To push your career forward, become indispensable to your organization by becoming a go-to person in this new "collaboration" economy, says careers scholar Michael B. Arthur. "As a go-to person, you are very good at your job, readily available to help others, maintain a positive attitude, are creative, tenacious and consistent, and - not least - you take personal responsibility for getting things done," he writes.
Manufacturing is a possible destination for older workers looking to change careers, and this article profiles a few older adults who enrolled in training on their way to manufacturing jobs. Jobs include maintaining robots, quality assurance, inspections and programming.
Giving workers the opportunity to grow and adapt is important for a resilient workforce, writes Deloitte human capital leader Erica Volini. Organizations should build workers' skills, tap into workers' passions and create a workforce development approach for the community as well as its employees.
Researchers did experiments to determine ways to reduce implicit bias when hiring included putting resumes into different stacks. "Our research identifies a simple but effective tool -- partitioning candidates into different categories -- that can help organizations build more diverse workforces without restricting managers' choices," they write in the journal Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes.
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Virginia is the first state to enact an emergency safety standard to protect workers from possible coronavirus infection in the workplace, which includes social distancing and disinfecting measures. The standards, which don't differ much from federal standards, are in effect for six months but can be extended.
Lockdowns mean millions of people have been stuck with the same view from their "office" or home for months, and this site lets workers upload their window views so other people can see what they see. Lose yourself in some of the beautiful views or laugh at some of the mundane views ... like a guy hanging his laundry on a clothesline in Shanghai.
The sophistication level that deepfake videos have reached can be downright scary. This recreated news coverage of the Apollo 11 mission that features a deepfake of President Nixon announcing a disastrous failure, using text that was actually written as a contingency, is an example of just how detailed such fake media can be.
