paragraph__2-BtD" data-testid="paragraph-9" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px 0px 12px; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;">The deal will inject $300 million cash into Truth Social, which had lost $10.6 million from its operations in the first nine months of 2023.</span></div><div class="text__text__1FZLe text__dark-grey__3Ml43 text__regular__2N1Xr text__small__1kGq2 body__full_width__ekUdw body__small_body__2vQyf article-body__paragraph__2-BtD" data-testid="paragraph-10" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px 0px 12px; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;">The company also provides a way for supporters of Trump to bet on his resurgence as a political figure, as evidenced by shares of shell company Digital World Acquisition nearly tripling in value this year.</span></div><div class="text__text__1FZLe text__dark-grey__3Ml43 text__regular__2N1Xr text__small__1kGq2 body__full_width__ekUdw body__small_body__2vQyf article-body__paragraph__2-BtD" data-testid="paragraph-11" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; 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clip-path: inset(50%); clip: rect(0px, 0px, 0px, 0px); height: 1px; margin: -1px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; position: absolute; width: 1px;">, opens new tab</span></a> that Trump could potentially cut his stake.</span></div><div class="article-body__element__2p5pI" style="color: black; margin: 24px 0px; width: 708.663px;"></div><div class="text__text__1FZLe text__dark-grey__3Ml43 text__regular__2N1Xr text__small__1kGq2 body__full_width__ekUdw body__small_body__2vQyf article-body__paragraph__2-BtD" data-testid="paragraph-12" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px 0px 12px; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;">Digital World said in a filing last month that Trump may divest his stake in Truth Social and cease any involvement in its management based on how his bid for president goes.</span></div><div class="text__text__1FZLe text__dark-grey__3Ml43 text__regular__2N1Xr text__small__1kGq2 body__full_width__ekUdw body__small_body__2vQyf article-body__paragraph__2-BtD" data-testid="paragraph-13" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px 0px 12px; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;">The special purpose acquisition firm signed its merger agreement with Trump's company in October 2021 and since then has been the target of investigations by the U.S. Department of Justice.</span></div><div class="text__text__1FZLe text__dark-grey__3Ml43 text__regular__2N1Xr text__small__1kGq2 body__full_width__ekUdw body__small_body__2vQyf article-body__paragraph__2-BtD" data-testid="paragraph-14" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px 0px 12px; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;">It reached an $18 million settlement with the U.S. securities regulator over inaccurate disclosures in July last year.</span></div><div class="article-body__element__2p5pI" style="color: black; margin: 24px 0px; width: 708.663px;"></div><div class="text__text__1FZLe text__dark-grey__3Ml43 text__regular__2N1Xr text__small__1kGq2 body__full_width__ekUdw body__small_body__2vQyf article-body__paragraph__2-BtD" data-testid="paragraph-15" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px 0px 12px; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;">Shareholders voted in favor of the deal last week, more than a month after the regulator gave the green light for the deal.</span></div><div class="text__text__1FZLe text__dark-grey__3Ml43 text__regular__2N1Xr text__small__1kGq2 body__full_width__ekUdw body__small_body__2vQyf article-body__paragraph__2-BtD" data-testid="paragraph-15" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px 0px 12px; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px;"><p style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #2e2e2e; font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Shares of Krispy Kreme Inc. rocketed Tuesday after the doughnut seller announced an expanded partnership with McDonald’s Corp., in which its doughnuts will start becoming available at the fast-food giant’s restaurants across the U.S.</span></p><p style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #2e2e2e; font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The rollout of the partnership will begin in the second half of 2024, with Krispy Kreme doughnuts expected to be available nationwide by the end of 2026.</span></p></div></div></div>Anne Sulzbergerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17091067031029918700noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6744683886539852356.post-11990367693442850282024-03-26T07:14:00.000-07:002024-03-26T07:14:13.376-07:00Mind The (Skills) Gap<p><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;"> </span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjokyrzGrNKmRXEXUHwy_jKMeqdPX6kHCCzqY6fMXLK1U2G44UVJzg78tsK0sXkbEqS0YPQNiYV7Ol5s4H2NzNw-aYhdFE0e6yM4KQ1TjEjZqM5NeDudXyp0SOSUdeJZDu4vNAI_jHJHyb059R1mVEzy1qLdWE7JFdwzJ1K8Ig8poxpThyphenhyphen6_OgCuHkjWDc/s2048/7xm.xyz953209.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1365" data-original-width="2048" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjokyrzGrNKmRXEXUHwy_jKMeqdPX6kHCCzqY6fMXLK1U2G44UVJzg78tsK0sXkbEqS0YPQNiYV7Ol5s4H2NzNw-aYhdFE0e6yM4KQ1TjEjZqM5NeDudXyp0SOSUdeJZDu4vNAI_jHJHyb059R1mVEzy1qLdWE7JFdwzJ1K8Ig8poxpThyphenhyphen6_OgCuHkjWDc/w640-h426/7xm.xyz953209.jpg" width="640" /></a></span></div><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;"><br /><span style="color: #333333; font-variant-ligatures: common-ligatures;">The “skills gap” in the workforce has worried CEOs as well as HR leaders for several years, and the gap is about to become a chasm – and a much bigger threat to your competitiveness. Four experts joined a Workhuman Spotlight</span><span style="color: #333333; font-variant-ligatures: common-ligatures;"> </span><a aria-label="webinar" class="color-link" data-ga-track="ExternalLink:https://www.workhuman.com/events/spotlight/the-future-proof-workforce/recognize-the-skills-gap/?utm_source=forbes&utm_medium=pr&utm_term=Q124_pr_NA&utm_content=eric_post_3RPsXNB3E4mHJt9g4ecsA6_32524" href="https://www.workhuman.com/events/spotlight/the-future-proof-workforce/recognize-the-skills-gap/?utm_source=forbes&utm_medium=pr&utm_term=Q124_pr_NA&utm_content=eric_post_3RPsXNB3E4mHJt9g4ecsA6_32524" previewlistener="true" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #003891; cursor: pointer; font-variant-ligatures: common-ligatures;" target="_blank" title="https://www.workhuman.com/events/spotlight/the-future-proof-workforce/recognize-the-skills-gap/?utm_source=forbes&utm_medium=pr&utm_term=Q124_pr_NA&utm_content=eric_post_3RPsXNB3E4mHJt9g4ecsA6_32524">webinar</a><span style="color: #333333; font-variant-ligatures: common-ligatures;"> </span><span style="color: #333333; font-variant-ligatures: common-ligatures;">to describe the chasm and the three critical questions leaders must consider to address it.</span></span><p></p><div class="halfway_hardwall_2" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #333333; font-variant-ligatures: common-ligatures; margin: 0px 0px 1.2rem;"></div><p style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #333333; font-variant-ligatures: common-ligatures; margin: 0px 0px 1.2rem;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;">According to McKinsey’s James Rappaport, as many as 375 million workers globally might have to change occupations soon to meet company needs. That’s the chasm between where your workforce is today and where it needs to be in a few years. Faced with this, leaders have to re-train and grow the roles and capabilities of their people (known as upskilling).</span></p><div class="halfway_hardwall_3" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #333333; font-variant-ligatures: common-ligatures; margin: 0px 0px 1.2rem;"></div><p style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #333333; font-variant-ligatures: common-ligatures; margin: 0px 0px 1.2rem;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;">Artificial Intelligence is accelerating the trend, and not only in technology jobs. Dr. Raffaella Sadun of Harvard Business School says there’s a basic supply-and-demand problem: “All the leaders want social skills, which I call power skills.” She emphasizes learning agility, outcome focus, inclusive leadership, and digital fluency. “They’re intrinsically much more difficult to measure than technical skills.”</span></p><div class="halfway_hardwall_4" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #333333; font-variant-ligatures: common-ligatures; margin: 0px 0px 1.2rem;"></div><p style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #333333; font-variant-ligatures: common-ligatures; margin: 0px 0px 1.2rem;"><span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 700;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;">Chase the problem, not the technology</span></span></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #333333; font-variant-ligatures: common-ligatures; margin: 0px 0px 1.2rem;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;">AI is going to be part of most jobs, so start with the interaction between human and machine. For example, effective use of large-language program tools like ChatGPT call for learning how to ask questions that will yield rich answers, a skill Dr. Sadun calls being a “prompt engineer.” Skilled questioning will be part of jobs as diverse as copywriter, vacation planner, and tax economist.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #333333; font-variant-ligatures: common-ligatures; margin: 0px 0px 1.2rem;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;">AI also puts a premium on the human skill of discernment and focus – knowing what is most important in an ocean of information. An organization’s goals, and the path to reaching them, can be lost by chasing novelty. Employees can keep focused on what will and won’t solve a customer’s problem, or creating new value through innovation, that makes the most of novel tech.</span></p><div class="article_paragraph_7" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #333333; font-variant-ligatures: common-ligatures; margin: 0px 0px 1.2rem;"></div><p style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #333333; font-variant-ligatures: common-ligatures; margin: 0px 0px 1.2rem;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;">Dr. KimLoan Tran, Vice President and Head of Talent Management at Allstate, cautions leaders “not to over-index on the technology piece [so] we lose sight of the human connection… Shifting to a skills-based organization is really about putting skills at the center of all your talent practices, from skills-based hiring to learning and development, to internal mobility and rewards. How do you interject those human connections in the critical moments that matter for our business, for our customers, for our employees?”</span></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #333333; font-variant-ligatures: common-ligatures; margin: 0px 0px 1.2rem;"><span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 700;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;">Three critical questions</span></span></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #333333; font-variant-ligatures: common-ligatures; margin: 0px 0px 1.2rem;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;">Strategic upskilling begins with three questions: <span style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 700;">Why</span> are we doing this? <span style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 700;">Who </span>needs what skills? And <span style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 700;">How</span> will they acquire them?</span></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #333333; font-variant-ligatures: common-ligatures; margin: 0px 0px 1.2rem;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 700;">Why </span>is obvious: Organizations upskill their workforces to stay competitive, increase profits, become resilient, and attract the best talent. The best people want to <a aria-label="grow" class="color-link" data-ga-track="ExternalLink:https://news.gallup.com/businessjournal/186602/job-hopping-employees-looking.aspx" href="https://news.gallup.com/businessjournal/186602/job-hopping-employees-looking.aspx" previewlistener="true" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #003891; cursor: pointer;" target="_blank" title="https://news.gallup.com/businessjournal/186602/job-hopping-employees-looking.aspx">grow</a> in their jobs, and they want to know that a company is aligned with that. As AI accelerates change, the most productive employees will upskill faster and further than their peers; the implication for management is that fast, curious, creative learners will create a commanding edge in delivery of products and services.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #333333; font-variant-ligatures: common-ligatures; margin: 0px 0px 1.2rem;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;">Dr. Sadun notes that it took 30 years after the lightbulb was invented for 20<span style="box-sizing: inherit; line-height: 0; position: relative; top: -0.5em; vertical-align: initial;">th</span> century businesses to see productivity gains, because that’s how long it took for organizations to redesign their production processes around the new technology. And so, a key challenge posed by AI is, “What’s the best way to organize work so these new tools achieve our <span style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 700;">Why</span>?”</span></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #333333; font-variant-ligatures: common-ligatures; margin: 0px 0px 1.2rem;"><span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 700;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;">An upskilling culture</span></span></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #333333; font-variant-ligatures: common-ligatures; margin: 0px 0px 1.2rem;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;">The second question, <span style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 700;">Who</span> needs what skills, is about the transition to a skills-based, continuously learning organization. Are your job descriptions only about today’s skills and goals, or are you projecting what your skills base will need to be two and three years from now? The second approach positions your organization for growth without churning constantly through talent (more on that below).</span></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #333333; font-variant-ligatures: common-ligatures; margin: 0px 0px 1.2rem;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;">A strategic use of <a aria-label="social recognition" class="color-link" data-ga-track="ExternalLink:https://www.workhuman.com/resources/reports-guides/from-praise-to-profits-workhuman-gallup-report/?gad_source=1&gclsrc=ds?utm_source=forbes&utm_medium=pr&utm_term=Q124_pr_NA&utm_content=eric_post_6nArIXb2TiTa2FBEkHobig_32524" href="https://www.workhuman.com/resources/reports-guides/from-praise-to-profits-workhuman-gallup-report/?gad_source=1&gclsrc=ds?utm_source=forbes&utm_medium=pr&utm_term=Q124_pr_NA&utm_content=eric_post_6nArIXb2TiTa2FBEkHobig_32524" previewlistener="true" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #003891; cursor: pointer;" target="_blank" title="https://www.workhuman.com/resources/reports-guides/from-praise-to-profits-workhuman-gallup-report/?gad_source=1&gclsrc=ds?utm_source=forbes&utm_medium=pr&utm_term=Q124_pr_NA&utm_content=eric_post_6nArIXb2TiTa2FBEkHobig_32524">social recognition</a> programs and data is key here. Instead of relying on quickly outdated skills lists, social recognition chronicles the skills people demonstrate by crowdsourcing a narrative about how work gets done. And it’s the best way to learn who is adapting to change, and helping others adapt.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #333333; font-variant-ligatures: common-ligatures; margin: 0px 0px 1.2rem;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;">Here are a few of the insights social recognition could provide to upskilling initiatives:</span></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #333333; font-variant-ligatures: common-ligatures; margin: 0px 0px 1.2rem;"></p><ul style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #333333; font-variant-ligatures: common-ligatures; list-style: none; margin-block: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 1.2rem; padding-inline-start: 0px; padding: 0px; width: 573.325px;"><li style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: inherit; list-style: disc; margin-block: 0px; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-left: 3em; position: relative;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;">Who is noticing innovative behavior and awarding it?</span></li><li style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: inherit; list-style: disc; margin-block: 0px; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-left: 3em; position: relative;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;">Who are the “quiet mentors” – people who share their expertise freely?</span></li><li style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: inherit; list-style: disc; margin-block: 0px; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-left: 3em; position: relative;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;">Who is ambitious to learn, asking the right questions and stretching themselves in the course of their work?</span></li><li style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: inherit; list-style: disc; margin-block: 0px; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-left: 3em; position: relative;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;">Who is succeeding in raising the skills of the team(s) they lead?</span></li><li style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: inherit; list-style: disc; margin-block: 0px; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-left: 3em; position: relative;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;">How are we identifying the skills gaps that exist around the organization, to deploy our resources in the right places?</span></li></ul><p style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #333333; font-variant-ligatures: common-ligatures; margin: 0px 0px 1.2rem;"></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #333333; font-variant-ligatures: common-ligatures; margin: 0px 0px 1.2rem;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;">Culture management addresses the <span style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 700;">How </span>of upskilling, and again, social recognition has a role to play. As Workhuman’s Tom Libretto pointed out during the Spotlight webinar, 70% of skills learning happens on the job (not in a classroom). When managers and peers recognize people for applying new skills, everyone gets the message that upskilling is part of their job. AI has great promise as a way for people to get better at what they do while they are doing it – think of using ChatGPT for research and OpenAI for coding right at the moment they are needed.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #333333; font-variant-ligatures: common-ligatures; margin: 0px 0px 1.2rem;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Oxygen; font-size: medium;">Surveys show that one of the main reasons people leave an organization today is <a aria-label="lack" class="color-link" data-ga-track="ExternalLink:https://www.gallup.com/workplace/349484/state-of-the-global-workplace.aspx" href="https://www.gallup.com/workplace/349484/state-of-the-global-workplace.aspx" previewlistener="true" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #003891; cursor: pointer;" target="_blank" title="https://www.gallup.com/workplace/349484/state-of-the-global-workplace.aspx">lack</a> of professional opportunity and development. People need to know both what skills they should acquire, and how adding skills makes them more valuable. By connecting a small amount of pay to recognition (1% can move the needle), the culture sends an unmistakable signal that upskilling is part of a strong career – and in the process creates a resilient organization.</span></p>Anne Sulzbergerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17091067031029918700noreply@blogger.com0